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Runestone Unit 7 Vocab
CSV Files
Stands for comma-separated values. A simple text format for data files is to put each row on a separate line with the column separated by commas
JSON (Javascript Object Notation)
A standard data file format is used widely on the web where data objects are represented using lists and attribute-value pairs.
GeoJSON
a standard data file format to represent geographical data.
API (The Application Programming Interface)
API for a program or web service defines how other programs can communicate with it and use it.
Cleaning Data
A process that makes the data uniform without changing its meaning
Artificial Intelligence
A computer program designed to simulate human intelligence
Machine Learning
Algorithms that learn intelligent behavior from lots of training data.
Algorithmic Bias
Describes systematic errors in a computer system that create unfair outcomes, due to the algorithm design or how the data used by the program is collected or used to train the algorithm.
Open Access
unrestricted access and unrestricted reuse
Creative Commons
a set of licenses that allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators
Fair Use
limited use of copyrighted material without having to first get permission from the copyright holder
DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
US copyright law that criminalizes the production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works
Peer to Peer
a distributed architecture or network that divides tasks between peers, each of which participates in the application
Copyright
a legal right that grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights for its use and distribution
Decentralized Network
when the allocation of resources and workload are distributed to individual devices on a network
Centralized Network
when the resources and workload are coordinated and managed by a centralized computer (server)
DRM (Digital Rights Management)
various access control technologies that are used to restrict the usage of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works
