Data Sciences Challenges
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Chunking Strategy Bake-Off for Financial Filings
You receive 40 anonymized 10-K filings and 100 labeled questions split into 50 narrative (e.g., 'what is the company's main risk factor?') and 50 numerical (e.g., 'what was oper…
- Document Chunking
- Semantic Chunking
- Layout Aware Chunking
Retrieval-Augmented Generation - CodeBeginnerNew
Plan Safe Paths for a Last-Mile Sidewalk Robot
You receive 4 hours of recorded sidewalk traversals with annotated pedestrian tracks, occupancy grids, and a map of the pilot neighborhood. Implement a sampling-based planner (R…
- Motion Planning
- Sampling Based Planning
- Cost Function Design
Robot Perception and Autonomy - DesignBeginnerNew
Detect Sensor Drift for a Field Inspection Robot Fleet
You receive 60 days of telemetry from 12 robots, including IMU readings, camera exposure stats, and the inspection-quality scores produced downstream. Define drift signals (roll…
- Anomaly Detection
- Change Point Detection
- Sensor Fusion
Robot Perception and Autonomy - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Audit Safety Stops for a Cafe-Service Robot Pilot
You receive 30 days of logs covering 240 near-miss events (close approach to a human, low-battery emergency, network loss). For each event, classify whether the safety stop trig…
- Safety Analysis
- Incident Review
- Failure Mode Analysis
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Right-Size a Real-Time Recommendation Serving Cluster
You receive 7 days of request-level telemetry (timestamp, latency, error code, pod) plus the existing Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) and node-group configs. Analyze traffic pat…
- Model Serving
- Kubernetes
- Autoscaling
Machine Learning at Scale - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Map Creator Communities for a Short-Form Video Platform
You receive a 90-day sample of about 4 million creator-creator interactions (duets, mentions, audience overlap) and creator metadata (region, language, content tag). Build a cre…
- Network Analysis
- Community Detection
- Graph Visualization
Social Network Analysis and Web Science - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Model Diffusion of a Hashtag Across a Music-Discovery Platform
You receive 30 days of hashtag-usage data (about 2.4 million events) with account metadata and the follow graph between active hashtag users. Fit an information-diffusion model …
- Diffusion Models
- Network Analysis
- Causal Attribution
Social Network Analysis and Web Science - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Crawler-and-Topic Pipeline for Public-Sector Web Analytics
You will build a polite, robots.txt-respecting crawler that ingests about 30,000 new posts/week across the 80 forums into a normalized dataset. Apply a topic model (BERTopic, wi…
- Web Crawling
- Topic Modeling
- NLP Pipeline
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Plan and measure campaigns that grow the business. Funnel analytics, attribution, segmentation, and the rigorous measurement that lets marketing defend its budget at the leadership table.
- CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Wake-Word Detector for a Smart-Speaker Startup
You receive a small public Japanese-speech dataset, 30 hours of recorded wake-phrase utterances from 50 volunteers, and 200 hours of background-noise recordings. Train a lightwe…
- Keyword Spotting
- Speech Recognition
- On Device Ml
Speech Recognition and Spoken Language Processing - ResearchBeginnerNew
Evaluate Speech Synthesis Voices for an EdTech Storyteller App
You will generate 60 audio clips (20 per vendor) covering 4 story genres and 3 emotional tones. Recruit 15 native Spanish speakers via a remote panel (Prolific or local equivale…
- Tts Evaluation
- Listening Studies
- Mos Scoring
Speech Recognition and Spoken Language Processing - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Predict Equipment Failure for a Wind-Farm Operator
You receive 18 months of SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition — the standard turbine telemetry feed) data sampled every 10 minutes from all 240 turbines, with labeled…
- Classification
- Regularized Regression
- Gradient Boosting
Statistical Machine Learning - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Refit a Pricing Model for an Insurance Comparison Site
You receive 9 months of quote-impression data (about 14 million events) with about 60 features and click labels. Refit logistic regression with elastic-net regularization plus a…
- Regularized Regression
- Feature Interactions
- Calibration
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Forecast Daily Demand for an Apparel Supply-Chain Team
You receive 24 months of daily sales for 500 SKUs across 200 stores, plus calendar features (holidays, promotions, weather codes). Forecast 14 days out per SKU-store. Benchmark …
- Time Series Forecasting
- Sarima
- Gradient Boosting
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting - CodeBeginnerNew
Forecast Hourly Energy Demand for a Microgrid Operator
You receive 24 months of hourly demand, weather (temperature, irradiance), and calendar data for the community. Build a probabilistic forecaster (e.g., quantile regression with …
- Probabilistic Forecasting
- Quantile Regression
- Deep Forecasting
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting - StrategyBeginnerNew
Pick a Forecasting Stack for an Edtech Engagement Team
You will produce a 6-page strategy memo evaluating three paths: (1) in-house forecasting team (2 engineers), (2) open-source stack (statsforecast + neuralforecast), (3) forecast…
- Ai Strategy
- Build Vs Buy Analysis
- Vendor Evaluation
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Spectral-Analyze Wearable Sleep Data for a Healthtech Pilot
You receive 30 nights of wearable data per 25 volunteers, with polysomnography-derived ground-truth stages (Wake / NREM / REM). Engineer spectral features (delta, theta, alpha, …
- Spectral Analysis
- Feature Engineering
- Wavelet Analysis
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Audit a Hiring-Screen Classifier for Fairness Across Cohorts
You receive the classifier as a black-box API and a synthetic-but-realistic dataset of 8,000 CVs with imputed demographic proxies (gender, age band, regional cluster) and labele…
- Fairness Evaluation
- Disparate Impact
- Audit Methodology
Trustworthy AI, Robustness, and Safety - CodeBeginnerNew
Build Semantic Search for an Internal Engineering Wiki
You receive a Confluence XML export (~12k pages, ~80 MB of text) and a hand-labeled benchmark of 50 internal queries with ground-truth doc IDs. Chunk and embed the corpus with a…
- Embedding Models
- Vector Search
- Pgvector
Vector Databases and Embeddings - DesignBeginnerNew
Privacy-Preserving Crowd-Density Estimator for Transit Stations
Use a public crowd-counting dataset (e.g., ShanghaiTech or JHU-CROWD) to train a small crowd-density estimator (CSRNet or similar). Wrap it in an on-device pipeline (Python is f…
- Crowd Counting
- Scene Understanding
- Privacy By Design
Visual Intelligence and Visual Reasoning - StrategyBeginnerNew
Social Media Content Strategy for a Sustainable Cosmetics Brand
Audit the brand's current social presence (screenshots and analytics data provided). Research 3 successful competitors' social strategies. Develop: (1) Platform strategy — which…
- Digital Marketing
- Online Marketing
- Digital Business Models
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
IT Security Risk Assessment for a FinTech Mobile App
Using the provided architecture diagram and API documentation, perform a risk assessment covering: (1) Threat modeling using STRIDE, (2) Vulnerability identification across mobi…
- It Security
- Requirements Engineering
- Web Development
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Big Data Dashboard for Urban Mobility Patterns
Using the provided sample dataset (100K anonymized trip records with timestamps, origin/destination coordinates, transport mode, and duration), build a dashboard prototype. Requ…
- Data Analytics
- Digital Business Models
- Web Development
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
E-Commerce Conversion Funnel Optimization for an Outdoor Gear Brand
Using the provided Google Analytics export and heatmap data, map the complete customer journey from landing page to purchase confirmation. Identify the top 5 friction points cau…
- E Commerce
- Data Analytics
- User Experience Design
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Full-Stack Prototype: Event Ticketing Platform with QR Validation
Build a web application using any modern stack (Next.js recommended, but React + Express, Django, or Rails are acceptable). Required features: (1) Event listing page with title,…
- Web Development
- Object Oriented Programming
- User Experience Design
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