Beginner Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the beginner level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- CodeBeginnerNew
Sentiment Analysis of Product Launch on Reddit
You are a social media analyst at EcoWear. Using Reddit's API, collect all posts and comments from r/sustainablefashion, r/sneakers, and r/environment for one week before and af…
- Web Scraping
- Sentiment Analysis
- Topic Modeling
Social Media and Web Analytics - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Valuing a Toronto D2C Cosmetics Scale-Up
Your task is to build a financial model projecting GlowUp's cash flows for 5 years, estimate terminal value, and derive an equity value per share. You must also select a peer gr…
- Three Statement Modeling
- DCF Valuation
- Comparable Company Analysis
Financial Statement Analysis & Valuation - DesignBeginnerNew
Build a PlatformIO CI Pipeline for a Multi-Board Firmware Team
Use GitHub Actions + PlatformIO. Build matrix across the 6 boards. Run native unit tests + QEMU-based emulation tests for boards that QEMU supports. Set up a self-hosted runner …
- Platformio
- Github Actions
- Embedded Ci
Embedded Systems Engineering - DesignBeginnerNew
Draft a Model Card for a Generative Image Product
You receive the model's training-data summary, evaluation metrics, intended-use statement, and known failure modes from the ML team. Write: (a) a 3-page plain-language model car…
- Model Cards
- Transparency Documentation
- Responsible Ai
AI Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI 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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- 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 Database Basics
- Pgvector
Vector Databases and Embeddings - StrategyBeginnerNew
Talent Retention Strategy for a Paris D2C Cosmetics Startup
Your task is to analyze the root causes of turnover using exit interviews and engagement survey data (provided in a simulated dataset), then propose a retention strategy with 3-…
- Talent Retention
- Hr Analytics
- Strategic Hrm
Strategic Human Resource Management - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Liquidity Risk Management for a Regional Bank
Your task is to create a liquidity risk management plan for Heartland Bank. First, calculate the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) and Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR) using the ban…
- Liquidity Risk
- Lcr
- Nsfr
Banking and Financial Institutions - CodeBeginnerNew
Demand Sensing for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
You are a growth analyst at FlowMetrics. Using weekly data on signups, trial conversions, website traffic, and marketing spend, develop a model to forecast monthly subscription …
- Time Series Forecasting
- Regression Analysis
- Python Or Javascript
Forecasting for Decision Making - Browse challenges
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- 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 - ResearchBeginnerNew
Comparative Usability Test of Three Checkout Flows for a DTC Brand
Build 3 clickable Figma prototypes of the same checkout (same product, same fields, same copy) in single-page, three-step, and side-drawer patterns. Recruit 9 participants match…
- Usability Testing
- User Research
- Comparative Evaluation
Human-Computer Interaction - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Lease Accounting for a Restaurant Chain
Your team's task is to implement ASC 842 for Taco Fresco's 50 leases. You have a spreadsheet with lease data: commencement dates, terms, renewal options, annual rent (including …
- Lease Accounting
- ASC 842
- Present Value
Financial Accounting and Reporting - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Instruction Set Analysis for an Embedded Workload
Compile all 12 workload programs to both ISAs using the appropriate cross-compiler (GCC with -march=rv32e for RISC-V; provided proprietary toolchain for the in-house ISA). Repor…
- Instruction Sets
- Code Density
- Embedded Systems
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Why Ewance
- ResearchBeginnerNew
Case-Study Analysis of a Public AI Incident
Pick one public AI incident (suggestions: a chatbot's harmful response that went viral, a facial-recognition false-arrest case, a financial-model bias scandal). Produce a 6-page…
- Incident Analysis
- Responsible Ai
- Case Study Research
AI Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - StrategyBeginnerNew
Scenario Planning for a London D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a strategic foresight consultant hired by GlowLondon. Using the 2x2 matrix method, identify two critical uncertainties (e.g., regulatory stringency vs. consumer trust) a…
- Scenario Planning
- Uncertainty Analysis
- Strategic Thinking
Strategic Foresight and Decision-Making - DesignBeginnerNew
Bootstrap ArgoCD on a Multi-Cluster Platform for an EdTech
Design the repo topology: per-environment vs per-tenant kustomize overlays, ApplicationSet generators for service-per-cluster fan-out, a sync-wave strategy for ordered deploys. …
- Argocd
- Kubernetes Orchestration
- Kustomize
GitOps and Continuous Delivery - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Crop-Disease Classifier for a Smallholder Agritech Startup
You receive a curated 22,000-image cassava-disease dataset across 5 classes (4 diseases + healthy) plus a labeled 1,200-image held-out test set. Train a CNN classifier (start wi…
- Cnn Classification
- Cnn Architectures
- Transfer Learning
Deep Learning for Computer Vision - DesignBeginnerNew
Performance Scorecard for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
Design a balanced scorecard with 4 perspectives (financial, customer, internal processes, learning & growth). For each perspective, propose 2-3 KPIs, targets, and initiatives. C…
- Balanced Scorecard
- KPI & OKR Design
- Strategic Alignment
Managerial Accounting - 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 - CodeBeginnerNew
Reverse-Engineer a Stripped Binary to Restore Linking Symbols
Receive the stripped shared object (Linux ELF, x86-64, ~280KB), a crash dump with 12 frames of indecipherable addresses, and 4 years of partial git history with some related (bu…
- Reverse Engineering
- Linking And Loading
- Machine Code
Computer Systems and Organization - CodeBeginnerNew
Bootstrap a Production-Grade CI/CD Pipeline for a Pre-Seed Startup
Audit the current deploy process and document the 6-point checklist of risk it removes. Build the pipeline in GitHub Actions: (1) PR check workflow, (2) main-branch build with m…
- Ci Cd
- Github Actions
- Container Signing
DevOps and Secure Deployment - 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 - CodeBeginnerNew
CI/CD Pipeline for a SaaS Monorepo with 14 Services
Set up Nx (or Turborepo) for affected-graph computation. Configure remote build cache (S3-backed) so cached steps skip across runs and developers. Parallelize jobs in GitHub Act…
- Ci Cd
- Monorepo
- Nx
Engineering Software as a Service - StrategyBeginnerNew
Competitive Strategy for a B2B SaaS Scale-Up Entering Enterprise
As a product strategist, analyze TaskFlow's competitive position in the enterprise project management space. Use competitor profiling and game theory to anticipate competitor re…
- Competitor Analysis
- Game Theory
- Go To Market Strategy
Competitive and Competitor Analysis - CodeBeginnerNew
Segment Solar Panels in Aerial Imagery for an Energy Audit Startup
You receive 600 labelled 1024x1024 orthophoto tiles (panel masks) and 1,000 unlabeled tiles. Train a segmentation model (U-Net or DeepLabV3+ baseline), validate at 0.85 IoU on a…
- Semantic Segmentation
- U Net
- Aerial Imagery
Image Processing and Computational Imaging
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