Data Science Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is the degree of freedom for lasso?

Adobe,

186

What are Type 1 and Type 2 errors ?

Citi Bank,

175

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?

190

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

LinkedIn,

168

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,

184

How will you handle missing data ?

IBM,

214

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

Adobe,

221

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,

163

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,

183

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

Airbnb,

188

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

341

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,

186

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

376

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,

277

How can you solve a problem that has no solution?

176


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Un-Answered Questions { Data Science }

What is the jupyter center ?

202


How would you say data science is similar or different to business analytics and business intelligence?

167


Define a sql query?

167


Explain the differences between univariate and multivariate analysis?

207


What is k-means? How can you select k for k-means?

155


How does data cleaning plays a vital role in the analysis?

193


Name some packages in r and python for building regression models.

190


How do data management procedures like missing data handling make selection bias worse?

320


Define boltzmann machine

166


How do you check for data quality?

183


What is meant by classical ANOVA?

209


What are distance measures in R statistics?

216


How do you use goal seek in excel?

211


What are Type 1 and Type 2 errors ?

175


Which one would you prefer for text analytics python or r?

178