PROJECTS FOR LEARNING
1. Titanic Survival Prediction
● Goal: Predict whether a passenger survived the Titanic disaster based on
demographic and ticket information.
● Description: Use features like age, sex, class, and fare to build a classifier that
predicts survival. Experiment with models like logistic regression, decision trees, and
random forests.
● What you learn:
○ Data cleaning & handling missing values
○ Feature engineering & encoding categorical variables
○ Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Random Forests
○ Train-test split & accuracy metrics
2. Iris Flower Classification
● Goal: Classify Iris flowers into species (Setosa, Versicolor, Virginica) based on petal
and sepal measurements.
● Description: Use a small, structured dataset to build a classifier. Apply k-NN, SVM,
and visualization to distinguish species.
● What you learn:
○ Data visualization & exploration
○ k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN)
○ Support Vector Machines (SVM)
○ Classification evaluation (confusion matrix, accuracy)
3. Handwritten Digit Recognition (MNIST)
● Goal: Recognize handwritten digits (0–9) from images.
● Description: Use the MNIST dataset to train a classifier, starting with logistic
regression and moving to a simple CNN.
● What you learn:
○ Image preprocessing & normalization
○ Neural networks basics (fully connected layers, activations)
○ Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
○ Model evaluation (accuracy, confusion matrix)
4. Stock Price Predictor
● Goal: Predict next-day stock prices using historical data.
● Description: Use historical stock prices to train regression models that predict
closing prices. Optionally include moving averages or sentiment analysis from news
headlines.
● What you learn:
○ Regression (Linear, Ridge, Lasso)
○ Feature engineering for time series
○ Train-test split & scaling
○ Model evaluation (RMSE, MAPE)
5. Spam Email Classifier
● Goal: Detect whether an email is spam or not.
● Description: Process email text and classify spam vs ham. Use text vectorization
methods and Naive Bayes or logistic regression.
● What you learn:
○ Text preprocessing (tokenization, stopword removal)
○ Bag-of-Words & TF-IDF representations
○ Naive Bayes classification
○ Evaluation (precision, recall, F1-score)
6. House Price Prediction
● Goal: Predict house prices based on features like area, number of bedrooms, and
location.
● Description: Use regression models on structured datasets to estimate house
values. Focus on feature selection, handling outliers, and model performance.
● What you learn:
○ Data cleaning & feature scaling
○ Regression models (Linear, Random Forest, XGBoost)
○ Model evaluation (RMSE, MAE, R²)
○ Hyperparameter tuning
7. Customer Segmentation
● Goal: Group customers based on behavior/purchases using clustering.
● Description: Apply unsupervised learning techniques like K-Means or Hierarchical
clustering to segment customers for marketing or recommendation purposes.
● What you learn:
○ Unsupervised learning concepts
○ K-Means & Hierarchical clustering
○ Dimensionality reduction (PCA)
○ Cluster visualization & interpretation
8. Sentiment Analysis of Tweets
● Goal: Predict whether a tweet expresses positive, negative, or neutral sentiment.
● Description: Process tweets with NLP techniques, vectorize them, and train a
classifier. Optionally use pre-trained embeddings for better performance.
● What you learn:
○ Text preprocessing (tokenization, cleaning, stopwords)
○ TF-IDF & word embeddings (Word2Vec, GloVe)
○ Classification (Logistic Regression, LSTM, simple Transformers)
○ Evaluation metrics (accuracy, F1-score)
HOW TO DO THE PROJECTS
1. Define the Problem
● Understand what you are trying to predict or classify.
● Identify the type of ML task: classification, regression, or clustering.
● Decide the evaluation metrics (accuracy, RMSE, F1-score, etc.). If confused, you can
quote 4-5 metrics.
2. Collect / Load Data
● Use publicly available datasets (Kaggle, UCI, or built-in datasets like MNIST/Iris).
● Inspect the dataset to understand features, labels, and data types.
3. Explore and Understand Data (EDA)
● Analyze distributions of features and target variables.
● Visualize data using histograms, scatter plots, boxplots.
● Identify missing values, outliers, or imbalanced classes.
4. Preprocess Data
● Clean data: handle missing values and duplicates.
● Feature engineering: create new features or encode categorical variables.
● Scale/normalize data if required (standardization, min-max scaling).
● Text/Image preprocessing if working with NLP or CV projects (tokenization,
embedding, resizing, normalization).
5. Split Data
● Divide dataset into training and testing sets (e.g., 80-20 or 70-30 split).
● Optionally, create a validation set for hyperparameter tuning.
6. Choose Model
● Select a suitable algorithm depending on task:
○ Classification → Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, Random Forest, SVM
○ Regression → Linear Regression, Random Forest, XGBoost
○ Clustering → K-Means, Hierarchical
○ Images → CNNs
○ Text → Naive Bayes, LSTM, Transformers
● This is just a basic mapping of what algorithm is usually used for each task. You can
use a different algorithm based on your specific task too.
7. Train Model
● Fit the model on the training data.
● Monitor learning progress if using deep learning (loss, accuracy).
● Experiment with different models to find the best performer.
8. Evaluate Model
● Test on unseen test data.
● Use appropriate metrics: accuracy, recall, precision, F1-score, RMSE, R², confusion
matrix.
● Analyze misclassifications or errors to understand limitations.
9. Optimize Model
● Tune hyperparameters (grid search, random search, Bayesian optimization).
● Add or remove features to improve performance.
● Apply regularization to prevent overfitting.
● For deep learning: adjust architecture, learning rate, batch size, dropout.
10. Deploy / Share
● Save the trained model (pickle, joblib, or ONNX).
● Optionally create a simple web app using Streamlit, Flask, or Gradio.
● Share your work on GitHub or Kaggle, with clear explanation and visuals.
11. Document & Reflect
● Summarize your findings:
○ Which features were most important?
○ Which model performed best and why?
○ What challenges did you face?
● Write a short report or README for your project.
PROJECTS FOR RESUME
Here are some suggestions about what kind of projects are usually expected in a resume
1. Few-Shot Learning for Wildlife Species Recognition
● Goal: Classify rare animal species from very few labeled images.
● Tech:
○ Implement Prototypical Networks or Matching Networks.
○ Use meta-learning for low-data regimes.
○ Application: conservation tech (camera traps).
2. Real-Time Fine-Grained Gesture Recognition
● Goal: Recognize subtle hand/finger gestures (not just broad hand-wave detection).
● Technical Aspects:
○ Spatio-temporal modeling using 3D CNNs or Transformers.
○ Optical flow for motion tracking.
○ Possible edge deployment for sign-language interpretation.
3. Wildfire and Smoke Early Detection from Satellite Imagery
● Goal: Detect and localize wildfire outbreaks in early stages from satellite or drone
imagery.
● Technical Aspects:
○ Multi-spectral image analysis (RGB + infrared).
○ Anomaly detection with CNN + autoencoder hybrids.
○ Geospatial data handling and image segmentation.
4. Real-Time Adaptive Fraud Detection in UPI/Fintech
● Goal: Detect evolving fraud patterns in mobile payments.
● Technical Aspects:
○ Graph Neural Networks for transaction relationships.
○ Online learning for real-time adaptation.
○ Concept drift detection (data distribution shifts).
5. Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversations
● Goal: Detect emotions from a mix of text, voice, and facial cues in multi-person
conversations.
● Technical Aspects:
○ Multimodal fusion (speech + text + vision).
○ Transformer-based conversational context modeling.
○ Application in mental health monitoring.
6. Credit Card Fraud Detection with Temporal GNNs
● Goal: Detect fraudulent transactions while considering transaction sequences over
time.
● Tech:
○ Graph Neural Networks (user–merchant–transaction graph).
○ Temporal attention for evolving fraud patterns.
○ Real-time detection focus.
7. Deepfake Video Detection
● Goal: Detect whether a video has been manipulated with deepfake techniques.
● Tech:
○ CNNs for spatial artifacts, RNN/Transformers for temporal inconsistencies.
○ Frequency-domain analysis (FFT features).
○ Dataset: FaceForensics++.
8. RL-based Traffic Signal Control in Simulation
● Goal: Optimize traffic light timings to reduce congestion in a simulated city.
● Tech:
○ Use SUMO or simple grid traffic simulators.
○ Algorithms: DQN, PPO.
○ Reward: reduced average waiting time & queue length.
9. Neural Style Transfer from Scratch
● Goal: Recreate the artistic style of one image onto another (e.g., Van Gogh filter).
● Tech:
○ Implement CNN forward + backward pass (PyTorch/NumPy).
○ Optimize content + style loss functions.
○ Project is application-driven (art generation), but forces you to build the
network details.
