1.3 Defning Data

Assignment: Classifying Datasets

Introduction

This is a post for my assignment submission from Microsoft’s Data Science for Beginners repository.

Assignments

Q1

A company has been acquired and now has aparent company. The data scientists have received a spreadsheet of customer phone numbers from the parent company.

• Structure Type: Structured Data
• Value Type: Qualitative
• Souce Type: Secondary Data

Q2

A smart watch has been collecting heart rate data from its wearer, and the raw data is in JSON format.

• Structure Type: Semi-structured data
• Value Type: Quantitative
• Source Type: Primary Data

Q3

A workplace survey of employee morale that is stored in a CSV file.

• Structure Type: Semi-structured
• Value Type: Qualitative
• Source Type: Primary Data

Q4

Astrophysicists are accessing a database of galaxies that has been collected by a space probe. The data contains the number of planets within each galaxy.

• Structure Type: Structured Data
• Value Type: Qualitative
• Source Type: Secondary Data

Q5

A personal finance app uses APIs to conmnect to a user’s funancial accounts in order to calculate their net worth. They can see all of their transactions in a format of rows and columns and looks similar to a spreadsheet.

• Structure Type: Structured Data
• Value Type: Quantitative and Qualitative
• Source Type: Secondary