{"id":8266,"date":"2014-10-13T10:30:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T14:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=8266"},"modified":"2019-04-16T17:41:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T21:41:50","slug":"practicum-projects-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?p=8266","title":{"rendered":"Practicum Projects Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kick-off meetings held here and elsewhere around the country marked the beginning of the <a title=\"Master of Science in Analytics\" href=\"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?page_id=1799\">Master of Science in Analytics<\/a> (MSA) Class of 2015 practicum projects for 17 teams of students. Many of the teams traveled to their sponsor&#8217;s locations, up and down the east coast to destinations such as Boston, New York, Washington, DC, and Jacksonville, Florida. The <a title=\"practicum sponsorship\" href=\"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/?page_id=2874\">practicum<\/a> is a core facet of the MSA learning experience, where teams of students work on challenging problems using large amounts of proprietary data from the sponsors. The projects last 8 months and culminate <!--more-->in late April when teams hit the road once again to deliver executive-level presentations to their sponsors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/images\/msa2015_practicum_kickoff.jpg\" alt=\"Practicum Team Kick-off Meetings\" width=\"500\" height=\"1620\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kick-off meetings held here and elsewhere around the country marked the beginning of the Master of Science in Analytics (MSA) Class of 2015 practicum projects for 17 teams of students. Many of the teams traveled to their sponsor&#8217;s locations, up and down the east coast to destinations such as Boston, New York, Washington, DC, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8266"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15393,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8266\/revisions\/15393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analytics.ncsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}