glossary-python-basics
Data engineering
- Data engineers are responsible for turning raw data into information that an organization can understand and use.
- Their work involves blending, testing, and optimizing data from numerous sources.
Data science
- Data Science is an interdisciplinary field that focuses on extracting knowledge from data sets which are typically huge in amount.
- The field encompasses analysis, preparing data for analysis, and presenting findings to inform high-level decisions in an organization.
Immutable
- Immutable Objects are of in-built datatypes like int, float, bool, string, Unicode, and tuple.
- In simple words, an immutable object can’t be changed after it is created.
Negative indexing
- Allows you to access elements of a sequence (such as a list, a string, or a tuple) from the end, using negative numbers as indexes.
Stride value
- Stride is the number of bytes from one row of pixels in memory to the next row of pixels in memory.