Pre-Class Survey

For each question, supply an answer as specified by the text in []. When you respond, please erase this text as well as the brackets and put your answer in its place.

1. How interested are you in the topic of Big Data?

10

2. How excited are you for this class in comparison to your other courses?

10

3. How comfortable do you feel working with raw data?

8

4. What Big Data Tools have you used before?

QlikView

5. What other Big Data Tools have you heard of?

MongoDB, Hadoop, Cassandra, Google Big Query

6. How confident are you making visualizations based on data?

9

7. What programming languages are you most familiar with?

T-SQL, Java

8. What aspects of computer science do you hope to improve upon?

Coding, learning quickly, best practices

9. What are your favorite computer science activities? (e.g., web design, data science, sysadmin, games, etc)

data science and visualization

10. To what extent are you self-motivated to create your own computer programs and applications?

[On a scale from 1 to 10 where 1 = I need someone telling me what to do every step of the way & 10 = Class or no class, I'm going to work hard to build things I love] 7

11. How interested in physical computing? (i.e., programming circuits and sensors)

[On a scale from 1 to 10 where 1 = Not interested at all & 10 = It's one of the things I'm most interested in] 4

12. Rank the following data skills in order of how imporant you think they are to learn: collection, cleaning, analysis, visualization.

[Rank them 1 to 4; 1 = most important, 4 = least important] 1:Collection 2:Cleaning 3:Analysis 4:Visualization

13. Describe what you hope to gain from this class.

Be exposed to different technologies, learn new programming skills