Deakin University Trimester 2, 2024

School of IT Assignment 1
Unit Team: SIG742

SIG742: Modern Data Science

Extension Request
Students with difficulty in meeting the deadline because of proper reasons such as
illness etc., must apply for an assignment extension with Great Learning one day prior to
assessment deadline (Saturday). In such a case, an extension upto 1 week maybe granted at
at the discretion of the Academic Team. However, no further extension will be granted beyond this
extended deadline.
Academic Integrity All assignment will be checked for plagiarism, and any academic
misconduct will be reported to unit chair and university.
Generative AI Deakin’s Policy and advices on responsible usage of Genera-
tive AI in your studies: https://www.deakin.edu.au/students/study-support/
study-resources/artificial-intelligence

Instructions
Assignment Questions
There are total 2 parts in the assessment task:

Part 1 The first part will focus on the basic Python programming skills which includes the data types,
the control flow, the function, the modules and library from M02.
Part 2 The second part is for those who are aiming to achieve ‘High Distinction’ (HD) for this
assessment task, and it will focus on more advanced Python programming skills for data science on
particular scenario. This part will require the knowledge covered in M02 and also some part of the
M03, in particular, numpy and beyond.

What to Submit?
You are required to submit the following completed files to the corresponding Assignment on
Olympus:

SIT742Task1.ipynb The completed notebook with all the run-able code on all requirements.
In general, you need to complete, save the results of running, and submit your notebook from
Python platform such as Google Colab. You need to clearly list the answer for each question, and
the expected format from your notebook will be like in Figure 1.

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 Figure 1: Notebook Format

SIT742Task1Part2.avi (Only if you choose to work on Part 2 of this assessment task) A video demon-
stration between 5 and 10 minutes, and the file format can be other common ones, such as ‘MKV’,
‘WMV’, ‘MOV’ etc.
If you are aiming to achieve ‘High Distinction’ (HD) and choose to work on Part 2 of this
assessment task, one important submission is a short video in which You orally present the
solutions that you provide in the notebook and illustrate the running of code line by line.
SIT742Task1Part2report.pdf (Only if you choose to work on Part 2 of this assessment task) A short
essay report with no more than 500 words, and the file format can be other common ones, such as
‘.pdf’, ‘.doc’, ‘docx’ etc.
If you are aiming to achieve ‘High Distinction’ (HD) and choose to work on Part 2 of this
assessment task, another important submission is a short essay in which You will explain the code
you wrote for the solution, any of the resource or material which has been helpful to resolve the
problem, and illustrate if there is any alternative way to solve the problem. In addition, you will also
need to follow the common essay writing structure which could be found in https://www.deakin.
edu.au/students/study-support/study-resources/academic-skills/essay-writing

Part I
Python Programming
There are 8 questions in this part for total 80 marks, and each question is for 10 marks.
You are required to use Google Colab to finish all the coding in the code block cell, and provide sufficient
coding comments, and also save the result of running as well.
Question 1.1
Write a method “is˙divisible” that takes two integers, m and n. The method returns True if m is
divisible by n, and returns False otherwise. Give three test cases for this function and three test
cases should include cases that return values on True and False. Be sure to test your function well,
including at least three test cases.

Question 1.2

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 Imagine that Python does not have the != operator built in. Write a method “not_equal” that takes
two variables(any variable type) and gives the same result as the != operator. Obviously, you cannot
use != within your function! Test if your code works by thinking of examples and making sure the
output is the same for your new method as != gives you. Be sure to test your function well, including
at least 3 test cases.

Question 1.3
List Comprehensions, you will need to perform and understand list comprehensions programming in
below two small tasks.

• Write a list comprehension that prints out the possible results of three coin flips (how many
results should be there?)
• Run this list comprehension in your notebook: [x+y for x in [10,20,30] for y in
[1,2,3]]. Figure out what is going on here, and write a nested for loop that gives you
the same result.

Question 1.4
Write a function ”find_digits” that takes in a string and uses a list comprehension to return all
the int digits in the string if any (assuming string only contain digits from 0 to 9). Be sure to test
your function well, including at least 3 test cases.

Question 1.5

Write a list comprehension which solves the equation y = 2x2 − 1 like Figure 2. Your solution should
print out a list of [x, y] pairs; use the domain x ∈ [−3, 3] and the range y ∈ [0, 30]. x and y are all
integers and you could use range for simulation on the x and y.

Figure 2: Equation of y = 2x2 − 1

Question 1.6
Collision Detection of Balls:
For calculating collision, we only care about a ball’s position in space, as well as its size. We can
store a ball’s position with the (x, y) coordinates of its center point, and we can calculate its size if
we know its radius r. Thus, we represent a ball in 2D space as a tuple of (x, y, r). To figure out if two
balls are colliding, we need to compute the distance between their centers, then see if this distance is
less than or equal to the sum of their radius. If so, they are colliding. Please define a function with

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 two list as inputs (two balls’ position and radius [x,y,r]), test your function with three different cases.

Question 1.7

Scoring the words A set of score is given to you as below according to each English let-
ters: LETTER˙VALUES = ’a’: 1, ’b’: 1, ’c’: 5, ’d’: 6, ’e’: 1, ’f’: 4, ’g’: 2, ’h’: 4, ’i’: 1, ’j’: 8, ’k’:
6, ’l’: 1, ’m’: 4, ’n’: 1, ’o’: 1, ’p’: 3, ’q’: 11, ’r’: 1, ’s’: 1, ’t’: 1, ’u’: 1, ’v’: 5, ’w’: 4, ’x’: 8, ’y’: 6, ’z’: 10, ’ ’:100

Please finish the “get_word_score” function for returning the correct word score (condition is given
from function comments). The necessary library is given to you for importing (not other libraries
should be used). Test with “Australia”, “Deakin” and your name for three cases.
def g e t w o r d s c o r e ( word ) :
”””
Returns t h e s c o r e f o r a word . Assumes t h e word i s a
v a l i d word .

You may assume t h a t t h e i n p u t word i s a l w a y s e i t h e r

a string of l e t t e r s ,
and can not be t h e empty s t r i n g ” ” .
You may not assume t h a t t h e s t r i n g w i l l o n l y c o n t a i n
l o w e r c a s e l e t t e r s , so you w i l l have t o h a n d l e u p p e r c a s e
and mixed c a s e s t r i n g s
appropriately .

The s c o r e f o r a word i s t h e p r o d u c t o f two components :

The f i r s t component i s t h e sum o f t h e p o i n t s f o r l e t t e r s

i n t h e word .
The second component i s t h e l a r g e r o f :
1 , or
7∗ w o r d l e n − 3∗(20− w o r d l e n ) ,
where w o r d l e n i s t h e l e n g t h o f t h e word

L e t t e r s a r e s c o r e d as i n LETTER VALUES.

word : s t r i n g
r e t u r n s : i n t >= 0
”””

Question 1.8

Could you please use loop(s) with string character“*” to print as below Figure 3?

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 Figure 3: Program and Print the shape

Part II
Python Foundations for Data Science
This part is for students who are aiming to achieve ‘High Distinction’ (HD) for this assessment task.
The Part II has been designed for a particular scenario based data science problems.
There are 2 versions in this part for 20 marks: 10 marks for coding, 5 marks for video
presentation SIT742Task1Part2.avi (as in ‘What to Submit’) and 5 marks for the essay
SIT742Task1Part2report.pdf (as in ‘What to Submit’).
For your question, you are required to use Google Colab to finish all the coding in the code block cell,
provide sufficient coding comments, and also save the result of running.

1 Which question for you?

def sum digits (n ) :

r=0
while n :
r , n = r + n % 1 0 , n // 10
return r

def check studentid ( studentid ) :

x = sum digits ( studentid )
i f x % 2 == 0 :
print ( ’ version I ’)
else :
print ( ’ version II ’ )

p r i n t ( ’ C o r r e c t V e r s i o n o f Q2 f o r me i s : ’ )
#c h e c k s t u d e n t i d ( )

2 Question 2 - Version-I

Question 2: Calculate the Area between a curve and a line

There are two functions y = 10 − 2x and y = 5 + 4x − x2 The interaction of the two function is
shown as below graph. It could been seen that the area (highlighted with red color) is where the
y = 5 + 4x − x2 value larger than y = 10 − 2x like Figure 4. This scenario we could call it as “Area

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between a curve and a line”. Now your task is to write few functions and draw some graphs to
calculate this “Area between a curve and a line”.

Figure 4: The area between y = 10 − 2x and y = 5 + 4x − x2

Question 2.1
The first step is to find out the “the intersection of the curve and the line” like below graph:

Figure 5: The intersection of y = 10 − 2x and y = 5 + 4x − x2

Could you please continue working in the graph function to draw “the intersections of the curve and
the line” like Figure 5? Also could you print out the two intersections corresponding x and y pair
value? (you could round the x and y pair value)
d e f graph ( formula1 , formula2 , x r a n g e ) :
x = np . a r r a y ( x r a n g e )
#u s e x a s r a n g e v a r i a b l e
y1 = f o r m u l a 1 ( x )
y2 = f o r m u l a 2 ( x )
#c a l l t h e lambda e x p r e s s i o n with x on each
#e q u a t i o n formula , i t i s g i v e n t o you
#u s e y1 and y2 a s f u n c t i o n r e s u l t
p l t . p l o t ( x , y1 )
p l t . p l o t ( x , y2 )
p l t . f i l l b e t w e e n ( x , y2 , y2 , where=(y1 < y2 ) ,
c o l o r =’ red ’ , a l p h a =0.3)
# your code t o f i l l below

p l t . ylim ( ymin=0)
p l t . show ( )
# your code t o p r i n t t h e two i n t e r s e c t i o n s
#x and y p a i r v a l u e s i n l i s t o r t u p l e s [ x1 , y1 ]
#and [ x1 , y1 ] ?

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 #end o f f u n c t i o n , no r e t u r n v a l u e s

#run t h e graph f u n c t i o n t o t e s t your code f o r marking

graph ( lambda x : ( 1 0 − 2∗ x ) , lambda x : ( 4 ∗ x − x ∗ ∗ 2 ) +5,
np . a r a n g e ( −2 , 7 , 0 . 0 0 0 1 ) )

Question 2.2
The second step is to find out “the area under the curve y = 5+4x−x2 ”by using the two intersections
like below Figure 6

Figure 6: The the area under the curve y = 5 + 4x − x2

You will need to modify the above graph function and draw the graph exactly like Figure 6.
Also you need to finish the code and define the function area_curve and calculate the area un-
der the curve y = 5+4x−x2 with two intersections x and y pair values you obtained in Question 2.1.

Hint: to calculate “the area under the curve” you need to use Trapezoidal Rule Formula. You could
find the steps to calculate in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapezoidal_rule

d e f a r e a c u r v e ( p1 , p2 ) :
”””
your code here , p1 and p2 a r e [ x1 , y1 ]
and [ x2 , y2 ] p a i r v a l u e s
”””

Question 2.3
The third step is to find out “the area under the line y = 10 − 2x” by using the two intersections like
below Figure 7

Figure 7: The the area under the line y = 10 − 2x

You will need to modify the above graph function and draw the graph exactly like Figure 7. Also
you need to finish the code and define the function area_line and calculate the area under the line

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 y = 10 − 2x with two intersections x and y pair values you obtained in Question 2.1.

d e f a r e a l i n e ( p1 , p2 ) :
”””
your code here , p1 and p2 a r e [ x1 , y1 ]
and [ x2 , y2 ] p a i r v a l u e s
”””

Question 2.4
The list step is to subtract the two calculated area to obtain the “area between curve and line” Please
run the above defined functions area_curve and area_line to return the value of the area between
curve and line (you could round the result to 3 decimals).

3 Question 2 - Version-II

Question 2 Buying a House – how long you need to save for your initial payment?

You have moved to Melbourne to start your life and decide to get into the property market as soon
as possible. The house price is high and you want to save the money for some years (months) before
you could afford the down-payment (initial payment) of the house. In this part, we will program to
calculate how long you need to save for make the payment of the house.

There are few rules (variables) you need to define to calculate:

• Call the cost of your home total_cost.

• Call the portion of the cost needed for a initial payment portion_down_payment. For simplicity,
assume that portion_down_payment = 0.15(15%).
• Call the amount that you have saved so far as current_savings. You start with a current
savings of 0.
• Assume that you invest your current savings wisely, with an annual return of r (in other words,
at the end of each month, you receive an additional current_savings ∗ r/12 funds to put into
your savings – the r is an annual rate). Assume that your investments earn a return of r = 0.04.
• Assume your annual salary is annual_salary.

• Assume you are going to dedicate a certain amount of your salary each month to saving for the
down payment. Call that portion_saved. This variable should be in decimal form.
• At the end of each month, your savings will be increased by the return on your investment,
plus a percentage of your monthly salary (annual_salary/12).

Question 2.1

In this question, your annual_salary is fixed while you are saving for your house initial payment. To
finish this question, you need to write a program in python (function or syntax code). Your program
should ask user to enter the following variables and return the months you need to save:

• The starting annual salary (annual_salary).

• The portion of salary to be saved (portion_saved).

• The cost of your dream home (total_cost).

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Question 2.2

We unrealistically assumed that your salary did not change. As you are Deakin Master student,
clearly you will receive a raise on your salary with time! So we are going to build on your solution to
question 2.1 by factoring in a raise every 12 months.

In order to program it with a salary raise, you need to have additional input annual_raise (as
a decimal percentage). We will assume your salary will raise every 12 months with your input
percentage and calculate how many months it will take you save up enough money for a down
payment. Like before, assume that your investments earn a return of r = 0.04 (or 4%) and the
required down payment percentage is 0.15 (or 15%). Have the user enter the following variables and
return the months you need to save

• The starting annual salary (annual_salary).

• The portion of salary to be saved (portion_saved).
• The cost of your dream home (total_cost).

• The annual salary raise (annual_raise).