Data Science and Competitive Programming
They are solving problems but with different approaches.
Competition is a great way to learn new things, especially those who are a student that has an interest to compete and winning something. Competitive programming has become a popular competition on computer science community until now.
For me, competitive programming is challenging because you have to solve the problem and solve it using algorithms that exist or implementing your own algorithm.
While I was a freshman, I still spend my time to compete on it, and also, I got introduced to Data Science. It has been popular for recent years thanks to the amount of data and the machine learning algorithms that exist.
I just amazed on how fast the development on this field and also the applications that are using data science approach. Because of that, I become interest to data science.
Then suddenly, I got a dilemma to choose whether I keep on pursuing competitive programming, or I keep on upgrading my data skills. Based on my experience, those things are solving problems.
But do you ever think to pursue both or to choose one of them?