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MASTER OF COMPUTER

APPLICATIONS (MCA-NEW)

Term-End Examination

December, 2023

MCS-226 : DATA SCIENCE AND BIG DATA

Time : 3 Hours Maximum Marks : 100

Weightage : 70%

Note : Question No. 1 is compulsory. Attempt any

three questions from the rest.

1. (a) How does sampling differ from

population ? Also, discuss the relation of

the terms ‘statistic’ and ‘parameter’, with

sampling and population, respectively. 5

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(b) What is conditional probability ? Write the

equation for conditional probability and

describe its components with a suitable

example. 5

(c) What is a BoxPlot ? What are whiskers in

any BoxPlot ? Briefly discuss the utility of

BoxPlots in Data Science. 5

(d) What is MapReduce ? Explain the Map

function and Reduce function in the Map-

Reduce architecture with a suitable block

diagram. 5

(e) What is Apache Spark ? Give main

features of Apache Spark framework. 5

(f) Differentiate between Data Stream

Management System (DSMS) and Data

Base Management System (DBMS). 5


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(g) Explain the term ‘Link Analysis’. Briefly

discuss the purpose of link analysis in data

science. How link analysis can be used for

World Wide Web (WWW) ? 5

(h) Briefly describe the following data

structures of ‘R’ programming with the

help of an example for each : 5

(i) Vector

(ii) List

2. (a) What is Data Cleaning ? List and briefly

discuss the best practices used for data

cleaning and data preparation. 5

(b) What is Logistic Regression ? Give its

utility. Also, write and discuss the function

of ‘R’ used to construct the model for

logistic regression. 5

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(c) What is a Random Forest ? How does it

differ from Decision tree ? Explain the role

of partitioning, pruning and tree selection

process in the working of decision tree. 10

3. (a) Explain the following types of data, used in

data science. Give suitable example for

each : 10

(i) Structured data

(ii) Semi-structured data

(iii) Unstructured data

(iv) Data streams

(b) What is Binomial Distribution ? Write the

formula for binomial probability

distribution and use it to produce the

probability distribution for the case of

three tosses of the coin. 5


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(c) What is a scatter plot ? Give uses and best

practices for scatter plot. 5

4. (a) Explain word count problem with suitable

example. Give pseudo-code for word count

problem in MapReduce. 5

(b) Briefly discuss the purpose of the following

components of Apache Spark : 10

(i) Spark core

(ii) Spark SQL

(iii) Spark Streaming

(iv) MLib

(v) Graph X

(c) Compare Ad-hoc Queries and Standing

Queries of data streams. Give example for

each. 5

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5. Write short notes on the following : 4×5=20

(a) Sensitive PageRank

(b) Time series analysis

(c) Clustering and its types in ‘R’

programming

(d) Data Science life cycle

(e) HBase and its utility in Data Science

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