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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Interpretable-by-Design GAM for an Insurer's Claims Triage
You receive an anonymized claims dataset (around 60,000 claims, target: log reserve), a feature schema (22 features), and an existing LightGBM baseline (held-out R^2 of 0.78). T…
- Generalized Additive Models
- Ebm
- Interpretability
Explainable and Interpretable AI - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Spectral-Analyze Wearable Sleep Data for a Healthtech Pilot
You receive 30 nights of wearable data per 25 volunteers, with polysomnography-derived ground-truth stages (Wake / NREM / REM). Engineer spectral features (delta, theta, alpha, …
- Spectral Analysis
- Feature Engineering
- Wavelet Analysis
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting - CodeIntermediateNew
Implement Async Message-Passing for an IoT Gateway
Receive the current gateway source (Python 3.11, single-threaded paho-mqtt client + a serial HTTP forwarder, ~1,100 lines), a sensor-simulator that fans out 500 mock sensors at …
- Async Programming
- Message Passing
- Asyncio
Concurrent and Parallel Programming - CodeIntermediateNew
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 Practice your coursework on real scenarios.
Every challenge is shaped from real industry context — not generic exercises. The work mirrors what your degree prepares you for.
Why Ewance
- CodeIntermediateNew
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
Applied Machine Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Implement a Distance-Vector Routing Algorithm
Implement distance-vector routing in Python: each simulated router maintains a distance vector, exchanges vectors with neighbors every 1 second of simulated time, and updates it…
- Routing
- Distance Vector
- Network Simulation
Computer Networks - CodeIntermediateNew
Compare MDP Solvers for a Smart-Grid Battery Dispatch Pilot
Model home-battery dispatch as a finite MDP: state is (state-of-charge, hour-of-day, current price tier), actions are charge/hold/discharge with realistic efficiency losses, tra…
- Markov Decision Processes
- Value Iteration
- Policy Iteration
Artificial Intelligence: Principles and Techniques - CodeIntermediateNew
Forecast Hourly Energy Demand for a Microgrid Operator
You receive 24 months of hourly demand, weather (temperature, irradiance), and calendar data for the community. Build a probabilistic forecaster (e.g., quantile regression with …
- Probabilistic Forecasting
- Quantile Regression
- Deep Forecasting
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting - 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.
- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Refit a Pricing Model for an Insurance Comparison Site
You receive 9 months of quote-impression data (about 14 million events) with about 60 features and click labels. Refit logistic regression with elastic-net regularization plus a…
- Regularized Regression
- Feature Interactions
- Calibration
Statistical Machine Learning - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Build a Topic-Modeling Pipeline for Citizen Feedback
Take the 60,000 comments (anonymized). Build a BERTopic pipeline with multilingual sentence embeddings (Catalan + Spanish + occasional English). Tune number-of-topics via topic-…
- Topic Modeling
- Bertopic
- Multilingual NLP
Natural Language Processing - CodeIntermediateNew
Containerize a Legacy Java Monolith and Deploy to ECS
Receive the Java 8 monolith source (around 320k lines), the current Tomcat + Apache HTTPD config, and 30 days of production traffic logs. Containerize the application (multi-sta…
- Containerization
- Docker
- AWS Or Azure
Cloud Computing - CodeIntermediateNew
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 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
- ResearchIntermediateNew
Hyperparameter Search via CMA-ES for a Pharma QSAR Model
You receive a labeled QSAR dataset (around 25,000 compounds, regression on a binding-affinity target), a fixed feature pipeline (Morgan fingerprints + descriptors), and the team…
- Cma Es
- Metaheuristics
- Hyperparameter Optimization
Evolutionary Computation and Metaheuristic Search - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Crawler-and-Topic Pipeline for Public-Sector Web Analytics
You will build a polite, robots.txt-respecting crawler that ingests about 30,000 new posts/week across the 80 forums into a normalized dataset. Apply a topic model (BERTopic, wi…
- Web Crawling
- Topic Modeling
- Nlp Pipeline
Social Network Analysis and Web Science - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Diagnose Churn Drivers for a B2B SaaS Workflow Tool
You receive three CSV exports: 18 months of weekly product-usage events for about 1,800 accounts, the full support-ticket history, and account firmographics (industry, size, pla…
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- Data Wrangling
- Feature Engineering
Applied Data Analysis and Practical Data Science - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Detect Fraudulent Refund Requests for a Mid-Market Marketplace
You receive a labeled dataset with buyer history, seller history, shipping carrier, refund reason text, and outcome label (legit / fraud). Train and evaluate at least two classi…
- Classification
- Model Calibration
- Imbalanced Classification
Machine Learning (Undergraduate) - CodeIntermediateNew
Intelligent Agent for a Smart-Thermostat Pricing-Aware Schedule
Design an intelligent agent with: perception (read sensor history), basic learning (cluster comfort intervals from 7 days of observations), decision-making (schedule heating to …
- Intelligent Agents
- Basic Learning
- Python Or JavaScript
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CS Elective) - CodeIntermediateNew
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
- HTML & CSS
- Python Or JavaScript
Web and Mobile Application Development - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Optimizing Last-Mile Delivery for a San Francisco Grocery Startup
Your task is to formulate a minimum-cost flow problem for daily delivery routes. Use the provided order data (locations, time windows, volumes) and vehicle specs (capacity, spee…
- Linear Programming
- Network Flow
- Python Or JavaScript
Operations Research and Optimization - ResearchIntermediateNew
Evaluate Speech Synthesis Voices for an EdTech Storyteller App
You will generate 60 audio clips (20 per vendor) covering 4 story genres and 3 emotional tones. Recruit 15 native Spanish speakers via a remote panel (Prolific or local equivale…
- Tts Evaluation
- Listening Studies
- Mos Scoring
Speech Recognition and Spoken Language Processing - CodeIntermediateNew
Implement an Expression Evaluator Using Recursion and Higher-Order Functions
Implement in Python (or TypeScript). Build a tokenizer, a recursive-descent parser producing an abstract syntax tree (AST), and a tree-walking evaluator. Use higher-order functi…
- Recursion
- Higher Order Functions
- Parsing
Programming Abstractions - AnalysisIntermediateNew
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
Shortest-Path Routing for a Bike-Share Operator
Receive the graph (nodes with lat/lon/elevation, edges with length and slope) and 50 origin-destination test pairs. Implement Dijkstra's algorithm with a custom edge-weight func…
- Graph Algorithms
- Dijkstra
- Algorithm Analysis
Algorithm Design and Analysis - CodeIntermediateNew
Apply SOLID to a Java Reporting Service for a Renewable Energy Startup
Receive the legacy ReportService, 4 sample report templates (Daily Output, Monthly P&L, Annual Availability, Curtailment), and 22 fixtures (input dataset, expected report). Refa…
- Python Or JavaScript
- Solid Principles
- Refactoring
Object-Oriented Programming and Design
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