Dask quiz

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What is the purpose of Dask's `delayed` decorator/function?

1. What is the purpose of Dask's `delayed` decorator/function?
2. What is Dask?
3. What is Dask's "Bag" collection type used for?
4. What is a common reason a data scientist would reach for Dask instead of just using pandas directly?
5. What does "partition" mean for a Dask DataFrame or Array, and why does the number/size of partitions matter for performance?
6. What is the purpose of Dask's `persist()` method, as distinct from `compute()`?
7. What is a reasonable comparison between Dask and Apache Spark for a Python-centric data team choosing a distributed data processing tool?
8. What is the difference between Dask's single-machine schedulers (threaded, multiprocessing) and its distributed scheduler?
9. Why does reading a large collection of files (e.g. `dd.read_csv('data/*.csv')`) naturally map well onto Dask DataFrame's partition model?
10. What is a Dask Array, and how does it relate to a NumPy array?
11. What does Dask's `map_partitions()` method on a DataFrame let you do?
12. What is a Dask DataFrame, and how does it relate to a pandas DataFrame?

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