Should I learn data science or UX design?

In this fast pacing technology world daily new technologies are emerging. People who want to make their career in Information technology in the world of computers often confuse which one to select and which one to not.

Not only this, sometimes professionals try to switch their technology to learn and earn something better.

There are two such fields which are running at top in today’s market along with few others and these are UX and Data Science. In this article we are going to tell you three things atleast which can help you out to take decision if you are also confused and thinking should you learn Data Science or UX.

Important differences between UX and Data Science profile:

UX	Data Science
UX person deals with people	Data scientist deals with data sets
A UX person focuses mainly on needs and behaviors of people	A data scientist involves computational analysis of data
UX designers use sketching or wireframing software, whiteboards sharpies, pencils, drawings etc.	Data scientists work with graphics, charts, tabular data, statistics. They may use software like Python/JSON/SQL etc.
A UX designer can also have knowledge of other coding tools like React/Angular/Javascript etc.	A  Data scientist can also have designing knowledge

Sometimes UX and Data Science can mix the roles

It is clear from above that a UX person works with people and uses the data to improve the experience but he can also sometimes help the Data scientist to improve the visualization. While A data scientist plays with data and does not take into account people behaviors. But sometimes he can use people’s data like generated logs to analyze the behavior.

Final verdict-UX or Data science

One should see his interest and find out if he wants to become a data scientist or UX designer. Its good to see your capabilities and interests rather than looking at someone who is doing good in the same.

You need to analyse yourself that will you be able to work with huge data sets efficiently. Also, would you be good at ETL tools like informatica, Talend etc. Or, if planning for UX need to see if you can work on tools like Adobe XD, Invision, Mockups kind of tools for UX designing. In UX, one directly work with people and their sentiments and that can sometimes take a lot of time in reaching at the final conclusion.