Foreign Languages
Common Algorithms
Women in Stem
Data Engineering
Data Science Pop Culture
100

Snakes on a plane?! 

This language has a popular packages such as Pandas and Sci-Kit Learn

Python

100

Y = mx + b is a simple representation of this algorithm

(Linear) Regression

100

She was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights

Katherine Johnson or Katherine Goble

100

Not a box. Not a square. This instrument bundles information, packages and dependencies independently and can be used with a web-service API.  

Container


100

The San Francisco-based company designs and manufactures popular digital fitness trackers. This company was acquired by Google in 2019

Fitbit

200

Not a gem, this language was developed in the mid '90s, is dynamically typed and uses garbage collection 

Ruby

200

Getting a little over-grown, aren't we? This two-class classification algorithm can be 'pruned'. 

Decision Tree

200

"The mother of computing", She developed the first computer compiler and the first computer programming language. She helped revolutionize the world of computers and has a conference named after her.

Grace M. Hopper


200

Its all relative. What is the ratio called when you split data prior to training a ML Model?

Train - Test Split 

200

A major political scandal in early 2018 that harvested the personal data of millions of people's Facebook profiles without their consent and used it for political advertising purposes.

Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal

300

Translation please: p(B|A)

What is the probability of B given the knowledge of A occurred

300

No, you're not in Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, but this algorithm is often abbreviated as 'KNN'

K-Nearest Neighbor

300

She  helped develop what is now considered the first "personal computer". She was also the first person to have a PC in her home. She worked on the LINC computer as a programmer and instructions author. She is credited with writing the LINC's operating program manual

Mary Allen Wilkes

300

This offline activity is set by a schedule, frequency and instructions how to execute. What is this method called?

Batch Processing

300

CEO was forced to resign, and the I.P.O. was withdrawn. Once estimated to be worth $47 billion, was reduced to $7 billion, after a rescue by the Japanese giant SoftBank.

WeWork

400

Significant or not. This statistical measure is used during a hypothesis test to determine if you can reject the null hypothesis

p-value

400

You don't need to be a brain surgeon to understand. But this algorithm mimics the way the human brain processes information

Neural Net or Perceptron

400

She was the White House's third-ever chief technology officer was a former Google VP. Served as CTO under President Obama, helping to bring the U.S. government — parts of it reportedly still running on floppy disks in 2015 — into the 21st century.

Megan Smith

400

These three components are captured when measuring a DTU ( Database Throughput Unit )

CPU, I/O, Memory

400

The messaging platform was flooded with forwarded spam messages that spewed misleading information, conspiracy theories, and hoaxes, as well as an illegal fake news campaign in Brazil.

WhatsApp's

500

One of the earliest computer programming languages was introduced by IBM in 1957. The language was a group effort led by John Backhus. The aim of the language was to help with translating mathematical formulas into machine understandable code. What is the name of this scientific language?

FORTRAN

500

This optimization algorithm is used to minimize a function by iteratively moving the direction from steepest point, downward. 

Gradient Descent 

500

She was considered the first computer programmer and a visionary for what programming and computers could eventually become. She has a technology award named after her and a holiday devoted to celebrating her legacy


Ada Lovelace 

500

What are the four V's of Big Data? 

***Double Jeporady***

Volume, Velocity, Variety, Veracity  

500

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