A chart that shows compares different categories.
Column or Bar Chart
Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.
Data
Data that can be counted or measured; all values are numerical. Example: Your shoe size.
Quantitative Data
An error condition in information systems in which information is destroyed by failures or neglect in storage, transmission, or processing.
Data Loss
The smallest unit of data.
Bit
A chart that is used for making part-to-whole comparisons with discrete or continuous data.
Pie Chart
Base 16 Number System
Hexadecimal
Numerical data that has a finite number of possible values. Example: Number of employees in the office.
Discrete Data
Data that has been obtained in a way that leads the provider to answer in a particular way.
Data Bias
This is what 8 bits form
Byte
Chart used to illustrate changes in data over time.
Line chart
A four step process that uses data to guide the process of making important decisions.
Data Driven Decision Making
Data that is measured and has a value within a range. Example: Rainfall in a year
Continuous Data
Incident in which sensitive, confidential or otherwise protected data has been accessed and/or disclosed in an unauthorized fashion.
Data Breach
The Binary Number System consists of these numbers.
0 and 1
Displays categorical data, using intensity of color to represent values of geographic areas or data tables.
Heat Map
Electronic holding place for data
Data Repository
Data that can be sorted according to a group or category. Example: Types of products sold.
Categorical Data
Errors that occur during writing, reading, storage, transmission, or processing, which introduce unintended changes to the original data.
Data Corruption
The speed at which data can be sent and/or recived per second.
Data Transfer Rate
The process of transforming complicated data into visualizations and narratives that make the data easy to understand.
Data Story Telling
The process of translating data into another form, or code, so that only people with access to a secret key or password can read it.
Data Encryption
Bits and Bytes
Binary Data
Duplicate, inaccurate, incomplete or inconsistent data.
Dirty Data
The maximum amount of data that can pass from one point to another in a unit of time.
Bandwidth