Why Splunk Certification is a Top Skill for Data Scientists

Data, like so many other words, is a borrowed word in English. It comes from the Latin datum, meaning gift. In my world of data science, I tell my fellow data engineers that to acquire highly focused data skills, such as earning a Splunk certification, is to become a gift-giver. You’re giving to your career and employer the ability to engage with largely unseen business data and leverage it to reach business goals.

The gift of data is the lifeblood of any organization. It’s the set of building blocks from which emergent business capabilities arise. Every decision, from executive strategy to project management to facility maintenance, revolves around accessing the right data in the right format at the right place and time. 

Think about this question: What is your team’s gift to the company? What if it was the ability to derive immeasurable value from business and machine data? What if you could unlock latent business capabilities that the business didn’t even know it had? What if your team propelled the business to the top of its domain in the marketplace, thwarted cybersecurity breaches before they even happened, and made business predictions? These “gifts” can become a reality with Splunk, one of the top 10 hottest growing technical skills on Learning Platform from 2016-2019 as noted in the annual 2020 Workplace Learning Trends Report: The Skills of the Future.

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