Data Science Assessment Test

The data science assessment test evaluates a candidate's proficiency in statistics, probability, linear & non-linear regression models and their ability to analyze data and leverage Python/ R to extract insights from the data.

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Questions:

6 Probability MCQs
6 Statistics MCQs
6 Machine Learning MCQs

Covered skills:

Machine Learning Techniques

Data Visualization

Analytics with R or Python

Exploratory Data Analysis

Data Manipulation

Statistics

Regression Analysis

Data Cleansing

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Ability to apply probability concepts and principles in data analysis
Ability to analyze and interpret statistical data
Ability to implement machine learning algorithms and techniques
Ability to visualize and present data effectively
Ability to perform data analysis and exploration using R or Python
Ability to manipulate and transform data efficiently
Ability to understand and apply statistical concepts in regression analysis
Ability to clean and preprocess data for analysis
Ability to develop predictive models for various data scenarios

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🧐 Question
Medium Amazon electronics product feedback	Solve
Amazon's electronics store division has over the last few months focused on getting customer feedback on their products, and marking them as safe/ unsafe. Their data science team has used decision trees for this. The training set has these features: product ID, data, summary of feedback, detailed feedback and a binary safe/unsafe tag. During training, the data science team dropped any feedback records with missing features. The test set has a few records with missing "detailed feedback" field. What would you recommend? A: Remove the test samples with missing detailed feedback text fields B: Generate synthetic data to fill in missing fields C: Use an algorithm that handles missing data better than decision trees D: Fill in the missing detailed feedback text field with the summary of feedback field.
Easy Fraud detection model Logistic Regression	Solve
Your friend T-Rex is working on a logistic regression model for a bank, for a fraud detection usecase. The accuracy of the model is 98%. T-Rex's manager's concern is that 85% of fraud cases are not being recognized by the model. Which of the following will surely help the model recognize more than 15% of fraud cases?
Medium Rox's decision tree classifier Decision Tree Classifier	Solve
Your data science intern Rox was asked to create a decision tree classifier with 12 input variables. The tree used 7 of the 12 variables, and was 5 levels deep. Few nodes of the tree contain 3 data points. The area under the curve (AUC) is 0.86. As Rox's mentor, what is your interpretation? A. The AUC is high, and the small nodes are all very pure- the model looks accurate. B. The tree might be overfitting- try fitting shallower trees and using an ensemble method. C. The AUC is high, so overall the model is accurate. It might not be well-calibrated, because the small nodes will give poor estimates of probability. D. The tree did not split on all the input variables. We need a larger data set to get a more accurate model.
Easy Gradient descent optimization Gradient Descent	Solve
You are working on a regression problem using a simple neural network. You want to optimize the model's weights using gradient descent with different learning rate schedules. Consider the following pseudo code for training the neural network: Which of the following learning rate schedules would most likely result in the fastest convergence without overshooting the optimal weights? A: Constant learning rate of 0.01 B: Exponential decay with initial learning rate of 0.1 and decay rate of 0.99 C: Exponential decay with initial learning rate of 0.01 and decay rate of 0.99 D: Step decay with initial learning rate of 0.1 and decay rate of 0.5 every 100 epochs E: Step decay with initial learning rate of 0.01 and decay rate of 0.5 every 100 epochs F: Constant learning rate of 0.1
Medium Less complex decision tree model Model Complexity Overfitting	Solve
You are given a dataset to solve a classification problem using a decision tree algorithm. You are concerned about overfitting and decide to implement pruning to control the model's complexity. Consider the following pseudo code for creating the decision tree model: Which of the following combinations of parameters would result in a less complex decision tree model, reducing the risk of overfitting? A: max_depth=5, min_samples_split=2, min_samples_leaf=1 B: max_depth=None, min_samples_split=5, min_samples_leaf=5 C: max_depth=3, min_samples_split=2, min_samples_leaf=1 D: max_depth=None, min_samples_split=2, min_samples_leaf=1 E: max_depth=3, min_samples_split=10, min_samples_leaf=10 F; max_depth=5, min_samples_split=5, min_samples_leaf=5
Easy n-gram generator	Solve
Our newest machine learning developer want to write a function to calculate the n-gram of any text. An N-gram means a sequence of N words. So for example, "black cats" is a 2-gram, "saw black cats" is a 3-gram etc. The 2-gram of the sentence "the big bad wolf fell down" would be [["the", "big"], ["big", "bad"], ["bad", "wolf"], ["wolf", "fell"], ["fell", "down"]]. Can you help them select the correct function for the same?
Easy Recommendation System Selection Recommender Systems Collaborative Filtering Content-Based Filtering	Solve
You are tasked with building a recommendation system for a newly launched e-commerce website. Given that the website is new, there is not much user interaction data available. Also, the items in the catalog have rich descriptions. Based on these requirements, which type of recommendation system approach would be the most suitable for this task?
Easy Sensitivity and Specificity Confusion Matrix Model Evaluation	Solve
You have trained a supervised learning model to classify customer reviews as either "positive" or "negative" based on a dataset with 10,000 samples and 35 features, including the review text, reviewer's name, and rating. The dataset is split into a 7,000-sample training set and a 3,000-sample test set. After training the model, you evaluate its performance using a confusion matrix on the test set, which shows the following results: Based on the confusion matrix, what are the sensitivity and specificity of the model?
Medium Green or red balls	Solve
A bag contains 5 red balls, 6 yellow balls and 3 green balls. If two balls are picked at random, what is the probability that both are red or both are green in colour?
Hard Square points and Circle	Solve
What is the probability that two uniformly random points in the square are such that center of the square lies in the circle formed by taking the points as diameter
Easy Frequency distribution	Solve
Convert the following into an ordinary frequency distribution: - 5 users gave less than 3 rating - 12 users gave less than 6 rating - 25 users gave less than 9 ratings - 33 users get less than 12 ratings

	🧐 Question	🔧 Skill
	Medium Amazon electronics product feedback	2 mins Data Science	Solve
Amazon's electronics store division has over the last few months focused on getting customer feedback on their products, and marking them as safe/ unsafe. Their data science team has used decision trees for this. The training set has these features: product ID, data, summary of feedback, detailed feedback and a binary safe/unsafe tag. During training, the data science team dropped any feedback records with missing features. The test set has a few records with missing "detailed feedback" field. What would you recommend? A: Remove the test samples with missing detailed feedback text fields B: Generate synthetic data to fill in missing fields C: Use an algorithm that handles missing data better than decision trees D: Fill in the missing detailed feedback text field with the summary of feedback field.
	Easy Fraud detection model Logistic Regression	2 mins Data Science	Solve
Your friend T-Rex is working on a logistic regression model for a bank, for a fraud detection usecase. The accuracy of the model is 98%. T-Rex's manager's concern is that 85% of fraud cases are not being recognized by the model. Which of the following will surely help the model recognize more than 15% of fraud cases?
	Medium Rox's decision tree classifier Decision Tree Classifier	2 mins Data Science	Solve
Your data science intern Rox was asked to create a decision tree classifier with 12 input variables. The tree used 7 of the 12 variables, and was 5 levels deep. Few nodes of the tree contain 3 data points. The area under the curve (AUC) is 0.86. As Rox's mentor, what is your interpretation? A. The AUC is high, and the small nodes are all very pure- the model looks accurate. B. The tree might be overfitting- try fitting shallower trees and using an ensemble method. C. The AUC is high, so overall the model is accurate. It might not be well-calibrated, because the small nodes will give poor estimates of probability. D. The tree did not split on all the input variables. We need a larger data set to get a more accurate model.
	Easy Gradient descent optimization Gradient Descent	2 mins Machine Learning	Solve
You are working on a regression problem using a simple neural network. You want to optimize the model's weights using gradient descent with different learning rate schedules. Consider the following pseudo code for training the neural network: Which of the following learning rate schedules would most likely result in the fastest convergence without overshooting the optimal weights? A: Constant learning rate of 0.01 B: Exponential decay with initial learning rate of 0.1 and decay rate of 0.99 C: Exponential decay with initial learning rate of 0.01 and decay rate of 0.99 D: Step decay with initial learning rate of 0.1 and decay rate of 0.5 every 100 epochs E: Step decay with initial learning rate of 0.01 and decay rate of 0.5 every 100 epochs F: Constant learning rate of 0.1
	Medium Less complex decision tree model Model Complexity Overfitting	2 mins Machine Learning	Solve
You are given a dataset to solve a classification problem using a decision tree algorithm. You are concerned about overfitting and decide to implement pruning to control the model's complexity. Consider the following pseudo code for creating the decision tree model: Which of the following combinations of parameters would result in a less complex decision tree model, reducing the risk of overfitting? A: max_depth=5, min_samples_split=2, min_samples_leaf=1 B: max_depth=None, min_samples_split=5, min_samples_leaf=5 C: max_depth=3, min_samples_split=2, min_samples_leaf=1 D: max_depth=None, min_samples_split=2, min_samples_leaf=1 E: max_depth=3, min_samples_split=10, min_samples_leaf=10 F; max_depth=5, min_samples_split=5, min_samples_leaf=5
	Easy n-gram generator	2 mins Machine Learning	Solve
Our newest machine learning developer want to write a function to calculate the n-gram of any text. An N-gram means a sequence of N words. So for example, "black cats" is a 2-gram, "saw black cats" is a 3-gram etc. The 2-gram of the sentence "the big bad wolf fell down" would be [["the", "big"], ["big", "bad"], ["bad", "wolf"], ["wolf", "fell"], ["fell", "down"]]. Can you help them select the correct function for the same?
	Easy Recommendation System Selection Recommender Systems Collaborative Filtering Content-Based Filtering	2 mins Machine Learning	Solve
You are tasked with building a recommendation system for a newly launched e-commerce website. Given that the website is new, there is not much user interaction data available. Also, the items in the catalog have rich descriptions. Based on these requirements, which type of recommendation system approach would be the most suitable for this task?
	Easy Sensitivity and Specificity Confusion Matrix Model Evaluation	2 mins Machine Learning	Solve
You have trained a supervised learning model to classify customer reviews as either "positive" or "negative" based on a dataset with 10,000 samples and 35 features, including the review text, reviewer's name, and rating. The dataset is split into a 7,000-sample training set and a 3,000-sample test set. After training the model, you evaluate its performance using a confusion matrix on the test set, which shows the following results: Based on the confusion matrix, what are the sensitivity and specificity of the model?
	Medium Green or red balls	2 mins Probability	Solve
A bag contains 5 red balls, 6 yellow balls and 3 green balls. If two balls are picked at random, what is the probability that both are red or both are green in colour?
	Hard Square points and Circle	3 mins Probability	Solve
What is the probability that two uniformly random points in the square are such that center of the square lies in the circle formed by taking the points as diameter
	Easy Frequency distribution	3 mins Statistics	Solve
Convert the following into an ordinary frequency distribution: - 5 users gave less than 3 rating - 12 users gave less than 6 rating - 25 users gave less than 9 ratings - 33 users get less than 12 ratings

	🧐 Question	🔧 Skill	💪 Difficulty	⌛ Time
	Amazon electronics product feedback	Data Science	Medium	2 mins	Solve
Amazon's electronics store division has over the last few months focused on getting customer feedback on their products, and marking them as safe/ unsafe. Their data science team has used decision trees for this. The training set has these features: product ID, data, summary of feedback, detailed feedback and a binary safe/unsafe tag. During training, the data science team dropped any feedback records with missing features. The test set has a few records with missing "detailed feedback" field. What would you recommend? A: Remove the test samples with missing detailed feedback text fields B: Generate synthetic data to fill in missing fields C: Use an algorithm that handles missing data better than decision trees D: Fill in the missing detailed feedback text field with the summary of feedback field.
	Fraud detection model Logistic Regression	Data Science	Easy	2 mins	Solve
Your friend T-Rex is working on a logistic regression model for a bank, for a fraud detection usecase. The accuracy of the model is 98%. T-Rex's manager's concern is that 85% of fraud cases are not being recognized by the model. Which of the following will surely help the model recognize more than 15% of fraud cases?
	Rox's decision tree classifier Decision Tree Classifier	Data Science	Medium	2 mins	Solve
Your data science intern Rox was asked to create a decision tree classifier with 12 input variables. The tree used 7 of the 12 variables, and was 5 levels deep. Few nodes of the tree contain 3 data points. The area under the curve (AUC) is 0.86. As Rox's mentor, what is your interpretation? A. The AUC is high, and the small nodes are all very pure- the model looks accurate. B. The tree might be overfitting- try fitting shallower trees and using an ensemble method. C. The AUC is high, so overall the model is accurate. It might not be well-calibrated, because the small nodes will give poor estimates of probability. D. The tree did not split on all the input variables. We need a larger data set to get a more accurate model.
	Gradient descent optimization Gradient Descent	Machine Learning	Easy	2 mins	Solve
You are working on a regression problem using a simple neural network. You want to optimize the model's weights using gradient descent with different learning rate schedules. Consider the following pseudo code for training the neural network: Which of the following learning rate schedules would most likely result in the fastest convergence without overshooting the optimal weights? A: Constant learning rate of 0.01 B: Exponential decay with initial learning rate of 0.1 and decay rate of 0.99 C: Exponential decay with initial learning rate of 0.01 and decay rate of 0.99 D: Step decay with initial learning rate of 0.1 and decay rate of 0.5 every 100 epochs E: Step decay with initial learning rate of 0.01 and decay rate of 0.5 every 100 epochs F: Constant learning rate of 0.1
	Less complex decision tree model Model Complexity Overfitting	Machine Learning	Medium	2 mins	Solve
You are given a dataset to solve a classification problem using a decision tree algorithm. You are concerned about overfitting and decide to implement pruning to control the model's complexity. Consider the following pseudo code for creating the decision tree model: Which of the following combinations of parameters would result in a less complex decision tree model, reducing the risk of overfitting? A: max_depth=5, min_samples_split=2, min_samples_leaf=1 B: max_depth=None, min_samples_split=5, min_samples_leaf=5 C: max_depth=3, min_samples_split=2, min_samples_leaf=1 D: max_depth=None, min_samples_split=2, min_samples_leaf=1 E: max_depth=3, min_samples_split=10, min_samples_leaf=10 F; max_depth=5, min_samples_split=5, min_samples_leaf=5
	n-gram generator	Machine Learning	Easy	2 mins	Solve
Our newest machine learning developer want to write a function to calculate the n-gram of any text. An N-gram means a sequence of N words. So for example, "black cats" is a 2-gram, "saw black cats" is a 3-gram etc. The 2-gram of the sentence "the big bad wolf fell down" would be [["the", "big"], ["big", "bad"], ["bad", "wolf"], ["wolf", "fell"], ["fell", "down"]]. Can you help them select the correct function for the same?
	Recommendation System Selection Recommender Systems Collaborative Filtering Content-Based Filtering	Machine Learning	Easy	2 mins	Solve
You are tasked with building a recommendation system for a newly launched e-commerce website. Given that the website is new, there is not much user interaction data available. Also, the items in the catalog have rich descriptions. Based on these requirements, which type of recommendation system approach would be the most suitable for this task?
	Sensitivity and Specificity Confusion Matrix Model Evaluation	Machine Learning	Easy	2 mins	Solve
You have trained a supervised learning model to classify customer reviews as either "positive" or "negative" based on a dataset with 10,000 samples and 35 features, including the review text, reviewer's name, and rating. The dataset is split into a 7,000-sample training set and a 3,000-sample test set. After training the model, you evaluate its performance using a confusion matrix on the test set, which shows the following results: Based on the confusion matrix, what are the sensitivity and specificity of the model?
	Green or red balls	Probability	Medium	2 mins	Solve
A bag contains 5 red balls, 6 yellow balls and 3 green balls. If two balls are picked at random, what is the probability that both are red or both are green in colour?
	Square points and Circle	Probability	Hard	3 mins	Solve
What is the probability that two uniformly random points in the square are such that center of the square lies in the circle formed by taking the points as diameter
	Frequency distribution	Statistics	Easy	3 mins	Solve
Convert the following into an ordinary frequency distribution: - 5 users gave less than 3 rating - 12 users gave less than 6 rating - 25 users gave less than 9 ratings - 33 users get less than 12 ratings

Test candidates on core Data Science Hiring Test topics

Machine Learning Techniques: Machine learning techniques refer to the algorithms and methods used to train models that can automatically learn and improve from data without being explicitly programmed. This skill should be measured in the test as it is a fundamental component of data science, enabling data scientists to develop predictive models and make data-driven decisions.

Data Visualization: Data visualization involves creating visual representations of data to effectively communicate insights and patterns. This skill should be measured in the test as it is essential for data scientists to present complex data in a meaningful and understandable way, facilitating better decision-making and communication.

Analytics with R or Python: Analytics with R or Python refers to using programming languages such as R or Python to perform data analysis, statistical modeling, and machine learning tasks. This skill should be measured in the test as it assesses a candidate's ability to apply programming skills in data science projects, demonstrating their proficiency in handling data and implementing analytics algorithms.

Exploratory Data Analysis: Exploratory data analysis involves examining and transforming data to understand its main characteristics, patterns, and relationships. This skill should be measured in the test as it showcases a candidate's ability to extract meaningful insights from raw data, identify potential issues, and generate hypotheses for further analysis.

Data Manipulation: Data manipulation refers to the process of transforming, reformatting, or cleansing data to make it suitable for analysis. This skill should be measured in the test as it assesses a candidate's proficiency in handling and preparing data, which is a crucial step in the data science workflow before performing analytics or modeling tasks.

Statistics: Statistics involves the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data. This skill should be measured in the test as it tests a candidate's understanding and application of statistical concepts and techniques, which are essential for conducting robust and valid data analysis.

Regression Analysis: Regression analysis is a statistical technique used to model the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables. This skill should be measured in the test as it evaluates a candidate's ability to perform regression analysis, which is widely used in predictive modeling and understanding the impact of variables on an outcome of interest.

Data Cleansing: Data cleansing involves identifying and correcting or removing errors, inconsistencies, or inaccuracies in datasets. This skill should be measured in the test as it assesses a candidate's capability to ensure data quality, which is crucial for obtaining reliable and accurate results in data analysis and modeling tasks.

Predictive Modeling: Predictive modeling is the process of developing and deploying mathematical models to predict future events or outcomes based on historical data. This skill should be measured in the test as it evaluates a candidate's ability to build predictive models using appropriate algorithms and evaluate their performance, which is a key component of many data science projects.

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