Practice Practice Questions (4.8) - Acquiring Data, Processing, and Interpreting Data

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Question 1.
What is numerical data? Give an example.
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Think about data that can be counted.
Question 2.
What is data acquisition?
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It involves gathering information from various sources.
3Question 3.
Which type of data consists of categories like color or gender?
- Numerical
- Categorical
- Textual
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Think about data that doesn’t involve counting.
4Question 4.
Data processing is unnecessary for interpreting data.
- True
- False
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Consider what happens if data is raw.
Question 5.
Consider a situation in which only categorical data is collected in a survey about technology preference. What are potential challenges in interpretation?
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Reflect on how numeric ratings give more depth.
Question 6.
Predict what would happen if an AI model used unprocessed data directly without passing through data cleaning and transformation; provide reasoning.
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Think about how errors impact overall results.

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