Unit 7 - Using and Analyzing Data & Information (REAL)

Machine Learning

Algorithms that learn intelligent behavior from lots of training data.

Open access

Unrestricted access and unrestricted reuse

Copyright

A legal right that grants the creator of an original work exclusive rights for its use and distribution

API

The Application Programming Interface for a program or web service defines how other programs can communicate with it and use it.

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

Back propagation

An algorithm that repeatedly adjusts the connections (weights) between the nodes in the neural network

Centralized

When the resources and workload are coordinated and managed by a centralized computer (server)

Deep learning

A type of very successful machine learning algorithm using neural networks with many layers to learn data representations on its own from massive amounts of data.

Decentralized

When the allocation of resources and workload are distributed to individual devices on a network

CSV

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.

DMCA

Digital Millennium Copyright Act - US copyright law that criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works

DRM

Digital rights management - various access control technologies that are used to restrict usage of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works

Fair Use

Limited use of copyrighted material without having to first get permission from the copyright holder

Neural Network

A computer system modeled on simple neurons in the human brain.

JSON

(Javascript Object Notation) is a standard data file format used widely on the web where data objects are represented using lists and attribute-value pairs.

Peer to peer

A distributed architecture or network that divides tasks between peers, each of which participate in the application

Cleaning Data

A process that makes the data uniform without changing its meaning

Algorithmic Bias

Systematic and repeatable errors in a computer system that create unfair outcomes

Artificial intelligence

A branch of computer science that works on creating machines and programs that exhibit human-like intelligence.

GeoJSON

A standard data file format to represent geographical data.