Week 1 - MonkeyPlay/-IBM-Data-Science-Professional-Certificate GitHub Wiki

Quiz

What Makes Someone a Data Scientist?

1.Question 1 Hal Varian, the chief economist at Google, declared that "the sexy job in the next ten years will be ___________________". 1 point

Statisticians.

2.Question 2 The author defines a data scientist as someone who finds solutions to problems by analyzing data using appropriate tool and then tells stories to communicate their finding to the relevant stakeholders. 1 point

True.

3.Question 3 According to the reading, how does the author define data science? 1 point

Data science is what data scientists do.

4.Question 4 What is admirable about Dr. Patil’s definition of a data scientist is that it limits data science to activities involving machine learning. 1 point

False.

5.Question 5 According to the reading, what characteristics are said to be exhibited by the best data scientists? 1 point

Curious individuals who ask good questions and are O.K. dealing with unstructured situations.