Data Science Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the degree of freedom for lasso?

Adobe,

195

What are Type 1 and Type 2 errors ?

Citi Bank,

178

You are creating a report for user content uploads every month and observe a sudden increase in the number of upload for the month of November. The increase in uploads is particularly in image uploads. What do you think will be the cause for this and how will you test this sudden spike?

202

What are the factors used to produce "People You May Know" data product on LinkedIn?

LinkedIn,

174

You have a bag with 6 marbles. One marble is white. You reach the bag 100 times. After taking out a marble, it is placed back in the bag. What is the probability of drawing a white marble at least once?

Microsoft,

193

How will you handle missing data ?

IBM,

228

Check whether a given integer is a palindrome or not without converting it to a string.

Adobe,

229

Suppose that American Express has 1 million card members along with their transaction details. They also have 10,000 restaurants and 1000 food coupons. Suggest a method which can be used to pass the food coupons to users given that some users have already received the food coupons so far.

American Express,

171

You are given a training dataset of users that contain their demographic details, the pages on Facebook they have liked so far and results of psychology test based on their personality i.e. their openness to like FB pages or not. How will you predict the age, gender and other demographics of unseen data?

American Express,

193

Do you have some knowledge of R - analyse a given dataset in R?

Airbnb,

191

What will be your expected earnings with the two roll strategy?

347

Burn two ropes, one needs 60 minutes of time to burn and the other needs 30 minutes of time. How will you achieve this in 45 minutes of time ?

Citi Bank,

197

How can you build and test a metric to compare ranked list of TV shows or Movies for two Netflix users?

393

How do you take millions of users with 100's of transactions each, amongst 10000's of products and group the users together in a meaningful segments?

Apple,

286

How can you solve a problem that has no solution?

190


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Un-Answered Questions { Data Science }

What do you understand by decision tree?

248


What is the definition of the unit test?

200


What is the difference between kmeans clustering and hierarchical clustering?

206


What is the difference between a cluster and systematic sampling?

202


What skills do I need to be a data scientist?

200


A stranger uses a search engine to find something and you do not know anything about the person. How will you design an algorithm to determine what the stranger is looking for just after he/she types few characters in the search box?

296


Can you explain unsupervised learning?

208


What jupyter used?

171


Define boltzmann machine

179


Why do you want to work as a data scientist?

174


What Is An Avl Tree?

174


What is the difference between supervised learning an unsupervised learning?

208


How do data scientists use statistics?

199


What is the job of a data scientist?

181


Explain data munging?

188