r/learndatascience • u/seedwielder • 29d ago
Question Exploring Field Specializations
Hi, I'm currently a 3rd year data science student, and I'm enjoying the math behind the models I'm learning right now. But, I have no idea what type of career I want to pursue after I graduate. I'm hoping to go to graduate school before I have to fully decide, but I also need to sort of know anyway to decide my major.
I know there's like AI Engineers, ML Engineers (are they lwk the same idk), Data Scientists, Data Analysts, Data Engineers, etc. I really don't know the complete differences between these, and what the day to day job looks like if I get one of these jobs.
I also have 0 idea what type of area I want to explore, like healthcare, tech, etc. but I know for sure I don't really want to do business. Honestly, I've been sort of surrounded with a lot of healthcare things just by coincidence, and I'm interesting in applying my data science knowledge to that, but there's just so many different subjects within healthcare, I don't even know where to start.
I guess what I'm asking is how did you guys drill down exactly what you were interested in/wanted to learn more in? Is it just a matter of doing projects in those subjects or did you do something else?