Module 8: Predictive modeling portfolio

Theme

Predictive modeling portfolio

Essential Question

What evidence supports a production recommendation?

Module Components

• Book prose: conceptual framing, domain scenario, methods, and failure modes

• Assignment: evidence-backed production of a specific artifact

• Slides: presentation sequence for seminar or lecture delivery

• Narration: spoken version of the slide flow

• Rubric: criteria for evaluating the module artifact

• Notebook: executable lab aligned with the module theme using synthetic tabular observations with features, labels, train/test split, baseline score, and error slices

Module Artifact

predictive modeling report with baseline comparison, validation evidence, and model card focused on predictive modeling portfolio: Deliver a model card and reproducibility package.

Professional Setting

Students work as if advising an analytics team choosing a predictive model for an operational decision. Their work must be intelligible to analytics lead, domain owner, operations manager, and model risk reviewer.

Use This Module in Order

1. Read the learning chapter.

2. Review the slide deck with the matching narration.

3. In Populi, open the private student-repository link for this course and enter modules/module-8.

4. Clone the repository once or open its Codespace/Colab copy; run lab.ipynb and complete exercise.ipynb there.

5. Self-check with the rubric, commit and push the work, then submit exactly what Populi requests.