Data Science
Women's History
Technology
Regression
Software
200

A broader family of machine learning methods based on artificial neural networks.

What is deep learning

200

The major tech COO who wrote the  book Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead in 2013

Who is Sheryl Sandberg?

200

The “law” of technology which states that every two years, the number of transistors that could fit on a microchip will double

What is Moore's Law?

200

Use this type of regression when you have more than one continuous predicator and a single continuous outcome

What is multiple (linear) regression

200

This programming language was developed by an NC State University alum.

What is SAS

300

The command that displays the state of the working directory (think version control)

What is “git status”?

300

The ratio of women to male U.S. Senator

What is 1:4?

300

ByteDance, a Beijing-based internet technology company, founded this growing service.

What is TikTok

300

This occurs when two or more explanatory variables are highly linearly related.

What is multicollinarity

300

A free, monolithic, and modular operating system.

What is Linux

400

The process of achieving a very high accuracy for the training dataset, but poor accuracy in predicting a new dataset

What is overfitting?

400

A female major world leader with a doctorate degree in Quantum Chemistry

Who is Angela Merkel?

400

The most common 6-digit password?

What is 123456?

400

This technique estimates the parameters in a regression model by minimizing the sum of the squared residuals.

What is ordinary least squares (OLS)

400

These three programming languages all begin with the same letter but function differently...can you "see" the differences? 

What is C, C++, and C#

600

A method to computationally estimate probability distributions, especially in Bayesian statistics, aka MCMC

What is Markov Chain Monte Carlo?

600

Rosamund Pike will be the leading actress portraying this famous physicist.

Who is Marie Curie

600

This architecture is the rival of x86. It's also the focus of Apple's next generation of laptops.

What is ARM

600

The offical name for R-squared

What is the coefficient of determination

600

This open-source giant was purchased by for a record-breaking 34 billion dollars in 2019

What is Red Hat

1000

The non-rejection of a false null hypothesis

What is Type II error?

1000

The first country to grant women the right to vote in 1893

What is New Zealand?

1000

A Tesla product that is a home energy storage system used for solar self-consumption, time of use load shifting, backup power, and off-the-grid use.

What is PowerWall

1000

This function is used to model the probability of 'success' vs 'unsuccess' as a function of it's covariates

What is logit link

1000

An essential function used in blockchain that converts an input of letters and numbers into an encrypted output of a fixed length

What is hash