Posts tagged: soft

https://twitter.com/oliverjumpertz/status/1395689074594287625

Follow this over time. If you want to use code repositories for your portfolio. Make sure that you have made it unique in some way. Think about what kind of signal you are sending to hiring managers if you are linking to a project with no docs, and one commit from 3 days ago.

They don’t have to be PERFECT either, it’s likely that it’s not something you were paid to do, hence not able to put your full time into. Just having something that generally follows some GOOD practice will set you above most other candidates.

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https://www.hanselminutes.com/784/doing-open-source-with-brian-douglas

Inspired by https://m.soundcloud.com/front-end-happy-hour/episode-095-shot-for-shot-one-on-ones

my journey into data science

In January 2018 I started work as a full time data scientist turning my passion into a career. It is something that I didn’t see myself doing 5 years ago, but is something that I love to do. It combines my love of data, visualization, story telling, software development, and writing code. Most of all it allows me to work in a space that promotes learning and creativity. As a mechanical engineer for a company that has been building equipment for nearly a century the mechanical engineering is very well established I felt that there was not a lot of room for creativity.

When I first started as a full time mechanical engineer