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Top 38 Time Series Interview Questions

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Time Series Theoretical Questions

Q1:   

What is Time Series?

  
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Q2:   

Why does a Time Series have to be Stationary?

  
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Q3:   

How the IQR (Interquartile Range) is used in Time Series Forecasting?

  Related To: Anomaly Detection
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Q4:   

How do you handle Missing Values in Time-Series Data?

  
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Q5:   

What does "irregularly spaced spatial data" mean?

  
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Q6:   

What are some examples of Time-Series Data which can be Mined?

  
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Q7:   

What are some common Data Preparation Operations you would use for Time Series Data?

  
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Q8:   

What is the Sliding Window method for Time Series Forecasting?

  
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Q9:   

What are some real-world applications of Time-Series Forecasting?

  
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Q10:   

How are CNNs used for Time Series Prediction?

  Related To: CNN, Neural Networks
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Q11:   

What is Discrete Wavelet Transform?

  
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Q12:   

What are some Similarity Measures which can be used with Time Series data?

  
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Q13:   

Compare some Forecasting Techniques for Stationary and Non-stationary Time-Series

  
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Q14:   

What are some Similarity Measures used for Sequence Data?

  Related To: Data Mining
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Q15:   

What is a Moving Average Process? Give some Real-life Examples.

  
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Q16:   

How would you compare the two Time Series shown below?

  
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Q17:   

List some Advantages of using State-Space Models and Kalman Filter for Time-Series Modelling

  
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Q18:   

What are some different Neural Architectures for predicting Time-Series Values?

  
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Q19:   

What process do you go through to design a Neural Network for Time-Series Forecasting?

  
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Q20:   

What are some advantages of using MLP (Multilayer Perceptrons) for Time Series Prediction?

  
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Q21:   

How is Pearson Correlation used with Time Series?

  
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Q22:   

How do you mine Contextual Spatial Attributes?

  
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Q23:   

What statistical methods can I use to assess the differences between the time series?

  
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Q24:   

What would be some reasons that LSTM Models do not improve the Time-Series Forecasting significantly as compared to MLP Models?

  
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Q25:   

Can Non-Sequential Deep Learning Models outperform Sequential Models in Time-Series Forecasting?

  
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Q26:   

How do you Normalise Time-Series Data?

  
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Q27:   

If your Time-Series Dataset is very long, what architecture would you use?

  
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Q28:   

Why are RNNs (Recurrent Neural Network) better than MLPs at predicting Time Series Data?

  Related To: RNN
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Q29:   

When would you use Sequential Split of data?

  Related To: ML Design Patterns, Data Processing
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Q30:   

After you develop a Real-Time Classifier of Time Series Events, how do you know if a Low Power Embedded System can classify events in real-time?

  
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Q31:   

Explain how the Facebook Prophet is used to predict Time-Series Data

  
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Q32:   

Can Hidden Markov Models be used to model Time-Series data?

  
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Q33:   

How do you Auto-correlate Discrete and Abstract Time Series Data?

  
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Q34:   

Explain briefly the different methods of Noise-Removal for Time-Series Data

  
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Q35:   

What are some different ways of Trajectory Patterns Mining?

  
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Q36:   

Why does Time-Series have to be Stationary before you can run ARIMA or ARM Models?

  
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Q37:   

Compare State-Space Models and ARIMA models

  
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Time Series Practical Challenges

Q1:   

Implement a simple algorithm for Online Outlier Detection of a generic Time Series

  Related To: Anomaly Detection
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