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?

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

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

[On a scale from 1 to 10 where 1 = All my other classes are more interesting & 10 = This is the class I'm most looking forward to]

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

[On a scale from 1 to 10 where 1 = I'm terrified to deal with raw data & 10 = Throw any data set at me and I'm ready to do a full analysis]

4. What Big Data Tools have you used before?

[List tools separated by comma]

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

[List tools separated by commas]

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

[On a scale from 1 to 10 where 1 = I don't know how to visualize any kind of data & 10 = I can build beautiful visualizations for nearly any data set]

7. What programming languages are you most familiar with?

[List languages separated by commas]

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

[Open-ended response]

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

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]

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]

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]

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

[Open-ended response]