Showing posts with label Machine Learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Machine Learning. Show all posts

Friday, May 20, 2016

Career Path: Data Scientist

Data science is an interdisciplinary field that relates to system and processes to extract knowledge or insights from data in various forms. This knowledge or insights can either structured or unstructured. Analysis by using statistics, data mining technique and/or predictive analysis.

 Glassdoor recently listed "Data Scientist" at the top of its Best Jobs in America list for 2016 - and with 7 of US News and World Report's top 10 graduate statistics schools offering courses on Coursera, it's easy and convenient for anyone, anywhere to build skills for a data science career.

Data science is also one of the most popular topics on Coursera - so I encourage you study this online course and drive your professional career. Some of the Course you can take from Coursera are as follows:


School Specialization URL
1 Johns Hopkins University Data Science Master Data Science from Johns Hopkins University
2 Duke University Excel to MySQL:Analytic Techniques for Business Master Excel to MySQL from Duke University
3 Johns Hopkins University Executive Data Science Master Executive Data Science from Johns Hopkins University
4 University of Washington Machine Learning Master Machine Learning from University of Washington
5 University of Pennsylvania Robotics Master Robotics from University of Pennsylvania
6 UC San Diego Big Data Master Big Data from UC San Diego
7 Duke University Statistics with R Master Statistics with R from Duke University
8 University of Amsterdam Methods and Statistics in Social Sciences Master Methods and Statistics in Social Sciences from University of Amsterdam

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Data Science and Machine Learning Essentials - Edx

QUESTION 1

(1 point possible)


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You have trained and tested a regression model, and plotted the predicted labels against the actual label values in the training and test data. The resulting chart shows strong correlation between the predicted labels and the training data, but the actual label values from the test data vary significantly from the predicted values.
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QUESTION 2


(1 point possible)

You have amassed a large volume of customer data, and want to determine if it is possible to identify distinct categories of customer based on similar characteristics.
What kind of predictive model should you create?


 


QUESTION 3


(1 point possible)

You have created a two-class classification model, and used it to generate a ROC curve chart from a dataset of test data. The area under the curve is completely below the straight diagonal line through the X,Y axis.
What can you conclude about your classification model?

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QUESTION 4


(1 point possible)

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You are creating an experiment in Azure ML Studio, and you want to remove two columns from a dataset before preparing the data for modeling.
Which two of the following modules can you use to remove the unwanted columns?

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Note: Make sure you select all of the correct options—there may be more than one!
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QUESTION 5


(1 point possible)

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You are creating an experiment in Azure ML Studio based on a dataset containing weather data. You want to add a column to the dataset. The new column should contain the existing Temperature value squared.
Which three of the following modules could you use to create the calculated column?

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Note: Make sure you select all of the correct options—there may be more than one!
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QUESTION 6


(1 point possible)

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You create an Azure ML experiment and add a dataset. You visualize the data in an attempt to identify which columns contain outliers.
What indication of outliers should you look for?

QUESTION 7


(1 point possible)

You discover that there are missing values for an unordered numeric column in your data.
Which three approaches can you consider using to treat the missing values?

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Note: Make sure you select all of the correct options—there may be more than one!


QUESTION 8



(1 point possible)

You are preparing data to train a machine learning model. You want to use all applicable data to train the model, but you must ensure that variables with a wide range of numeric values do not dominate the training of the model.
What should you do?

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QUESTION 9


(1 point possible)

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You are creating an experiment based on real estate transactions data in which each sale of a property is indicated by a unique transaction ID field. The data is entered into the source database manually, and some records may have been entered more than once. You plan to use the data to train a regression model that predicts property prices.
What should you do to reduce bias in your data that might affect the predictive model?

QUESTION 10


(1 point possible)

You are preparing data for a predictive model. After several iterative experiments to remove detrimental features and evaluate the model, you have reduced your dataset to five features, including one feature the presence of which neither improves or worsens the performance of the model.
What should you do?

QUESTION 11


(1 point possible)

You create an experiment to train, score, and evaluate a regression model. You must ensure that the training, testing, and evaluation of the mode is unbiased, with no inter-dependency on the data.
What should you do?

QUESTION 12


(1 point possible)

When assessing the residuals of a regression model you observe the following:
  • Residuals exhibit a persistent structure and are not randomly distributed with respect to values of the label or the features.
  • The Q-Q normal plots of the residuals show significant curvature and the presence of outliers.
Given these results, which two of the following things should you try to improve the model?

QUESTION 13


(1 point possible)

When exploring the k-means clustering of a dataset you continue to increase the number of clusters one-by-one until you observe that the projection of the first two principle components show:
  • The major and minor axes of each of the ellipses are of similar lengths.
  • The directions of major axes of the ellipses are relatively aligned.
Based on these observations, what should you do?

QUESTION 14


(1 point possible)

You create an Azure ML experiment based on a dataset that includes a numeric label. You plan to create a binary (two-class) classification model to predict this label.
What should you do to prepare the data for the classification model?

QUESTION 15


(1 point possible)

You create a binary (two-class) classification machine learning model. When evaluating the model, you observe the following metrics:
  • Accuracy: 0.9
  • Area under the curve (AUC): 0.8
  • Recall: 0.3
What can you conclude about the performance of your model?

QUESTION 16


(1 point possible)

You create a regression model, and then cross-validate it.
You observe the following results:
  • The values of the performance metrics change significantly from fold to fold.
  • The standard deviation of the performance metrics is close to the value of the metrics.
What can you conclude about your mode?

QUESTION 17


(1 point possible)

MYou create an Azure ML experiment. You must create a Decision Forest Regression model, but you aren’t sure of the optimal parameter values to use for your data and prediction objectives.
What should you do to ensure optimal performance of the model with the least effort?

QUESTION 18


(1 point possible)

You have created custom function in R or Python that returns the square root of the values that are passed to it. You want to use the custom function in multiple Azure ML experiments.
What should you do?

QUESTION 19


(1 point possible)

You create an experiment that uses a Train Matchbox Recommender module to train a recommendation model, and add a Score Matchbox Recommender module to generate a prediction. You want to use the model in a music streaming service to recommend songs for the currently logged in user.
Which recommender prediction kind should you configure the Score Matchbox Recommender module to use?

QUESTION 20


(1 point possible)

You publish an Azure ML experiment as a web service for use by a client application that must generate predicted sales values for high volumes of product data asynchronously.
Which endpoint should the application use to consume the web service?