data validation

AmE (alt): /ˈdætə ˌvæləˈdeɪʃən/

Definition

Definition of data validation - Reverso English Dictionary

Noun

technology

TECH.

process of checking that information is correct complete and meets required rules

TECH.

Proper data validation prevents users from entering invalid email addresses.
Regular data validation is built into the registration form.
The script failed during data validation due to missing mandatory fields.

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Expressions with data

massage the data

change numbers or information to make results look better

They tried to massage the data before the report was published.

a flood of data

overwhelming amount of information to process

The researchers faced a flood of data from the new study.

torture the data

manipulate data to get desired results

The scientist decided to torture the data to support his hypothesis.

basic data

essential simple facts or figures needed to describe or understand something

The form asks for basic data like your name and address.

customer data

information collected about buyers such as identities purchases and contact details

The company uses customer data to improve its marketing campaigns.

data collector

person whose job is to gather information for some purpose

The company hired a data collector to interview customers after each visit.

Expressions with validation

validation of feelings

recognition of the importance of someone's emotions

The therapist emphasized the validation of feelings in the session.

validation test

test that confirms a system or method meets required performance or accuracy

The new device must pass a validation test before mass production starts.

cross validation

method to test a model by splitting data into training and testing

We used cross validation to estimate the model's accuracy.

validation period

time span when a document or ticket is officially accepted

Your parking permit has a validation period of twelve months.

validation set

subset of data used to tune a predictive model during development

The model performed best when the validation set was larger than the training set.

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early stopping

technology

training method that halts learning before overfitting appears on validation data

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French:validation des données, ...
German:Datenvalidierung, ...
Italian:validazione dei dati, ...
Spanish:validación de datos, ...
Portuguese:validação de dados, ...
Chinese:数据验证, ...
Japanese:データ検証, ...
Arabic:تَحْقِيق البَيَانَات, ...
Hebrew:וָלִידַצְיַית נְתוּנִים, ...
Russian:проверка данных, ...
Ukrainian:валідація даних, ...
Hindi:डेटा वैलिडेशन, ...
Bengali:ডেটা ভ্যালিডেশন, ...
Catalan:validació de dades, ...
Czech:validace dat, ...
Danish:datavalidering, ...
Dutch:datavalidatie, ...
Greek:επικύρωση δεδομένων, ...
Hungarian:adatellenőrzés, ...
Khmer:ការផ្ទៀងផ្ទាត់ទិន្នន័យ, ...
Korean:데이터 검증, ...
Persian:اعتبارسنجی داده, ...
Polish:walidacja danych, ...
Portuguese (BR):validação de dados, ...
Romanian:validare a datelor, ...
Swedish:datavalidering, ...
Thai:การตรวจสอบความถูกต้องของข้อมูล, ...
Turkish:veri doğrulama, ...
Vietnamese:kiểm tra dữ liệu, ...

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