Week 1 Quiz

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1.
Which of the following are courses in the Data Science Specialization?
Select all that apply.
Practical Machine Learning
Data Science 101
Business Analytics
Machine Learning for Hackers
Exploratory Data Analysis

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2.
Why are we using R for the course track? Select all that apply.
R is one of the most widely used programming languages for
Data Science.
R allows object oriented programming.
R is free.
R is a general purpose programming language.
R has a nice IDE, Rstudio.

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3.
What are good ways to nd answers to questions in this course track?
Select all that apply.
Emailing your instructors
Posting to the course discussion forum
Searching Stack Overow
Emailing the community TAs
Searching Google.

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4.
What are characteristics of good questions on the message boards?
Select all that apply.
Describes the goal of the analysis.
Explicitly lists versions of software being used.
Assumes that you've discovered a bug in R.
Begs for help without providing information.
Provides the minimum amount of information necessary to
communicate the problem.
Provides no details.

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Which of the following packages provides machine learning
functionality? Select all that apply
shiny
gbm
pamr
knitr

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