Data Science

Literate Statistical Programming

Question 1
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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 2
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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 3
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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 4
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knitr supports only one documentation language.
True
False
Explanation:
knitr supports various documentation languages.
Question 5
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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.
Question 6
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Which of the following tool can be used for integrating text and code in one document?
knitr
ggplot2
NumPy
None of the mentioned
Explanation:
knitr is a way to write LaTeX, HTML, and Markdown with R code interlaced.
Question 7
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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 8
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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 9
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Pass Ratio : 100%
Literate program code is live-automatic “regression test” when building a document.
True
False
Explanation:
Data and results are automatically updated to reflect external changes.
Question 10
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Pass Ratio : 100%
Which of the following disadvantage does literate programming have?
Slow processing of documents
Code is not automatic
No logical order
All of the mentioned
Explanation:
Code and text is in one place.