2Dataset
This chapter covers the following items:
–Defining dataset, big data and data science
–Recognizing different types of data and attributes
–Working through examples
In this chapter, we will discuss the main properties of datasets as a collection of data. In a more general abstract sense with the word “data,” we intend to represent a large homogeneous collection of quantitative or qualitative objects that could be recorded and stored into a digital file, thus converting into a large collection of bits. Some examples of data could be time series, numerical sequences, images, DNA sequences, large sets of primes, big datasets and so on. Time series and signals are the most popular examples of data and they could be found in any kind of ...
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