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?

9

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

9

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

4

4. What Big Data Tools have you used before?

None

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

Hadoop, Cassandra, Mapreduce

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

5

7. What programming languages are you most familiar with?

Ruby, Javascript

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

Analytics

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

Web devlopment/game development

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

10

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

4

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

1: Analysis 2: Visualization 3: Collection 4: Cleaning

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

An understanding of tools to analyze big data