Data Science Vocabulary List

##Unit 1

• Box plots

• Classification problem

• Confidence intervals

• Correlation

• Dataframe

• Histograms

• Line graph

• Logistic Model

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• NumPy

• P-values

• Pandas

• Quartile

• Range

• Reliable

• Reproducible

• Scatter matrix

• Scatter plots

• Secondary data

• Standard deviation

• Variance

• Visualization

##Unit 2

• AOC - Area over the curve

• Bias

• Categorical variables

• Classification

• Confusion Matrix

• Continuous variables

• Cross Validation

• Generalized Error

• Global Minimum

• Gradient Descent

• K-Fold

• KNN - K-Nearest Neighbor

• Lasso Regression

• Linear regression

• Link Function

• Local Minimum

• Logistic regression

• Loss functions

• Mean absolute error

• Mean squared error

• Minkowski Metric

• Model Fit

• Odds / Odds Ratios

• Ordinary Least Squares

• Overfitting

• R-Squared

• Regularization

• Residual

• Ridge Regression

• ROC - Receiver operating characteristic

• Root mean squared error

• Sampling

• Sigmoid Function

• Variance

##Unit 3

• Aperiodic cycles

• ARIMA model - Autoregressive integrated moving average

• Autocorrelation

• Collinearity

• Decay

• Decision trees

• Denormalized

• Detrending

• Differencing

• Dimensional reduction

• Document-based databases

• Lag

• LDA - latent dirichlet allocation

• Mean scaling

• Moving Average

• multi-collinearity

• Normalized

• NLP - natural language processing

• NLTK - natural language toolkit

• Non-stationary

• Periodicity

• Random forests

• Refactor

• Relational databases

• Residuals

• Rolling means

• Stationarity

• Time-series

• Tokenize

• Topic models

• Unit Testing

• Weighted Moving Average