Classifying Datasets

September 1, 2021 ยท View on GitHub

Instructions

Follow the prompts in this assignment to identify and classify the data with one of each of the following data types:

Structure Types: Structured, Semi-Structured, or Unstructured

Value Types: Qualitative or Quantitative

Source Types: Primary or Secondary

  1. A company has been acquired and now has a parent company. The data scientists have received a spreadsheet of customer phone numbers from the parent company.

Structure Type:

Value Type:

Source Type:


  1. A smart watch has been collecting heart rate data from its wearer, and the raw data is in JSON format.

Structure Type:

Value Type:

Source Type:


  1. A workplace survey of employee morale that is stored in a CSV file.

Structure Type:

Value Type:

Source Type:


  1. Astrophysicists are accessing a database of galaxies that has been collected by a space probe. The data contains the number of planets within in each galaxy.

Structure Type:

Value Type:

Source Type:


  1. A personal finance app uses APIs to connect to a user's financial accounts in order to calculate their net worth. They can see all of their transactions in a format of rows and columns and looks similar to a spreadsheet.

Structure Type:

Value Type:

Source Type:

Rubric

ExemplaryAdequateNeeds Improvement
Correctly identifies all structure, value, and sourcesCorrectly identifies 3 all structure, value, and sourcesCorrectly identifies 2 or less all structure, value, and sources