Data Scientist Role Play 1
Data Scientist Role Play 1
This is a 2-part assignment. In the first part, you are asked a series of questions that will help you profile
and understand the data just like a data scientist would. For this first part of the assignment, you will be
assessed both on the correctness of your findings, as well as the code you used to arrive at your answer.
You will be graded on how easy your code is to read, so remember to use proper formatting and
comments where necessary.
In the second part of the assignment, you are asked to come up with your own inferences and analysis
of the data for a particular research question you want to answer. You will be required to prepare the
dataset for the analysis you choose to do. As with the first part, you will be graded, in part, on how easy
your code is to read, so use proper formatting and comments to illustrate and communicate your intent
as required.
For both parts of this assignment, use this "worksheet." It provides all the questions you are being
asked, and your job will be to transfer your answers and SQL coding where indicated into this worksheet
so that your peers can review your work. You should be able to use any Text Editor (Windows Notepad,
Apple TextEdit, Notepad ++, Sublime Text, etc.) to copy and paste your answers. If you are going to use
Word or some other page layout application, just be careful to make sure your answers and code are
lined appropriately.
In this case, you may want to save as a PDF to ensure your formatting remains intact for you reviewer.
1. Profile the data by finding the total number of records for each of the tables below:
2. Find the total distinct records by either the foreign key or primary key for each table. If two foreign
keys are listed in the table, please specify which foreign key.
Note: Primary Keys are denoted in the ER-Diagram with a yellow key icon.
3. Are there any columns with null values in the Users table? Indicate "yes," or "no."
Answer: no
select *
from user
or name is null
or useful is null
or funny is null
or cool is null
or fans is null
or average_stars is null
or compliment_hot is null
or compliment_more is null
or compliment_profile is null
or compliment_cute is null
or compliment_list is null
or compliment_note is null
or compliment_plain is null
or compliment_cool is null
or compliment_funny is null
or compliment_writer is null
or compliment_photos is null
4. For each table and column listed below, display the smallest (minimum), largest (maximum), and
average (mean) value for the following fields:
from business
group by city
+-----------------+-------------------+
| city | sum(review_count) |
+-----------------+-------------------+
| Phoenix | 34503 |
| Toronto | 24113 |
| Scottsdale | 20614 |
| Charlotte | 12523 |
| Henderson | 10871 |
| Tempe | 10504 |
| Pittsburgh | 9798 |
| Montréal | 9448 |
| Chandler | 8112 |
| Mesa | 6875 |
| Gilbert | 6380 |
| Cleveland | 5593 |
| Madison | 5265 |
| Glendale | 4406 |
| Mississauga | 3814 |
| Edinburgh | 2792 |
| Peoria | 2624 |
| Markham | 2352 |
| Champaign | 2029 |
| Stuttgart | 1849 |
| Surprise | 1520 |
| Lakewood | 1465 |
| Goodyear | 1155 |
+-----------------+-------------------+
6. Find the distribution of star ratings to the business in the following cities:
i. Avon
from business b
group by stars
Copy and Paste the Resulting Table Below (2 columns – star rating and count):
+-------------+-------+
| 1.5 | 1|
| 2.5 | 2|
| 3.5 | 3|
| 4.0 | 2|
| 4.5 | 1|
| 5.0 | 1|
+-------------+-------+
ii. Beachwood
from business b
group by stars
Copy and Paste the Resulting Table Below (2 columns – star rating and count):
+-------------+-------+
+-------------+-------+
| 2.0 | 1|
| 2.5 | 1|
| 3.0 | 2|
| 3.5 | 2|
| 4.0 | 1|
| 4.5 | 2|
| 5.0 | 5|
+-------------+-------+
7. Find the top 3 users based on their total number of reviews:
from user
limit 3
+--------+--------------+
| name | review_count |
+--------+--------------+
| Gerald | 2000 |
| Sara | 1629 |
| Yuri | 1339 |
+--------+--------------+
Please explain your findings and interpretation of the results: As in result, even there are more
review count, for example for Gerald, the fans are only 253.
from user
limit 10
+-----------+--------------+------+
+-----------+--------------+------+
+-----------+--------------+------+
9. Are there more reviews with the word "love" or with the word "hate" in them?
Answer: According to the query result, there are more reviews with the word "love".
from review
(select count(text)
from review
+-----------+-----------+
| love_text | hate_text |
+-----------+-----------+
| 1780 | 232 |
+-----------+-----------+
from user
limit 10
+-----------+------+
| name | fans |
+-----------+------+
| Amy | 503 |
| Mimi | 497 |
| Harald | 311 |
| Gerald | 253 |
| Christine | 173 |
| Lisa | 159 |
| Cat | 133 |
| William | 126 |
| Fran | 124 |
| Lissa | 120 |
+-----------+------+
Part 2: Inferences and Analysis
1. Pick one city and category of your choice and group the businesses in that city or category by their
overall star rating. Compare the businesses with 2-3 stars to the businesses with 4-5 stars and answer
the following questions. Include your code.
where business.id=category.business_id
and business.id=hours.business_id
+---------+-------+--------------+-----------------------+------------------------+---------------+
+---------+-------+--------------+-----------------------+------------------------+---------------+
+---------+-------+--------------+-----------------------+------------------------+---------------+
i. Do the two groups you chose to analyze have a different distribution of hours? Yes
where business.id=category.business_id
and business.id=hours.business_id
+---------+-----------------------+------------------------+---------------+
+---------+-----------------------+------------------------+---------------+
+---------+-----------------------+------------------------+---------------+
ii. Do the two groups you chose to analyze have a different number of reviews? Yes
iii. Are you able to infer anything from the location data provided between these two groups? Explain.
where business.id=category.business_id
and business.id=hours.business_id
+---------+-------+--------------+-----------------------+------------------------+---------------+
+---------+-------+--------------+-----------------------+------------------------+---------------+
+---------+-------+--------------+-----------------------+------------------------+---------------+
2. Group business based on the ones that are open and the ones that are closed. What differences can
you find between the ones that are still open and the ones that are closed? List at least two differences
and the SQL code you used to arrive at your answer.
i. Difference 1:
where business.id=category.business_id
and business.id=hours.business_id
group by business.id
3. For this last part of your analysis, you are going to choose the type of analysis you want to conduct on
the Yelp dataset and are going to prepare the data for analysis.
Ideas for analysis include: Parsing out keywords and business attributes for sentiment analysis,
clustering businesses to find commonalities or anomalies between them, predicting the overall star
rating for a business, predicting the number of fans a user will have, and so on. These are just a few
examples to get you started, so feel free to be creative and come up with your own problem you want
to solve. Provide answers, in-line, to all of the following:
Quantitive analysis
ii. Write 1-2 brief paragraphs on the type of data you will need for your analysis and why you chose that
data:
The most important fact is the number of review and the rating.