Fintech Jeopardy

Finance/Stats

100

Of the different domains in FinTech, this is considered the largest domain?

Payments and remittances

200

This is a measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values in relation to the mean

Standard deviation

300

This range of values measures the degree of uncertainty in a sampling method, given a probability that a parameter will fall between a pair of values around the mean. What is it?

Confidence Interval

400

What is the measure of volatility or systematic risk of a security compared to the market?

Beta

500

What is the algo trading indicator involving envelopes plotted at standard deviations above and below a simple moving average of the price?

Bollinger Bands

Python/Pandas

100

These are the 2 main types of loops in python

- for loops

- while loops

200

Similar to pd.merge, this pandas method is used to stack multiple dataframes together (typically rows)

pd.concat() 

300

What's a one-dimensional pandas data structure?

Pandas Series

400

This library is the de facto standard for making http API calls in python

Requests

500

This module provides infrastructure for writing single-threaded concurrent code using coroutines, multiplexing I/O access over sockets and other resources

asyncio

SQL/CLI/MD

100

How would you embed a hyper link on markdown file linking the word "video" to www.python.org?

[video](https://www.python.org)

200

How would you create a new file (README.md) using the command line?

touch README.md

code README.md

300

Which form of normalization including any prior form(s) is defined as "all non-key columns are dependent on the primary key for the table"?

2

400

With SQL, how can you return the number of records in the "Persons" table?

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Persons;

500

This clause is used in combination with the GROUP BY clause to restrict the groups of returned rows to only those whose the condition is TRUE.

Having

Machine Learning

100

This is a statistical measure that evaluates how relevant a word is to a document in a collection of documents.

TF-IDF

200

Often used with BIC, this metric estimates the relative amount of information lost by a given model: the less information a model loses, the higher the quality of that model. 

AIC

300

This classification technique involves a discriminative classifier formally defined by a separating hyperplane

Support vector Machine

400

This tool uses a lexicon and rules-based sentiment analysis, generally labeling words according to their semantic orientation either positive or negative.

VADER

500

In artificial neural networks, This function defines the output of a node given an input or set of inputs

activation function

Blockchain

100

How many characters does the SHA256 hash produce?

64

200

In cryptography, this is an arbitrary value that can be only used once which adds randomness to the hash.

Nonce

300

In solidity, this function will be called when a contract receives ether and no data

fallback function

400

In 2016, involving the recursive transfer of funds from the contract, the DAO fell victim to this phenomenon draining about 3.6 million ether

Reentrancy attack

500

This is a free, open standard that describes how to build non-fungible or unique tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. 

ERC721