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Case study - statistical analysis, and build a classifier for predicting high cost patients. This is timed to be performed in 3 hours. Totally ridiculous dataset - you'll get 18 files to analyze with each file containing from 120 - 20k rows, and each file has about 10-35+ columns. And you won't get any data schema, so you'll have no idea on the PK, FK. And PK are different for each file. You'll run out of memory, so analyze each file separately. And also look into the from_date from claims transactions file to include only latest transactions, as some of it is from 1929.
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Senior Data Scientist

Interviewed at Best Buy Health

3.5
Aug 14, 2024

Case study - statistical analysis, and build a classifier for predicting high cost patients. This is timed to be performed in 3 hours. Totally ridiculous dataset - you'll get 18 files to analyze with each file containing from 120 - 20k rows, and each file has about 10-35+ columns. And you won't get any data schema, so you'll have no idea on the PK, FK. And PK are different for each file. You'll run out of memory, so analyze each file separately. And also look into the from_date from claims transactions file to include only latest transactions, as some of it is from 1929.

How would you join and summarize these tables? If you had an app that recommends restaurants based on customer reviews (think yelp), how would your app make recommendations for new restaurants (for which there would be no reviews)?
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Senior Data Scientist

Interviewed at Flatiron Health

3.2
Apr 12, 2021

How would you join and summarize these tables? If you had an app that recommends restaurants based on customer reviews (think yelp), how would your app make recommendations for new restaurants (for which there would be no reviews)?

896. Monotonic Array An array is monotonic if it is either monotone increasing or monotone decreasing. An array nums is monotone increasing if for all i <= j, nums[i] <= nums[j]. An array nums is monotone decreasing if for all i <= j, nums[i] >= nums[j]. Given an integer array nums, return true if the given array is monotonic, or false otherwise.
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Senior Data Scientist

Interviewed at Featurespace

4.3
Aug 20, 2024

896. Monotonic Array An array is monotonic if it is either monotone increasing or monotone decreasing. An array nums is monotone increasing if for all i <= j, nums[i] <= nums[j]. An array nums is monotone decreasing if for all i <= j, nums[i] >= nums[j]. Given an integer array nums, return true if the given array is monotonic, or false otherwise.

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