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Data Science Viva Questions

The document provides a series of questions and answers related to Data Science, covering its definition, key components, and differences from Data Analytics. It also discusses statistical concepts, model validation techniques, data visualizations, outlier detection, time series forecasting, predictive models, and recommendation engines. Overall, it serves as a concise overview of fundamental Data Science concepts and methodologies.

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Data Science Viva Questions

The document provides a series of questions and answers related to Data Science, covering its definition, key components, and differences from Data Analytics. It also discusses statistical concepts, model validation techniques, data visualizations, outlier detection, time series forecasting, predictive models, and recommendation engines. Overall, it serves as a concise overview of fundamental Data Science concepts and methodologies.

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Viva Questions and Answers: Data Science

Q: What is Data Science?

A: Data Science is a multidisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and

systems to extract knowledge and insights from structured and unstructured data.

Q: What are the key components of the Data Science process?

A: The key components include data collection, data cleaning, exploratory data analysis, model

building, evaluation, and deployment.

Q: Explain the difference between Data Science and Data Analytics.

A: Data Science is broader and includes creating data models and using machine learning. Data

Analytics focuses on processing and performing statistical analysis on existing datasets.

Q: What is Descriptive Statistics?

A: Descriptive statistics summarizes and organizes characteristics of a data set using measures

such as mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and graphical tools.

Q: What is Inferential Statistics?

A: Inferential statistics allows us to make predictions or inferences about a population based on a

sample of data using methods such as hypothesis testing and confidence intervals.

Q: What is Cross Validation?

A: Cross Validation is a model validation technique for assessing how a statistical analysis will

generalize to an independent dataset. Commonly used forms include k-fold and stratified k-fold

cross validation.

Q: List different types of data visualizations.

A: Common data visualizations include histograms, pie charts, bar charts, line charts, scatter plots,

box plots, and heatmaps.


Q: What are outliers and how can they be detected?

A: Outliers are data points that differ significantly from other observations. They can be detected

using statistical tests, visualization tools, or machine learning methods like Isolation Forest or

SMOTE.

Q: What is Time Series Forecasting?

A: Time Series Forecasting involves using historical data to predict future events. Techniques

include ARIMA, exponential smoothing, and machine learning approaches.

Q: Explain the use of Predictive Models in Data Science.

A: Predictive models use patterns found in historical and transactional data to identify risks and

opportunities. Common applications include fraud detection and sales forecasting.

Q: What is a Recommendation Engine?

A: A recommendation engine is a system that suggests products, services, or information to users

based on analysis of data. Techniques include collaborative filtering and content-based filtering.

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