BSL Glossary - Data Science curriculum terms

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Subject categories

Data Information Tag/Tags Value (worth) Value (content of a variable) Volume Variety Veracity Visualisation Vulnerability / in code Open data Public data Private data
Graph Scales Coordinates Annotations Trend Distribution
Bar chart Lollipop chart Histogram Dot plot Line graph Scatterplot Heat map Pie chart Donut chart Density chart/plot Box plot Box and whiskers plot Violin plot Treemap Waffle chart Grouped bar chart Stacked bar chart Time series graph Slope graph Stacked area chart Bubble plot Sankey diagram Waterfall chart Choropleth map Dot map Bubble map
Data Science Data Analytics Big data Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning (ML) Conclusion Domain knowledge Domain experts
Data categories Qualitative Quantitative Discrete Data Continuous Nominal Ordinal Interval Ratio Structured Semi-structured Unstructured Tidy data Data type Data structures Display formats Variable Integer Floating point Character Boolean String Array Data Frame
Data transformation Data manipulation Dataset Variable Target variable Subset Select Reorder Create new variables Reformat Extract Filter Deduplicate Aggregation Total Average Min / Minimum Max / Maximum Join Join - full Join - left Join - right Join - inner Append Merge Reshaping data Wide data Long data
Statistics (Field of) Statistic, A Population Sample (data) Parameter Inferential Statistics Descriptive Statistics Bin Mean (average) Mode (average) Median (average) Skew / Skewness Spread / Dispersion Range Interquartile range (IQR) Variance Standard Deviation Distribution Uniform distribution Bernoulli distribution Binomial distribution Poisson distribution Normal distribution
Data Analysis Summary statistics Correlation Correlation (positive) Correlation (negative) Correlation (no) Insight
Dashboard Metric Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
Quality data Complete / completeness Incomplete Unique / uniqueness Timely / Timeliness Untimely Valid / Validity Accurate / Accuracy Consistent / Consistency Metadata Reference data Main data Data management Data governance
Questionnaire Sampling bias Non-response bias Response bias Data mining Order bias
Data Ethics Statistical bias Algorithmic bias Exclusion bias Measurement bias Confirmation bias Stereotype bias Survivorship bias Simpson's paradox Correlation bias

A to Z of Data Science Signs

Accurate / Accuracy Aggregation Algorithmic bias Annotations Append Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Bar chart Bernoulli distribution Big data Bin Binomial distribution Boolean Box plot Box and whiskers plot Bubble map Bubble plot
Character Choropleth map Complete / completeness Conclusion Confirmation bias Consistent / Consistency Coordinates Correlation Correlation bias Correlation (negative) Correlation (no) Correlation (positive) Create new variables
Dashboard Data Data Analysis Data Analytics Data categories Data Ethics Data Frame Data governance Data management Data manipulation Data mining Data Science Dataset Data structures Data transformation Data type Deduplicate Density chart/plot Descriptive Statistics Discrete data Display formats Distribution (Data Visualisation) Distribution (Statistics) Domain experts Domain knowledge Donut chart Dot map Dot plot
Exclusion bias Extract
Filter Floating point representation Frequency distribution
Graph Grouped bar chart
Heat map Histogram
Incomplete Inferential Statistics Information Insight Integer Interquartile range (IQR) Interval
Join Join - full Join - inner Join - left Join - right
Key Performance Indicator (KPI)
Line graph Lollipop chart Long data
Machine Learning (ML) Main data Max / Maximum Mean (average) Measurement bias Median (average) Merge Metadata Metric Min / Minimum Mode (average)
Nominal Non-response bias Normal distribution
Open data Order bias Ordinal
Parameter Pie chart Poisson distribution Population Private data Public data
Qualitative Quality data Quantitative Questionnaire
Range Ratio Reference data Reformat Reorder Reshaping data Response bias
Sample Sampling bias Sankey diagram Scales Scatterplot Select Semi-structured Simpson's paradox Skew / Skewness Slope graph Spread / Dispersion Stacked area chart Stacked bar chart Standard Deviation A statistic Statistical bias Statistics (Field of) Stereotype bias String Structured Subset Summary statistics Survivorship bias
Tag / Tags Target variable Tidy data Timely / Timeliness Time series graph Total Treemap Trend
Uniform distribution Unique / uniqueness Unstructured Untimely
Valid / Validity Value (content of a variable) Value (worth) Variable Variance Variety Veracity Violin plot Visualisation Volume Vulnerability / in code
Waffle chart Waterfall chart Wide data