This page is about the skill Data Science, which is one of more than 40 technical skills you can assess on Alooba. The Data Science skill is about some core topics in data science. It involves being able to show which types of problems can be solved with which models, understanding the typical data science project lifecycle, and core topics like algorithms, distance functions, survival analysis, market basket analysis, association rules, feature engineering, model evaluation etc.
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The Data Science skill assesses knowledge of topics like Activation Functions, Association Rules, Classification Metrics, Confidence Intervals, Confusion Matrix, Deployment, Dimensionality Reduction, Entropy, Feature Engineering, Forecasting, Model Monitoring, PCA, Recommendation Systems, Regression Models, RFM Models, Segmentation & Survival Analysis.
Data Science is a commonly assessed skill for roles such as Data Scientist, Data Science Lead & Data Science Manager.
A critical part of running an ethical hiring process that’s fair and meritocratic is having objective measures of someone’s skills. Why does ethical hiring matter? Simple - it helps you hire the best person for the job.
Robert Half reported that the cost of a bad hire is on average 15-21% of the employee’s salary.
What was the most common reason for mis-hires? A lack of the right technical skills. This a true hiring own-goal, as it’s so easily preventable through a valid, thorough skills assessment.
So, if your role requires a candidate to know Data Science well, you can validate that with Alooba Assess.
Yes you sure can. You can assess their skills using Alooba Growth.
Data Science can be assessed through the Concepts & Knowledge test & Free Response test. The Free Response Test includes different answer options like written responses, video answers and diagram answers.
Yes, you can add your own Data Science questions via the question bank.
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Each question on Alooba is categorized by difficulty - Easy, Medium & Hard. You can set the difficulty level to whatever you like by picking and choosing the questions that you want to include.
You can also assess someone’s intelligence, their personality type and critical soft skills, like communication.