Microsoft Data Scientist Mock Interview
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Data visualization is an important skill that will be used often here at Microsoft when communicating results with stakeholders. Describe to me one of your most innovative data visualization ideas that went beyond pie and bar charts.
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William Swansen has worked in the employment assistance realm since 2007. He is an author, job search strategist, and career advisor who helps individuals worldwide and in various professions to find their ideal careers.
Data Science and analysis of complex data sets is a very technical discipline. However, Microsoft's stakeholders who use the results of the analysis need to be able to clearly understand what the data is telling them and use it to improve their operations and help them make business decisions. You need to present your work in a manner that is easy to understand and utilize. This is known as data visualization. The Microsoft interviewer is seeking to understand how you organize and present the data to accomplish this objective.
William Swansen has worked in the employment assistance realm since 2007. He is an author, job search strategist, and career advisor who helps individuals worldwide and in various professions to find their ideal careers.
"While the process of analyzing data is important, it is critical that the results of the analysis be useful to the stakeholders here at Microsoft. It is important to understand what the stakeholder's objectives are when deciding how to present my results. One method I've found to be effective is to add graphs, pictures, and illustrations to my presentations and reports. Once, when presenting an analysis of customer usage trends for a product our organization sold, I incorporated images of the product and animated them to expand in size in relation to the growth in customer adoption, adding the statistics and actual growth numbers. The audience remarked about how clear this made the information."
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