19 Technical Words for the Non-Technical Users
Bookmark this cheat sheet for easy access to words commonly seen in conversations surrounding data analytics all in one place.
1 Aggregation- compiling of information from databases with intent to prepare combined datasets for data processing
2 Algorithm- a sequence of well-defined instructions typically to solve a class of problems or perform a computation.
3 Anomalous Trends- deviations from the norm
4 Benchmarking- the process of measuring products, services, and processes against those of organizations known to be leaders in one or more aspects of their operations
5 Big Data- large, ever-growing, diverse collections of information inundating businesses in real-time
6 Business Intelligence- data analysis that provides historical, current, and predictive views of business operations
7 Cloud- a platform that supports multiple workloads, from development across multiple providers and regions from anywhere in the organization, the stored data is accessible through a web-based interface
8 Complex Event Processing- finding, threats, cause and effect relationships, and opportunities after analyzing data
9 Dashboard- visual monitoring tool used to display data that has been tracked, analyzed, and measured
10 Data Scientist- an analytic expert with the ability to interpret complex problems with their technical skills
11 Insights- knowledge gained from analyzing data sets aiding in decision making
12 Meta Data- data about data
13 Mining- the process of discovering patterns in large data sets
14 Process mining- turns event data into insights and actions
15 Query- a request for information from a database or combination of tables
16 Software as a Service (SaaS)- a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted
17 SQL (Structured Query Language)- a language used in programming. Manages data held in a database management system or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system
18 Visualization- imagery that communicates both abstract and concrete ideas
19 Workflow- a sequence of tasks that processes a set of data, the paths that describe how something goes from being undone to done, or raw to processed
Night Shift Development, Inc.
Night Shift Development is a Virginia-based data exploitation company that builds solutions to help organizations make sense of their data. The NSD team is made up of software engineers, data scientists, practitioners, and Elastic Certified Engineers with tremendous amounts of experience in solving hard problems and answering questions with data.
Night Shift Development is also an Elastic, Inc. partner and has built open-source and proprietary solutions leveraging Elasticsearch to help organizations become more data-driven. NSD’s flagship product — ClearQuery — is designed to help provide organizations with a more conversational approach to data exploitation by turning natural language questions into Elasticsearch queries.
