vectorize

Vocabulary Word

Definition

'Vectorize' means making a digital 'vector' version of something - usually a graphic or image. 'Vector' means it's made of clear drawn lines and shapes, and you can make it bigger or smaller without it getting blurry.

Examples in Different Contexts

In machine learning, 'vectorize' often refers to transforming non-numeric data into numeric format, known as feature vectors. A data scientist might recommend, 'We should vectorize the text data to feed it into our machine learning model.'

Practice Scenarios

Tech

Scenario:

The computation time for this machine learning algorithm is quite high. We might benefit from some under-the-hood optimizations.

Response:

Right, vectorizing the data could indeed speed up the machine learning model's processing time.

Machine Learning and AI

Scenario:

We've got a large amount of text data that needs to be processed. But our AI model can only handle numeric data.

Response:

If that's the case, why don't we vectorize the text data? That way, our model will be able to process it.