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Feb 2023
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45: 3-Step Guide To Building Your First ...

Avery Smith - Data Career Coach
About this episode

You just learned SQL or Python, or Tableau. But you don’t know how to build your data science project? In this episode, Avery shares a 3-step guide to building your first data science project.


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Timestamps:

(1:28) - Art is theft, and so is the data science project

(4:02) - Find ideas on Towards Data Science Medium

(5:32) - Read a few articles to get inspiration

(6:05) - Avery’s strategy is doing 30 projects in 30 days

(9:08) - How academia finds inspiration to write

(11:01) - Take Avery’s project, replicate and do it

Mentioned Links:

Building 30 Data Science Projects in 30 days: https://youtu.be/kKmA9ihIg20

30 Data Science Projects Resources: https://www.datacareerjumpstart.com/30projectsresourcesignup

I Used Data Science to UNCOVER McDonald’s Healthiest Meal: https://youtu.be/3bbFc1225-4

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