What Every Engineer Should Know About Data-Driven Analytics

Glossary of Terms

activation function

in ANN, the activation function of a node defines the output of that node given an input or set of inputs.

AdaBoost

an ensemble learning method that uses an iterative approach to learn from the mistakes of weak classifiers and turn them into strong ones.

agglomerative hierarchical clustering

a bottom-up approach in which each observation starts as its own cluster, and pairs of clusters are merged as one moves up the hierarchy.

analysis of variance (ANOVA)

an analysis tool used in statistics that splits an observed aggregate variability found inside a dataset into two parts: systematic factors and random factors.

Apache Spark

a multilanguage engine for executing data engineering, data science, and machine learning ...