Junior interview questionAsked at xAI · interview write-up
Explain how the data for your project was collected and processed, and how those data choices affected the downstream model.
Model answer
Walk it as a pipeline: where the data came from, how it was filtered, deduplicated and labelled, and how you split it. Tie each choice to an effect you saw, for example deduplication preventing train-test leakage, or label noise capping accuracy. End with what you'd change and how you measured it.
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