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1. Difference between bagging and boosting. 2. Explain Random Forest. 3. How does Random Forest reduce the variance? 4. How does XG boost algorithm work? 5. What is a Support Vector Machine? 6. What are the types of kernels? 7. Difference between polynomial kernel and RBF Kernel? 8. Which is better? Count Vectorizer or TF-IDF? 9. What is word2vec? 10. Give an example of precision and recall. 11. Difference between linear regression and logistic regression? 12. How can you draw a best-fit line in linear regression? 13. What is multicolinearity?
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Data Scientist Intern

Interviewed at Altimetrik

3.8
Jan 6, 2022

1. Difference between bagging and boosting. 2. Explain Random Forest. 3. How does Random Forest reduce the variance? 4. How does XG boost algorithm work? 5. What is a Support Vector Machine? 6. What are the types of kernels? 7. Difference between polynomial kernel and RBF Kernel? 8. Which is better? Count Vectorizer or TF-IDF? 9. What is word2vec? 10. Give an example of precision and recall. 11. Difference between linear regression and logistic regression? 12. How can you draw a best-fit line in linear regression? 13. What is multicolinearity?

If there’s a new virus in France and 1% of the population are infected with it, what’s the probability of having at least one person in New York who has this new virus tomorrow? Assuming this virus only exists today in France.
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Data Scientist Intern

Interviewed at Descartes Underwriting

3.8
Feb 25, 2024

If there’s a new virus in France and 1% of the population are infected with it, what’s the probability of having at least one person in New York who has this new virus tomorrow? Assuming this virus only exists today in France.

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