Introduction to Data Science
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What is Data Science?

Data science is the field of applying advanced analytics techniques and scientific principles to extract valuable information from data for business decision-making, strategic planning, and other uses.

What are the steps of Data Science?

  1. Define business requirement, 2. Data collection, 3. Data cleaning, 4. Data exploration and Analysis.

Can you provide an example of data collection in Data Science?

For customer credit risk analysis, the perfect data should typically include demographics data, loan information, repayment data, and transaction statements.

Why is data cleaning important in Data Science?

<p>Data cleaning is important because bad data can lead to inaccurate models. The accuracy and effectiveness of analysis highly depend on the quality of data.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of Data Exploration and Analysis in Data Science?

<p>The purpose is to understand data, explore and visualize it to uncover insights, identify important aspects for analysis, and remove data that may distort the analysis.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why is defining business requirements important in Data Science?

<p>Defining business requirements is crucial as it helps in understanding the problem to be solved and transforming business needs into actionable data science questions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one significant security concern with fake data in big data?

<p>Fake data reduces the ability to identify other issues like fraud.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the first step in the data science process?

<p>Data collection and integration</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why is it important to test the linearity assumption in regression models?

<p>To ensure the relationship between the variables is linear</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the risk of reversing data masking measures?

<p>It can allow malicious actors to reconnect individuals to their confidential information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the biggest data security threats with big data?

<p>The diversity and complexity of the data sets used.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Name one application of data science in manufacturing.

<p>Predictive maintenance</p> Signup and view all the answers

How can data science provide a competitive advantage in retail?

<p>By using big data for demand forecasting, product predictions, and in-store optimization</p> Signup and view all the answers

Name one application of data science in the financial services industry.

<p>Reducing fraud or driving innovation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a key concern when deploying data science applications?

<p>Data security</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is data masking used for in data science?

<p>To separate confidential client information from identifying data.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one step in the data science process?

<p>Generating or collecting data.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Give one step in the data science process after building the model.

<p>Data validation to test the model's accuracy</p> Signup and view all the answers

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