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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.
- CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Streaming Pipeline for Real-Time Fraud Detection
Receive 30 days of anonymized card-transaction events (around 240M events total), the team's existing batch features (cardholder behavior summaries), and a pre-trained fraud-sco…
- Stream Processing
- Kafka Event Streaming
- Flink
Big Data and Data-Intensive Systems - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a 30-Day Readmission Risk Model on De-Identified EHR Data
You receive a curated MIMIC-style de-identified EHR cohort (about 28,000 admissions, demographics, comorbidities, labs, prior-admission counts) with 30-day readmission labels. T…
- Ehr Modeling
- Risk Stratification
- Model Calibration
Machine Learning for Healthcare and Biomedicine - CodeBeginnerNew
Predictive Churn Model for Bangalore D2C Cosmetics
You will analyze a provided dataset of 10k customers with features like purchase frequency, average order value, time since last purchase, pages visited, support tickets, and su…
- Python Or Javascript
- Scikit Learn
- Logistic Regression
Machine Learning and AI for Business - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Churn Prediction for a Stockholm D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a data science consultant hired by NordicGlow. Using the provided dataset (synthetic but realistic), you must preprocess the data, engineer features from transaction, cl…
- Data Preprocessing
- Feature Engineering
- Classification
Data Science for Business Develop in-demand professional skills.
Each challenge names the skills it strengthens. Over time, your profile fills with the competences a hiring manager would actually look for.
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- CodeBeginnerNew
Building a Customer Segmentation Tool for a SaaS Scale-up
You are provided with a JSON file containing user data: user_id, total_logins, days_since_last_login, features_used (count), subscription_tier (free/basic/premium). Your task is…
- Python Or Javascript
- Pandas
- Scikit Learn
Programming for Business Applications - CodeIntermediateNew
Forecasting Model for Online-Game Daily Active Users
Build forecasts at 14-day horizon per region using: (1) classical baseline — SARIMA or Prophet; (2) ML approach — gradient-boosted regressor on engineered features (day-of-week,…
- Supervised Learning
- Time Series Forecasting
- Python Or Javascript
Machine Learning (CS Elective) - 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
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
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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.
- CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Real-Time Fraud-Detection Stream for a Card Issuer
Design the stream topology: authorization events in, customer-feature state (30-day rolling) maintained in state store, scoring function applied per event, fraud-score emitted t…
- Apache Flink
- Kafka Streams
- Stream Processing
Event-Driven Architecture - 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
- Supervised Learning
Meta-Learning, Transfer Learning, and Multi-Task Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Edge-Inference Pipeline for a Smart-Factory Vibration Monitor
Architect a pipeline that runs on an ESP32-S3 + STM32 combo (provided): (1) sample 3-axis accelerometer at 3.2 kHz, (2) compute windowed FFT features on-device every 1s, (3) run…
- Edge Computing
- Embedded Systems
- Sensors And Actuators
Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems - 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
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Customer-Segmentation Study for a DTC Subscription Box
Use 18 months of anonymized data: order history, churn events, NPS responses, box-rating data, referral activity, marketing-channel attribution. Engineer features (RFM-style + b…
- Unsupervised Learning
- Python Or Javascript
- Ml Applications
Machine Learning (CS Elective) - CodeIntermediateNew
Detect Coordinated Fraud Rings via Link Analysis at a Neobank
You receive 90 days of account, login, and transaction data (around 1.2 million accounts, around 30 million events) plus a labeled set of 80 known fraud rings. Build a multi-rel…
- Graph Analysis
- Community Detection
- Link Analysis
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - CodeBeginnerNew
Reduce Dimensionality on Sensor Streams for a Mid-Cap Robotics OEM
You receive 120 robot-hours of windowed sensor data (5s windows, 240 channels) with labels for normal vs. one of four fault classes. Implement (1) PCA, (2) kernel PCA with an RB…
- Dimensionality Reduction
- Kernel Methods
- Autoencoders
Machine Learning - 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 - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Optimize Hyperparameters with Bayesian Optimization on a Tight Budget
You receive a B2B-SaaS churn dataset (about 12,000 customer-month rows, 38 features) and a fixed sweep budget of 40 trials per model family. Implement a Bayesian optimizer (Optu…
- Bayesian Optimization
- Hyperparameter Tuning
- Ensemble Methods
Advanced Machine Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Forecast Intraday FX Volatility for a London Liquidity Desk
You receive 18 months of tick-level mid-quote data for six FX pairs plus a calendar of scheduled macro events. Resample to 1-minute bars, engineer realized-volatility features, …
- Time Series Forecasting
- Feature Engineering
- Model Validation
AI and Quantitative Finance - CodeSeniorNew
Triage Brain-CT Stroke Detector with Calibrated Uncertainty
You receive a curated public head-CT dataset (about 2,800 scans, slice-level labels for hemorrhagic stroke) and a held-out 600-scan hospital cohort. Train a 3D CNN or 2.5D slice…
- Medical Imaging
- Neural Networks
- Uncertainty Quantification
Machine Learning for Imaging and Medical Image Analysis - CodeIntermediateNew
Forecast Energy Demand for a Nordic Renewable Utility
You receive 5 years of hourly residential-segment demand, hourly weather data (temperature, wind, irradiance), and a calendar of public holidays. Build a probabilistic forecaste…
- Time Series Forecasting
- Probabilistic Modeling
- Feature Engineering
Applied Machine Learning - 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 Or Javascript
- Ml Applications
Machine Learning (CS Elective) - 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 - 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 - CodeIntermediateNew
Build an End-to-End ML Pipeline for Loan-Default Prediction
You receive 24 months of historical application + outcome data (about 380,000 rows). Build a pipeline using a workflow orchestrator (Prefect, Kedro, or a simple Makefile chain) …
- Ml Pipelines
- Feature Engineering
- Pipeline Testing
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