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title: "Data science tools for building professional online portfolios"
subtitle: "Master of Environmental Data Science (MEDS)"
description: "Fall 2024"
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## Course Description

Having a polished online presence is essential for showcasing your skills, projects, expertise, and (importantly) your personality. Learners, collaborators, and future employers alike will look to your public online profiles to glean information about you and your work. As data scientists, this often means that they'll head to one of two places: GitHub and / or your personal website. This course is designed to help you both lay the foundation for creating and maintaining these profiles in an organized, informative, and visually-appealing way. Over the next several weeks, you will:

- begin developing your personal brand
- build and deploy your personal website using popular data science tools and frameworks
- create your first (of many!) data science blog posts
- learn about how best to communicate your work to different audiences
- understand where and how to document your projects and code on GitHub
- and more!

Throughout the MEDS program, you'll be asked to turn assignments and projects into science communication pieces on your personal websites blog. These are excellent opportunities to build out your portfolio ahead of your job search. 

## Teaching Team

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**Instructor**
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[**Sam Csik**]{.teal-text}  
**Email:** [scsik@ucsb.edu](mailto::scsik@ucsb.edu)  
**Learn more:** [samanthacsik.github.io](https://samanthacsik.github.io/)  
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## Acknowledgements

I've got lots of rad colleagues, and many of them helped brainstorm approaches, activities, and provided much needed feedback on aspects of this course. Many thanks to Bren faculty and instructors [Carmen Galaz Garcia](https://bren.ucsb.edu/people/carmen-galaz-garcia), [Max Czapanskiy](https://flukeandfeather.com/), [Ruth Oliver](https://bren.ucsb.edu/people/ruth-oliver), [Alex Phillips](https://www.alexandraatleephillips.com/), and [Julien Brun](https://bren.ucsb.edu/people/julien-brun), Bren career team members [Miya Scheble](https://bren.ucsb.edu/people/miya-scheble) and [Amanda Asquith-Caya](https://bren.ucsb.edu/people/amanda-asquith-caya), and NCEAS Learning Hub members [Camila Vargas Poulsen](https://camilavargasp.github.io/) and [Nick Lyon](https://njlyon0.github.io/).