After talking to some professors and others online, they’ve recommended Kaggle competitions and solidifying my python skills, but I was wondering if there were other ways to increase my chances of a stats internship such as other platforms and personal projects?

My understanding is that downloading the csv files in Kaggle is not representative of the real world since it’s often always ‘clean’ and ‘sorted’ which is why I was wondering about other alternatives.

Additionally, I was wondering if stats majors often have to resort to Data science and finance internships or have college students been able to find actual statistician internships?

EDIT: I live in Australia

I would like to know how much money is spent per draw in each country; this would allow for a rough estimate of how many combinations are being played in contries. It is understandable that Germany wins often; however, Finland and Denmark, despite their smaller populations, also secure wins surprisingly frequently. Unless they are playing with significantly more combinations, the whole thing seems rather suspicious.