Data Science Basics
This is the first step in any data science workflow, involving collecting and organizing raw data.
What is data acquisition?
This measure of central tendency is the middle value in a sorted dataset.
What is median?
This term refers to climbing without ropes or protection, usually on short routes.
What is bouldering?
This country hosted the 2016 Summer Olympics.
What is Brazil?
This chart type is best for showing proportions of a whole.
What is a pie chart?
This term refers to cleaning and preparing data for analysis.
What is data wrangling?
This type of distribution is symmetric and bell-shaped.
What is normal distribution?
This is the highest peak in Colorado.
What is Mount Elbert?
This billionaire founded SpaceX.
Who is Elon Musk?
This visualization shows the distribution of a single variable using bins.
What is a histogram?
This programming language is widely used for data analysis and visualization.
What is Python?
This test compares means between two groups to see if they differ significantly.
What is t-test?
Who is the only player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as a Colorado Rockies?
Who is Larry Walker?
This Pixar movie features a clownfish searching for his son.
What is Finding Nemo?
This plot is ideal for visualizing relationships between two continuous variables.
What is a scatter plot?
This concept measures how well a model generalizes to unseen data.
What is overfitting?
This metric measures the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two variables.
What is correlation coefficient?
This grading system is widely used in the U.S. for rating climbing routes.
What is the Yosemite Decimal System (YDS)?
This process by which plants make food using sunlight is called ____.
What is photosynthesis?
This visualization technique reduces high-dimensional data into 2D or 3D for plotting.
What is PCA (Principal Component Analysis)?
This term describes the practice of splitting data into training, validation, and test sets to evaluate model performance.
What is data partitioning?
This theorem states that sample means approach a normal distribution as sample size increases.
What is the Central Limit Theorem?
This geological feature in the Rockies is known for its dramatic red sandstone formations near Colorado Springs.
What is Garden of the Gods?
This treaty ended World War I in 1919.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This type of plot uses hexagonal bins to handle overplotting in large datasets.
What is a hexbin plot?