Data Science

Literate Statistical Programming

Question 1
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Which of the following should be set on chunk by chunk basis to store results of computation?
cache=TRUE
cache=FALSE
caching=TRUE
none of the mentioned
Explanation:
After the first run. The results are loaded from cache.
Question 2
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What is one way in which the knitr system differs from Sweave?
knitr allows for the use of markdown instead of LaTeX
knitr is written in python instead of R
knitr lacks features like caching of code chunks
none of the mentioned
Explanation:
knitr is an engine for dynamic report generation with R.
Question 3
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Which of the following way is required to make work reproducible?
keep track of things
Save output
Save data in proprietary formats
None of the mentioned
Explanation:
Save data in NON proprietary formats to make work reproducible.
Question 4
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Which of the following tool documentation language is supported by knitr?
RMarkdown
LaTeX
HTML
None of the mentioned
Explanation:
knitr is available on CRAN.
Question 5
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Original idea comes of Literate Statistical Practice from _______________
Don Knuth
Don Cutting
Douglas Cutting
All of the mentioned
Explanation:
Literate programs are tangled to produce machine readable documents.
Question 6
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Point out the correct statement.
An article is stream of code and text
Analysis code is divided in to code chunks only
Literate programs are tangled to produce human readable documents
None of the mentioned
Explanation:
Analysis code is divided in to code chunks and text.
Question 7
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Which of the following is required to implement a literate programming system?
A programming language like Perl
A programming language like Java
A programming language like R
All of the mentioned
Explanation:
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
Question 8
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What does it mean to weave a literate statistical program?
Convert a program from S to python
Convert the program into a human readable document
Convert a program to decompress it
All of the mentioned
Explanation:
Literate Statistical Programming can be done with knitr.
Question 9
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Which of the following is required for literate programming?
documentation language
mapper language
reducer language
all of the mentioned
Explanation:
Programming language is also required for literate programming.
Question 10
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What is the role of processing code in the research pipeline?
Transforms the analytical results into figures and tables
Transforms the analytic data into measured data
Transforms the measured data into analytic data
All of the mentioned
Explanation:
Data science workflow is a non-linear, iterative process.