Links and resources 

Barry Clark and his "Jekyll now" repository for creating blogs on Github pages 
repo on Github https://github.com/barryclark/jekyll-now
article on installation and features - https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/08/build-blog-jekyll-github-pages/ </p>

Adit Deshpande and his blog where I got the whole idea 
https://adeshpande3.github.io/adeshpande3.github.io/projects/

Tool for formatting text into clean HTML - "De-Word-ify" by Matthew Bilyeu 
https://matthewbilyeu.com/dewordify/

Git for RStudio and how to install it 
https://www.r-bloggers.com/rstudio-and-github/  

XGBoost downloadable binaries  and executables for Windows 
http://www.picnet.com.au/blogs/guido/2016/09/22/xgboost-windows-x64-binaries-for-download/

Time series analysis in Python - overview with code  
http://www.blackarbs.com/blog/time-series-analysis-in-python-linear-models-to-garch/11/1/2016

The real Airbnb data (keeping an eye for future projects) by city 
http://insideairbnb.com/get-the-data.html 

The real OKCupid data (keeping an eye for future projects) 
https://github.com/rudeboybert/JSE_OkCupid 

Articles 

Kaggle CareerCon 2018 - an online conference for novices in the field 
Worth watching in full. 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqFaTIg4myu-dNobDHQZPrD2wH27PthCG - the full playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBR0EtGOkzc&index=5&list=PLqFaTIg4myu-dNobDHQZPrD2wH27PthCG&t=0s 
- data scientists from hiring teams in different sectors walk through CVs and profiles required 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6orAXDIrds&index=6&list=PLqFaTIg4myu-dNobDHQZPrD2wH27PthCG&t=0s
- interviewing tips from Google managers 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ylpmjG6t8E&list=PLqFaTIg4myu-dNobDHQZPrD2wH27PthCG&index=8&t=0s
- freelance work in DS (what is really great in this video is the amount of hours spent on competitions, 
thus estimation of the effort required to get master status on Kaggle) 

From a novice to a full-time DS job. Most upvoted post ever in that Reddit thread. 
https://www.reddit.com/r/datascience/comments/713hnw/how_i_went_from_no_coding_or_machine_learning/

Two articles in Russian on looking for a job in DS in the Bay Area. Brilliantly written + truly honest. 
https://habr.com/post/295954/ - part 1
https://habr.com/post/310776/ - part 2

Another article in Russian on looking for a DS/ML job in Singapore. 
https://habr.com/post/350822/