Glossary

Feature

A.k.a. an attribute of a data set.

Instance

A data instance is a data entry/record/sample of a data set.

Metadata

The information/data that describes the actual data set.

Data sanitisation

A data processing procedure that transforms the data into a format that is compliant with the requirement of the machine learning tool. For example, it includes dealing with missing data.

Nary

A nary function is a function that takes n parameters.

Introspect

Examine a predictive model and obtain a feeling of how it works.