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- CodeBeginnerNew
Team Practicum: Build a Crop-Disease Classifier with a Field Partner
You receive a labeled dataset of about 8,000 phone photos plus around 1,200 unlabeled photos from a held-out county. Audit and clean the labels (expect 5-10% noise), train a Mob…
- Transfer Learning
- Pytorch
- Model Evaluation
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Scaling a Sydney D2C Cosmetics Startup's Data Pipeline
You are tasked with designing a cloud-based data pipeline for GlowUp. The pipeline must ingest real-time user events (page views, purchases, returns) from web and mobile apps, p…
- Cloud Computing
- Apache Spark
- Nosql
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Estimate and Plan a 6-Week MVP for a Local Logistics Startup
Read the product brief and decompose it into 8-12 modules (driver app, dispatcher console, shipper portal, billing, etc.). Estimate each module using 3-point estimation (optimis…
- Estimation
- Scheduling
- Risk Management
Open coursework - 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
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- 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 - 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 - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Decode Reddit Sentiment for EcoWear's Biodegradable Sneaker Launch
Working only from the provided materials, reconstruct and interpret the public conversation around EcoWear's launch. Use the EcoWear Launch Dossier to ground yourself in the tim…
- Web Scraping
- Sentiment Analysis
- Topic Modeling
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Revamping Loyalty for a Mexico City D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are hired as a marketing analyst. Analyze Brillo Natural's existing customer data (provided in a simulated dataset) to identify purchase patterns and decision triggers. Prop…
- Consumer Psychology
- Segmentation
- Loyalty Program Design
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- CodeBeginnerNew
Design and Implement a C++ Telemetry Aggregator With Inheritance
Implement a TelemetrySource abstract base class with virtual sample() and timestamp() methods, 6 concrete subclasses (one per sensor family), and a TelemetryBus that polymorphic…
- Cpp
- Inheritance
- Polymorphism
Object-Oriented Programming and Design - 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
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Image Search for a DTC Furniture Retailer's App
Use a pretrained vision-embedding model (CLIP ViT-B/32 or DINOv2-small). Index a catalog of around 1,500 furniture images. Curate a small evaluation set of around 50 user-style …
- Image Embeddings
- Vision Transformers
- Image Search
Open coursework - 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
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- DesignBeginnerNew
Design the Architecture for a Library Management System
Read the 30-page replacement RFP. Author a 15-page architecture document covering the C4 model levels 1-3 (context, container, component) for the new system: web app, mobile app…
- Software Architecture
- C4 Model
- Data Modeling
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Performance Optimization for a Slow Storefront
Run Lighthouse + WebPageTest baselines on 3 representative pages (home, product detail, cart). Set up Real User Monitoring (RUM) via Vercel Analytics or web-vitals.js. Ship 5 di…
- Web Performance
- Core Web Vitals
- Nextjs
Web Application Development - 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
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Audit a Hiring-Screen Classifier for Fairness Across Cohorts
You receive the classifier as a black-box API and a synthetic-but-realistic dataset of 8,000 CVs with imputed demographic proxies (gender, age band, regional cluster) and labele…
- Fairness Evaluation
- Disparate Impact
- Audit Methodology
Trustworthy AI, Robustness, and Safety - CodeBeginnerNew
Issue Triage Bot for a Popular Eclipse Foundation Project
Read the project's existing labels, issue templates, and last 800 issues. Build a Go (or Python) GitHub Action that runs on issue_opened and issue_edited events. Implement heuri…
- Issue Triage
- Oss Contribution
- Github Actions
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Transfer Pricing for a Mumbai D2C Cosmetics Startup
Your task is to recommend a transfer pricing method (e.g., market-based, cost-plus, or negotiated) for the sale of products from France to Spain. Provide a detailed analysis of …
- Transfer Pricing
- Tax Analysis
- Managerial Accounting
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Estimate and Schedule a 16-Week Custom CRM for an Agency Client
Read the 22-page SOW (statement of work). Decompose into a 3-level work-breakdown structure (~80-110 leaf tasks). Estimate each leaf using 3-point (optimistic/most-likely/pessim…
- Estimation
- Scheduling
- Work Breakdown Structure
Software Project Management - StrategyBeginnerNew
Lead Glow Naturals' Shift to Selling Hotels and Spas
Using the company dossier and the employee readiness survey results provided to you, design a six-month change management plan that lets Glow Naturals begin selling to hotels an…
- Change Management
- Organizational Development
- Kotter Model
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Cost-Model a Foundation-Model API Migration
You receive: 90 days of API logs (request volume, token distributions), the customer's golden eval set of 200 prompts, the incumbent and new pricing schedules, and quality ratin…
- Cost Modeling
- Ai Strategy
- Model Evaluation
AI for Business and AI Product Management - CodeBeginnerNew
Quantize a Vision Model for a Smart-Doorbell SoC
You receive a trained FP32 PyTorch person-detector (mAP 0.74 on a 5k validation set) plus a calibration dataset of 500 unlabeled doorbell frames. Convert to ONNX, then apply pos…
- Quantization
- Model Optimization
- Onnx
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Migrate Glow Naturals to Dynamics 365 Business Central
Your analysis task is to turn the documented situation in the 'Glow Naturals current-state file' (CASE-001) into a defensible migration blueprint, using the legacy data sample i…
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Business Process Mapping
- Data Migration
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Designing Spotify's Post-Profitability Payout Policy
Build a 3-year forecast of Spotify's free cash flow to equity and surplus cash position under base and downside cases. Benchmark payout ratios, buyback yields, and net leverage …
- Payout Policy
- Fcfe Modeling
- Peer Benchmarking
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