Lecture Notes for AU DATA 793 Data Science Practicum

Author

Richard Ressler [<rressler@american.edu >]

Published

April 10, 2025

Keywords

data science, DATA-793, Practicum, Solution Development, Project Management

Preface

These lecture notes are a work in progress for the American University course DATA-793 Data Science Practicum which is the capstone course for the masters degree program. As the capstone experience DATA 793 students collaborate with a client from academia, government, or various industries and institution to work on real-world problems in the realm of Data Science. The goal is for them to demonstrate and strengthen their competencies as a professional data scientist while creating a project solution they can to share as part of their portfolio of data science accomplishments.

Please send any corrections or recommendations to rressler@american.edu.

Usage

This work is Copyright Richard Ressler 2025.

This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

Acknowledgments

Portions of these notes incorporate and build on works by others as noted in the appropriate sections and the references.

However, any errors are my responsibility.