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Data Society Data Scientist Interview Questions

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Machine LearningStart here. 12 questions · ~98 min
Select Models for Learner CompletionMedium

Compare logistic regression, random forest, and gradient boosting to predict learner completion in Data Society programs and justify the final model choice.

Cross-ValidationBias-Variance TradeoffSupervised LearningData Society
Detect Rare Payment Fraud EventsEasy

Build a fraud classifier for a 0.1% positive-rate dataset using imbalance-aware training, threshold tuning, and precision-recall evaluation.

Cross-ValidationFeature EngineeringSupervised LearningData Society
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Model Evaluation6 questions · ~49 min
Diagnose Overfitting vs UnderfittingEasy

Determine whether Data Society's course completion model is overfitting by comparing train, validation, and test metrics to a simpler baseline.

Cross-ValidationBias-Variance TradeoffAccuracyData Society
Explain Core Classification MetricsEasy

Explain precision, recall, F1-score, and ROC-AUC for a classification model.

F1 ScorePrecisionAUC-ROCData Society
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SQL & Data Manipulation3 questions + 3 drills · ~54 min
Detect and Handle Outliers in SQLEasy

Explain common SQL-friendly ways to detect outliers and how to handle them without distorting downstream analysis.

Data WranglingGroup ByAggregationsData Society
Handling Missing Values in SQLEasy

Explain how to detect and handle NULL values in SQL using filtering, COALESCE, CASE, and business-aware imputation.

Data WranglingETLCase WhenData Society
Monthly Sales Trends by CategoryMedium
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Aggregate monthly sales by product category and use LAG to calculate month-over-month changes.

InfrastructureToolsData WranglingTotal Wine & MoreInc.Benjamin Moore
Python or R Analysis LibrariesMedium
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Count unique respondents by Python or R library and return the most commonly used libraries first.

analytics toolsData ManipulationData WranglingOklahoma City Thunder
Cleaning a Messy DatasetMedium
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Filter invalid game events and normalize event names using PostgreSQL string and null handling.

missing valuesdata cleaningnull handlingQuantiumScopelyCarvana
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Pipelines6 questions · ~49 min
Cleaning Missing Values in PipelinesEasy

Approach for handling missing values in a pipeline with data quality checks and repeatable transformations.

Data WranglingETLQualityData Society
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More topics3 questions · ~24 min
Rare Event Detection Under ImbalanceMedium

Explain how to evaluate and reason about rare event prediction when the positive class is extremely uncommon.

SamplingBiasmodelingData Society
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