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A shipping company asks you to evaluate how efficient its fleet are using fuel. How would you go about doing that? (e.g. outcome variable, features you'd want) Do you have follow up questions? What kind of model would you use? What metrics would you use to evaluate?
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Junior Data Scientist

Interviewed at Allstate

3.4
May 18, 2020

A shipping company asks you to evaluate how efficient its fleet are using fuel. How would you go about doing that? (e.g. outcome variable, features you'd want) Do you have follow up questions? What kind of model would you use? What metrics would you use to evaluate?

Coding challenges that focus on understanding very basic recursive functions, floating point numbers rounding (e.g. exact 1/2 vs. inexact 1/3), coding a very simple KNN algorithm, and writing a SQL query which involved aggregating and joining tables.
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Junior Data Scientist

Interviewed at Allstate

3.4
Jan 9, 2018

Coding challenges that focus on understanding very basic recursive functions, floating point numbers rounding (e.g. exact 1/2 vs. inexact 1/3), coding a very simple KNN algorithm, and writing a SQL query which involved aggregating and joining tables.

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