ISYE 6501 - Week 1: Introduction and
Classification
Descriptive Question - ANS-Questions that ask for explanations of what happened
Predictive Questions - ANS-Questions that ask what's going to happen in the future
Prescriptive Questions - ANS-Questions that ask what action or actions would be best
General Questions - ANS-Generic questions on data analytics
Modeling - ANS-A mathematical expression of a real-life situation
Classification - ANS-Putting things into categories
Classifiers - ANS-Separators
Data Point - ANS-A single observation of information
Attributes, Features, Covariates or
Predictors - ANS-One column of a Data Point
Response or Outcome - ANS-The data point column that is the answer
Structured Data - ANS-Data that can be described and stored in a structured way
Quantitative Data - ANS-Numeric Data
Categorical Data - ANS-Data point without quantitative meaning
Binary Data - ANS-An attribute that can take only two values
Unstructured Data - ANS-Data attributes that are not easily described and stored
Time Series Data - ANS-Data attributes related to time
Support Vector Machine Model - ANS-Two parallel lines that are as far apart as
possible, with classifier in the middle
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