Data

Data Visualization

100

A chart that shows compares different categories.

Column or Bar Chart

200

A chart that is used for making part-to-whole comparisons with discrete or continuous data.

Pie Chart

300

Chart used to illustrate changes in data over time.

Line chart

400

Displays categorical data, using intensity of color to represent values of geographic areas or data tables.

Heat Map

500

The process of transforming complicated data into visualizations and narratives that make the data easy to understand.

Data Story Telling

Random

100

Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.

Data

200

Base 16 Number System

Hexadecimal

300

A four step process that uses data to guide the process of making important decisions.

Data Driven Decision Making

400

Electronic holding place for data

Data Repository

500

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

Data Types

100

Data that can be counted or measured; all values are numerical. Example: Your shoe size.

Quantitative Data

200

Numerical data that has a finite number of possible values. Example: Number of employees in the office.

Discrete Data

300

Data that is measured and has a value within a range. Example: Rainfall in a year

Continuous Data

400

Data that can be sorted according to a group or category. Example: Types of products sold.

Categorical Data

500

Bits and Bytes

Binary Data

Problems with Data

100

An error condition in information systems in which information is destroyed by failures or neglect in storage, transmission, or processing.

Data Loss

200

Data that has been obtained in a way that leads the provider to answer in a particular way.

Data Bias

300

Incident in which sensitive, confidential or otherwise protected data has been accessed and/or disclosed in an unauthorized fashion.

Data Breach

400

Errors that occur during writing, reading, storage, transmission, or processing, which introduce unintended changes to the original data.

Data Corruption

500

Duplicate, inaccurate, incomplete or inconsistent data.

Dirty Data

Data Units and Transmission

100

The smallest unit of data. 

Bit

200

This is what 8 bits form

Byte

300

The Binary Number System consists of these numbers.

0 and 1

400

The speed at which data can be sent and/or recived per second.

Data Transfer Rate

500

The maximum amount of data that can pass from one point to another in a unit of time.

Bandwidth