Data Science VS. Software Engineering: Which is better for you? (Forrest Knight) - KNN Ep. 29

Forrest graduated with a Computer Science degree and worked as a full-stack software engineer. He documented his journey along the way and continue to do so while sharing what he's learned on YouTube. In this podcast we talk about how Forrest built his lifestyle from programing and the differences between data science and software engineering!

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[DataProfessor]

Great video Ken! Enjoyed your discussion with Forrest! Very inspirational. Awesome DS + SWE collab, Looking forward to it!

[keananpather]

This was extremely helpful!! thank you both, watch you guys content all the time. I was really struggling to decide whether to do my Honours in Software Engineering or Data Science. After this I have figured it out!

[BaileyEmia]

Great interview 🤙 I'm recently enrolled in a Bachelor of Science with a double major in Computer Science and Data Science 😄 I couldnt decide which major would be better so decided to just do both lol

[bianchialex]

Got his start by documenting his journey in computer science 👀 hm sounds familiar.

Does your comment scoring work on this channel too? Maybe that could incentivise more people to come to the podcast.

[jaredhorton]

Thanks for sharing, both of you. My situation is I'm a computer engineering major, junior year, and I like both hardware and software, especially the cutting edge technology stuff like ML/DL. My interest are spread way too thin but I feel like I just need to take my time experiencing all these fields to get an idea of what I want to do. I'm definitely a "live to work" type person as Ken said. I really enjoy learning and creating. Hearing your experiences are motivating and enlightening! Keep it up the hard work! It's much appreciated!

[YT-yt-yt-]

Great video. Thank you both. I am in to data for many years and really enjoy what I am doing and also I have equal interest in data science as well.. Wondering if I should upskill myself more on Data Engineering and move towards architect roles (or) shift to Data science and explore other side of things? Would like to hear your thoughts on this.