Data Science Starter · Free course quiz

Quick Quiz — Data Science Basics

Which phase of the Data Science lifecycle involves using .describe() and .info() to understand your data? Data Collection Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) Deployment

What is the FIRST thing you should do before sharing a dataset that contains patient names and phone numbers? Run a predictive model Anonymize or remove Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Plot a bar chart

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