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by Choronzon 4657 days ago
Start working on independent visualisation projects using d3.js.Data visualisation is not data science but 90% of people cant really tell the difference and if you can build up an impressive visual portfolio you will get the work you want. Whether you can do the work or not is more dependent on how you can get through Q4373j3bs excellent reading list however.

Another thing you can do is attack real world problems,there is a shocking amount of bad data science out there. See: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/16/reinhart_rogo...