Classifying datasets
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42.17. Classifying datasets#
42.17.1. Instructions#
Follow the prompts in this assignment to identify and classify the data with one of each of the following data types:
Structure Types: Structured, Semi-Structured, or Unstructured
Value Types: Qualitative or Quantitative
Source Types: Primary or Secondary
1. A company has been acquired and now has a parent company. The data scientists have received a spreadsheet of customer phone numbers from the parent company.
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Value Type:
Source Type:
2. A smartwatch has been collecting heart rate data from its wearer, and the raw data is in JSON format.
Structure Type:
Value Type:
Source Type:
3. A workplace survey of employee morale is stored in a CSV file.
Structure Type:
Value Type:
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4. Astrophysicists are accessing a database of galaxies that have been collected by a space probe. The data contains the number of planets within each galaxy.
Structure Type:
Value Type:
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5. A personal finance app uses APIs to connect to a user’s financial accounts in order to calculate their net worth. They can see all of their transactions in a format of rows and columns and looks similar to a spreadsheet.
Structure Type:
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42.17.2. Rubric#
Exemplary |
Adequate |
Needs Improvement |
|---|---|---|
Correctly identifies all structure, value, and sources |
Correctly identifies 3 all structure, value, and sources |
Correctly identifies 2 or less all structure, value, and sources |