{"id":557,"date":"2020-02-17T23:11:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T17:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techandtrain.com\/blog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2025-10-22T14:54:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:24:59","slug":"what-are-we-doing-in-ai-ml-data-science-decision-science-analytics-world-glossary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techandtrain.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/what-are-we-doing-in-ai-ml-data-science-decision-science-analytics-world-glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"What are we doing in AI \/ ML \/ Data Science \/ Decision Science \/ Analytics World? &#8211; Glossary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Over the last few years I have explored, programmed, worked in, researched and taught Data Science \/ AI \/ ML \/ Analytics \/ Decision Science to multiple students and with many software professionals. I have collected many keywords that you can google and explore. This will help you to keep pace and learn about things happening is these areas. It&#8217;s like a glossary of words to search over internet. It&#8217;s a mix and match of technologies, algorithms, concepts, AI \/ ML \/ Information Technology terms, BigData words and so on in no particular order. I will keep expanding this till it&#8217;s a relatively exhaustive list. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> Automatic Machine Learning<\/li><li>Transfer Learning<\/li><li>Explainable Machine Learning<\/li><li>Keras<\/li><li>PyTorch<\/li><li>MLR<\/li><li>R<\/li><li>Python<\/li><li>Ggplot2<\/li><li>MathplotLib<\/li><li>MLib<\/li><li>Spark<\/li><li>Hadoop<\/li><li>Tableau<\/li><li>Chatbots<\/li><li>Talend<\/li><li>MongoDB<\/li><li>Neo4j<\/li><li>Kafka<\/li><li>ELK<\/li><li>NoSQL<\/li><li>Cassandra<\/li><li>AWS SageMaker<\/li><li>SVM<\/li><li>Decision Trees<\/li><li>Regression: Logistic, Multiple, Simple Linear, Polynomial<\/li><li>Scikit Learn<\/li><li>KNIME<\/li><li>BERT<\/li><li>NLG<\/li><li>NLP<\/li><li>Random Forest<\/li><li>Hyper parameters<\/li><li>Boosting<\/li><li>Association rules \/ mining &#8211; Apriori, FP-Growth<\/li><li>Data mining<\/li><li>OpenCV<\/li><li>Self driving cars<\/li><li>AI \/ Memory embedded SOCs, GPUs, TPUs<\/li><li>Neural engine chipsets<\/li><li>Neural Networks<\/li><li>Deep Learning<\/li><li>EDA<\/li><li>Statistical &amp; Algorithmic modelling<\/li><li>Sampling<\/li><li>Probability distributions<\/li><li>Hypothesis testing<\/li><li>Intervals, extrapolation, interpolation<\/li><li>Scaling<\/li><li>Normalization<\/li><li>Agents, search, constraint satisfaction<\/li><li>Rules based systems<\/li><li>Semantic net<\/li><li>Propositional logic<\/li><li>Fuzzy reasoning<\/li><li>Probabilistic learning<\/li><li>First order logic<\/li><li>Game theory<\/li><li>Pipeline building<\/li><li>Ludwig<\/li><li>Bayesian belief networks<\/li><li>Anaconda Navigator<\/li><li>Jupyter<\/li><li>Synthetic data<\/li><li>Google dataset search<\/li><li>Kaggle<\/li><li>CNN \/ RNN \/ Feed forward \/ Back propagation \/ Multi-layer<\/li><li>Tensorflow<\/li><li>Deepfakes<\/li><li>KNN<\/li><li>K means clustering<\/li><li>Naive Bayes<\/li><li>Dimensionality reduction<\/li><li>Feature engineering<\/li><li>Supervised, unsupervised &amp; reinforcement learning<\/li><li>Markov model<\/li><li>Time series<\/li><li>Categorical &amp; Continuous data<\/li><li>Imputation<\/li><li>Data analysis<\/li><li>Classification \/ Clustering \/ Trees \/ Hyperplane<\/li><li>Differential calculus<\/li><li>Testing &amp; training data<\/li><li>Visualization<\/li><li>Missing data treatment<\/li><li>Scipy<\/li><li>Pandas<\/li><li>LightGBM<\/li><li>Numpy<\/li><li>Dplyr<\/li><li>Google Collaboratory<\/li><li>PyCharm<\/li><li>Plotly<\/li><li>Shiny<\/li><li>Caret<\/li><li>NLTK, Stanford NLP, OpenNLP<\/li><li>Artificial intelligence<\/li><li>SQL \/ PLSQL<\/li><li>Data warehousing<\/li><li>Cognitive computing<\/li><li>Coral<\/li><li>Arduino<\/li><li>Raspberry Pi<\/li><li>RTOS<\/li><li>DARPA Spectrum Challenge<\/li><li>100 page ML book<\/li><li>Equations, Functions, and Graphs<\/li><li>Differentiation and Optimization<\/li><li>Vectors and Matrices<\/li><li>Statistics and Probability<\/li><li>Operations management &amp; research<\/li><li>Unstructured, semi-structured &amp; structured data<\/li><li>Five Vs<\/li><li>Descriptive, Predictive &amp; Prescriptive analytics<\/li><li>Model accuracy<\/li><li>IoT \/ IIoT<\/li><li>Recommendation Systems<\/li><li>Real Time Analytics<\/li><li>Google Analytics <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are learning something by googling these topics, feel free to provide suggestions for adding more words here. You are welcome to discuss \/ suggest on top of this article as well. Thank you for reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email me:&nbsp;Neil@TechAndTrain.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit my creations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>www.TechAndTrain.com<\/li><li>www.QandA.in<\/li><li>www.TechTower.in<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few years I have explored, programmed, worked in, researched and taught Data Science \/ AI \/ ML [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,82,115],"tags":[117,118,74],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analytics","category-data-science","category-machine-learning","tag-aiml","tag-aimlglossary","tag-data-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.techandtrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Mathematics.jpg?fit=960%2C490&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7do02-8Z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":698,"url":"https:\/\/www.techandtrain.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/four-waves-of-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning\/","url_meta":{"origin":557,"position":0},"title":"Four waves of Artificial Intelligence &#038; Machine Learning","author":"Neil Harwani","date":"March 19, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"While teaching students in two different courses (AIML & \"Data Science and Analysis\"), there was a requirement to categorize historical AI & ML along with it's interface with Data Science. 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