Data Science Terms Every Data Scientist Should Know

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1. Algorithm: A set of well-defined logical steps that must be taken to perform a task.

2. ASCII: The American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It is a set of 128 numeric codes that represent the English letters, various punctuation marks, and other characters.

3. Application software: Programs that make a computer useful for everyday tasks.

4. Argument: A piece of data that is passed into a function.

5. Assembler: A program that translates an assembly language program to a machine language program.

6. Assembly language: A low-level programming language that uses short words known as mnemonics instead of binary instructions.

7. API (Application Programming Interface): A set of rules that allows one software application to interact with another.

8. Bit – Fundamental unit of memory that may be turned on or off. There are 8 bits in a byte.

9. Black box - Any mechanism that accepts input, performs some operation that cannot be seen on the input, and produces output.

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