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Data Science Foundations
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Data Science Foundations

by Stephen Mariadas, Ian Huke
May 2025
Beginner
178 pages
4h 50m
English
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
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ABBREVIATIONS

AI artificial intelligence

ARIMA autoregressive integrated moving average

CRM customer relationship management

CRUD create, record, update, delete

DBSCANdensity-based spatial clustering of applications with noise

DevOps development operations

DIKW data, information, knowledge, wisdom

DPIAdata protection impact assessment

EDA exploratory data analysis

ELT extract, load, transform

ERP enterprise resource planning

ETL extract, transform, load

GDPR General Data Protection Regulation

ICO Information Commissioner’s Office

IP Internet Protocol

IQR interquartile range

IT information technology

KPI key performance indicator

LIME local interpretable model-agnostic explanations

MAE mean absolute error

MAPE mean absolute percentage error

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