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Considering you have some experience with JavaScript, you could try contributing to the Lichess UI. An example issue could be - https://github.com/lichess-org/lila/issues/11042 which I think is useful.
Considering you have some "data science" experience with Python, you might be interested in doing some analysis based on data you can get from the Lichess API or databases.
You could try programming your own chess engine. I have been spending some time on this in my spare time from work as well. https://www.chessprogramming.org/ has quite a bit of information to help you get started. This will help you get a bit of an idea of how engines work. Or if you want to dive straight in, you can try going through some of the easy issues in https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish and try contributing.
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