Break into data when every job post says you need experience you cannot get. Six portfolio projects, the templates and AI prompts to build them, and a plan to apply anyway.
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It is the question I get asked more than any other. You finish the courses. You watch the tutorials. And your GitHub still looks like everyone else's.
Meanwhile every job post wants experience you cannot get without a job. This playbook is my answer: real projects worth building, the templates to make them look professional, and a plan to get hired with them.
Part 01
3 data projects that solve business problems with data that does not come cleaned for you: late deliveries eating an e-commerce marketplace's reviews, a hospital scorecard built on official Medicare data, and your own city's service gaps. Free Codespaces instructions let you build everything in your browser, and the repo template makes your GitHub look professional. Hiring managers skim repos, not resumes.
Part 02
3 AI projects, tiered by level, each tied to a problem a business would actually pay to solve: a live executive dashboard with an AI briefing button, a chatbot that answers questions from a public company's annual report with citations, and an agent that writes a Monday morning data briefing automatically. Each comes with a Project Builder Prompt that walks you through building it with AI, step by step. For career changers and working analysts who want AI on their resume.
Part 03
How to apply when the post says 2+ years required. Lead with your repos as proof. Includes the Rewrite Prompt that tailors your resume and outreach to any job description, plus the exact messages to turn a 15 minute chat into an employee referral.
For aspiring data analysts and data scientists, career changers, and working analysts ready to add AI to what they can already do.
I taught for 20 years. Then, in my 40s, I started completely over in data science.
I spent over $21,000 on bootcamps. The certificates did not get me hired. Real projects that proved I could do the work did. Now I am a working data scientist, and I have helped hundreds of career changers make this same move.
This playbook is the shortcut I wish someone had handed me.
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