🗞️ Weekly Updates With Resources

Welcome Data & AI pros!

Welcome to your weekly briefing on Data & AI: industry updates, career resources, portfolio-building opportunities, and community events - all curated for aspiring Data, ML & AI professionals.

This week’s updates in the Data & AI world:

• Portfolio: Learn how to build Data & AI projects in 2025 from our mentors.

• Mentor: See Karun’s resume which helped him land interviews at Nvidia, Meta, Google, and more.

• Learn for free: Check out BID’s favorite Stanford Lectures on AI & ML.

• Community announcement: Interview Query platform is now included in Break Into Data PRO membership!

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Weekly Digest with Break Into Data (BID)

Data & AI portfolio:

What projects do you need to build to land a job in 2025?

Last week Break Into Data (BID) hosted an Expert Panel Session to share the best strategies for developing a Data portfolio in 2025 for roles in Data Analytics, Data Science, Applied Science, and AI engineering. Follow along to learn how successful job seekers build a portfolio that impresses hiring managers and lands them interviews!

• Get a Comprehensive Guide for breaking into various data roles (analytics, science, ML, AI)

• Discover the essential skills and projects to showcase for each data career path

• Gain insights on optimizing your job search with a solid portfolio strategy.

• Prepare effectively for data-related job interviews with your portfolio projects.

To gain access to the complete guide for this workshop, follow here.

Resume highlight of the week:

See Karun’s resume which landed him interviews at MAANG!

• Karun Thankachan is a Senior Applied Scientist at Walmart, previously at Amazon, who is active as a mentor and researcher in data science and machine learning.

If you want to meet Karun and more mentors and experts, join BID PRO!

Learning materials and resources:

Best choice of Stanford University lectures on AI:

Our community’s favorite free Stanford University Machine Learning Lectures 👇

Learn about Probability, NLP, LLMs, Transformers, and more from the best teachers in the world:

• Probability for Computer Scientists

• Machine Learning Full Course taught by Andrew Ng

• NLP with Deep Learning

• Machine Learning Explainability 

• Deep Generative Models

• Building Large Language Models (LLMs)

• Machine Learning with Graphs

You can find all Stanford Free courses - here!

Break Into Data PRO community update:

Announcing partnership with Interview Query Platform!

Now every Break Into Data (BID) PRO member with 6-month and 12-month memberships will get access to Interview Query’s Premium subscription with:

• 600+ Interview Questions: Stay updated with industry-sourced questions updated weekly, spanning 11 different job roles across 5 domains.

• Takehomes: Dive into over 60 comprehensive takehome assignments complete with datasets, evaluations, and a guided approach to tackling them.

• Learning Paths and Courses: Work through specialized learning paths and course materials, which encompass all of the essential skills for any data role.

• Mock Interviews: Use peer-to-peer mock interviews to experience the real thing before the real thing. Practice makes perfect.

• Job Boards: Looking for your next job? Explore the job board and see job opportunities around the world.
  
  It’s time to take your career seriously! Join BID PRO - here!
  

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