ANALYTICS TOOLBOX
Excellent Excel
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MARIST FACTS EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW
CLASS OF 85
100
A variable with values like "Green", "Blue", "Red" is called this.
What is Categorical?
100
In an "IF" statement, this is the second of the three pieces of information that are required.
What is value if the logic test is "true"?
100
This is the R function that we use to "see" our data (like an excel file).
What is "View"?
100
This is the year girls first entered Marist.
What is 1976?
100
Name the title of the song or the artist.
200
The best graphic to display the shape of a single continuous variable is this.
What is a Histogram?
200
When we develop a bar chart in Excel, we always start with this.
What is a Pivot Table?
200
This is the function in R that we use to "commit" to a single data file throughout a project - so that we only have to type the name of the variables and not the name of the file everytime.
What is "attach"?
200
The letters "A" and "M" on the Marist Crest mean this.
What is...the AM monogram, borrowed from the crest of the Society of Mary, stands for Ave Maria (Hail, Mary).
200
Name the title of the song or the artist.
300
The best graphic to display a single categorical variable.
What is a bar chart?
300
Given this output, what is the "accuracy" of the model?
What is 43.93%?
300
This is the R function that we used to identify the number of row and columns in a file.
What is dim?
300
The number of football state championships won by Marist teams (if you can name all years, you can double your money).
What is 3? - 1989, 2003, and 2020.
300
Name the title of the song or the artist.
400
This is the best graphic to display the relationship between two categorical (or ordinal) variables.
What is a 100% stacked bar chart.
400
Given the output below, which variable is the most important to the model?
What is miles?
400
When we run a regression model in R, we use this function.
What is "lm"?
400
This athletic team has won the most state championships (28)
What is Girls Tennis?
400
Name the title of the song or the artist.
500
This is the graphic we use to assess the relationship between two continuous variables.
What is a scatterplot?
500
When we develop a regression model, the difference between the "actual" value (like price) and the "predicted" value is called this.
What is a residual?
500
This is the "symbol" that we use in R to assign a value to an object.
What is "<-" or "gets"?
500
This is the oldest active teacher who is also a graduate of Marist.
Who is Mike Coveny ('81)?
FYI -
Dan Perez ('84)
David Negus ('84)
Jennifer Priestley ('85)
500
Name the title of the song or the artist.