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The Portfolio that Got Me a Data Scientist Job | by Matt Chapman | Towards Data Science

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This isn’t 2015 anymore: it’s not enough to know a few pandas functions and put the words “Big Data” on your résumé. Competition for the top jobs is fierce. On a recent trawl through the LinkedIn jobs board, I struggled to find a London-based Data Scientist role with less than 100 applicants. The good news is that this competition is not due to a lack of jobs. Even in 2023, Data Science remains a fast-growing field, and the U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics has estimated that the number of Data Scientist jobs will grow by 36% between 2021 and 2031 [1]. The challenge, then, is not that there are no Data Science jobs — there are tons! Rather, it’s that a huge number of people are trying to break into the industry, making it increasingly difficult to stand out from the crowd and land that lucrative first role. In the current job market, I am convinced that one of the best ways to differentiate yourself from the competition is through building a personal portfolio of personal Data Science p

The Portfolio that Got Me a Data Scientist Job | Towards Data Science Data Science The Portfolio that Got Me a Data Scientist Job Spoiler alert: It was surprisingly easy (and free) to make Matt Chapman Mar 24, 2023 12 min read Share Photo by John Schnobrich on Unsplash Getting a Data Scientist job is hard. This isn’t 2015 anymore: it’s not enough to know a few pandas functions and put the words "Big Data" on your résumé. Competition for the top jobs is fierce. On a recent trawl through the LinkedIn jobs board, I struggled to find a London-based Data Scientist role with less than 10

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