Data Science Concepts Explained to a Five-year-old

Describing Technical Concepts Simply in Interviews

Megan Dibble
Towards Data Science
8 min readMar 31, 2020

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I have seen a lot of data science interview questions that ask you to “describe [insert data science concept] to me as though I were a five-year-old. After talking this over with my sister, who is studying to become an elementary school teacher, we decided that this question is a bit…

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