3 Platforms That Can Help Build Your Online Presence as a Data Scientist
Having an online presence is essential for data scientists. Here are 3 platforms I'm using to build my online presence.
As a data scientist, you need to start building your online presence.
It doesn’t matter if you want to get a 9-5 job, be a freelancer, or start your own business, having an online presence will help you prove your skills and credibility, connect with other professionals and build an audience.
Here are 3 platforms that can help build your online presence as a data scientist.
Medium
Medium is a platform where you can publish stories (aka articles) about different topics. Some of the hottest topics on this platform are data science and programming, so your articles might get a lot of views on Medium.
Also, writing a data science article can help you develop your communication skills. You only need to write an article describing the insights from one of your projects. Then you can publish your data science article and share it with thousands of data enthusiasts.
On Medium, you can interact with the data science community through the comments and see how well your article performed based on the views and claps it got. The best thing is that your Medium articles can help you make extra money.
Yep. You heard that right! If you’re a data scientist, Medium can become your side-hustle, and you can even make money as you learn about new data science topics.
GitHub
GitHub is great for those who want to show their coding skills to the world. Your Medium articles don’t usually include all your project’s code, but only code snippets. Here’s where GitHub comes in handy.
You can leave a link to your GitHub on your data science articles in order to receive feedback from others or showcase your technical skills to job recruiters.
LinkedIn
I think all of you are quite familiar with LinkedIn, yet this is the most misunderstood social media platform out there. I know this first-hand after ignoring the potential of this platform for many years.
Most people think LinkedIn is only useful for applying to jobs, but if you use the post and article features wisely, you can get huge traffic that can help you get clients, find strategic partnerships, collect emails, and more.
Bonus: Create a Portfolio Website
This is another useful way to have an online presence as a data scientist.
As a data scientist, at least you should have a personal website where you can showcase your portfolio. The problem is, most people (including me) do this late and then realize that their domain name is already taken.
Unless you want to hire someone to negotiate with the person that owns the domain name you wish to have (and waste lots of money in the process) or don’t mind having a domain name that looks unprofessional, you should buy a domain name right now!
It doesn’t even matter if you don’t plan to create a website soon, buying a domain name is so cheap that most of us would be able to afford it. Avoid future headaches and do it as soon as possible.
That’s it! Having an online presence has never been so essential. Start building it now and thank me later.