Continuum Analytics: Documentation

# 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.