CS3353 - FOUNDATIONS OF DATA SCIENCE

Question Bank
Unit I and Unit II - INTRODUCTION
Part A
1. What is data science and its benefits?
2. Explain role and stages in data science?
3. What are the goals of data science?
4. How to extract the data in data science?
5. What is Data? What are the types of Data.
6. Define Data Scientist.
7. What is Streaming Data?
8. Define Data Reterival.
9. Define Data Marts and its types.
10. Define methods used to fill the missing Values.
11. What is binning and smoothing?
12. Define Aggregation.
13. Define Charter.
14. What is Brushing and Linking?
15. Define Model Fit.
16. State 80-20 rule.
17. How the automation model works in data science process?
18. Define Shape,Center and Spread.
19. Define Percentiles.
20. State the formula for Cumulative Percentage.
21. Difference between Nominal and Ordinal data.

Part B
22. Explain different Facets of data Science?
23. Describe the step by step process of research goal and Retrieving data.
24. What measure of central tendency is calculated by adding all the values
and dividing the sum by the number of values? a. Median b. Mean c. Mode
25. A group of customer service surveys were sent out at random. The scores
were 90, 50, 70, 80, 70, 60, 20, 30, 80, 90, and 20. Find the mean score.
26. You grow 20 crystals from a solution and measure the length of each
crystal in millimeters. Here is your data: 9, 2, 5, 4, 12, 7, 8, 11, 9, 3, 7, 4, 12, 5, 4,
10, 9, 6, 9, 4. Calculate the sample standard deviation of the length of the
crystals.
27. Find the value of the correlation coefficient from the following table:

Sl.No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Age 43 21 25 42 57 59 63

X
 Y 99 65 74 75 87 99 107

28. Explain the purpose of Normalization methods.How to normalize the data

through the minmax normalization technique?
29. Describe the step by step process of Data Science process model.
30. Construct a frequency distribution for the number of different residences
occupied by graduating seniors during their college career, namely
1, 4, 2, 3, 3, 1, 6, 7, 4, 3, 3, 9, 2, 4, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 4, 2, 3, 3, 5
31. Describe the classification of data in statistics with example.
32. Explain in details about the guidelines to form the group data.
33. Construct a stem-and-leaf plot for the following set of data.
28 13 26 12 20 14 21 16 17 22 17 25 13 30 13 22 15 21 18 18 16 21 18 31 15 19.
34. The number of friends reported by Facebook users is summarized in the
following frequency distribution:
(a)What is the shape of this distribution?
(b) Find the relative frequencies.
(c) Find the Cumulative Frequency Percentage.
(d) Convert to a histogram.

35. Explain about the Data warehouse architecture diagram with its benefits.
36. Explain about the Data mining architecture diagram and its applications.