Models
Metrics
Data Types
+DS Majors
Club Trivia
100

Fits a straight line to the data to predict a continuous outcome

What is linear regression?

100

Measures the proportion of correct predictions

What is accuracy?
100

Whole number

What is an integer?

100

The only +DS major under the School of Information Sciences

What is Information Sciences + DS?

100

The current president of iDSC

Who is Sam Barbeau?

200

This classification algorithm splits data using decision boundaries and is easy to visualize

What is a decision tree?

200

Measures the amount of variance in the dependant variable that can be explained by the independant variable/s

What is the coefficient of determination (R^2)? 

200
Used to store pairs of data separated by a colon

What is a dictionary?

200

The semester when the first four +DS majors were launched

When is Fall 2022?

200

The flagship event where members build projects over 8 weeks

What is the data dive?

300

Groups unlabeled data based on similarity into a fixed number of clusters

What is k-means clustering?

300

Balances precision and recall in a classification task 

What is the F1 score?

300

pandas data type for working with data organized in rows and columns, like a spreadsheet

What is a pandas DataFrame?

300

Three +DS majors are housed under the Gies College of Business: Accountancy + DS, Business + DS, and ____________

What is Finance + DS?

300

The number of project leads on the executive team

What is 5?

400

Great for text analysis, this model is based off of a well-known rule regarding conditional probabilities

What is naive Bayes? 

400

The area under an ROC curve 

What is the AUC (Area Under the Curve)?

400

Only has two values: True and False

What is a boolean?

400

According to datascience.illinois.edu, this +DS major is coming soon

What is Molecular & Cellular Biology + Data Science?

400

The semester that iDSC was founded

What is Fall 2020?

500

This algorithm finds optimal the boundary, called a hyperplane, to separate classes

What is a support vector machine (SVM)?

500

The intersection of two sets divided by the union

What is the Jaccard index/similarity?

500

NumPy data type for working with matrices

What is a NumPy array?

500

The only +DS major under The Grainger College of Engineering

Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering + Data Science

500

The name of the third education workshop

What is Data Visualization Deep Dive?

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