
ETL
/ˌiː tiː ˈel/
Extract, Transform, Load - the data pipeline process
ETL in a sentence
“The ETL pipeline processes millions of records nightly.”
Origin of ETL
Acronym from Latin extractus (drawn out) + transformare (change shape) + Old English hladan (to load)
Related Words
pipeline
A sequence of processes
visualization
The representation of an object, situation, or set of information as a chart or other image
feature engineering
Creating new input variables from raw data
dimensionality reduction
Reducing the number of variables while preserving information
cross-validation
Evaluating models by training on subsets and testing on the rest
precision
The proportion of positive predictions that are correct