SK Finance Limited Data Analyst Interview Questions and Answers

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Q1. What is machine learning?
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Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence that involves developing algorithms and models that enable computers to learn from and make predictions or decisions based on data.
• Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence that focuses on developing algorithms that can learn from and make predictions or decisions based on data.

• It involves training models on large datasets to recognize patterns and m...read more
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Q2. What do you know about SQL?
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SQL is a programming language used for managing and manipulating relational databases.
• SQL stands for Structured Query Language

• It is used to retrieve and manipulate data in relational databases

• Common SQL commands include SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE

• SQL can be used to create tables, indexes, and views

• Examples of SQL databases include MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle
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Q3. What you know about software Development?
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Software development involves creating, designing, testing, and maintaining software applications.
• Software development includes coding, testing, debugging, and documenting software applications.

• Developers use programming languages like Java, Python, C++, etc. to write code.

• Agile and Waterfall are common software development methodologies.

• Version control systems like Git are used to manage code changes.

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Q1. What are the algorithms you know in machine learning and their details ?
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Various machine learning algorithms with brief details
• Supervised Learning: Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machines (SVM), Decision Trees, Random Forest

• Unsupervised Learning: K-means Clustering, Hierarchical Clustering, Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

• Reinforcement Learning: Q-Learning, Deep Q-Networks (DQN)

• Neural Networks: Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), L
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Q1. Common ways to evaluate Time Series model
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Common ways to evaluate Time Series model include AIC, BIC, RMSE, MAE, ACF, PACF, etc.
• Use Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) and Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) to compare models

• Calculate Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE) to assess model accuracy

• Analyze Autocorrelation Function (ACF) and Partial Autocorrelation Function (PACF) to check for autocorrelation in residuals
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Q2. Best ways to handle multicollinearity
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Use techniques like feature selection, regularization, PCA, and VIF to handle multicollinearity.
• Perform feature selection to choose the most relevant variables for the model.

• Apply regularization techniques like Lasso or Ridge regression to penalize high coefficients.

• Utilize Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to reduce dimensionality and decorrelate variables.

• Check for Variance Inflation Factor (VIF) to identify highly
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Q1. Write a function taking input as string and output a dictionary which will give key as characters in these string and values as their frequency of occurrence
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Q2. TF IDF in NLP
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TF IDF is a technique used in NLP to measure the importance of a word in a document within a collection of documents.
• TF IDF stands for Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency.

• It is used to determine how important a word is in a document relative to a collection of documents.

• TF IDF is calculated by multiplying the term frequency (TF) of a word in a document by the inverse document frequency (IDF) of the word across al...read more
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Q1. He asked me to rate my sql and python out of 5 and gave me a scenario and asked to write a sql for it, it was basic left join and case statement question
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Q1. This round was basically discussion round with the interviewer, he asked me what i work in and what thing do i take care off as a data scientist
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Q1. Why are you choosing this job?
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Q2. What do you have qualification to get this job
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Q1. About technical skills
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