Coursera: Data Analysis with R

Week 2 Practice Quiz

1.
Question 1
The process of converting or mapping data from the initial raw form to another format to prepare it for
further analysis goes by several names. What is this process commonly called? Select three answers.
2.
Question 2
What is the result of the following statement?

3.
Question 3
Which functions do you use together to correct data types in all columns of your dataset? Select two
answers.
4.
Question 4
Which data normalization technique divides each value by the maximum value for that variable, resulting
in new values that range between 0 and 1?
5.
Question 5
With data binning, observations are often organized into defined intervals called quartiles. Which quartile
is the median of the dataset?
Graded Quiz

1.
Question 1
You want to access the “Date” column of a data frame called sales_data so you can perform an operation
on it. What is the correct way to refer to this column?
2.
Question 2
Which function replaces missing values in a dataset?
3.
Question 3
You have a variable called “Status” that contains a status code in the format “error_type-severity_level”,
for example “10-07”, and you want to reformat the column so that the “error_type” and “severity_level”
are in different columns. What is the correct function to do this?
4.
Question 4
What are two benefits of data normalization?

5.
Question 5
To visualize its distribution, binned data is often plotted in which of the following type
of chart?

6.
Question 6
Which of the following can you accomplish using the spread() function? Select two answers.