The Data Science Lab

Welcome to the central hub of Muggs of Data Science. From here you can navigate to course materials, lab projects, and research tools that connect our classroom work with the real-world of data.

Theoretical Foundations

Lectures, slides, and source material that shape the course.

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Lab Activities

Hands-on experiments, project guides, and rubrics for each unit.

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Datasets

Curated sources for your data analysis and modeling projects.

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Bibliography Builder

Explore articles and research linked to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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Classwork & Assessments

Access classwork activities and secure lab-based assessments.

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Data Science Final Project

DSFP Overview, guidance, rubrics and ideas to help jumpstart your DSFP/Senior Capstone experience.

D.S.F.P. Portal →

🗒️ About those .txt files...

The AI we are most familiar with using are all Language Models — LLMs, MLMs, and so on. They were trained on massive datasets of language.
When you encounter most resources (HTML, PDF, DOCX, etc.), it’s easy enough to extract text with CTRL+A → CTRL+C, then use CTRL+V to drop it into a model with a directions prompt like:
“You are a professor specializing in floating photovoltaic panels (FPVs). I am a student working on…”
“ARTICLE CHUNK BELOW:”
Slideshows are a bit different. Because of how I share them (“Published to the Web” mode), you can’t easily copy text or download them as plain text. If you had edit access, you could go to File → Download → Plain Text (.txt) — but that’s not possible from the public view I am using.
So I provide the .txt versions of every slideshow for one key reason: they make it easier for you to copy, paste, and work directly with the language of the slides in your AI models. These files are provided for educational use — to make your data science work and AI-assisted analysis smoother, reproducible, and accessible offline.