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The Data Scientist’s Toolbox Coursera Quiz Answer
Week-1 (Data Science Fundamentals)
Practice Quiz-1
1.Which of the following is an example of structured data?
- A database of individual’s addresses, phone numbers, and post codes
- YouTube video transcript
- Satellite imagery of weather patterns
1.Which of the following is an example of structured data?
- Lung x-ray images of smokers
- A database of individual’s addresses, phone numbers, and post codes
- A compilation of cat videos
2. Which is NOT one of the three V’s of Big Data?
- volume, vibrant, vital
- vast, versatile, vital
- visible, variety, vast
2. Which is NOT one of the three V’s of Big Data?
- vexing, visible, vast
- variety, velocity, vexing
- velocity, variety, volume
3.Which of these is NOT one of the main skills embodied by data scientists?
- Machine learning
- Hacking skills
- Math and stats
3. Which of these is NOT one of the main skills embodied by data scientists?
- Hacking skills
- Artificial intelligence
- Math and stats
Practice Quiz-2
1.Which of these is an example of a quantitative variable?
- clothing brand, genre, birthplace
- occupation, height, gender
- age, weight, height
1. Which of these is an example of a quantitative variable?
- latitude, age, weight
- height, birthplace, gender
- genre, occupation, age
2. Quantitative variables are measured on ordered, continuous scales.
- True
- False
3. What is the most important thing in Data Science?
- Knowing Hadoop and Pig
- The question you are trying to answer
- Machine learning and prediction
3. What is the most important thing in Data Science?
- The data
- Working with large data sets
- The question you are trying to answer
Practice Quiz-3
1. Which of these might be a good title for a forum post?
- How do I get rnorm() to work?
- STAT101 quiz
- Removing rows with NAs in data.frame using subset(), R 3.4.3
2. Which is a characteristic of a good question when posting to message boards?
- Assumes that you’ve discovered a bug in R
- Includes follow-ups if you answer your own question
- Asks for a code fix without explanation
3. Which is NOT a good strategy for finding the answer to a problem in this course?
- Explaining your problem to a friend/coworker
- Searching the course forum
- Googling the error message
- Searching the course forum
- Emailing the professor
- Explaining your problem to a friend/coworker
Practice Quiz-4
Quiz-1
Module One Summative Quiz
1. Which of these is NOT one of the main skills embodied by data scientists?
- Access to large data sets
- Hacking skills
- Substantive expertise
2. What is the most important thing in Data Science?
- The question you are trying to answer
- Statistical inference
- Working with large data sets
3. Which of these might be a good title for a forum post?
- URGENT! R isn’t working!
- Removing rows with NAs in data.frame using subset(), R 3.4.3
- How do I get rnorm() to work?
4. What’s the first step in the data science process?
- Communicate your findings
- Exploring the data
- Generating the question
5.Which of these is an example of a quantitative variable?
- Latitude
- Occupation
- Educational level
Week- 2 (R and RStudio)
Practice Quiz-1
Will be added later
Practice Quiz-2
Practice Quiz-3
Practice Quiz-4
Quiz-2
- Mapping
- Statistical analysis
- Artificial intelligence
- A graphical user interface for R
- Version control software
- A programming language
- History
- Plots
- Console
- versions()
- Sessioninfo()
- sessionInfo()
- .Rproj
- .R
- .RPROJECT
Week-3 (Version Control and GitHub)
Practice Quiz-1
Practice Quiz-2
Practice Quiz-3
Practice Quiz-4
Quiz-3
- Modified linear model of height to include new covariate, genotype
- Fixed problem with linear model
- Updated thing
- Watch, star, fork
- Pull, clone, fork
- Commit, contributors, issues
- git init
- git remote add
- git boom
- Commit > Push
- Stage > Commit message > Commit > Push
- Pull > Push > Commit
- git add .
- cd ~/dir/name/of/path/to/file
- git commit -m “Message”
Week-4 (R Markdown, Scientific Thinking, and Big Data)
Practice Quiz-1
Practice Quiz-2
Practice Quiz-3
Practice Quiz-4
Quiz-4
1.What is the format for including a link that appears as blue text in your markdown document?
2. Which of the following describes a predictive analysis?
- Using data collected in the past to predict values in the future
- Finding if one variable is related to another one
- Showing the effect on a variable of changing the values of another variable
3. We collect data on all the songs in the Spotify catalogue and want to summarize how many are country western, hip-hop, classic rock, or other. What type of analysis is this?
- Exploratory
- Descriptive
- Predictive
4. What might a confounder be in an experiment looking at the relationship between the prevalence of white hair in a population and wrinkles?
- Age
- Socioeconomic status
- Sex
5. Which one of the following is an example of structured data?
- The text from a series of books
- Lung x-ray images
- A table of names and student grades
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