Module 1 challenge :Go Beyond the Numbers: Translate Data into Insights (Google Advanced Data Analytics Professional Certificate) Answers 2025
Question 1
Fill in the blank:
Exploratory data analysis is the process of investigating, organizing, and analyzing datasets and _____ their main characteristics.
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summarizing ✅
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modifying ❌
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augmenting ❌
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preparing ❌
Explanation:
EDA emphasizes summarizing data to understand patterns and structure.
Question 2
Which EDA process is described?
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Discovering ✅
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Joining ❌
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Validating ❌
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Cleaning ❌
Explanation:
They are learning what the data contains → the Discovering stage.
Question 3
Structuring step includes (Select all):
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Organize raw data ✅
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Create data visualizations ❌
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Categorize data into categories representing the dataset ✅
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Transform raw data. ✅
Explanation:
Structuring involves organizing, categorizing, and transforming raw data for usability.
Question 4
Correct comparisons of cleaning vs validating (Select all):
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Validating removes errors; cleaning checks validation errors — ❌ (reversed and incorrect)
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When cleaning, look for missing values, duplicates, outliers. When validating, confirm data types. ✅
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Cleaning removes misspellings. Validating does not. ✅
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Cleaning ensures the data is useful. Validating ensures the data is high-quality. ✅
Explanation:
Cleaning fixes problems; validating checks correctness and consistency.
Question 5
Add more data when dataset is too small during the _____ process.
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structuring ❌
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cleaning ❌
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joining ✅
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validating ❌
Explanation:
Joining involves combining datasets to expand or enrich the data.
Question 6
Best practices for visualizing data during EDA (Select all):
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Ensure visualizations are guided by the data’s story. ✅
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Create ethical, accessible, representative visualizations. ✅
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Design visualizations to support your hypotheses ❌
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Use visualizations throughout EDA to understand the data. ✅
Explanation:
Visualization should be fair, data-driven, and used continuously.
Question 7
To avoid miscommunication, data pros can share _____ for early feedback.
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metadata ❌
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initial data findings ✅
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raw data ❌
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changelogs ❌
Explanation:
Sharing early insights lets stakeholders correct direction before deep analysis.
Question 8
Using PACE for mental-health EDA helps achieve: (Select all)
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Modify data to meet deadlines ❌
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Confirm dataset represents enough European regions. ✅
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Ensure ethical depiction of subjects. ✅
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Maintain focus on key priorities and goals. ✅
Explanation:
PACE helps evaluate completeness, ethics, and project alignment.
Question 9
Radiologist reviewing X-rays is an example of:
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Human augmentation ✅
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Input validation ❌
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Reproducibility ❌
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Bias evaluation ❌
Explanation:
AI supports the human expert, not replaces them — a classic human-in-the-loop safeguard.
Question 10
Why is the line graph misleading? (Select all)
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It’s unethical to compare unemployment between administrations ❌ (not inherently unethical)
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It doesn’t label the y-axis. ✅
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It is unnecessarily speculative with extreme predictions. ✅
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X-axis spacing changes from every 2 years to yearly. ✅
Explanation:
The graph hides scale (missing y-axis), changes spacing, and exaggerates speculative data.
🧾 Summary Table
| Q# | Correct Answer(s) |
|---|---|
| 1 | summarizing |
| 2 | Discovering |
| 3 | Organize raw data, Categorize data, Transform raw data |
| 4 | Cleaning vs validating comparisons #2, #3, #4 |
| 5 | joining |
| 6 | Data-story alignment, ethical/accessible visuals, using visuals throughout EDA |
| 7 | initial data findings |
| 8 | Region coverage, ethical representation, project focus |
| 9 | Human augmentation |
| 10 | Missing y-axis, speculative projection, inconsistent x-axis intervals |