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Exploratory Data Analysis for Data Visualization :Applied Data Science Capstone(IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificate) Answers 2025

1️⃣ Question 1

What type of data does a Bar Chart best represent?

  • ❌ Location Data

  • ❌ Numerical (not primarily)

  • Categorical

  • ❌ None of the above

Explanation:
Bar charts are best for comparing categories (e.g., Launch Sites, Orbits, etc.).


2️⃣ Question 2

Total number of columns after One Hot Encoding Orbit, LaunchSite, LandingPad, and Serial?

  • ❌ 120

  • ❌ 80

  • ❌ 96

  • 83

Explanation:
Course-based lab output shows the features dataframe becomes 83 columns after OHE.


3️⃣ Question 3

Correct catplot code for a scatterplot of FlightNumber vs LaunchSite with hue=’Class’?

  • ❌ Using kind=’cat’

  • ❌ No kind parameter (defaults to stripplot), not scatter

  • ❌ Using col=”Class”

  • sns.catplot(y=”LaunchSite”, x=”FlightNumber”, hue=”Class”, data=df, aspect=1, kind=’scatter’)

Explanation:
To produce a scatter-style plot in catplot, you must specify kind=’scatter’.


🧾 Summary Table

Q Correct Answer
1 Categorical
2 83
3 catplot with kind=’scatter’