Terminology

  • Analyst: Someone performing analysis. This is more general than data scientist.
  • Ping: A message sent from the Firefox browser to our telemetry servers containing information on browser state, user actions, etc... (more details)
  • Dataset: A set of data, includes ping data, derived datasets, etc...
  • Derived Dataset: A processed dataset, such as main_summary or the longitudinal dataset
  • Session: The time from when a Firefox browser starts until it shuts down
  • Subsession: Sessions are split into subsessions when a 24 hour threshold is crossed or an environment change occurs (more details)
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