what is an outlier? a program that processes and manages algorithms across many machines in a computing environment a data value that is numerically distant from most of the other data points in a set of data an emotional state of over-analyzing (or over-thinking) a situation so that a decision or action is never taken, in effect paralyzing the outcome the application of big data analytics to smaller data sets in near-real or real-time in order to solve a problem or create business value