Title: Special Edition Data Science Interview Questions Solved in Python and Spark: with Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning bonus topics in Keras (BigData and Machine Learning in Python and Spark)
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date: 2016
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1534795715
ISBN 13: 9781534795716
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Special Edition Data Science and Machine Learning Interview Questions Solved in Python and Spark with Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning Bonus Questions

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Introduction 17

1. What are the most important machine learning techniques? 17

Solution 17

2. Why is it important to have a robust set of metrics for machine learning? 18

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Feature Engineering and the ETL Process (Extraction, Transformation, Loading) 20

3. Why are Features extraction and engineering so important in machine learning? 20

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4. Can you provide an example of features extraction? 22

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5. What is the mean, the variance, and the covariance? 23

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6. What are percentiles and quartiles? 24

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7. Why are vectors and norms used in machine learning? 24

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8. What is a convenient tool for performing data statistics? 25

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9. How is it convenient to visualize data statistics 26

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10. How to compute covariance and correlation matrices with pandas 27

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11. What is a TFxIDF? 28

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12. What is "features hashing"? And why is it useful for BigData? 29

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13. What is "continuous features binning"? 30

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14. What is an LP normalization? 30

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15. What is a Chi Square Selection? 31

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16. What is mutual information and how can it be used for features selection? 31

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17. How to deal with categorical features? And what is one-hot-encoding? 32

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18. Can you transform an XML file into Python Pandas? 33

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19. Can you read HTML into Python Pandas? 35

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20. Can you read JSON into Python Pandas? 35

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21. Can you draw a function from Python? 36

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22. What is a Gaussian? 37

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23. What is a Standard Scaling? 38

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24. Why are statistical distributions important? 39

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25. Can you compare your data with some distribution? What is a qq-plot? 41

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26. Can you provide an example of connection to the Twitter API? 42

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27. Can you provide an example of connection to the LinkedIn API? 44

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28. Can you provide an example of connection to the Facebook API? 44

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29. What is Parquet? 45

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Machine learning basics 46

30. What is a Bias - Variance tradeoff? 46

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31. What is a training set, a validation set, a test set and a gold set in supervised and unsupervised learning? 47

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32. What is a cross-validation and what is an overfitting? 48

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33. Why is Grid Search important? 50

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Spark and python 52

34. What is an Ipython notebook? 52

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35. What are Numpy, Scipy and Spark essential datatypes? 53

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36. Can you provide an example for Map and Reduce in Spark? (Let's compute the Mean Square Error) 54

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37. Can you provide examples for other computations in Spark? 56

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38. How does Python interact with Spark 60

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39. What is Spark support for Machine Learning? 61

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40. How does Spark work in a parallel environment 61

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41. What are the new Spark DataFrame and the Spark Pipeline? And how we can use the new ML library for Grid Search 62

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Linear Models and Regression 66

42. What is a loss function, what are linear models, and what do we mean by regularization parameters in machine learning? 66

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43. What is an odd ratio? 68

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44. What is a sigmoid function and what is a logistic function? 69

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45. What is a Linear Least Square Regression? 70

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46. What are Lasso, Ridge, and ElasticNet regularizations? 72

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47. What is a Logistic Regression? 72

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48. What is a stepwise regression? 74

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49. What is an isotonic regression? 75

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50. How to include nonlinear information into linear models 76

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51. What are generalized linear models and what is an R Formula? 77

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52. What is LARS? 78

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53. What is GMLNET? 79

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Optimization techniques 81

54. What is a gradient descent? 81

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55. What is a stochastic gradient descent? 82

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56. What is momentum? 83

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57. What is Conjugate Gradient? 84

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58. What are Adagrad, RSMProp, Adam, and L-BFGS? 85

Classification 86

59. What is a Na�ve Bayes classifier? 86

Solution 86

60. What is a Bernoulli and a Multivariate Na�ve Bayes? 88

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61. What is a Gaussian Na�ve Bayes? 90

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62. What is another way to use Na�ve Bayes with continuous data? 90

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63. What is the Nearest Neighbor classification? 90

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64. What are Support Vector Machines (SVM)? 92

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65. What are SVM Kernel tricks? 95

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67. What is SVM with soft margins? 96

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66. Can you provide an example for Text Classification with Spark? 96

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Clustering 98

67. What is K-Means Clustering? 98

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68. What is the DBSCAN clustering algorithm? 99

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69. What is a Streaming K-Means? 101

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70. What is Canopi Clusterting? 102

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71. What is Bisecting K-Means? 103

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72. What is the Expectation Maximization Clustering algorithm? 103

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73. What is a Gaussian Mixture? 105

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Boosting and Ensembles 107

74. What are the Ensembles? 107

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75. What is an AdaBoost classification algorithm? 107

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Decision Trees, Gradient Boosted Trees and Random Forests 109

76. What are the Decision Trees? 109

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77. What is a Gradient Boosted Tree? 112

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78. What is a Gradient Boosted Trees Regressor? 112

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79. Gradient Boosted Trees Classification 114

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80. What is a Random Forest? 115

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Recommendations 117

81. What is a recommender system? 117

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82. What is a collaborative filtering ALS algorithm? 118

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Dimensional Reduction 121

83. What is the PCA Dimensional reduction technique? 121

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84. What is the SVD Dimensional reduction technique? 123

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85. What is a Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA)? 124

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86. What is the Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic model? 124

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Associative Rules 127

87. What is the Associative Rule Learning? 127

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88. What is FP-growth? 129

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Graph Mining 130

89. Can you represent a graph in Python? 130

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90. How to use the GraphX Library 130

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91. What is PageRank? And how to compute it with GraphX 131

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92. What is a Power Iteration Clustering? 134

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Neural Networks 135

93. What is a Perceptron? 135

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94. What is an ANN (Artificial Neural Network)? 136

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95. What are the activation functions? 137

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96. How many types of Neural Networks are known? 138

97. How to train a Neural Network 139

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98. Which are the possible ANNs applications? 139

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