Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis (2013)
Chapter: Appendix A: Acronyms
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Suggested Citation:
"Appendix A: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2013. Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/18374.
| ABC | approximate Bayesian computation |
| AMT | Amazon Mechanical Turk |
| API | application programming interface |
| CCD | charge-coupled device |
| CPU | central processing unit |
| CQL | Contextual Query Language |
| DAG | directed-acyclic-graph |
| DBMS | database management system |
| DNA | deoxyribonucleic acid |
| DSMS | data stream management system |
| FDR | false discovery rate |
| FFTW | Fastest Fourier Transform in the West |
| FPGA | field programmable gate array |
| FTRL | follow the regularized leader |
| GB | gigabyte |
| GFS | Google’s File System |
| GPU | graphics processing unit |
| HDFS | Hadoop distributed file system |
| I/O | input/output |
Suggested Citation:
"Appendix A: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2013. Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
doi: 10.17226/18374.
| LAPACK | Linear Algebra PACKage library |
| LP | linear programming |
| MCMC | Markov Chain Monte Carlo |
| MLE | maximum likelihood estimation |
| NP | non-deterministic polynomial time |
| OCR | optical character recognition |
| PB | petabyte |
| PCA | principal components analysis |
| QFS | Quick File System |
| QP | quadratic programming |
| RAM | random access memory |
| RDS | respondent-driven sampling |
| S3 | Simple Storage Service |
| SQL | Structured Query Language |
| TB | terabyte |
| TCAM | ternary content addressable memory |
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