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Data Science Interview Questions — Beginner’s Guide

What Kind of Questions Should You Expect in a Data Science Interview?

Nicholas Leong
Towards Data Science
14 min readMar 23, 2020

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Good day, fellow data practitioners
As we all know, data science is on the rise.
I believe many of you know that Data Scientist had been labeled as the ‘Sexiest Job of the 21st century’, whatever that means.

Google Trends for Data Scientist

That’s cool and all, but the Data Science industry is still relatively new,
where buzzwords are thrown blatantly, responsibilities are vague and titles are created out of no-where.

Think about it.

Data Science is the knowledge of how data works.
Let’s go back to the 20th Century, where businesses operate without the luxury of the technology we have today. Businesses literally record down their transactions in pen and paper, which they will use later to gain insights about their business.

  • On which day of the week, the business generates the most revenue?
  • Out of all the products, which one sells the best?

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Nicholas Leong
Nicholas Leong

Written by Nicholas Leong

Data Engineer — Crunching data and writing about it so you don’t get headaches. 1M+ reads on Medium. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickefy/

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