Beginner Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the beginner level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- CodeBeginnerNew
Calibrate a Multi-Camera Rig for Warehouse Robotics
You will design and prototype a calibration workflow using a printed ChArUco board (a chessboard with embedded ArUco markers). You receive a sample dataset of 200 raw frames per…
- Camera Calibration
- Multi View Geometry
- Opencv
3D Vision and Multi-View Geometry - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Inflation Hedging for a Lagos D2C Cosmetics Brand
Your task is to analyze recent inflation data, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) monetary policy, and USD/NGN exchange rate trends. Then, propose a combination of financial instrume…
- Inflation Analysis
- Monetary Policy
- Exchange Rate Forecasting
Open coursework - 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 - CodeBeginnerNew
Fuzzy-Logic Controller for a Sustainable-Greenhouse Operator
You receive a year of 15-minute climate logs (inside/outside temperature, humidity, light, CO2), the current rule-based controller, and the head grower's qualitative description…
- Fuzzy Logic
- Mamdani Inference
- Rule Based Systems
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Hedging Currency Risk for a German Solar Exporter
Your task is to quantify Solara's net exposure in each currency, recommend a hedging mix (e.g., 70% forwards, 30% options) with rationale, calculate the cost of the strategy usi…
- Currency Hedging
- Financial Modeling
- Risk Analysis
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Diagnose and Redesign Project Flow at Brillo Natural
Treat Brillo Natural as a field site you must study before you prescribe. Using only the internal observation notes in the case file ('brillo-observation-notes') and the launch-…
- Agile Methodologies
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Change Management
Open coursework - 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
- Ab Testing
- Metric Design
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Optimizing Inventory for a Toronto D2C Cosmetics Brand
Your task is to design a multidimensional data model (star schema) for inventory management, create an ETL pipeline to load sample data (provided as CSV files), and develop an O…
- Data Warehousing
- Etl
- Olap
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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.
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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 - DesignBeginnerNew
Designing a Cross-Cultural Communication Workshop for a Global Remote Team
Your task is to design a 4-hour interactive workshop that addresses cultural dimensions (e.g., power distance, direct vs. indirect communication) and provides practical tools fo…
- Cross Cultural Communication
- Workshop Design
- Facilitation
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Carbon Footprint Strategy for a San Francisco D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a sustainability consultant hired by Glow Naturally. Your task is to develop a comprehensive carbon footprint assessment and reduction roadmap. Success means delivering …
- GHG Protocol
- Carbon Footprint
- Supply Chain Analysis
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Tune a Recommender for an EU Streaming Music App
Use the public Last.fm-360k or similar dataset (anonymized listening histories) as a stand-in. Implement a baseline matrix-factorization recommender, then a hybrid that adds tra…
- Recommender Systems
- Feature Engineering
- Model Evaluation
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Toil Audit + Automation Sprint for a Platform Team
Week 1-2: every team member logs every toil instance for 10 working days (timestamp, category, duration). Categorize using the Google SRE toil taxonomy (manual, repetitive, auto…
- Toil Reduction
- Automation
- Reliability Engineering
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Reducing Turnover at a Dubai D2C Cosmetics Startup
Conduct a qualitative and quantitative analysis of turnover data (provided in a simulated dataset), including exit interview themes and engagement survey scores. Identify the to…
- Turnover Analysis
- Job Crafting
- Engagement Surveys
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Project Management Plan for a SaaS Product Launch
Develop a 6-week launch plan using appropriate project management methodology (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid — justify your choice). Include: (1) Work Breakdown Structure with all…
- Project Management
- Collaborative Work
- Digital Business Models
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Key Account Strategy for a Dublin B2B SaaS Scale-up
Your task is to develop a comprehensive key account strategy. You will analyze the company's current PLG strengths and identify gaps for enterprise sales. Define a scoring syste…
- B2B Marketing
- Key Account Management
- Market Segmentation
Business-to-Business Marketing - CodeBeginnerNew
Responsive Web Redesign for SaaS Scale-up
You are to redesign the TaskFlow website's homepage, pricing page, and a new 'Enterprise' landing page. The redesign must be responsive (mobile-first) and built with HTML/CSS/JS…
- Html
- Css
- Javascript
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Supplier Sustainability Audit for a Fast-Fashion Retailer
Your task is to create a tiered supplier sustainability audit program that categorizes suppliers by risk (based on country, product type, and past performance) and specifies aud…
- Supplier Auditing
- Sustainability Scorecard
- Risk Categorization
Global Supply Chain Management - 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
- Experimentation
AI for Business and AI Product Management - 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 - StrategyBeginnerNew
IP Strategy for a SaaS Scale-Up Moving Upmarket
You are an IP strategy associate at a boutique law firm. TaskFlow's CTO has asked for a strategic memo outlining how to protect their algorithm and brand. You must evaluate whet…
- Ip Law
- Patent Analysis
- Trademark Strategy
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Investigate Churn Drivers for NordicGlow Cosmetics Customers
Work only from the two materials NordicGlow has handed you: the customer behaviour dataset (ds-nordicglow-customers) and the founder's retention brief (brief-nordicglow-ceo). Be…
- Data Preprocessing
- Feature Engineering
- Classification
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Trust-Calibration UI for a Domestic Assistive Robot
You will write the interaction patterns first (in a Notion brief), build a paper or Figma prototype, run 4 study sessions in week 2, iterate, and re-test in week 3. The interact…
- Trust Calibration
- Human Robot Interaction
- Interaction Design
Human-Robot Interaction - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Approximate Inference for a Topic Model on Customer Tickets
You receive 180,000 tickets (subject + body) spanning the last 18 months. Preprocess into a bag-of-words representation with sensible stopwords and bigrams. Fit a 20-topic LDA v…
- Variational Inference
- Latent Dirichlet Allocation
- Approximate Inference
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