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- 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 - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Brand Architecture Overhaul for a D2C Cosmetics Startup
You are a brand strategy intern at GlowUp. Your task is to audit the current brand portfolio, propose a new brand architecture (e.g., branded house, house of brands, or hybrid),…
- Brand Portfolio Audit
- Brand Architecture
- Naming
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Tax Strategy for a Copenhagen D2C Cosmetics Startup
Your task is to research the EU VAT rules for cross-border e-commerce, including the One Stop Shop (OSS) scheme. You must evaluate the tax rates in Denmark, France, Italy, and S…
- Tax Analysis
- EU Vat
- Cross Border Ecommerce
Open coursework - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Performance Evaluation of a Tech Mutual Fund
Your task is to analyze the TechGrowth Fund's monthly returns from 2019-2023, along with benchmark and risk-free rate data. You must calculate and interpret key performance meas…
- Performance Evaluation
- Sharpe Ratio
- Jensens Alpha
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- 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 - AnalysisSeniorNew
Cyber-Physical Security Audit for a Connected-Building HVAC System
Audit one representative tower's BMS: enumerate BACnet devices (network discovery + capability inventory), identify lateral-movement paths (tenant wifi -> guest network -> BACne…
- Cyber Physical Systems
- Ot Security
- Risk Management
Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Define SLOs and Error Budgets for a Real-Time Trading API
Pull 90 days of API latency + error data per endpoint from Prometheus (anonymized exports provided). Propose Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for 3 services × 2 SLI types (availa…
- Slo Definition
- Error Budgets
- Sli Design
Site Reliability Engineering - AnalysisSeniorNew
Assess Partnership Risk for WellsTrade's Instant Payments Launch
Using the PayFlow due-diligence data room and the eighteen-month PayFlow operational metrics dataset, identify and quantify the operational, security, compliance, and reputation…
- Operational Risk
- Vendor Risk
- Cybersecurity
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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Spectral Clustering Proposal for Customer Segmentation at Cadence
Using the provided customer usage sample, construct a similarity graph (k-nearest-neighbors with k=15 and Gaussian radial-basis-function edge weights), compute the normalized gr…
- Spectral Methods
- Linear Algebra
- Algorithm Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Rule on TaskFlow's Enterprise Landing Page A/B Test
Working only from the test results dataset and the test-setup brief in the provided materials, determine whether the redesigned page genuinely improves the demo-booking conversi…
- Hypothesis Testing
- A B Testing
- Chi Square Test
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Index a Slow 90-Million-Row FinTech Reporting Database
Your analysis task is to read the engineering ticket and the six reporting queries in the case file (M1), study the transactions table definition, column statistics, and write w…
- Indexing
- Query Optimization
- Explain Analyze
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Valuation of a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up for Series A
Your team will act as a boutique valuation advisory. You must gather comparable public SaaS companies (e.g., from the Cloud ERP or data integration space) and calculate relevant…
- DCF Valuation
- Comparable Company Analysis
- Financial Modeling
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Cash Flow Diagnosis for a Tokyo Direct-to-Consumer Skincare Startup
Working as a small team, use the two-year financial statements package (income statements and balance sheets for the financial years ending 2023 and 2024) and the founder contex…
- Cash Flow Analysis
- Ratio Analysis
- Financial Statement Interpretation
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Interpretable-by-Design GAM for an Insurer's Claims Triage
You receive an anonymized claims dataset (around 60,000 claims, target: log reserve), a feature schema (22 features), and an existing LightGBM baseline (held-out R^2 of 0.78). T…
- Generalized Additive Models
- Ebm
- Interpretability
Explainable and Interpretable AI - AnalysisSeniorNew
Diagnose and Fix Query-Planner Misestimates in a FinTech Warehouse
For each of the 6 queries, capture EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) and compare estimated vs actual rows at each node. Identify the misestimate source per query (single-column stats s…
- Query Optimization
- Postgresql Planner
- Extended Statistics
Advanced Database Systems - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Capacity Planning for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
Your task is to forecast ticket volumes using historical data (provided), determine the required number of support agents, and propose a staffing plan including shift schedules …
- Capacity Planning
- Forecasting
- Workforce Management
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Cost-Optimize an Embedding Pipeline for a Customer Support Knowledge Base
You receive: (a) the current pipeline (full re-embed on any article change, OpenAI text-embedding-3-large, 3,072 dims) with one month of cost logs, (b) a sample of 5,000 article…
- Embedding Models
- Cost Optimization
- Change Detection
Open coursework - 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
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Structured Prediction for Insurance Claim Triage
You receive 18,000 historical claims with text, attachments-count, claim amount, customer tenure, and the ground-truth final routing bucket. Train a structured classifier (e.g.,…
- Structured Prediction
- Multi Class Classification
- Model Evaluation
Advanced Machine Learning - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Brand Alliance Strategy for a Sustainable Fashion Startup
You are a brand strategy analyst for EcoThreads. Your task is to recommend a brand alliance partner and propose a co-branding campaign. Constraints: budget of €200k for the camp…
- Brand Alliances
- Co Branding
- Brand Equity Measurement
Open coursework - 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
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
IFRS 15 Revenue Recognition for a Dubai D2C Cosmetics Startup
You are a junior accountant at Glow Naturals. The CFO needs a revenue recognition policy under IFRS 15 for three main product lines: (1) monthly subscription boxes with a free g…
- IFRS 15
- Revenue Recognition
- Contract Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Diagnose a Deadlock in a Multi-Threaded File Indexer
Clone the indexer repo (provided), set up reproduction with thread-sanitizer and helgrind, and produce a deterministic deadlock test case in under 5 minutes of runtime. Diagnose…
- Synchronization
- Deadlock Analysis
- C Programming
Operating Systems - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Sales Performance Analysis for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
You will receive a dataset containing 500+ sales opportunities with fields like deal value, stage, source, close date, and account size. Your challenge is to design a data mart …
- Data Warehousing
- Etl
- Olap
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