Hello all - I've been working in Risk Management for a big financial company, extensively as a SAS programmer working with Big Data, and am looking to find a new opportunity. I think it would help if I picked up some certifications, and am looking for recommendations of what would be most worthwhile. I figured Python would be good, as it is so big, and I learned it a few years ago but have not gotten to use it. Also something for AI and Machine Learning.

Many thanks,
Larry

Google, IBM, and Amazon/AWS offer well regarded certs (personally I'd lean towards Google and AWS). The program from Andrew Ng is a classic.

If you just want to learn and don't care about the paper, there are tons of cheap and amazing courses on Udemy (this is what I've done).

Excellent - thank you very much, sir. Indeed, I don't really care about certifications; I just want to learn.