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Systems built end to end and written up honestly — what the problem was, what got built, what it cost, and what it still cannot do.

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AI Systems

AI Research & Fact-Checking System

A research agent that decomposes a claim, gathers evidence from multiple sources, cross-checks agreement between them, and refuses to answer when the evidence is thin.

AdvancedDifficulty: Advanced~20h buildPython · LangGraph · Claude API
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AI Systems

RAG Evaluation Lab

Most RAG systems are tuned by vibes. This is a reproducible harness that measures retrieval and generation separately, so you can see which half is failing.

IntermediateDifficulty: Intermediate~12h buildPython · Ragas · DuckDB
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Analytics Systems

Power BI Inventory Control Tower

An inventory dashboard built around the four decisions a stock controller makes each week, with a semantic model that stays fast on 40 million rows.

IntermediateDifficulty: Intermediate~16h buildPower BI · DAX · SQL
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Data Systems

Microsoft Fabric Analytics Platform

An end-to-end Fabric implementation — lakehouse layering, incremental ingestion, dataflows, semantic model and deployment pipelines — with the decisions that are hard to reverse called out.

AdvancedDifficulty: Advanced~28h buildMicrosoft Fabric · Power BI · Python
Business Systems

AI Invoice Processing System

An invoice pipeline that extracts structured data, scores its own confidence per field, and routes anything uncertain to a person — because 95% accuracy on invoices is a finance problem.

IntermediateDifficulty: Intermediate~14h buildPython · Claude API · PostgreSQL
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Data Systems

Laptop Data Platform

Ingestion, transformation, orchestration, testing and a BI layer — the full modern data stack, running locally on DuckDB, dbt and Dagster.

BeginnerDifficulty: Beginner~8h buildDuckDB · dbt · Dagster
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Trading Systems

Algorithmic Trading Backtest Lab

A backtesting framework with transaction costs, slippage, walk-forward analysis and survivorship-bias handling — designed to stop a strategy looking better than it is. Educational research only.

AdvancedDifficulty: Advanced~24h buildPython · Polars · DuckDB
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