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Top 50 Freelance Tools to Make Your Life Easy & Productive

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Want to be a freelancer? Or maybe you’re about to start taking on some freelance projects on the side of your full-time responsibilities?

While freelancing comes with tons of benefits, like the freedom to work wherever and whenever you want, it can be hard to adjust to in the beginning. You might feel like a phony or a fake, or just overall not confident (thanks to imposter syndrome).

However, being able to send professional-looking invoices,

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What Is Data Science? How to Learn Data Science and Why It’s Important

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What is data science? The field of data science is all about predicting the future and solving complex problems using massive amounts of, you guessed it…data!

Data science projects combine math, statistics, programming, AI/machine learning, and other technologies to uncover insights hidden in massive amounts of data. 

In this post, I’ll explain exactly what data science is, why data science is important, what it’s used for, how it works, what the differences between data science vs data analytics are,

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10 Software Developer Soft Skills You Should Have (Not Coding!)

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If you want a new career as a web developer, it involves more than just hard tech skills like knowing how to code, understanding algorithms, and having the know-how to debug programs.

There are certain universal soft skills that are desirable in almost every industry—technology included. You’ll need to demonstrate these non-technical skills in your interviews and other interactions to show you’re the kind of person someone would want to hire.

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5 Tips on How to Create a Professional Online Presence (as a Techie)

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If you’re serious about starting a career in tech, I cannot stress enough how important it is that you start building a digital presence sooner rather than later.

Your parents and grandparents have probably told you stories of how they got jobs by putting on a suit and walking into an office with a resume. That’s not the world most of us discovered when we entered the workforce, though. We were told, “Apply online.” You didn’t necessarily have to have your own digital footprint or personal brand for this,

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JavaScript Stack Overview: Which JS Stack Should You Choose?

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If you’ve been in the learn-to-code world for a little while, you may have come across the terminology of a “tech stack.” They’re essentially combinations of tools that developers use for various projects.

There are all kinds of different stacks out there, and the right one for you depends on your goals. If you’re learning JavaScript, then of course you’ll specifically want a JavaScript stack. 

But even among JS stacks, there are so many out there…all with their own capital-letter acronyms.

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