50 Summer Data Challenge Suggestions to Develop and Showcase Technical Skills

Industry Problems and Data Needed

Why are these industries seeking people with Smith skills? You may want to seek out a project or modify a project started in your academic program so that it focuses more heavily on a specific hard skill and uses an industry focus based on the market demand. Here’s a good list of various types of datasets for projects. Check out KDNuggets for some ideas about use cases and datasets:

Manufacturing: Top 8 Data Science Use Cases in Manufacturing – KDnuggets

• Predictive Analytics
  • https://www.kaggle.com/c/competitive-data-science-predict-future-sales
• Fault Prediction and Preventative Maintenance
  • Software Bug detection Dataset
  • Software metrics for fault prediction using machine learning approaches: A literature review with PROMISE repository dataset
  • Predict Machine Failure Using Log Data
• Demand Forecasting
  • Store Item Demand Forecasting Challenge: Predict 3 months of item sales at different stores
  • Food Demand Forecasting Challenge
• Inventory Management
  • Inventory Optimization with Time Series Forecasting
  • Data Science in Inventory Management: Real case in managing a warehouse
• Price Optimization
  • Machine Learning for Retail Price Recommendation with Python
  • Solving Case study : Optimize the Products Price for an Online Vendor (Level : Hard)
• Warranty Analysis
  • Warranty Claims: To predict an item when sold, what is the probability that customer would file for warranty
  • How to Predict Warranty Claims (and Keep Cool Doing It)
• Product Development
  • How Skullcandy Uses Predictive and Sentiment Analysis to Understand Customers
  • Online Product Sales: Predict the online sales of a consumer product based on a data set of product features
• Computer Vision
  • 10 Must-know Computer Vision Dataset
  • 10 OPEN DATASETS YOU CAN USE FOR COMPUTER VISION PROJECTS
  • Open Images 2019 – Object Detection – Detect objects in varied and complex images
• Supply Chain Risk
  • Time Series Dataset for Risk Assessment in Supply Chain Networks
  • NYSERDA New York Offshore Wind Supply Chain Dataset
  • Supply Chain Shipment Pricing
  • Predict products back-order to manage service level
  • Can you predict product back order?

Educational Services:

• Improving student retention rates
  • https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/05/churn-prediction-machine-learning.html
  • https://www.kdnuggets.com/2017/12/guide-customer-retention-analysis-sql.html
  • https://www.kdnuggets.com/2016/05/clevertap-use-cohort-analysis-improve-customer-retention.html
• Recommending courses based on LinkedIn profile or social media data
  • https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/11/top-8-data-science-use-cases-marketing.html
  • https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/02/top-7-data-science-use-cases-travel.html

Health Care and Social Assistance: https://www.kdnuggets.com/tag/healthcare

• Covid-19
  • https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/04/data-science-understand-covid-19.html
  • https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/04/interactive-covid-19-visualizations.html
  • https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/03/covid-19-your-community-you-data-science-perspective.html
  • https://www.kaggle.com/allen-institute-for-ai/CORD-19-research-challenge
  • https://www.kaggle.com/covid19

Information

• Business Intelligence
  • https://www.kdnuggets.com/2020/04/successful-use-cases-ai-business.html
  • https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/04/datarobot-from-business-intelligence-machine-intelligence.html
  • https://www.kaggle.com/tags/business

Professional, Technical and Scientific Services

• Deloitte & Analytics
• KPMG & Analytics
• PwC & Analytics
• EY & Analytics
• BCG & Analytics
• IBM & Analytics 

Finance and Insurance:

• Credit Card Fraud Detection
• Bitcoin Historical Data
• Lending Club Loan Data – Analyze Lending Club’s issued loans
• Daily News for Stock Market Prediction – Using 8 years daily news headlines to predict stock market movement
• Health Insurance Marketplace – Explore health and dental plans data in the US Health Insurance Marketplace
• Health Insurance Coverage – Coverage rates before and after the Affordable Care Act
• Prudential Life Insurance Assessment – Can you make buying life insurance easier?