Descriptive Statistics
This measure of central tendency is the most frequently occurring value in a data set.
What is mode?
This keyword is used in Python to define a function.
What is def?
This Utah-based soda shop chain is famous for “dirty sodas” and has a major rivalry with Swig.
What is Sodalicious?
This Tableau feature allows users to filter data interactively across multiple visualizations in a dashboard.
What are Filters?
This package of packages in R is heavily used in data science.
What is the tidyverse?
If a data set is arranged from lowest to highest value, this measure of central tendency identifies the midpoint.
What is median?
This Python library is widely used for data analysis and provides the DataFrame object.
What is pandas?
This ski resort near Salt Lake City hosted many events during the 2002 Winter Olympics and is known for its “Greatest Snow on Earth.”
What is Snowbasin?
This type of field is created within Tableau using formulas, allowing users to derive new data from existing fields.
What is a Calculated Field?
Given this code:
values<-c(1,2,3,4,5)
what type of data is values?
What is a vector?
This type of plot shows the frequency distribution of a data set.
What is histogram?
This powerful Excel tool allows you to summarize, group, and analyze large datasets dynamically by dragging fields into rows, columns, and values.
What is a PivotTable?
This Provo-based university’s football team plays at LaVell Edwards Stadium and is independently affiliated in college football.
What is Brigham Young University?
This Tableau concept refers to the level of detail at which data is aggregated in a visualization.
What is Level of Detail (LOD)?
This function is commonly used to install packages from CRAN into your R environment.
What is install.packages()?
This descriptive statistic is a measure of how spread out a data set is, relative to its mean.
What is standard deviation?
Numeric variables can be of these two types: one can take on a limited range of values, while the other has no constraints.
What are discrete and continuous?
This canyon, accessed from Salt Lake City, is home to Brighton and Solitude resorts and is often debated as better or worse than its neighboring Little Cottonwood Canyon.
What is Big Cottonwood Canyon?
This Power BI feature allows users to transform and clean data before loading it into the model.
What is Power Query?
This popular R package, part of the tidyverse, is used for data manipulation with functions like filter(), select(), and mutate()
What is dplyr?
True or False: descriptive statistics alone let us make definitive conclusions about differences in populations.
What is false?
This process in data science involves splitting data into subsets—typically training and testing—to evaluate how well a model performs on unseen data.
What is a train-test split?
This unofficial Utah “holiday” on July 24th celebrates the arrival of pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847.
What is Pioneer Day?
This DAX function modifies the filter context to calculate values dynamically, often used in advanced measures.
What is CALCULATE?
This object type in R can hold elements of different types (like numbers, strings, and logical values) and is often used to store structured data.
What is a list?