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How I Designed My Data Science Portfolio

Kathleen Lara
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6 min readJan 20, 2022

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(Image by author)
(Image by author)

Having a well put portfolio is important to highlight your work and your ability to tell your story. A curated selection of your projects is the best way to showcase your expertise and share your experience.

I personally had challenges consolidating my projects and also figuring out the best way to share my passion. Data science and engineering projects are usually vague and can be difficult to present which in my case, comes in two flavors, code and content. I have my source codes sitting on my github page and my write-ups on my medium or somewhere on the web .

So I created a personal five section portfolio. Here’s my thought process for every section:

Introduction Section:

kathleenlara.com: Introduction Section

I designed this section imagining that I’m giving someone an elevator pitch of who I am and what I do. I added the gif as a representation of myself and to give an interactive feeling. (I guess I could have just added a gif of myself but at this point, my confidence level is not there yet!)

As for the background, initially it was white. I usually use minimal white colors for almost all my visuals because of its…

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Kathleen Lara
Kathleen Lara

Written by Kathleen Lara

I’m a Boston based Data Scientist with a background in Data Engineering and Statistics.🤓

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