Chapter 2 Arranging and Collecting Data

Objective Type Questions

1) A school named ABC has recorded the total marks of every student in the class. This
is an example of :
a) Qualitative data
b) Quantitative data
c) Both qualitative and quantitative data
d) None of the above
Ans. B

2) A food delivery app has asked for your feedback on the quality of the food. You have
written two paragraphs to describe the food. This is an example of :
a) Qualitative data
b Quantitative data
c) Both qualitative and quantitative data
d) None of the above
Ans. A

3) You need to predict what the temperature will be for next Friday. Which algorithm will
you use?

a) Clustering
b) Regression
c) Anomaly detection
d) Binary classification

Ans. B

4) You need to predict if you car tyre will last for next 1000 km. Which algorithm will you
use?

a) Clustering
b) Regression
c) Anomaly detection
d) Binary classification

Ans. D

5) Which of the following questions are the benefits of big data processing?

a) Business can utilize outside intelligence while making decisions

b) Improved customer service
c) Better optimal efficiency
d) All of the above

Ans. D

6) The analysis of large amount of data to see what patterns or other useful information
can be found is known as

a) Data Analysis
b) Information Analytics
c) Big data Analytics
d) Data Analytics

Ans. C

7) Big data analysis does the following except

a) Collects data
b) Spreads data
c) Organizes data
d) Analyses data

Ans. B

8) Primary data for the research process can be collected through

a) Experiment
b) Survey
c) Both a and b
d) None of the above

Ans. C

9) The advantage of secondary data are low cost, speed, availability, and flexibility

a) True
b) False

Ans. A

10) The method of getting primary data by watch people is called

a) Survey
b) Information
c) Observational
d) Experimental

Ans. C

Standard Questions

1) What is the difference between multivariate and univariate data? Give some
examples.

Ans :- The difference between multivariate and univariate data are as followed :-

a) Multivariate data :- In this data type there is involvement of multiple variables.

For ex :- Consider an example of umbrellas. You may notice that umbrellas are in much
demand during the rainy season. Hence the sale of umbrellas gets increase during the
rain. So here two variables are noticed which are “rain and umbrella”.
As compared to the univariate type of data, such data type are more complex, compared
and can be in relation with multiple circumstances.

b) Univariate data :- In this data type there is involvement of only one/single variable. In
comparison to Multivariate data, this data type does not involve any comparison or
related at multiple circumstances. For ex:- The weight of the students in univariate data

Students Name Weight in Kg

Student 1 45

Student 2 56

Student 3 60

2) What are the common sources of data collection?

Ans :- There are two common sources which are involved in the collection of data which
are : –

Data Sources
Primary and Secondary
a) Primary :- This are the sources which are been for making the collection of data for
analysing purpose. For ex :- data collected by conducting different types of surveys,
interviews, questionnaire, and by creating feedback forms. In order to collect the primary
data, following methods are been used :-

i) Physical interview

ii) Online surveys

iii) Feedback forms

b) Secondary :- The data which is been collected by these source is already been used
for other used, and the same data for analysing purpose. Secondary sources of data
includes Transactional data, Satellite data etc. There are some methods which are
mostly used for collecting the secondary data are :-

i) Social medial data tracking

ii) Web traffic tracking

iii) Satellite data tracking

3) What are the primary characteristics of Big Data?

Ans :- The basic characteristics of Big Data are as followed :-

a) Volume :- Volume is mostly referred with the data size. On the basis of the data size,
it can be very easily determined that whatever the data is available whether it is big or
not. The data sets which are excess than the terabytes and petabytes can be termed as
Big Data.

b) Variety :- As we are aware that Big Data are usually collected from various sources or
ranges which may include transactional databases, sensor data etc. this includes
different types of images, pictures, audio, video etc. Therefore different variety data is an
essential characteristic of the Big Data.

c) Velocity :- Velocity is a term which is related with the rate at which the data is been
generated. The data is been generated in a very faster speed resulting in creating of
high volumes. For ex :- Social media is the platform where the huge amount of data can
be generated for every / per minute.
d) Value:- The amount of useful information in large volumes of data is called value of
the Big Data
e) Veracity:- Veracity of data is a measurement of how trustworthy the data is. We can
trust data if it is accurate , obtained from verified sources and up-to-date as per
requirements.

4) What are Categorical variables? Give some examples.

Ans :- Categorical variables are the variable which describes or represents the values
that includes words. For ex :- name, nationality, sport etc.
5) How is Big Data used in social media?
Ans :- In todays world/era, many of the users likes to spend their valuable time on
different types of social media platforms. Everyday petabytes of data are been stored
and analysed on many popular social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram etc. The different popular social media platforms make use of the technique
called as Big Data Technique for the purpose of analysing and storing the data.