Development and Applied Economics · Econometrics
Test whether education and earnings are related
Use a public survey dataset to estimate how much an extra year of schooling relates to earnings.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
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Teaching and Learning · Lesson Experiments
Compare two ways of teaching the same lesson
Teach one topic by lecture to one group and by activity to another, and compare a quiz.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence · Machine Learning
Compare machine-learning models on one dataset
Evaluate five classifiers on the same public dataset with cross-validation and report the differences properly.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Applied Mathematics + Civil Engineering
Model traffic flow with cellular automata
Simulate cars on a ring road and show how jams appear from nothing above a critical density.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Agri-business and Food Science + Business Studies
Study how a farmer producer group works
Visit a farmers' cooperative or producer company and study what it buys, sells and returns to members.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Political Science + Philosophy and Cultural Studies
Study a political idea through its key thinkers
Trace one idea, such as liberty or equality, through three thinkers and take a position.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Chemical Engineering · Reaction Engineering
Optimise a reaction with a simple reactor model
Simulate batch and continuous reactors for a first-order reaction and compare conversion.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Industrial and Manufacturing + Operations, HR and Supply Chain
Analyse and reduce waiting time at the canteen
Time each step of the canteen queue, find the bottleneck and test one improvement.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Systems and Cloud · System Design
Design the architecture of a food-delivery app
Design a system for orders, restaurants and delivery partners and justify each choice with numbers.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Data · Big Data
Analyse a large open dataset with SQL
Load a multi-million-row public dataset and answer ten business questions with efficient queries.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Biomedical Engineering + Health Technology
Make a low-cost digital stethoscope
Fit a microphone to a stethoscope head, record heart sounds and analyse them on a computer.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- 1,000–2,500
Sociology · Inequality
Compare two neighbourhoods using census data
Use census tables to describe occupation, literacy and housing in two wards and compare them.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Macroeconomics + Public Policy and Governance
Evaluate a government scheme from published data
Choose one scheme and test whether its target indicator improved after it started.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Electronics and Communication + Data
Filter noise from an audio recording
Record speech with a hum, find the hum's frequency and remove it with a digital filter.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Data + Marketing
Mine association rules from shopping baskets
Find which products are bought together in a public transaction dataset.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Cybersecurity · Digital Forensics
Recover deleted files from a test drive
Delete files on a spare USB drive, image it and see what can be recovered and why.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Artificial Intelligence + Media and Journalism
Detect fake news headlines with machine learning
Train a classifier on a public dataset and show why it learns the source's style, not the truth.
- Advanced
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Operations, HR and Supply Chain + Development and Applied Economics
Study the gig economy through delivery workers' experience
Interview ten delivery or ride-hailing workers about earnings, hours and security.
- Intermediate
- 2–4 weeks
- Free
Data · Data Engineering
Clean a messy real-world dataset
Take a messy government dataset and produce a clean, documented version with a script.
- Intermediate
- 2–7 days
- Free
Artificial Intelligence · Time-Series
Detect anomalies in sensor data
Flag unusual readings in a temperature or power series using rolling statistics.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Artificial Intelligence + Earth Science
Forecast daily temperature with time-series methods
Forecast tomorrow's temperature from past data and beat the "same as today" baseline.
- Advanced
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
EdTech and Study Tools + Data
Analyse quiz data to find what a class misunderstands
Use anonymous quiz results to find which questions and wrong answers reveal misconceptions.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Public Health and Epidemiology · Healthcare Management
Study how a hospital or clinic manages its queue
With permission, time each stage of an outpatient visit and suggest how to cut waiting.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
Cybersecurity · Secure Coding
Write a secure-coding checklist from real bugs
Study ten public security fixes in open-source projects and turn them into a review checklist.
- Intermediate
- 1–2 weeks
- Free
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