Side Hustle Strategies for Data Science and Analytics Experts

Diversify your career prospects by integrating a side hustle with your existing responsibilities. Learn how to leverage your data science and analytics skills to work for yourself.

Introduction

• Effectively combining entrepreneurism and data science
• Side hustle in a changing remote-work world

1. Writing

• Getting started with writing using the role of the technical reviewer in authoring technical books
• Consider being a second author or an uncredited contributor
• How to share the burden of a book with a coauthor
• Why you might want to be the editor of a book
• Gain visibility by strategically choosing books to review
• How to use blogging to amplify the benefits of your other work

2. Training

• Finding your niche in the international training marketplace
• How do the big training companies find and work with trainers?
• The pros and cons of trying to write your own training materials
• The excitement and cautions of international training engagements
• Strategies for part-time training while working full time

3. Conferences

• Support conferences with your labor to combat high registration fees
• Starting out as a speaker by speaking for free
• Recruit more established presenters and copresent with them
• The ins and out of paid conference presentations

4. Consulting

• Build your reputation on competition and gigs
• A beginner's guide to the paperwork side of consulting
• Staff augmentation or mentoring: Adopting a strategy to compete for the kinds of gigs you want

5. Academics

• Why it is important to be the best student in class
• How to leverage the many career benefits of being a part-time student or instructor
• The growing market for university-affiliated data science teaching and curriculum development
• Take full advantage of your temporary university affiliation by finding and working with colleagues

Conclusion

• Next steps