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Analytics

Machine Learning

Probability

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Python

Statistics

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Let’s say we have a search form in our web app where users can enter a keyword like “star”, and the system searches for matches across several different fields in a large database table. Lately, these searches have been timing out when users search for common words.

How would you approach diagnosing and resolving these search timeouts?

How would you resolve slow, timing-out keyword searches across multiple database fields?

Search Timeout

Query Optimization

Suppose there exists a new airline named Jetco that flies domestically across North America. Jetco recently had a study commissioned that tested the boarding time of every airline, and it came out that Jetco had the fastest average boarding times of any airline.

What factors could have biased this result, and what would you look into?

What could potentially bias the average boarding time in favor of an airline that only flies domestically?

What could potentially bias the average boarding time in favor of an airline that only flies domestically?

Boarding Times Bias

A new airline came out as the fastest average boarding times compared to other airlines.  What factors could have biased this result and what would you look into?

You are testing hundreds of hypotheses with many t-tests. What considerations should be made?

What is a key disadvantage of the F-test when compared to multiple t-tests?

What is a key disadvantage of the F-test when compared to multiple t-tests?

Hundreds of Hypotheses

You are testing hundreds of hypotheses with many t-tests. What considerations should be made?

Question	Topic	Difficulty	Ask Chance
Search Timeout	Query Optimization	Medium	Very High
Boarding Times Bias	Statistics	Medium	Low
Hundreds of Hypotheses	Statistics	Medium	Low

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