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DATA SCIENCE (AD-404) - Important Questions

  1. 8 Marks High Priority Asked: 2026, 2024

    Explain graphical methods of data representation such as pie chart, bar graph and histogram with examples.

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  2. 7 Marks High Priority Asked: 2025, 2023

    Explain the differences between structured and unstructured data with examples.

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  3. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2026

    What are structured data and unstructured data? Explain their characteristics, advantages, disadvantages and real-world applications with examples.

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  4. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2026

    Explain the Data Science road map in detail with each phase and suitable examples.

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  5. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2026

    Differentiate between basic probability and conditional probability with suitable numerical examples.

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  6. 8 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2024, 2023

    Explain what Data Wrangling is and its importance in data science.

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  7. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2025

    Draw two suitable graphical representations of data for a given sample dataset.

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  8. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2025

    Calculate and interpret the mean, median and mode for the given quantitative data: 5, 8, 12, 15, 20, 20, 25.

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  9. 8 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2024

    What is Data Science? Explain the difference between structured and unstructured data.

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  10. 8 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2024

    Explain the methods to evaluate quantitative data.

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  11. 6 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2024

    Discuss exploratory data analysis.

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  12. 5 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2024

    Explain the concept of conditional probability.

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  13. 7 Marks High Priority Asked: 2026, 2025, 2024

    Explain the importance of unstructured data and unstructured data analytics in modern organizations with suitable examples and uses in domains such as healthcare, finance and social media.

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  14. 8 Marks High Priority Asked: 2025, 2024

    Explain data validation techniques in Excel and their role in improving data accuracy and reducing errors.

    Appeared 2x (2025, 2024)

  15. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2026

    Explain different Data Visualization techniques in detail.

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  16. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2026

    Discuss the importance of Pivot Tables and Charts in business reporting.

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  17. 6 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2024, 2023

    What is a macro in Excel and how to create/use it with an example?

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  18. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2025

    Explain how t-SNE is used to visualize high-dimensional data with an unstructured data example.

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  19. 7 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2024

    What is data visualization? Discuss feature map visualization technique.

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  20. 6 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2024

    Explain predictive and prescriptive data analysis methods.

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  21. 6 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2024

    List and explain the various charts in Excel.

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  22. 7 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2023

    Briefly explain descriptive data analysis.

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  23. 7 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2023

    What is data visualization? Discuss box plots and Histograms.

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  24. 7 Marks High Priority Asked: 2025, 2024

    Explain the concept of logistic regression for binary classification.

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  25. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2026

    Explain Multiple Hypothesis Testing and Parameter Estimation Methods.

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  26. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2026

    What are L1 and L2 Regularization? Explain in detail.

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  27. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2026

    Explain Bayesian Statistics. Compare Bayesian Statistics with Classical Statistics using examples.

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  28. 8 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2024, 2023

    Explain the usage and operations of VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP for data analysis.

    Appeared 2x (2024, 2023)

  29. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2025

    Explain how SUMIFS, INDEX + MATCH and Dynamic Array Formulas can be used for customer segmentation in Excel.

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  30. 8 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2024

    Explain the data analysis tools SUMIFS and SUMPRODUCT.

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  31. 8 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2024

    What is correlation analysis? Explain.

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  32. 7 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2024

    Explain the role of regression analysis in data science.

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  33. 7 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2024

    Discuss in detail about losso regression.

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  34. 5 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2023

    What is pivoting? Explain the types of pivoting.

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  35. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2026

    Explain Pandas in Python in detail with example.

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  36. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2026

    Write Python programs to generate Pie Chart and Bar Chart.

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  37. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2026

    Explain different Performance Evaluation Metrics used in Machine Learning.

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  38. 6 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2024, 2023

    Explain what Random Forest is, with a suitable example.

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  39. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2025

    Explain the difference between Type I and Type II errors in multiple hypothesis testing with an example.

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  40. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2025

    Explain the structure and features of a Pandas DataFrame. How is it different from a NumPy array?

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  41. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2025

    Illustrate how to create pie charts, bar charts, histograms, and scatter plots in Python using matplotlib or seaborn.

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  42. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2025

    Write the logic to perform string operations in Pandas and apply regular expressions to extract specific patterns.

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  43. 8 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2024

    Write about String manipulation operations in Pandas.

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  44. 7 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2024

    Give an overview of Gradient Bootstrap.

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  45. 7 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2024

    Explain the procedure to create scatter plots using Python.

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  46. 6 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2024

    List and explain visualization tools in Python.

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  47. 6 Marks High Priority Asked: 2026, 2024, 2023

    Explain the role of next-generation data scientists.

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  48. 8 Marks High Priority Asked: 2026, 2023

    Explain Business Intelligence and give an overview of modern Business Intelligence tools.

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  49. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2026

    What is Business Intelligence, its types and components?

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  50. 6 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2024, 2023

    Explain the ethical issues in Business Intelligence / Data Science

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  51. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2025

    Define Business Intelligence, explain its types and explain how BI supports strategic decision-making.

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  52. 7 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2025

    Compare two modern Business Intelligence tools based on usability, key features, and data handling capabilities.

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  53. 9 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2024

    What is Business Intelligence? Explain the types of Business Intelligence.

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  54. 7 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2024

    Explain the major issues and challenges in Business Intelligence.

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  55. 5 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2024

    What is unfair discrimination? Explain.

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  56. 5 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2024

    Explain the following in detail: Reinforcing human biases

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  57. 5 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2024

    Explain the following in detail: Modern Business Intelligence

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  58. 5 Marks Low Priority Asked: 2024

    Explain the security issues in Data Science

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  59. 14 Marks Medium Priority Asked: 2025

    Write short notes on any two of the following:

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