Modeling Glossary

Browse 6 modeling terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

6 Modeling Terms

Component Model
The conceptual system that defines what components are, how they are structured, how they compose, and how they manage state, lifecycle, and communication....
Custom Type
A type defined by application code rather than provided directly by the language's built-in primitives. Custom types help model domain concepts explicitly and...
feature engineering
The process of using domain knowledge to create, transform, or select input variables (features) that improve a machine learning model's predictive...
regression
A family of statistical and machine learning techniques used to model the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables,...
Star Schema
A dimensional modeling pattern where a central fact table (events, transactions) connects to multiple dimension tables (who, what, when, where) via foreign...
UML
Unified Modeling Language — a standardized family of graphical notations for visualizing software design, including class diagrams, sequence diagrams, state...

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