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Data Hierarchy

The systematic organization of data, often in a hierarchical form, based on a structure of data elements and their relationships.

Commonly used in General IT

Data Hygiene

The collective processes conducted to ensure the cleanliness of data.

Commonly used in General IT, AI

Data Imputation

The process of replacing missing data with substituted values in order to maintain the integrity of a dataset for analysis.

Commonly used in AI, General IT

Data Inconsistency

The presence of differing data about the same object in different places.

Commonly used in General IT, Security

Data Index

A data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval operations on a database at the cost of additional writes and storage space to maintain the structure.

Commonly used in General IT

Data Ingestion

The process of obtaining and importing data for immediate use or storage in a database.

Commonly used in General IT, AI

Data Ingestion Pipeline

The collection of processes and technologies involved in capturing, processing, and storing data for further use or analysis.

Commonly used in General IT, AI

Data Insight

The understanding and actionable information that can be derived from data analysis.

Commonly used in AI, General IT

Data Integration

The process of combining data from different sources into a single, unified view.

Commonly used in Networking, General IT

Data Integrity

The maintenance of, and the assurance of the accuracy and consistency of, data over its entire lifecycle.

Commonly used in Security, Cybersecurity, General IT

Data Interaction

The ways in which users query, visualize, and interact with data within applications or software environments.

Commonly used in General IT, AI

Data Interchange Standard

A standard that defines a specific format for exchanging data between software applications or within an organization.

Commonly used in General IT, Networking

Data Interoperability

The ability of different systems, devices, and applications to connect and communicate in a coordinated way, share data, and use the information that has been exchanged.

Commonly used in General IT, Networking

Data Isolation

The process of keeping data separate to prevent unauthorized access or accidental sharing of sensitive information.

Commonly used in Security, Cybersecurity

Data Journalism

The practice of gathering and analyzing large datasets to support and convey news stories in a compelling and understandable manner.

Commonly used in General IT, AI

Data Lake

A storage repository that holds a vast amount of raw data in its native format until it is needed.

Commonly used in General IT, AI

Data Lake Analytics

The process of analyzing data stored in a data lake, often using big data processing tools and techniques.

Commonly used in AI, General IT

Data Lakehouse

A new data management architecture that combines the elements of data lakes and data warehouses.

Commonly used in General IT, AI

Data Leakage

The unauthorized transmission of data from within an organization to an external destination or recipient.

Commonly used in Security, Cybersecurity

Data Lifecycle

The series of stages through which data goes, from initial creation or acquisition to retirement or deletion.

Commonly used in General IT, Security

Data Lifecycle Management (DLM)

The process of managing the flow of an information system’s data from creation and initial storage to the time when it becomes obsolete and is deleted.

Commonly used in General IT, Security

Data Lineage

The process of understanding, recording, and visualizing data as it flows from data sources to consumption.

Commonly used in General IT, AI

Data Literacy

The ability to read, understand, create, and communicate data as information.

Commonly used in General IT, Education

Data Loading

The process of transferring data from one system or format into another, typically into a database or data warehouse.

Commonly used in General IT

Data Localization

The practice of storing data on any device that is physically present within the borders of a specific country, which is required by law in some jurisdictions.

Commonly used in Security, Cybersecurity

Data Lock-In

The difficulty of transferring data and services from one provider or platform to another, due to proprietary formats, technologies, or contractual restrictions.

Commonly used in General IT, Security

Data Loss

The process by which data is lost to the user, either by data corruption, data erasure, or data becoming inaccessible.

Commonly used in Security, Cybersecurity

Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

A set of tools and processes used to ensure that sensitive data is not lost, misused, or accessed by unauthorized users.

Commonly used in Security, Cybersecurity

Data Management Platform (DMP)

A centralized computing system for collecting, integrating, managing, and analyzing large sets of structured and unstructured data from disparate sources.

Commonly used in General IT, AI

Data Manipulation Language (DML)

The subset of SQL used to add, update, or delete data in a database.

Commonly used in General IT

Data Mapping

The process of creating data element mappings between two distinct data models.

Commonly used in General IT, AI

Data Mart

A subset of a data warehouse focused on a particular line of business, department, or subject area.

Commonly used in General IT, Networking

Data Masking

The process of hiding original data with modified content (characters or other data).

Commonly used in Security, Cybersecurity

Data Mesh

A decentralized approach to data architecture and organizational design.

Commonly used in General IT, AI

Data Migration

The process of selecting, preparing, extracting, and transforming data and permanently transferring it from one computer storage system to another.

Commonly used in General IT

Data Minimization

The principle of collecting no more personal data than necessary.

Commonly used in Security, Cybersecurity

Data Mining

The process of discovering patterns and knowledge from large amounts of data.

Commonly used in AI, General IT

Data Model

An abstract model that organizes data elements and standardizes how they relate to one another and to the properties of real-world entities.

Commonly used in General IT, AI

Data Modeling

The process of creating a data model for the data to be stored in a database.

Commonly used in General IT, AI

Data Monetization

The process of using data to increase revenue, which includes direct selling of data or using data to improve business processes and decision making.

Commonly used in General IT, Business

Data Munging

Also known as data wrangling, the process of cleaning and unifying complex and messy data sets for easy access and analysis.

Commonly used in AI, General IT

Data Normalization

The process of organizing data in a database to reduce redundancy and improve data integrity.

Commonly used in General IT

Data Obfuscation

The process of deliberately degrading data quality or intelligence in order to obscure the source of the data.

Commonly used in Security, Cybersecurity

Data Onboarding

The process of importing and processing data from external sources into a new system or environment for further analysis and use.

Commonly used in General IT, AI

Data Ontology

A framework for specifying a shared and common understanding of data which can be used between people and across application systems.

Commonly used in AI, General IT

Data Operations (DataOps)

An automated, process-oriented methodology used by analytic and data teams to improve the quality and reduce the cycle time of data analytics.

Commonly used in General IT, AI

Data Orchestration

The automated movement and management of data across an organization’s various data platforms.

Commonly used in General IT, AI

Data Ownership

The rights and responsibilities that individuals or organizations have with respect to data collected, used, stored, or disseminated.

Commonly used in Security, General IT

Data Parsing

The process of analyzing a string of symbols, either in natural language or computer languages, according to the rules of a formal grammar.

Commonly used in AI, General IT

Data Partition

The division of a database or its elements into distinct independent parts to improve manageability, performance, or availability.

Commonly used in General IT, Networking