It is Estimated to have 11,000,000+ job openings 🚀in Data Science industry by 2026.
Building is portfolio to stand out is absolutely necessary.
Tips to build your #datascience portfolio. A Thread 🧵
1. GitHub Profile - @github
▶️Over 65 million developers and more than 3 million companies use GitHub . GitHub says that 72% of Fortune 50 companies use the site.
▶️ There is always debate about GitHub over blog. I started with blog and later created GitHub profile
1.1 GitHub Profile - @github
▶️A crucial part of data science jobs is to be able to code, and GitHub serves as a perfect platform to access the coding skills and display hands-on ability to solve problems.
▶️If you are beginner or a student @github is must to stand out
2. Tableau Public Profile -
▶️If you're learning Tableau having a public profile and uploading the data visualization will help you learn and track your progress. @tableau
3. Online competition Platforms like kaggle -
▶️Participating in online competition will give you confidence and sources to learn from other data scientist. Upload you R or Python notebooks and Create a portfolio. Since the platform is build only
for data science. @kaggle
4. Online courses certification -
▶️Completing online courses and earning certification will give validation for you handwork, discipline and eagerness to learn for a professional or students.
As taking out time from regular office work or university classes is not easy.
5. End-to-end Data Science Projects -
▶️Completing end-to-end project will give you learning as well as confidence
▶️Also helps in the interviews as you've done the project and you'll be knowing the every little details so you'll be comfortable explaining it.
6. Updating LinkedIn, Twitter, Medium profile -
▶️Document your learning on regular basis. For beginners I'll suggest LinkedIn as there are millions of recruiters and millions of jobs available. Having a strong LinkedIn profile is very important. @LinkedIn
6.1 Updating LinkedIn, Twitter, Medium profile -
▶️When you write about learnings your posts will reach out to professionals, leaders and recruiters from similar industry and help you getting a job. @LinkedIn
7. Professional Certification for specific tools like Tableau, Alteryx, Power BI, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure -
▶️It gives much more credibility and makes you stand out among the crowd.
▶️I've completed 2 @tableau, 1 @alteryx and 1 @MSPowerBI certification from the providers
8. Start a Blog -
▶️Okay now you have done everything from point 1 to 7. Start a blog even if you have not done few of the points. I suggest everyone who wants to grow and bring something extra to the table to start a blog.
8.1 Start a Blog -
▶️You can start your blog under $110 annually for custom domains and there are 100's of free options available to start a blog @wordpressdotcom , @Wix and others. Within 2 days you can take you blog live and without any knowledge of web development.
8.2 Start a Blog -
▶️I started analytics-tuts.com 7 years back and now I get 15,000+ monthly active visitors and continuously growing.
▶️ I've worked with CEOs, founders, leaders working across the globe and they reached out to me through my blog.
⭐Continuing the #DataScience learning path series and next skill is Python
⭐There always been a debate around R v/s Python
⭐Step by step learning path for Python for data analysis
1⃣ Intro to Python -
⭐Installing and Setting up environment
⭐Install Anaconda and Python
⭐Launch a Jupyter Notebook
⭐Variables and Operators
⭐Booleans and Comparisons
⭐expressions and statements
2⃣ Basics of Python -
⭐Functions, Modules and strings
⭐Lists, Tuples, Sets, and Dictionaries
⭐Installing a Package (Pandas, Scipy, NumPy,Plotly etc.)
There are 2 kind of skills needed in any job. 1. Hard skills 2. Soft skills
Data science is no different and require hard and soft skills as equal in any of the industry.
Few of the skills needed in Data Science.
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⚙️ Hard Skills
💡 Programming and Specific tools skills (R, Python, SAS etc.)
💡 Algorithm, Mathematics, Statistics and Probability knowledge
💡 End to end data science project life cycle(Gathering, Cleaning, Preparing, Modelling and presenting)
💡 Upgrading to new technologies
🔣 Soft skills -
💡 Effective Communication
💡 Business acumen and knowledge
💡 Curiosity and Critical thinking
💡 Intuition
💡 Problem solving
💡 Presentation/storytelling
💡 Awareness/research
💡 Flexibility
💡 Time management
💡 Attention to detail
💡 Networking