Title: Watch: The defensible engagement
Course: Advanced Data Science: A Graduate Course > Section: Module 8: The RiverCity consulting engagement and defense

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▶ Recorded lecture (~25 min) + slides ↓:
- What a defensible, decision-maker-facing project looks like: it names the decision and the decision-maker, quantifies impact and uncertainty, and states what it would take to change the recommendation.
- How the stakeholder defense works: 20 minutes, three role-players (an executive, a compliance officer, an engineer), and the difference between an answer that holds and one that unravels under a follow-up.
- The required repository structure: a README, an auditable data-lineage record, a pinned environment, code, and a Model Card, so a stranger can reproduce your result.
- How distribution shift is detected and handled: what changes when a new batch arrives, why last month’s accuracy is not this month’s accuracy, and the detect, diagnose, adapt loop.
- Where the grade actually lives: the decision and its communication and defense weigh more than the model’s headline metric.
- How to work with the client contact and the course tutor without outsourcing the judgment that is being assessed.

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