All About WIDSS
The second S in WIDSS
What is Statistics?
One reason Python is so popular in data science is because it can turn raw data into this.
This is the longest side of a triangle
What is a hypotenuse?
In this school, WIDSS and the Data Science Department is housed
What is school of mathematical and statistical sciences?
This officer was at the 2024 Summer Olympics!
Who is Sriya?
Industry club meeting where this employer will host a workshop for our WIDSS members
Who is DriveTime?
In both Python and R, this kind of data type is used to store a text variable like “Hello, World!”
What is a string?
The “average” of a data set, found by adding up all the values and dividing by how many there are, is called this.
What is the mean?
The Data Science major has these many number of tracks!
What are the 8 tracks?
What is mixed media?
On October 9, WIDSS is collaborating with this university for an industry speaker panel!
What is University of Washington?
R is a language that’s especially good at making these — like bar charts, scatter plots, and line graphs
What are visualizations?
This Greek letter is often used to represent the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.
What is pi?
This is the center to find data science projects, workshops, lectures and resources
What is Unit for Data Science?
These two officers have a pet dog!
Who are Nirmitha and Cassandra?
WIDSS already has this many future events lined up so far for you to attend!
How many are 3?
In SQL, you use this command to grab information out of a database.
What is SELECT?
This graph type uses “bins” to show how data is distributed.
What is a histogram?
This competition in the Spring semester is a great way for data science students and other disciplines to work on a large dataset in a 48 hours.
What is ASA Datafest?
When Zumreen was 13, she did these 2 activities in Malaysia!
What are paragliding and skiing?
What is Coffee chat with officers?
Before building models, data scientists often use graphs and summary stats to get a first look at the data. This process is called this.
What is exploratory data analysis?
This measure of spread is the square root of the variance.
What is standard deviation?
This many minors and certificates exist within the SOMSS department
How many are 7 minors and certificates?
Professor Mahzabeen was promoted to this position this year!
What is an Associate Teaching Professor?