CLOUD-DIGITAL-LEADER · Question #412
A retail organization is training a model to recommend products to customers for an ecommerce website. The model was trained on previous purchases, but did not include demographic information on each
The correct answer is D. Completeness. The model's poor performance is caused by data incompleteness - the training data was missing demographic information that is relevant to product recommendations.
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A retail organization is training a model to recommend products to customers for an ecommerce website. The model was trained on previous purchases, but did not include demographic information on each buyer. What dimension of the data is responsible for the model's poor performance?
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- AValidity
- BAccuracy
- CTimeliness
- DCompleteness
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(21 responses)- A5% (1)
- B5% (1)
- D90% (19)
Why each option
The model's poor performance is caused by data incompleteness - the training data was missing demographic information that is relevant to product recommendations.
Validity refers to whether data values conform to expected formats and business rules, not whether required fields are entirely absent from the dataset.
Accuracy refers to how correctly data values represent real-world facts; the issue here is not that purchase records are incorrect, but that an entire category of data is absent.
Timeliness refers to whether data is sufficiently current for its intended use; the problem is missing fields, not stale records.
Data completeness refers to whether all required attributes and records are present in a dataset. In this scenario, the training data lacked demographic information about buyers, which is a missing dimension that could strongly influence purchasing behavior and product preferences. A model trained on incomplete data cannot learn the full pattern of customer behavior, resulting in poor recommendation quality.
Concept tested: Data quality dimension - completeness in ML training data
Source: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/data-quality-introduction
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