5837945356 | Innovation | - A novel or improved idea, device, product, etc, or the development thereof. | 0 | |
5837945357 | Binary | A way of representing information using only two options. | 1 | |
5837946606 | Bandwidth | Transmission capacity measure by bit rate | 2 | |
5837946607 | Bit | - A contraction of "Binary Digit". A bit is the single unit of information in a computer, typically represented as a 0 or 1. | 3 | |
5837946608 | Bit Rate | (sometimes written bitrate) the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time. e.g. 8 bits/sec. | 4 | |
5837949037 | Latency | Time it takes for a bit to travel from its sender to its receiver. | 5 | |
5837950429 | Protocol | A set of rules governing the exchange or transmission of data between devices. | 6 | |
5837950430 | ASCII | ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII is the universally recognized raw text format that any computer can understand. | 7 | |
5837952025 | Code | to write code, or to write instructions for a computer. | 8 | |
5837952026 | IETF | Internet Engineering Task Force - develops and promotes voluntary Internet standards and protocols, in particular the standards that comprise the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP). | 9 | |
5837954007 | Internet | A group of computers and servers that are connected to each other. | 10 | |
5837954008 | Net Neutrality | the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally by Internet Service Providers. | 11 | |
5837955592 | IP Address | A number assigned to any item that is connected to the Internet. | 12 | |
5837955593 | Packets | Small chunks of information that have been carefully formed from larger chunks of information. | 13 | |
5837958298 | TCP | Transmission Control Protocol - provides reliable, ordered, and error-checked delivery of a stream of packets on the internet. TCP is tightly linked with IP and usually seen as TCP/IP in writing. | 14 | |
5837958299 | DNS | The service that translates URLs to IP addresses. | 15 | |
5837958300 | HTTP | HyperText Transfer Protocol - the protocol used for transmitting web pages over the Internet | 16 | |
5837959934 | Heuristic | a problem solving approach (algorithm) to find a satisfactory solution where finding an optimal or exact solution is impractical or impossible. | 17 | |
5837959935 | Lossless Compression | a data compression algorithm that allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed data. | 18 | |
5837961826 | Image | A type of data used for graphics or pictures. | 19 | |
5837961827 | Metadata | - is data that describes other data. For example, a digital image my include metadata that describe the size of the image, number of colors, or resolution. | 20 | |
5837961828 | Pixel | short for "picture element" it is the fundamental unit of a digital image, typically a tiny square or dot which contains a single point of color of a larger image. | 21 | |
5837963473 | RGB | the RGB color model uses varying intensities of (R)ed, (G)reen, and (B)lue light are added together in to reproduce a broad array of colors. | 22 | |
5837967607 | Lossy Compression | (or irreversible compression) a data compression method that uses inexact approximations, discarding some data to represent the content. Most commonly seen in image formats like .jpg. | 23 | |
5837969176 | Abstraction | Pulling out specific differences to make one solution work for multiple problems. | 24 | |
5837969177 | Aggregation | a computation in which rows from a data set are grouped together and used to compute a single value of more significant meaning or measurement. Common aggregations include: Average, Count, Sum, Max, Median, etc. | 25 | |
5837971809 | Pivot Table | in most spreadsheet software it is the name of the tool used to create summary tables. | 26 | |
5837974379 | Summary Table | - a table that shows the results of aggregations performed on data from a larger data set, hence a "summary" of larger data. Spreadsheet software typically calls them "pivot tables". | 27 |
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