Data Science
In Excel and other data tools, this feature lets you quickly summarize and reorganize data to calculate totals, averages, or counts by category.
What is a pivot table?
Fabulous amazing spectacular member of DSU :)
What is Winter C!
This nonprofit founded by Dolly Parton provides free books to children around the world.
What is the Imagination Library?
In a dataset, this value appears most frequently.
What is the mode?
This Pixar film follows a robot left to clean up Earth in the distant future.
What is WALL-E?
This snaky programming language is one of the most popular for data science and machine learning.
What is Python?
This famous novel by H.G. Wells tells of a Martian invasion of Earth.
What is The War of the Worlds?
Tennessee is known as what nickname because of its enthusiastic participation in the War of 1812.
In a scatterplot, this line is often added to show the general direction or trend of the data.
What is a trendline?
(Also acceptable: What is a line of best fit?)
This 1992 Disney film is set in the fictional city of Agrabah.
What is Aladdin?
This phenomenon happens when a model performs extremely well on training data but poorly on unseen data, often because it has learned noise instead of signal.
What is overfitting?
This tennis tournament is played annually in London.
What is Wimbledon?
This famous mansion in Memphis was home to Elvis Presley.
What is Graceland?
This theorem states that as sample size increases, the sampling distribution of the mean approaches a normal distribution.
What is the Central Limit Theorem?
This was the first Pixar film ever released, in 1995.
What is Toy Story?
Ice cream sales and drowning rates both increase in the summer; this lurking variable explains the correlation.
What is temperature (or summer season)?
Location of the New York Stock Exchange
What is Wall Street
This Tennessee city was home to the secret Manhattan Project facility that helped develop the atomic bomb during World War II.
What is Oak Ridge?
In hypothesis testing, this value represents the probability of observing results at least as extreme as those measured, assuming the null hypothesis is true.
What is the p-value?
This Disney princess has a raccoon friend named Meeko.
Who is Pocahontas?
In machine learning, this technique involves splitting data into subsets multiple times to better estimate model performance.
What is cross-validation?
This British prime minister led the United Kingdom through much of World War II.
Who is Winston Churchill?
Tennessee is bordered by this many states, more than any other U.S. state.
What is eight?
In regression, this problem occurs when two or more predictor variables are highly correlated, making coefficient estimates unstable.
What is multicollinearity?
In Beauty and the Beast, this enchanted object serves as the Beast’s butler.
Who is Lumière?