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Data Science Portfolio — Practical Guide to starting your website with Jekyll and Github Pages
Data Science remains one of the most sought after fields. However, since this profession is becoming more and more popular, it gets difficult to stand out (especially if you don’t have any IT experience). One of the things you can do to get noticed is work on personal projects. Sharing your projects from a Github repo is all you need, but building a portfolio website can help you stand out. Of course, a pretty website is not everything so please make sure to invest the majority of your time working on your projects rather than a portfolio! Good quality projects should be your main focus and a website is only a “cherry on top”.
This article gives you a short overview of all the steps needed to create and deploy your portfolio website with Jekyll and Github pages. For very detailed step-by-step instructions check out my Youtube tutorial on creating a Data Science portfolio website.
A few words on Portfolio content
- Work on a project that corresponds to your interests: these are always the best kind of projects! They make your portfolio truly unique and are the most fun!
- Don’t be afraid to get inspired by Kaggle notebooks: Kaggle is a great source of inspiration when it comes to portfolio…
