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Month: October 2018

Why don’t Data Scientists use Splunk?

I am currently attending the Splunk .conf in Orlando, and a director at Accenture asked me this question, which I thought merited a blog post.  Why don’t data scientists use or like Splunk.  The inner child in me was thinking, “Splunk isn’t good at data science”, but the more seasoned professional in me actually articulated a more logical and coherent answer, which I thought I’d share whilst waiting for a talk to start.  Here goes:

I cannot pretend to speak for any community of “data scientists” but it is true that I know a decent number of data scientists, some very accomplished and some beginners, and not a one would claim to use Splunk as one of their preferred tools.  Indeed, when the topic of available tools comes up among most of my colleagues and the word Splunk is mentioned, it elicits groans and eye rolls.  So let’s look at why that is the case:

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