Data Science Interview Preparation Guide
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Q1. What is the difference between AI, Data Science, ML, and DL?
Ans 1 :
Artificial Intelligence: AI is purely math and scientific exercise, but when it became computational, it
started to solve human problems formalized into a subset of computer science. Artificial intelligence has
changed the original computational statistics paradigm to the modern idea that machines could mimic
actual human capabilities, such as decision making and performing more “human” tasks. Modern AI into
two categories
1. General AI - Planning, decision making, identifying objects, recognizing sounds, social &
business transactions
2. Applied AI - driverless/ Autonomous car or machine smartly trade stocks
Machine Learning: Instead of engineers “teaching” or programming computers to have what they need
to carry out tasks, that perhaps computers could teach themselves – learn something without being
explicitly programmed to do so. ML is a form of AI where based on more data, and they can change
actions and response, which will make more efficient, adaptable and scalable. e.g., navigation apps and
recommendation engines. Classified into:-
1. Supervised
2. Unsupervised
3. Reinforcement learning
Data Science: Data science has many tools, techniques, and algorithms called from these fields, plus
others –to handle big data
The goal of data science, somewhat similar to machine learning, is to make accurate predictions and to
automate and perform transactions in real-time, such as purchasing internet traffic or automatically
generating content.
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Data science relies less on math and coding and more on data and building new systems to process the
data. Relying on the fields of data integration, distributed architecture, automated machine learning, data
visualization, data engineering, and automated data-driven decisions, data science can cover an entire
spectrum of data processing, not only the algorithms or statistics related to data.
Deep Learning: It is a technique for implementing ML.
ML provides the desired output from a given input, but DL reads the input and applies it to another data.
In ML, we can easily classify the flower based upon the features. Suppose you want a machine to look at
an image and determine what it represents to the human eye, whether a face, flower, landscape, truck,
building, etc.
Machine learning is not sufficient for this task because machine learning can only produce an output from
a data set – whether according to a known algorithm or based on the inherent structure of the data. You
might be able to use machine learning to determine whether an image was of an “X” – a flower, say – and
it would learn and get more accurate. But that output is binary (yes/no) and is dependent on the
algorithm, not the data. In the image recognition case, the outcome is not binary and not dependent on
the algorithm.
The neural network performs MICRO calculations with computational on many layers. Neural networks
also support weighting data for ‘confidence. These results in a probabilistic system, vs. deterministic, and
can handle tasks that we think of as requiring more ‘human-like’ judgment.
Q2. What is the difference between Supervised learning, Unsupervised learning and
Reinforcement learning?
Ans 2:
Machine Learning
Machine learning is the scientific study of algorithms and statistical models that computer systems use to
effectively perform a specific task without using explicit instructions, relying on patterns and inference
instead.
Building a model by learning the patterns of historical data with some relationship between data to make
a data-driven prediction.
Types of Machine Learning
• Supervised Learning
• Unsupervised Learning
• Reinforcement Learning
Supervised learning
In a supervised learning model, the algorithm learns on a labeled dataset, to generate reasonable
predictions for the response to new data. (Forecasting outcome of new data)
• Regression
• Classification
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