Data Science Interview Questions
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Define convex hull?

96

Write the formula to calculate r-square?

117

Explain k-mean?

98

Explain recommender system?

88

Explain the two main components of the hadoop framework?

82

Define analytics?

73

Explain the difference between data modeling and database design?

81

Define data reduction?

80

Explain data munging or data wrangling?

89

Define linear regression?

106

Define feature vector?

153

Explain the difference between sas, r and python programming?

118

Explain data cleansing?

94

Explain the differences between univariate, bivariate and multivariate analysis?

88

Explain the difference between bayesian estimate and maximum likelihood estimation (mle)?

115


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Un-Answered Questions { Data Science }

How do you work towards a random forest?

86


How do you use goal seek in excel?

109


What is overfitting?

97


How would you say data science is similar or different to business analytics and business intelligence?

96


What are essential skills and training needed in data Science?

132






Where linear optimization is used?

95


How will you impute missing information in a dataset?

117


Suppose that American Express has 1 million card members along with their transaction details. They also have 10,000 restaurants and 1000 food coupons. Suggest a method which can be used to pass the food coupons to users given that some users have already received the food coupons so far.

95


Why do you want to work at this company as a data scientist?

108


How can you deal with different types of seasonality in time series modelling?

111


What is systematic sampling?

92


A test has a true positive rate of 100% and false positive rate of 5%. There is a population with a 1/1000 rate of having the condition the test identifies. Considering a positive test, what is the probability of having that condition?

245


What are the metrics you will use to track if Uber's paid advertising strategies to acquire customers work? How will you figure out the acceptable cost of customer acquisition?

102


How to solve multi-collinearity?

136


What is the difference between select and update query?

99