Microsoft Data Scientist Mock Interview
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Do you perform data wrangling and data cleaning before applying machine learning algorithms to your data analysis?
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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.
This is an operational question. The interviewer will ask operational questions to learn more about how you go about doing your job. One of the key responsibilities of a data scientist is to ensure that the data sets they are using are appropriate for the analysis they are performing. Data wrangling and cleaning are two processes used to accomplish this. You should be familiar with these and able to explain them. As with any operational question, keep your answer direct and to the point and anticipate a follow-up question or two.
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.
"I believe it is important to perform both data wrangling and cleaning before applying any machine learning algorithms I will work with here at Microsoft. This will ensure that the data set is appropriate. They are the data sets I intended to work with for my analysis. The standard deviations meet the study guidelines, the relationships between the data are valid, and the data is normalized and standardized. This eliminates any outliers or variables that would potentially skew the results I obtain."
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