Glossary
- Aggregation
- Combine data observations into summary statistics. Aggregations are used by
Mosaic to generate Shader plots.
- Blaze
- Is a Python library and an ecosystem of related projects sponsored
primarily by Continuum Analytics, and a DARPA XDATA grant. Blaze provides
Python users high-level access to efficient computation on inconveniently
large data. Mosaic uses Blaze for interactive exploration of datasets.
- Coerce
- Change the data type into another. An example is converting an integer into
a floating point value.
- Datashape
- Schema information used in Mosaic. It shows metadata information about the
current dataset: the number of rows, the column names and types.
- Split-Apply-Combine
- Grouping operations that break a table into pieces and perform some
reduction on each piece.
- URI
- Uniform Resource Identifier. Is a string of characters to identify the data
source and the backend to use in Mosaic.