Lecture Notes for AU DATA 793 Data Science Practicum
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 institutions 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 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 2026.
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.