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Plain-English definitions of the terms you'll meet on your learning journey.
API
Application Programming Interface — a contract that lets two software systems talk to each other.
Cloud Computing
Renting computing resources (servers, storage, databases) on demand over the internet instead of owning them.
DataFrame
A table-like data structure (rows and columns) from the pandas library, central to data analysis in Python.
Neural Network
A model loosely inspired by the brain, made of layers of connected nodes that learn patterns from data.
Overfitting
When a model learns the training data too well — including its noise — and performs poorly on new, unseen data.
Regression
A technique for predicting a continuous number, such as price or temperature, from input features.
REST
A style for designing web APIs using standard HTTP methods like GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE.