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Data Science Foundations Assignment Guide

This document is an assignment for a course on Foundations of Data Science, consisting of a series of short answer questions covering various fundamental concepts in data science. Topics include definitions of data types, data analysis methods, data visualization techniques, and tools used in the field. The assignment aims to assess students' understanding of key data science principles and practices.

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Data Science Foundations Assignment Guide

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CS358 CS 354 - FOUNDATIONS OF DATA SCIENCE

Assignment #01

Short Answer Questions


1. Define data science.
2. What is role of data science?
3. Define unstructured Data.
4. Define data source?
5. What is data set?
6. What is CSV format?
7. What are uses of Zip files?
8. What is open data?
9. What is meant by semi-structured data?
10. What is rasterized and vectorized image files?
11. What is SAS?
12. List application of data science.
13. What is social media data?
14. List tools for data scientist.
15. What is 3V’s?
16. What is data science life cycle?
17. Give the use of tar files.
18. What is compressed data?
19. What is data source?
20. Define statistical data analysis?
21. Define descriptive statistics.
22. What is meant by central tendency of data?
23. Define geometric mean.
24. What is meant by mode?
25. Define outlier.
26. What is inferential statistics?
27. What is mean by range?
28. Define standard deviation?
29. Define hypothesis testing.
30. What is binary attribute and ordinal attribute.
31. Define variance.
32. Define interquartile range.
33. Give parameter estimation methods.

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34. What is data?


35. Define data attributes.
36. What is nominal attribute?
37. Give purpose of preprocessing.
38. Which operations are not possible with ordinal attributes?
39. Define data object.
40. What is missing values?
41. Define data cleaning?
42. Define data discretization.
43. Differentiate discrete and continuous attributes, (any two points).
44. Why data reduction is important operation of data preprocessing?
45. What is data transformation?
46. What is one hot coding?
47. What are different methods for feature extraction.
48. Define rescaling?
49. What is binarizing?
50. Define data wrangling.
51. What is data filling?
52. What is meant by data quality?
53. What is data cube?
54. Define data visualization.
55. What is the purpose of data visualization?
56. What is geographical data?
57. Define Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA).
58. What is visual encoding?
59. What is tag cloud?
60. List data visualization libraries in Python.
61. Define box plot?
62. What is the use of bubble plot?
63. Define dendrogram.
64. What is donut charts?
65. Define area chart.

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