APCSP Midterm Vocab

Binary

Bit

Byte

Overflow Error

Round-off Error

Analog Data

Digital Data

Sampling

Lossless Compression

Lossy Compression

Intellectual Property

Creative Commons

Abstraction

ASCII

Computing Device

Computing System

Computing Network

Path

Bandwidth

Protocol

IP Address

Internet Protocol (IP)

Router

Packet

Redundancy

Fault Tolerant

HTTP

Domain Name System (DNS)

Internet

World Wide Web

Digital Divide

Citizen Science: scientific research conducted in whole or part by distributed individuals, many of whom may not be scientists, who contribute relevant data to research using their own computing devices.

Cleaning Data:

a process that makes the data uniform without changing its meaning (e.g., replacing all equivalent abbreviations, spellings, and capitalizations with the same word)

Correlation:

a relationship between two pieces of data, typically referring to the amount that one varies in relation to the other.

Crowdsourcing: the practice of obtaining input or information from a large number of people via the Internet.

Information:

a relationship between two pieces of data, typically referring to the amount that one varies in relation to the other.

Data bias: data that does not accurately reflect the full population or phenomenon being studied

Data filtering: choosing a smaller subset of a data set to use for analysis, for example by eliminating / keeping only certain rows in a table