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- DesignBeginnerNew
Design the Onboarding for a Consumer-AI Copilot App
You receive: current funnel analytics (1M trial sign-ups over the last 90 days, current activation rate, current D1/D7/D30 retention), a competitor teardown deck, and the founde…
- Product Design
- User Onboarding
- A/B Testing & Experimentation
AI for Business and AI Product Management - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Cost-Model a Foundation-Model API Migration
You receive: 90 days of API logs (request volume, token distributions), the customer's golden eval set of 200 prompts, the incumbent and new pricing schedules, and quality ratin…
- Cost Modeling
- Ai Workforce Strategy
- Model Evaluation
AI for Business and AI Product Management - CodeBeginnerNew
Implement a Constraint Solver for a Lisbon Tourism Scheduler
Model the next-week schedule as a CSP: variables are (guide, day, slot) assignments; domains are available routes; constraints encode language requirements, max consecutive tour…
- Constraint Satisfaction
- Backtracking Search
- Python Or Javascript
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - StrategyBeginnerNew
Pitch a Regulatory Sandbox Application for an Edtech AI Product
Read the EU AI Regulation's regulatory-sandbox provisions. Pick a member-state sandbox program (Spain, Norway-as-EEA, or a German-state pilot are publicly documented options) an…
- Regulatory Analysis
- Ai Governance Frameworks
- Product Strategy
AI Law, Policy, and Regulation Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real-world context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Build a Reproducible Pricing Analysis for a DTC Skincare Brand
You receive 24 months of order-line data (around 480,000 lines), a Shopify-style customer export, and a discount-code log. Build a Python pipeline that produces: SKU-level price…
- Data Wrangling
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- Cohort Analysis
Applied Data Analysis and Practical Data Science - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Audit Data Quality for a Climate Tech Sensor Network
You receive 30 days of ingested sensor data (around 400 million rows) plus the sensor inventory and known maintenance windows. Define a set of data-quality expectations (null ra…
- Data Quality
- Great Expectations
- Anomaly Detection
Data Engineering and Big Data Systems - 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 - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Mine Association Rules for a Grocery Retailer's Promo Strategy
You receive 6 months of basket-level transaction data (around 22 million baskets, around 18,000 SKUs) plus a category taxonomy. Run association-rule mining (Apriori or FP-Growth…
- Association Rules
- Market Basket Analysis
- Apriori
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Browse challenges
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Marketing Analyst
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.
- PresentationBeginnerNew
Storytelling Visualization of an Autonomous Vehicle Test Campaign
You receive aggregated test results: 12,000 test runs across dry, wet, and snow conditions, with metrics for disengagement rate, near-miss count, and route-completion percentage…
- Data Storytelling
- Audience Adaptation
- Chart Design
Data Visualization - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Real-Time Operations Wall Display for a Logistics AI Startup
You receive a websocket feed of operational events (around 20 events per second) plus a small KPI definition list (throughput per zone, late-truck count, exception queue depth, …
- Realtime Visualization
- Glanceability
- D3
Data Visualization - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Spectral Clustering for an Urban-Mobility Operator's Network
You receive 6 months of anonymized O-D trip data (around 4 million trips, around 8,000 virtual stations), the current 9 hand-drawn zones, and the operations team's KPIs (rebalan…
- Spectral Methods
- Spectral Clustering
- Graph Laplacian
Machine Learning on Graphs - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Diagnose Query Failures in an E-Commerce Search Box
You receive 6 months of anonymized query logs (~480 million rows): query string, language hint, results-shown count, top-3 product clicks, and add-to-cart events. Build a notebo…
- Query Log Analysis
- Clustering
- Ir Failure Analysis
Information Retrieval and Search Build a verifiable portfolio.
Submissions become evidence. Reviewers with shipping experience score against a rubric; the result becomes a credential anyone can verify.
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Run an A/B Test on Two System Prompts for a Sales Email Assistant
You will (1) design the A/B test (random assignment by rep_id, 50/50 split, 2-week duration), (2) instrument three primary metrics: reply rate (event-based), average tokens per …
- Prompt Evaluation
- A/B Testing
- Metric Design
LLM Application Development - StrategyBeginnerNew
Scope a Demand-Forecasting Model with Operations Stakeholders
You receive recorded interview transcripts (or summary notes) for the three personas, plus a sample of the historical sales data. Map each stakeholder's pain to candidate ML pro…
- Stakeholder Framing
- Ml Problem Scoping
- Metric Design
Machine Learning in Practice - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Evaluate Speech-to-Text Quality for a Contact-Center Analytics Vendor
You receive 200 anonymized call-recording snippets (2-4 minutes each, ~67 per language) with reference transcripts plus a domain glossary of about 600 product terms. Run all thr…
- Speech Recognition
- Sequence Models
- Model Evaluation
Machine Perception - 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
AI/ML Practicum and Hands-on Lab - CodeBeginnerNew
Calibrate a Demand Forecast with Bayesian Confidence Intervals
You receive 24 months of weekly demand for 600 SKUs plus the existing XGBoost point predictions. Fit a Bayesian conformal-prediction layer (or, alternatively, a Gaussian-Process…
- Bayesian Inference
- Uncertainty Quantification
- Conformal Prediction
Probabilistic Machine Learning - DesignBeginnerNew
Conversational UI for a Personal-Finance Assistant
You will work from 4 scripted scenarios: 'how much did I spend on coffee last month', 'why did my rent payment fail', 'help me set up an emergency fund', and an out-of-scope 'is…
- Conversational Ui
- Dialogue Design
- Trust Design
Question Answering and Conversational Systems - AnalysisBeginnerNew
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 - StrategyBeginnerNew
Spec the AI Stack for an Indoor Service Robot Roadmap
You will research and write a 6-page AI-stack strategy spanning navigation (build vs. buy a SLAM stack), manipulation (in-house RL vs. licensed Vertical-AI APIs), voice (cloud A…
- Ai Workforce Strategy
- Build Vs Buy Analysis
- Roadmap Design
Robotics - StrategyBeginnerNew
Spec a Voice Agent for an Airline's Disruption Support Line
You will produce a 6-page voice-agent product spec covering: (1) supported intents and out-of-scope handling, (2) handoff-to-human criteria, (3) latency and confidence threshold…
- Voice Agent Design
- Intent Design
- Metric Design
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
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
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