Data engineering or data science as your starting career for job security and ease of moving around to different jobs?

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Data science probably. Most good data scientists are good data engineers and data engineering is often a prerequisite to data science so you’ll have a lot of experience in both domains focusing on data science.

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Thanks all! Heard it’s easier to get data engineering roles than ds. Also, I’m assuming kaggle projects be used for eda and basic ds models for future ds interviews. De is more of a black box

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easier might not be the right term, there’s more demand for DE roles right now because, as someone else said, DS is only as good as the data that’s feeding those models. I fell in love with what can be done on the DS side, but realized that so many orgs need help well before that point, so I’m choosing to focus up the pipeline. I’d also argue the DS is much more of a black box, in a literal sense.

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data science since it's more technical

But I agree, to answer OPs question, you’ll likely get more mileage from the get with a degree/experience in DS.

start with data engineering to get a solid foundation of data principles. Data science is only as good as the data being processed... then get into the science part.

Do you have any open roles for Data Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton?

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