50 Data Science Acronyms and Their Full Forms

Useful Data Science Acronyms

In the era of minimalism, the IT field is also affected widely by the minimalist culture. Social media trends have started a new culture of using acronyms all around the internet. Acronyms are not new; they have been used in computer science since the beginning.

In this article, we will share the 50 most used data science acronyms that all data professionals must know.

50 Most Used Data Science Acronyms

  1. ANOVA : Analysis of Variance

  2. AUC : Area Under the Curve

  3. BART: Bidirectional and Auto-Regressive Transformer

  4. BDA: Big Data Analytics

  5. BERT: Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers

  6. CFDS: Customer-Facing Data Scientist

  7. CV: Cross Validation

  8. CNN : Convolutional Neural Network

  9. DL: Deep Learning

  10. DNN: Deep Neural Network or Deconvolutional Neural Network

  11. DQ: Data Quality

  12. EDA: Exploratory Data Analysis

  13. ELMO: Embeddings from Language Models

  14. GBM: Gradient Boosting Machine

  15. GLM: Generalized Linear Model

  16. GRU: Gated Recurrent Unit

  17. HMM : Hidden Marcov Model

  18. ICA: Independent Component Analysis

  19. JSON: JavaScript Object Notation

  20. kNN: k-Nearest Neighbors

  21. LB: LeaderBoard

  22. LDA: Latent Dirichlet Allocation or Linear Discriminant Analysis

  23. LLE : Locally Linear Embedding

  24. LOOCV : Leave-One-Out cross-validation

  25. LpO CV : Leave-p-out cross-validation

  26. LSA/LSI: Latent Semantic Allocation/Indexing

  27. LSTM: Long Short Term Memory

  28. MAPE: Mean Absolute Percentage Error

  29. MARGE: Multilingual Autoencoder that Retrieves and Generates

  30. MCMC : Markov Chain Monte Carlo

  31. MDS : Multi-Dimensional Scaling

  32. MSE: Mean Squared Error

  33. NLDR: Non-Linear Dimensionality Reduction

  34. NLP : Natural Language Processing

  35. NMF: Non-Negative Matrix Factorization

  36. OOF: Out Of Fold

  37. PCA: Principal Component Analysis

  38. pLSA: Probabilistic Latent Semantic Allocation

  39. R2 : R-squared

  40. RF: Random Forest

  41. RFE: Recursive Feature Elimination

  42. RMSLE : Root Mean Squared Logarithmic Error

  43. RNN: Recurrent Neural Network

  44. ROC : Receiver Operating Characteristic

  45. SMOTE: Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique

  46. SQL: Structured Query Language

  47. SVM: Support Vector Machine

  48. tf-idf: term frequency, inverse document frequency

  49. t-SNE: t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding

  50. XML: Extensible Markup Language

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