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Data Science Challenges
Real data-science projects and challenges on Ewance — clean messy datasets, build and evaluate models, and turn raw data into decisions the way a working data scientist does. Solve them to build a portfolio of verified, recruiter-checkable proof you can do the work — not just describe it.
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Visualize Embedding Drift for a RAG Knowledge Assistant
You receive weekly snapshots over 12 weeks of around 50,000 document embeddings each (1024-dim). Design and build a visualization tool that: (a) projects each snapshot to 2D wit…
- Embeddings
- Dimensionality Reduction
- Umap
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Profile and Cut Inference Cost on a Recommender at Scale
You receive (1) a frozen ONNX export of the production model, (2) a sample request trace of 24 hours at 1% sampling, and (3) a single A100-class GPU sandbox. Profile with NVIDIA…
- Gpu Profiling
- Model Quantization
- Inference Optimization
Open coursework - PresentationIntermediateNew
Design a Hybrid Symbolic-Neural Agent for an Enterprise RAG Demo
Design a hybrid agent for a 'company-policy assistant' demo: a symbolic planner decomposes user goals into typed subtasks ('find policy', 'check applicability', 'compose answer'…
- Hybrid Ai
- Symbolic Planning
- Retrieval Augmented Generation
Artificial Intelligence: Principles and Techniques - 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 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.
Why Ewance
- CodeBeginnerNew
Structured-Output Prompts for Invoice Extraction
You receive 300 real invoice transcripts (already OCR-ed) labeled with 14 target fields, plus the current production prompt and its 12 percent failure log. Design a new prompt u…
- Structured Output
- Json Schema
- Few Shot Prompting
Prompt Engineering - 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
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Wire a Knowledge Graph into a Pharma RAG Assistant
You receive: 100 internal benchmark questions with reference answers; a 50,000-document anonymized RAG index; a curated drug-target-disease KG (~80,000 triples) loaded into a tr…
- Kg Grounded RAG
- Sparql
- Entity Linking
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Multilingual Text-Mining Dashboard for Hotel Reviews
You receive 200,000 sampled reviews across 9 languages plus an English-only labeled benchmark of 1,000 reviews for sentiment and aspect (rooms, food, staff, value, location). Bu…
- Multilingual NLP
- Sentiment Analysis
- Aspect Extraction
Linguistic Engineering and Language Technologies - 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.
- CodeSeniorNew
Train a GAN for Synthetic Defect Augmentation on a Factory Line
You receive a labeled defect dataset (12 defect types, ranging from 8 to 4,200 examples each), the production classifier, and a starter StyleGAN2-ADA codebase. Train a GAN per r…
- Gans
- Stylegan
- Data Augmentation
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Diagnose and Optimize Inventory for a Milan Cosmetics Brand
Work only from the two materials you are given: a daily sales dataset covering the past twelve months for the ten products, and a parameters brief listing each product's price, …
- Excel Modeling
- Vba Programming
- Demand Forecasting
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
3D Reconstruction of Cultural Artifacts from Photo Sets
Use COLMAP (open-source SfM) + OpenMVS (open-source MVS) on a curated dataset of 5 small artifacts plus a calibration cube. Build a single Python CLI that ingests a folder of im…
- Structure From Motion
- Multi View Stereo
- 3d Reconstruction
Computer Vision - CodeIntermediateNew
Hierarchical Plans for an Aerospace Maintenance Crew Scheduler
You receive a synthetic week of 80 work orders with hierarchical decompositions, technician certifications, and shared-tool constraints. Implement an HTN planner (PyHOP or HDDL …
- Htn Planning
- Domain Modeling
- Constraint Handling
Automated Planning Build a verifiable portfolio.
Submissions become evidence. Reviewers with shipping experience score against a rubric; the result becomes a credential anyone can verify.
Why Ewance
- DesignIntermediateNew
Co-Design a Trust Layer for an Enterprise RAG Assistant
You will plan and run a 5-day remote co-design study with eight pilot users (a mix of plant operators and middle managers). Sessions 1-2: discover where trust breaks down. Sessi…
- Co Design
- User Research
- Trust And Transparency
Human-Computer Interaction for AI Systems - 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 - CodeBeginnerNew
Build an Interactive Carbon-Emissions Explorer for a Climate Nonprofit
You receive 20 years of harmonized European industrial emissions data (around 800,000 rows: country, sector, sub-sector, year, emissions in tons CO2e). Design and build an inter…
- Interactive Visualization
- D3
- Observable
Data Visualization - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Domain-Specific Named-Entity Recognizer for Legal Contracts
Start from a strong English NER base (spaCy transformer or LegalBERT). Fine-tune on a provided 1,200-contract labeled dataset for the 9 entity types. Handle long contracts (ofte…
- Named Entity Recognition
- Sequence Labeling
- Domain Adaptation
Open coursework - 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 - ResearchIntermediateNew
Hardware-Aware NAS for a Wearable ECG Classifier
You receive a labeled subset of an arrhythmia ECG dataset (about 80,000 10-second windows, 4 classes), a microcontroller latency lookup table (op-level milliseconds) for a Corte…
- Neural Architecture Search
- Hardware Aware Design
- Edge Inference
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Investigate Why Our Generative Model Memorizes Training Data
Pick a small open-source diffusion model (e.g., a Stable-Diffusion-class community model trained on LAION-subset). Reproduce a published membership-inference + extraction probe …
- Generative Models
- Memorization Analysis
- Differential Privacy
Advanced Deep Learning - ResearchSeniorNew
Quantify Sim-to-Real Gap for a Warehouse Manipulation Policy
You receive a trained pick-and-place policy (PyTorch), the simulation env (Isaac Lab), and access to a real-arm rig (or recorded teleop episodes if hardware is unavailable). Def…
- Sim To Real
- Manipulation
- Experiment Design
Open coursework - ResearchBeginnerNew
Evaluate Open-Source Embedding Models for a Multilingual Help Center
You receive 1,200 labeled (query, relevant-help-article) pairs across 6 languages plus the help-center corpus (~25,000 articles). Index the corpus with each of 4 open-source mul…
- Multilingual Embeddings
- Dense Retrieval
- Ir Evaluation
Information Retrieval and Search - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Sequence Model for Sign-Language Word Recognition
You receive about 12,000 short (1-3s) webcam clips covering a 50-word vocabulary, with body+hand pose features pre-extracted (e.g., MediaPipe Holistic landmarks per frame). Buil…
- Sequence Models
- Transformer
- Pose Estimation
Machine Perception - CodeIntermediateNew
Build an Audio-Visual Speaker Diarization Pipeline
Build the pipeline: face detection + active-speaker detection on video, voice-activity detection + speaker embeddings on audio, then a fusion step that ties tracks to detected f…
- Audio Visual Fusion
- Speaker Diarization
- Active Speaker Detection
Multimodal Machine Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Instruction-Tune a Small Model for an Edtech Tutor
You receive a 1.5B base model (e.g., SmolLM-1.7B or Qwen-1.8B), permission to use 2 hours of a rented A100, and a curated seed of around 5,000 math-tutoring dialogues. Augment w…
- Instruction Tuning
- Supervised Fine Tuning
- Dataset Curation
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