R Script for Data Science Coding Exercise
Last Updated on July 24, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Benjamin Obi Tayo Ph.D.
Originally published on Towards AI.
Some coding challenge problems would specify that a formal project report be submitted together with a Jupyter notebook or R Script file
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The take-home challenge problem or coding exercise is the most important step in the data scientist interview process. This is generally a data science problem e.g. machine learning model, linear regression, classification problem, time series analysis, etc. Generally, the interview team will provide you with project directions and a dataset.
Some coding challenge problems would specify that a formal project report is submitted together with a Jupyter notebook or R Script file. In this article, we present a sample R Script for a take-home challenge problem.
In this problem, you will forecast the outcome of a portfolio… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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