The New Indian School W.L.L.
Kingdom of Bahrain
Class 8: Skill Module – Data Science
I. Choose the correct answer:
1. Discrete data can take any value in a range.
a. True
b. False
2. Continuous data cannot take decimal values.
a. True
b. False
3. Information stored in a PDF is not considered data.
a. True
b. False
4. Quantitative data cannot take numerical values.
a. True
b. False
5. Qualitative data is descriptive in nature.
a. True
b. False
6. “How is the weather like?” is what kind of data.
a. Quantitative
b. Qualitative
7. Which of the following is considered data?
a. Speech
b. Video
c. Messages
d. All of the above
8. How is data used in the entertainment industry?
a. Predicting interests
b. Targeting ads
c. Both of the above
9. Number of days in a week is an example of?
a. Discrete Data
b. Continuous Data
10. What are the types of quantitative data?
a. Discrete
b. Continuous
c. Both a and b
11. A school named ABC has recorded the total marks of every student in the class. This is an example of:
a. Qualitative data
b. Quantitative data
c. Both qualitative and quantitative data
d. None of the above
12. A food delivery app has asked for your feedback on the quality of the food. You have written two
paragraphs to describe the food. This is an example of:
a. Qualitative Data
b. Quantitative Data
c. Both qualitative and quantitative data
d. None of the above
13. It would help if you predicted what the temperature would be for next Friday. Which algorithm will you
use?
a. Clustering
b. Regression
c. Anomaly detection
d. Binary classification
14. You need to predict if your car tire will last for the next 1000 km. Which algorithm will you use?
a. Clustering
b. Regression
c. Anomaly detection
d. Binary classification
15. You want to build a way to segregate spam emails from good emails. Which algorithm will you use?
a. Clustering
b. Regression
c. Anomaly detection
d. Binary classification
16. Data can be visualized using:
a. Graphs
b. Maps
c. Charts
d. All of the above
17. Which of the following statement is false?
a. Data visualization can absorb information quickly.
b. Data visualization decreases the insights and takes slower decisions.
c. Data visualization is a type of visual art.
d. None of the above
18. Which of the following is a use case of data visualization?
a. Healthcare
b. Sales and Marketing
c. Politics/Campaigning
d. All of the above
19. Which format of data is easiest for analysis?
a. Tabular data
b. Text data in a PDF
c. Data in an image
d. Speech data
20. Which visualization is best for representing a relation between two variables?
a. Scatter plot
b. Histogram
c. Pie chart
d. Gantt Chart
21. Data Science can help with:
a. Speech Recognition
b. Digital Advertising
c. All of the above
22. Which of the following is a goal of Artificial Intelligence?
a. Logical Reasoning
b. Knowledge Representation
c. Planning and Navigation
d. All of the above
23. Which of the following is a use case of data science?
a. Facial recognition
b. Text analytics
c. Sentiment analysis
d. All of the above
24. What does natural language processing help us with?
a. Text analytics
b. Video analytics
c. Image analytics
25. What technologies are used by chatbots?
a. Text analytics
b. Speech recognition
c. Both of the above
II. Answer the following questions:
1. Explain what data is, with the help of two real-life examples.
Answer: We often use the term data to refer to computer information. Two examples of data can be text data
and audio data.
2. Give two examples of real-life applications of data.
Answer: Recommendations on streaming platforms and online stores.
3. How is the data categorized?
Answer: Data can be categorized as qualitative or quantitative.
4. What is the difference between classification and regression algorithm?
Answer: Classification algorithm is for categorical data and regression algorithm is for continuous data.
5. What does a Data Architect do?
Answer: Data Architects work closely with users, system designers, and developers to create a blueprint that
data management systems use to centralize, integrate and to maintain the data sources.
6. Write the Common types of data visualizations.
Answer: The common types of data visualizations are:
• Charts
• Graphs
• Tables
• Maps
• Histograms
7. What are the steps to make sure that the correct data is collected for analysis?
Answer: Quality of data,
Completeness of data and
Format of data
8. What are some of the goals of AI?
Answer: a) Logical Reasoning
b) Knowledge Representation
c) Planning and Navigation
d) Natural Language Processing
e) Perception
f) Emergent Intelligence
9. What is image recognition?
Answer: Image recognition can be said to be a process by which we can process images for identifying
people, patterns, logos, objects or places.
10. What is text analytics/analysis?
Answer: Text analytics/analysis can be defined as the process of collecting unstructured text from various
sources and analyzing and extracting relevant information from it.
