20 End-to-End Data Science Projects for a Junior

Portfolio
Below is a curated list of 20 portfolio projects spanning diverse industries and use-cases. Each project
covers the full data science lifecycle (data ingestion, preprocessing, modeling, evaluation, and basic
deployment/visualization) and is implemented in Python with core libraries (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn,
Matplotlib, Seaborn, etc.). For each project, we provide a brief description, the relevant domain, and links to
an open-source GitHub repository and a YouTube tutorial to help you build it from scratch.

1. Credit Card Fraud Detection (Finance) – Build a binary classification model to detect fraudulent credit
card transactions using an imbalanced dataset of past transactions. This project involves data cleaning,
feature scaling, and training models (e.g., logistic regression or Random Forest) with techniques to
handle class imbalance. The end result can include a simple web app that flags suspicious
transactions 1 . GitHub: Credit Card Fraud Detection Repo YouTube: Credit Card Fraud Detection
Project (walkthrough)

2. Customer Churn Prediction (Telecom/E-commerce) – Predict whether a customer will leave (churn)
based on their usage and demographic data. This project covers exploratory data analysis to identify
churn indicators, feature engineering (e.g., tenure, engagement metrics), and training classification
models like decision trees or XGBoost. A Streamlit app or dashboard can be created to input
customer details and output churn probability 2 . GitHub: Customer Churn Prediction (with
Deployment) YouTube: Customer Churn Prediction – Full ML Tutorial

3. Customer Segmentation with K-Means (Retail Marketing) – Perform unsupervised clustering of

customers based on purchasing behavior to discover distinct segments. Using transaction or
demographic data, you will preprocess features (e.g., scaling income, spending scores) and apply the
K-Means algorithm to group similar customers. The project involves determining an optimal number
of clusters (using elbow method or silhouette score) and visualizing the segment profiles for
business insights 3 . GitHub: Customer Segmentation (K-Means) Repo YouTube: Customer
Segmentation using K-Means (video guide)

4. Retail Sales Forecasting (Time Series) – Develop a model to forecast product sales for retail stores over
time. This project uses historical sales data (daily or monthly) and covers time series preprocessing
(handling trends, seasonality) and model building with approaches like ARIMA, Prophet, or machine-
learning regressors. You will evaluate forecast accuracy (e.g., RMSE) and possibly deploy an
interactive dashboard (Tableau or Plotly) to visualize actual vs. predicted sales 4 5 . GitHub: Store
Sales Prediction (Rossmann) YouTube: Store Demand Forecasting – End-to-End Project

5. Loan Default Risk Prediction (Finance) – Predict the likelihood of loan default for borrowers using
credit history and financial data. In this project, you’ll perform feature engineering on loan application
data (e.g., encoding credit grades, debt-to-income ratio) and train classifiers (logistic regression,
Random Forest, or XGBoost) to identify high-risk loans. The solution can include a Flask or Streamlit

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 app for bank officers to input applicant data and get a default probability 6 7 . GitHub: Loan
Default Detection App (Streamlit) YouTube: Loan Default Prediction Project Tutorial

6. Movie Recommendation System (Entertainment) – Implement a recommendation system for movies

using the famous MovieLens dataset. This project can illustrate a content-based approach (using
movie genres, ratings, or plot keywords to find similar movies) or a collaborative filtering approach
(using user-item rating matrices). You’ll practice data wrangling with Pandas and cosine similarity or
matrix factorization. The final product could be a simple app where a user selects a movie and the
system recommends similar titles 8 9 . GitHub: Movie Recommender (Content-Based) YouTube:
Movie Recommendation System in Python (tutorial)

7. Sentiment Analysis of Product Reviews (NLP/E-commerce) – Build a sentiment classifier to

determine if customer reviews are positive or negative. Using a dataset of text reviews (e.g., Amazon
product reviews), this project involves text preprocessing (tokenization, stop-word removal), feature
extraction (TF-IDF or word embeddings), and training a model such as Naïve Bayes or Logistic
Regression 10 11 . You’ll learn to evaluate model performance with metrics like accuracy and F1-
score, and you can present results with word clouds or a small web app where users input a review
to get its sentiment. GitHub: Sentiment Analysis – Amazon Reviews YouTube: Sentiment Analysis on
Product Reviews (code demo)

8. Fake News Detection (NLP/Media) – Create a classification model to distinguish between real and fake
news articles. This project uses a labeled news dataset and involves cleaning textual data (removing
HTML tags, lowercasing, etc.), vectorizing text (using TF-IDF), and fitting a classifier (e.g., Support
Vector Machine or PassiveAggressiveClassifier). It highlights handling high-dimensional text features
and can be extended to a web app where a user submits an article URL or text to get a “real vs fake”
prediction 12 13 . GitHub: Fake News Detection (with Flask app) YouTube: Fake News Detection
with Python (tutorial)

9. Sports Match Outcome Prediction (Sports Analytics) – Predict the outcome of sports games using
historical performance data. For example, you can use NBA game statistics or NFL team stats to train
a model that predicts win or loss. This project covers data gathering (possibly via sports data APIs or
Kaggle datasets), feature engineering (team averages, home vs away), and model training with
classifiers like Random Forest or even Elo rating systems 14 15 . The results can be visualized to
show feature importance (e.g., how turnovers or passing yards affect wins). GitHub: NBA Game
Winner Prediction YouTube: Predicting Sports Match Outcomes (NBA Example)

10. Air Quality Index (AQI) Prediction (Environmental Science) – Forecast air quality levels for a city
using historical air pollution and weather data. In this time-series regression project, you will use
features like concentrations of pollutants (PM2.5, NO₂, etc.) and meteorological data to predict the
Air Quality Index of the next day. It involves handling time-series data (resampling, dealing with
missing values), training regression models (linear regression or Random Forest) and validating
them. A web dashboard (e.g., using Flask) can allow users to select a city and see the predicted AQI
16 17 . GitHub: Air Quality Prediction (Flask app) YouTube: Air Quality Prediction Machine Learning

Project

11. Energy Demand Forecasting (Energy/Utilities) – Develop a model to forecast electricity demand or
consumption. Using historical energy usage data (e.g., hourly or daily load in a region), this project

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 requires time-series analysis (trend/seasonality decomposition) and modeling with approaches like
SARIMA (for classical time series) and/or gradient boosting regressors. You will evaluate the forecast
against actuals and possibly incorporate weather as exogenous features. The deliverable could
include an interactive plot where users toggle to see predicted vs actual demand for future dates 18
19 . GitHub: Electricity Demand Time Series Forecasting YouTube: Time Series Forecasting Example
(Energy Demand) (uses XGBoost on energy data)

12. Network Intrusion Detection (Cybersecurity) – Use machine learning to detect malicious network
activity (intrusions) from network traffic data. This classification project often uses the KDD Cup or NSL-
KDD dataset, which contains various network connection features labeled as normal or specific
attack types. You’ll perform data preprocessing (one-hot encoding protocol types, scaling continuous
features) and train models (e.g., KNN, Random Forest) to identify intrusions 20 21 . The final
solution can be a small Flask web app that accepts network log input and returns an alert if an
intrusion is predicted. GitHub: Intrusion Detection System (Flask Webapp) YouTube: Network
Intrusion Detection ML Project (builds an IDS model step-by-step)

13. Patient Readmission Prediction (Healthcare) – Predict if a hospital patient will be readmitted within
30 days of discharge using clinical data. This project uses a dataset like the Diabetes 130-US hospitals
dataset, where you’ll perform extensive data cleaning (handling missing diagnoses, encoding
categorical variables like comorbidities) and feature engineering (e.g., number of inpatient visits).
You’ll train classification models (logistic regression, ensemble trees) to identify high readmission
risk 22 23 . This is highly relevant to healthcare providers for intervening with at-risk patients, and
you can present results with precision-recall metrics due to class imbalance. GitHub: Hospital
Readmission Prediction YouTube: Predicting Hospital Readmissions (tutorial)

14. Predictive Maintenance for Machines (Manufacturing/IoT) – Predict equipment failures in advance
using sensor data to enable preventive maintenance. Using a public dataset (e.g., NASA turbofan engine
data or factory sensor readings), this project involves analyzing time-series sensor signals for
patterns before failure. You will engineer features like moving averages or vibration thresholds and
train a classifier or regression model to estimate time-to-failure 24 25 . Evaluating the model’s
accuracy in predicting failures (precision is key to avoid false alarms) is crucial. The project
demonstrates how companies can reduce downtime by fixing machines proactively. GitHub:
Predictive Maintenance Case Study YouTube: Predictive Maintenance Model Tutorial

15. Cryptocurrency Price Prediction (Finance/Crypto) – Use historical pricing data to predict future
prices or trends for a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. In this project, you will gather Bitcoin historical data
(features can include past prices, trading volume, maybe technical indicators) and frame it as either
a regression task (predicting the next day’s price) or classification (up or down movement).
Techniques can range from a Random Forest regressor 26 27 to more advanced LSTM neural
networks for sequence modeling. The volatility of crypto makes this a challenging problem – you’ll
learn to backtest your model’s performance and avoid overfitting. GitHub: Bitcoin Price Prediction
(Random Forest) YouTube: Cryptocurrency Price Prediction Project

16. Face Mask Detection (Computer Vision/Public Health) – Implement a computer vision model to
detect whether people in images or video streams are wearing face masks. This project uses an image
dataset of faces with_mask and without_mask for training a convolutional neural network (CNN)
classifier 28 . You’ll leverage libraries like Keras or TensorFlow for model building, and OpenCV for

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 real-time video inference. The full pipeline includes data augmentation, CNN training (or using a pre-
trained model like MobileNet), and deploying the model in a live webcam app that draws bounding
boxes around faces and labels them as “Mask” or “No Mask.” GitHub: Face Mask Detection System
YouTube: Real-Time Face Mask Detection Tutorial

17. House Price Prediction (Real Estate) – Build a regression model to predict house prices from
properties’ features (area, bedrooms, location, etc.). Using a dataset like the Ames Housing data, you’ll
perform thorough EDA and feature engineering (handling categorical features like neighborhood via
one-hot encoding, creating new features such as age of house). You’ll train models such as linear
regression or Ridge regression and evaluate them using RMSE on a test set 29 30 . To demonstrate
deployment, create a simple Flask web app where users input house features and get an estimated
price. GitHub: House Price Prediction (with Flask UI) YouTube: House Price Prediction – Full Project
Walkthrough

18. Employee Attrition Prediction (Human Resources) – Predict which employees are likely to leave a
company (attrition) using HR data. With an employee dataset (e.g., IBM HR Attrition dataset), this
project involves analyzing features like job satisfaction, overtime, and tenure to find patterns
associated with employees resigning. You will build classification models (logistic regression,
Random Forest, SVM) and pay special attention to model interpretability for HR use – for instance,
identifying top factors influencing attrition 31 32 . The project can output a ranked list of at-risk
employees or a dashboard for HR managers to explore “what-if” scenarios (e.g., how increasing
salary might reduce attrition probability). GitHub: Employee Attrition Prediction YouTube: Employee
Attrition Prediction (step-by-step)

19. Flight Delay Prediction (Transportation/Aviation) – Predict whether a flight will be delayed using
flight schedule and weather data. In this project, you’ll work with flight records (features might include
airline, origin/destination airports, departure time, and possibly weather or air traffic info) to train a
binary classifier for delay vs. on-time 33 34 . You’ll perform data exploration to see patterns (for
example, certain airports or times of day have more delays) and then build a model (e.g., Random
Forest or XGBoost) to predict delays. The result can be packaged into a web app where a user inputs
a flight’s details to get a delay probability, which is highly useful for travelers and airlines alike.
GitHub: Flight Delay Prediction Web App YouTube: Flight Delay Prediction Project (with XGBoost)

20. Student Performance Prediction (Education) – Predict a student’s academic performance or exam
score based on various factors. Using a student performance dataset (with features like study time,
attendance, past grades, extracurricular activities), you will preprocess the data and experiment with
models to predict either a continuous score or a class (pass/fail) 35 . This project is great for
practicing both regression and classification techniques. You can also build a Streamlit or Flask app
for schools: teachers enter a student’s profile and the app predicts their expected exam grade or the
probability of passing, highlighting factors that could be improved. GitHub: Student Performance
Prediction (Flask App) YouTube: End-to-End Student Marks Prediction (tutorial)

Each of these projects is practical and impressive for a junior data scientist, demonstrating a range of
skills from data wrangling and feature engineering to model building and deployment. By exploring these
diverse domains – finance, healthcare, NLP, e-commerce, sports, environment, etc. – you will not only
strengthen your portfolio but also show employers your ability to apply data science end-to-end in real-
world scenarios. Good luck, and happy coding!

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1 Abhishek004-thapa/Credit-Card-Fraud-Detection - GitHub
https://github.com/Abhishek004-thapa/Credit-Card-Fraud-Detection

2 9. Project 4 Bank Customer Churn Prediction Using Machine Learning

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VpMGXfhDQXc

3 GitHub - shaadclt/Customer-Segmentation-KMeansClustering: This project involves segmenting

customers using k-means clustering in Jupyter Notebook. Customer segmentation is a powerful
technique used in marketing and business analytics to divide customers into distinct groups
based on their behaviors, preferences, or demographics.
https://github.com/shaadclt/Customer-Segmentation-KMeansClustering

4 5 GitHub - alanmaehara/Sales-Prediction: Sales prediction project for Rossmann

https://github.com/alanmaehara/Sales-Prediction

6 GitHub - Luissalazarsalinas/Loan-Default-Prediction: Loan Default Detector App built with

7 XGBoost, FastApi, Docker and Streamlit
https://github.com/Luissalazarsalinas/Loan-Default-Prediction

8 GitHub - rudrajikadra/Movie-Recommendation-System-Using-Python-and-Pandas: This is a

9 python project where using Pandas library we will find correlation and give the best
recommendation for movies.
https://github.com/rudrajikadra/Movie-Recommendation-System-Using-Python-and-Pandas

10 GitHub - JagruthiSPrabhudev/Sentiment-Analysis-of-Amazon-review-data: Used Kaggle's Amazon

11 review data to predict the sentiments that the reviews express. Used scikit for data pre-
processing and implemented machine learning techniques to classify data.
https://github.com/JagruthiSPrabhudev/Sentiment-Analysis-of-Amazon-review-data

12 13 GitHub - Chando0185/fake_news_detection
https://github.com/Chando0185/fake_news_detection

14 GitHub - luke-lite/NBA-Prediction-Modeling: Using machine learning to predict the outcome of

15 NBA games.
https://github.com/luke-lite/NBA-Prediction-Modeling

16 17 GitHub - anillava1999/Air-Quality-Prediction: Air Quality Prediction using Machine Learning

https://github.com/anillava1999/Air-Quality-Prediction

18 GitHub - rdeek/Electricity-Demand-Forecasting-using-Time-Series-Analysis: Time series analysis

19 performed on electricity consumption data to predict consumption for the next year.
https://github.com/rdeek/Electricity-Demand-Forecasting-using-Time-Series-Analysis

20 21 GitHub - SaeidNK/NID: Network intrusion detection web app with python

https://github.com/SaeidNK/NID

22 GitHub - nishanthgampa/Hospital-Readmission-Prediction: Heavy Data Manipulation for Feature

23 Engineering and applied DecisionTree and Logistic Classifier to predict if a patient will be
readmitted using Python.
https://github.com/nishanthgampa/Hospital-Readmission-Prediction

24 Predictive Maintenance with Machine Learning - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhXqXPyVKZU

25 predictive-maintenance/notebooks/jupyter/LSTM For ... - GitHub

https://github.com/mapr-demos/predictive-maintenance/blob/master/notebooks/jupyter/
LSTM%20For%20Predictive%20Maintenance-ian01.ipynb

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26 GitHub - Armanx200/Bitcoin_Price_Prediction: Bitcoin Price Prediction using Random Forest
27 Regressor
https://github.com/Armanx200/Bitcoin_Price_Prediction

28 GitHub - chandrikadeb7/Face-Mask-Detection: Face Mask Detection system based on computer

vision and deep learning using OpenCV and Tensorflow/Keras
https://github.com/chandrikadeb7/Face-Mask-Detection

29 30 GitHub - MegaMind1212/HousePrice_Prediction: House Price Prediction model

https://github.com/MegaMind1212/HousePrice_Prediction

31 32 35 GitHub - juliaobenauer/Employee-attrition-prediction: Udemy Machine Learning project

https://github.com/juliaobenauer/Employee-attrition-prediction

33 GitHub - Devvrat53/Flight-Delay-Prediction: A web app for Flight Delay Prediction using

34 Random Forest Classifier
https://github.com/Devvrat53/Flight-Delay-Prediction