Data Science Quiz

Try out this Data Science quiz to test your knowledge. Data Science trivia highlights the people, methods, and milestones that shaped a discipline at the crossroads of statistics, computing, and real-world problem solving.

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Question 1 · Easy · 10 pts
Which 2018 Turing Award co-winner is Geoffrey Hinton?
Question 2 · Easy · 10 pts
Who shared the 2018 Turing Award alongside other deep learning leaders?
Question 3 · Medium · 20 pts
Which book snagged the 2012 National Academies Communication Award: "Thinking, Fast and Slow" or "The Signal and the Noise"?
Question 4 · Hard · 40 pts
Which model won the ImageNet competition in 2012?
Question 5 · Hard · 40 pts
What system defeated Lee Sedol in Seoul in 2016?
Question 6 · Hard · 40 pts
The clustering algorithm introduced in 1996 was which one?
Question 7 · Hard · 40 pts
Robert Tibshirani introduced which method in 1996?
Question 8 · Hard · 40 pts
Which resampling method did Bradley Efron introduce in 1979?
Question 9 · Hard · 40 pts
What method was proposed by Maurice Quenouille before the bootstrap arrived?
Question 10 · Hard · 40 pts
Name the algorithm that was published in 1953 and later became foundational in Monte Carlo methods.?
Question 11 · Hard · 40 pts
What optimization theorem was published by Wolpert and Macready in 1997?
Question 12 · Hard · 40 pts
The ROC curve was originally developed in connection with what wartime application area?
Question 13 · Hard · 40 pts
In model evaluation shorthand, what does AUC stand for?
Question 14 · Easy · 10 pts
Who mapped London cholera cases around the Broad Street pump in 1854?
Question 15 · Easy · 10 pts
Which pioneer used polar area diagrams to present mortality data from the Crimean War?

Which 2018 Turing Award co-winner is Geoffrey Hinton?

Who shared the 2018 Turing Award alongside other deep learning leaders?

Which book snagged the 2012 National Academies Communication Award: "Thinking, Fast and Slow" or "The Signal and the Noise"?

Which model won the ImageNet competition in 2012?

What system defeated Lee Sedol in Seoul in 2016?

The clustering algorithm introduced in 1996 was which one?

Robert Tibshirani introduced which method in 1996?

Which resampling method did Bradley Efron introduce in 1979?

What method was proposed by Maurice Quenouille before the bootstrap arrived?

Name the algorithm that was published in 1953 and later became foundational in Monte Carlo methods.?

What optimization theorem was published by Wolpert and Macready in 1997?

The ROC curve was originally developed in connection with what wartime application area?

In model evaluation shorthand, what does AUC stand for?

Who mapped London cholera cases around the Broad Street pump in 1854?

Which pioneer used polar area diagrams to present mortality data from the Crimean War?