Basic data terminology

This section is meant to be a quick overview of the terms that you should know before you get started. This list is very streamlined and is not exhaustive. Please refer to the suggested reading in Chapter 1, Data Mining and Getting Started with Python Tools, for wider coverage of domain-specific terminology.

Sample spaces

The sample space is the space that is covered by all the possible outcomes of a measurement. For example, if a feature column in a dataset is populated with the number of days last month that a responder watched television, then the sample space will include all the integers in the {0,1,2...31} set. If a manufacturing tool measures the temperature difference before and after processing...