Data Analytics Bootcamp
Technical Interview Prep
Python Prep
Instructions
Below are the prep lessons for the Python technical interview. Make sure you don't just "eyeball"
the codes but actually write and test your codes. If your codes yield errors or unexpected
outputs, make sure you understand what you did wrong and fix them. The total time estimated
to finish these lessons should be less than 3 hours.
Lessons
Lesson Link
Hello, World! [Link]
Variables and Types [Link]
Lists [Link]
Basic Operations [Link]
String Formatting [Link]
Basic String Operations [Link]
Conditions [Link]
Loops [Link]
Statistics Prep
Instructions
Below are the prep lessons for the statistics technical interview. Several practice quizzes are
scattered among the lessons useful for you to evaluate your own mastery of the topics. When
you make mistakes in the practice, make sure you understand why you are wrong instead of
simply trying different options until you hit the correct answer.
The estimated time to finish all the following videos and practices is 4-5 hours.
Chapter Lesson Type
Understanding Identifying individuals, variables and categorical variables in Video
Categorical Data a data set
Practice: Individuals, variables, and categorical & Practice
quantitative data
Creating a bar graph Video
Two-way frequency tables and Venn diagrams Video
Two-way relative frequency tables Video
Marginal distribution and conditional distribution Video
Frequency tables & dot plots Video
Creating dot plots Practice
Creating a histogram Video
Create histograms Practice
Classifying shapes of distributions Video
Shape of distributions Practice
Understanding Mean, median, & mode example Video
Numerical Data
Impact on median & mean: increasing an outlier Video
Estimating mean and median in data displays Video
Estimating mean and median in data displays Practice
Interquartile range (IQR) Video
Sample variance Video
Sample standard deviation and bias Video
Sample standard deviation Practice
Worked example: Creating a box plot (odd number of data Video
points)
Data Distribution Qualitative sense of normal distributions Video
Normal distribution problems: Empirical rule Video
Empirical rule Practice
Probability Identifying a sample and population Video
Identifying the population and sample Practice
Generalizability of survey results example Video
Techniques for generating a simple random sample Video
Simple random samples Practice
Techniques for random sampling and avoiding bias Video
Sampling methods Practice
Introduction to sampling distributions Video
Confidence intervals and margin of error Video
Confidence interval simulation Video
After completing the prep lessons, please contact your admission manager to schedule a
technical interview. Good luck!