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Machine Learning Fundamentals Challenges
Machine Learning Fundamentals challenges put you inside the work of turning raw data into models that hold up. You'll develop skills in Supervised Learning, Classification & Regression, and Feature engineering, then validate your work with Train/Test Split and Cross-validation in scikit-learn.
From there you'll handle the harder edges — Hyperparameter tuning, Tree ensembles, Model Calibration, and Model selection under business constraints — moving toward Production model tuning and Feature pipelines the way working ML teams do. Each challenge you solve earns a verified credential you can share with recruiters.
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Build an Anomaly-Detection Pipeline for Pharma Cold-Chain Logistics
You receive 18 months of shipment telemetry (around 60,000 shipments, around 12 million sensor readings) plus a hand-labeled set of 1,200 incidents (mix of true excursions, sens…
- Anomaly Detection
- Feature Engineering
- Time Series
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Customer Churn Prediction for 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
You receive a dataset with 500 customers and 10 features (e.g., monthly logins, number of support tickets, contract length, industry). Your task is to perform exploratory analys…
- Logistic Regression
- Classification
- Feature Engineering
Econometrics - 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 - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Forecasting Churn for a SaaS Scale-Up
You are a data scientist intern at TaskFlow. Using the provided dataset, perform feature engineering and build a logistic regression or decision tree model to predict churn. Ide…
- Data Analysis
- Regression
- Classification
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- CodeBeginnerNew
Churn-Prediction Model for a B2B Vertical SaaS
Use 18 months of anonymized data (provided) covering: usage events, login frequency, support tickets, NPS responses, billing health, feature adoption, practice firmographics. De…
- Supervised Learning
- Python Programming
- Ml Applications
Machine Learning (CS Elective) - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Audit a Sepsis Early-Warning Model for Subgroup Performance
You receive a pre-trained vendor model, the training-data summary, and a held-out hospital-network evaluation set (about 18,000 ICU stays with sepsis labels). Compute AUROC + AU…
- Model Evaluation
- Fairness Metrics
- Model Calibration
Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biomedicine - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Analyze a Learning-Analytics Dataset for At-Risk Detection
You receive an anonymized dataset of LMS engagement features (logins, assignment submissions, forum posts, video-watch time), grade history, and a binary label for end-of-semest…
- Learning Analytics
- Classification
- Fairness Metrics
AI in Education and Learning Analytics - CodeBeginnerNew
Ship a Churn-Prediction Mini-Project End to End
You receive a 12-month anonymized dataset of subscriber events (logins, lesson completions, payment history, support tickets) for around 200,000 users. Define churn precisely (n…
- Feature Engineering
- Model Evaluation
- Gradient Boosting
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Frame the business question, model the options, build the recommendation. From market sizing to competitive analysis, this role is where strategy consulting meets in-house decision-making.
- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Chest-X-Ray Deployment Audit Across Hospital Sites
You receive (1) a vendor-supplied multi-label chest-X-ray classifier, (2) the current single-site held-out evaluation set, (3) a 12,000-image multi-site evaluation set with 14-f…
- Medical Imaging
- Classification
- Model Evaluation
Machine Learning for Imaging and Medical Image Analysis - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Explain a Credit-Risk Model with SHAP for a Fintech
You receive a trained XGBoost credit-risk model (binary default prediction), the training feature schema (38 features), and a held-out 10,000-sample test set with labels. Comput…
- Shap
- Interpretability
- Fairness Analysis
Explainable and Interpretable AI - ResearchIntermediateNew
Prototype a Normalizing Flow for Anomaly Scoring in Climate Sensor Data
You receive 12 months of multivariate sensor traces (8 channels per sensor, hourly). Train a Normalizing Flow (Real NVP or a small Neural Spline Flow) on a clean training window…
- Normalizing Flows
- Density Estimation
- Anomaly Detection
Deep Generative Models - CodeSeniorNew
Auto-Tune a Distributed Training Cluster's Throughput
Pick a representative fine-tune job (an open 7B model on a public instruction dataset is fine). Define the search space: NCCL_ALGO, NCCL_PROTO, num_workers, prefetch_factor, gra…
- Distributed Training
- Hyperparameter Tuning
- Nccl
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Detect Change Points in a Trading Platform's Latency Telemetry
You receive 90 days of per-millisecond latency telemetry across 12 services, plus an incident log of 14 known regressions and 22 known false-alarm-class events. Implement and tu…
- Change Point Detection
- Anomaly Detection
- Time Series Analysis
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Transfer-Learning Backbone Bake-Off for Retail Product Tagging
You receive 80,000 retail product images tagged with multiple labels from a 250-tag taxonomy. Use each of the three pretrained backbones via two transfer strategies: (1) linear …
- Transfer Learning
- Fine Tuning
- Self Supervised Learning
Meta-Learning, Transfer Learning, and Multi-Task Learning - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Cluster a Telco's Subscriber Base for a Pricing Refresh
You receive 12 months of anonymized subscriber-level data: monthly minutes, SMS, mobile data, top-up frequency, top-up amount, churn flag, and tenure. Clean and feature-engineer…
- Clustering
- Feature Engineering
- Exploratory Data Analysis
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - CodeBeginnerNew
Predict Catalyst Properties for a Green-Hydrogen Pharma Spinout
Use an open catalyst dataset (e.g., Open Catalyst Project subset, or a Materials Project pull) where each candidate has descriptors and a target activity property. Train a tabul…
- Tabular Modeling
- Uncertainty Quantification
- Feature Engineering
AI for Science and Engineering - CodeIntermediateNew
Mine Health-Forum Posts for Symptom Trend Signals
You receive 6 months of crawled public posts (~400,000 posts, already cleaned of usernames) and access to a UMLS API for normalisation. Build a pipeline that does (1) symptom ex…
- Text Mining
- Biomedical NLP
- Umls Normalization
Linguistic Engineering and Language Technologies - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Model Patient Pathways with a Hidden Markov Model
You receive de-identified monthly summaries for 8,000 diabetic patients, each row coding the count of primary-care visits, specialist visits, ER visits, new medications, and HbA…
- Hidden Markov Models
- Em Algorithm
- Time Series Modeling
Probabilistic Graphical Models - ResearchIntermediateNew
Detect Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior on a News-Sharing Network
You receive a 60-day sample of about 6 million posts mentioning a recent election, with account metadata (creation date, posting times, follower graph). Design and prototype a C…
- Network Analysis
- Anomaly Detection
- Near Duplicate Detection
Social Network Analysis and Web Science - CodeBeginnerNew
Predict Subscription Churn for an EdTech Platform
You receive a CSV with about 18,000 student-month rows: features include login frequency, session length, quiz scores, parent app opens, and plan tier. The target is whether the…
- Supervised Learning
- Logistic Regression
- Gradient Boosting
Machine Learning (Undergraduate) - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Capstone Lab: Diagnose Why a Production Model Quietly Stopped Working
You receive 6 months of production logs (model inputs, predictions, ground truth from chargebacks) plus the original training data and model card. Reproduce the recall drop in a…
- Data Drift Detection
- Model Monitoring
- Root Cause Analysis
AI/ML Practicum and Hands-on Lab - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Predictive Maintenance for Smart Factory Conveyors
Your task is to design a predictive maintenance system for AutoParts' conveyor belts. Use vibration and temperature sensors to monitor motor health. Data should be processed at …
- Predictive Maintenance
- Sensor Deployment
- Edge Computing
Internet of Things and Smart Systems - ResearchIntermediateNew
Kernel Methods vs. Deep Learning on a Tiny-Data Drug-Discovery Task
You receive (or download) 3 public ADMET datasets from MoleculeNet (e.g., BBBP, Lipophilicity, FreeSolv). For each, train both: (a) a Gaussian process with a Tanimoto kernel ove…
- Kernel Methods
- Gaussian Processes
- Graph Neural Networks
Advanced Machine Learning - ResearchSeniorNew
Pretrain a Small Vision Transformer with Self-Supervised Learning
You receive 80,000 unlabeled 224x224 histology tiles plus 4,000 labeled tiles split into train/val/test. Pretrain a ViT-Small using a self-supervised method of your choice (DINO…
- Self Supervised Learning
- Vision Transformers
- Pytorch
Advanced Deep Learning
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