>>13575117I am about to finish my masters in Data Science, background is a bachelors in math and physics. I've worked 1 year part time as a data scientist in a consulting firm and am currently working 1 year in a research institute as a data scientist aswell. I landed my first job by being very enthusiastic about the job and doing a bunch of little projects before applying. If you can show on your github that you have a basic understanding of the relevant theory and modules behind supervised and unsupervised learning and data preparation you are way ahead of your competition who mostly apply with just a basic understanding of some programming languages. So do those for a few weeks before applying and your chances are good. Once you have some real work experience you will be in the top 10% of applicants for all other jobs. My boss told me for my current job I was way ahead of all the other applications, simply because of my experience. There are a ton of online ressources for your own little project, but maybe try to do some spin-offs of those and be a little bit creative. If you can incooperate your results in a little webapp (e.g using flask with python) + relational database would go a long way.
