Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice
An orange squash originating in Central America.
What is pumpkin?
In data visualization, this type of chart is ideal for showing parts of a whole.
What is a (pumpkin) pie chart?
The symbol Σ in statistics means to do this.
What is sum (add)?
This health startup’s data scandal serves as a cautionary tale in ethics.
What is Theranos?
In Canada, Thanksgiving is celebrated in this month.
What is October?
Starbucks released its Pumpkin Spice Latte in this year, the same year Facebook became available to the public.
What is 2003?
The “mean” of a dataset represents this statistical concept.
What is the average?
A dataset’s “spread” or “variation” can be measured by this metric.
What is standard deviation?
This company lost $100 billion in one day due to misreported ad metrics in 2022.
What is Meta (Facebook)?
This popular German festival features pretzels, lederhosen, and lots of beer.
What is Oktoberfest?
This spice blend includes cloves, nutmeg, ginger, and this fourth ingredient that comes from the inner bark of a tree.
What is cinnamon?
If you analyze 10 years of leaf color data, you’re studying this type of trend.
What is a time series?
If correlation = 0.9 between sweater sales and temperature drop, the relationship is this.
What is strong positive correlation?
A 2010 Excel error in this field led to major misinterpretations of debt research.
What is economics?
In Mexico, this colorful holiday honors loved ones who have passed, with marigolds and sugar skulls.
What is Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead)?
Data scientists might track this variable to predict when fall foliage peaks.
What is temperature (or average daily temp)?
In Python, this structure repeats code until a condition is no longer true — like raking leaves until the yard is clean.
What is a loop?
Regression lines can predict how something changes — like this autumn metric dropping daily.
What is temperature?
In 2012, Target used purchase data to predict this — before customers even told them.
What is pregnancy?
This European country celebrates “Samhain,” an ancient festival that inspired Halloween.
What is Ireland (or Scotland)?
This U.S. state grows the most pumpkins per year.
What is Illinois?
You train a model to predict fall coffee sales using historical data. What is the dependent variable?
What are coffee sales?
When you test two hypotheses about fall weather patterns, you’re performing this kind of analysis.
What is hypothesis testing?
This 2016 event highlighted the risks of biased data in machine learning.
What is Microsoft’s Tay chatbot?
In China, this fall festival celebrates the harvest and features mooncakes.
What is the Mid-Autumn Festival?