Data Science Interview Questions
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What will you do if removing missing values from a dataset cause bias?

Airbnb,

116

How can you reduce bias in a given data set?

Airbnb,

124

How will you impute missing information in a dataset?

Airbnb,

117

Estimate the probability of a disease in a particular city given that the probability of the disease on a national level is low.

Amazon,

119

How will inspect missing data and when are they important for your analysis?

Amazon,

155

How will you decide whether a customer will buy a product today or not given the income of the customer, location where the customer lives, profession and gender? Define a machine learning algorithm for this.

Amazon,

107

From a long sorted list and a short 4 element sorted list, which algorithm will you use to search the long sorted list for 4 elements.

Amazon,

116

How can you compare a neural network that has one layer, one input and output to a logistic regression model?

Amazon,

116

How do you treat colinearity?

Amazon,

108

How will you deal with unbalanced data where the ratio of negative and positive is huge?

Amazon,

112

What is the difference between Stack and Queue

Amazon,

142

What is the difference between Linkedin and Array

Amazon,

109

You are about to get on a plane to Seattle, you want to know whether you have to bring an umbrella or not. You call three of your random friends and as each one of them if it's raining. The probability that your friend is telling the truth is 2/3 and the probability that they are playing a prank on you by lying is 1/3. If all 3 of them tell that it is raining, then what is the probability that it is actually raining in Seattle.

Facebook,

109

You have been given the data on Facebook user's friending or defriending each other. How will you determine whether a given pair of Facebook users are friends or not?

Facebook,

119

Estimate the number of square feet pizza's eaten in US each year.

Goldman Sachs,

114


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Explain eigenvalue and eigenvector

100


How do you understand by bias variance trade off?

89


Why is Python used in data science?

117


What prior subject is required to become a data analyst?

98


What do you mean by survival analysis in R?

128






Develop an algorithm to sort two lists of sorted integers into a single list.

125


Pick up a coin C1 given C1+C2 with probability of trials p (h1) =.7, p (h2) =.6 and doing 10 trials. And what is the probability that the given coin you picked is C1 given you have 7 heads and 3 tails?

145


List the differences between supervised and unsupervised learning.

108


Is it possible to capture the correlation between continuous and categorical variable?

112


Can you provide examples for other computations in spark?

76


What are the key elements of the statistical graphics?

98


What is root Linear Regression analysis?

133


Define a sql query? How do you use sql in sas, python, r languages?

118


What is chi square test?

106


Can you explain supervised learning?

96