Free Projects

Real, end-to-end AI projects

Industry-grade problem statements, real datasets, and production deployment — across vision, audio, and language.

🌿vision

Crop Disease Detection from Leaf Images

Transfer learning on a real 54,000-image agricultural dataset, deployed as a lightweight, quantized API a farmer's phone can actually call.

6-8 hours end to end
intermediateDeep Learning
🔊audio

Environmental Sound Classification for Smart Monitoring

Real urban audio, converted to spectrograms and classified with the exact CNN techniques from Module 16-19 — proving vision and audio share the same underlying tool.

5-7 hours end to end
intermediateDeep Learning
🤖llm

Fine-Tune and Serve a Domain-Specific AI Course Assistant

Start from a real, pretrained GPT-2, fine-tune it on real AI/ML Q&A data using the exact SFT recipe from Module 32, then serve it with genuine decoding control and a production streaming endpoint.

8-10 hours end to end
advancedDeep Learning
🏦tabular-classification

Loan Default Prediction with Explainable Credit Risk Scoring

Real multi-table loan application data, benchmarked across logistic regression, Random Forest, and LightGBM — with SHAP explainability and a cost-based decision threshold, exactly as a regulated lender actually needs.

7-9 hours end to end
intermediateMachine Learning
📦tabular-regression

Retail Demand Forecasting with Time-Aware Feature Engineering

Real daily sales across 1,115 stores, forecasted with XGBoost and engineered temporal features — proving gradient boosting with good features beats a naive sequence model here.

6-8 hours end to end
intermediateMachine Learning
💳tabular-anomaly-detection

Credit Card Fraud Detection at Extreme Class Imbalance

Real anonymized transaction data with only 0.17% fraud, benchmarking Random Forest, XGBoost, and Isolation Forest — because at this imbalance level, which approach wins is a genuinely open question worth measuring.

6-8 hours end to end
advancedMachine Learning