Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

How to build a modern, scalable data platform to power your analytics and data science projects (updated) Table of Contents: What’s changed? The Platform Integration Data Store Transformation Orchestration Presentation Transportation Observability Closing What’s changed?

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Data Engineering Weekly

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Astasia Myers: The three components of the unstructured data stack LLMs and vector databases significantly improved the ability to process and understand unstructured data. The blog is an excellent summary of the existing unstructured data landscape. What are you waiting for? Register for IMPACT today!

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Snowflake

JUNE 5, 2024

Enterprises can utilize gen AI to extract more value from their data and build conversational interfaces for customer and employee applications. It provides access to industry-leading large language models (LLMs), enabling users to easily build and deploy AI-powered applications.

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Snowflake

JULY 25, 2024

Snowflake Cortex Search, a fully managed search service for documents and other unstructured data, is now in public preview. Solving the challenges of building high-quality RAG applications From the beginning, Snowflake’s mission has been to empower customers to extract more value from their data.

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Snowflake

JUNE 28, 2023

Python Unstructured Data Processing (PuPr) – Unstructured data processing is now natively supported with Python. External Network Access (PrPr) – Allows users to seamlessly connect to external endpoints from their Snowpark code (UDFs/UDTFs and Stored procedures) while maintaining high security and governance.

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

For organizations to fully capitalize on this potential, it’s critical that everyone — not just those with AI expertise — is able to access and use generative AI. With just a single line of SQL or Python, analysts can instantly access specialized ML and LLM models tuned for specific tasks. These functions include the ones listed below.

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DareData

JULY 5, 2023

Learn how we build data lake infrastructures and help organizations all around the world achieving their data goals. In today's data-driven world, organizations are faced with the challenge of managing and processing large volumes of data efficiently. And what is the reason for that?

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Rockset

APRIL 18, 2023

Join me and Rockset VP of Engineering Louis Brandy for a tech talk, From Spam Fighting at Facebook to Vector Search at Rockset: How to Build Real-Time Machine Learning at Scale , on May 17th at 9am PT/ 12pm ET. Due to these difficulties, unstructured data has remained largely underutilized. Why use vector search?

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Snowflake

APRIL 8, 2024

In 2020, Snowflake announced a new global competition to recognize the work of early-stage startups building their apps — and their businesses — on Snowflake, offering up to $250,000 in investment as the top prize. SignalFlare.ai

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Snowflake

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Why AI has everyone’s attention, what it means for different data roles, and how Alteryx and Snowflake are bringing AI to data use cases There’s a llama on the loose! With all the hoopla around AI, there’s a lot to get up to speed on—especially the implications this technology has for data analytics. Some takeaways?

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

What if you could streamline your efforts while still building an architecture that best fits your business and technology needs? Snowflake is committed to doing just that by continually adding features to help our customers simplify how they architect their data infrastructure. Here’s a closer look.

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Rockset

MARCH 28, 2024

Overview In this guide, you will: Gain a high-level understanding of vectors, embeddings, vector search, and vector databases, which will clarify the concepts we will build upon. Build a dynamic web application using vanilla CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and Flask, seamlessly integrating with the Rockset API and the OpenAI API.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Unstructured data not ready for analysis: Even when defenders finally collect log data, it’s rarely in a format that’s ready for analysis. Cyber logs are often unstructured or semi-structured, making it difficult to derive insights from them.

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Data Engineering Weekly

JULY 21, 2024

The author highlights key lessons learning building an analytical org from scratch with key highlights, 1. Focus on Needs Over Nomenclature : Define the outcomes you want from your analytics team instead of getting caught up in the semantics of terms like analytics, data science, and business intelligence.

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Data Engineering Weekly

JUNE 24, 2024

A few highlights from the report Unstructured data goes mainstream. link] Sponsored: 2024 State of Apache Airflow Report Gain access to the latest trends and insights shaping the world of Apache Airflow—the go-to platform for data pipeline development and orchestration. But it seems a complete rewrite.

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Snowflake

OCTOBER 26, 2023

But while the potential is theoretically limitless, there are a number of data challenges and risks HCLS executives need to be aware of when using AI that can create new content. Here’s how the right data strategy can help you get past the hazards and hurdles to implementing gen AI.

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AltexSoft

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Whether your goal is data analytics or machine learning , success relies on what data pipelines you build and how you do it. But even for experienced data engineers, designing a new data pipeline is a unique journey each time. Data engineering in 14 minutes. ELT allows them to work with the data directly.

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Snowflake

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Most companies know they need better data to make that happen, but they struggle with making it available, trusted and accessible — not to mention handling complex data, like images, videos and unstructured data. It’s why leading retailers recognize there’s no AI without a strong data foundation in the cloud.

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Cloudera

MARCH 17, 2023

I love the enthusiasm surrounding ChatGPT and the eagerness to learn about modern data architectures such as data lakehouses, data meshes, and data fabrics. ChatGPT is an excellent resource for gaining high-level insights and building awareness of any technology.

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Cloudera

MAY 14, 2024

This form of hybrid also goes a level deeper than one may find in a standard hybrid cloud, accounting for the entirety of the data lifecycle, whether that’s the point of ingestion, warehousing, or machine learning—even when that end-to-end data lifecycle is split between entirely different environments. Data comes in many forms.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Unstructured data not ready for analysis: Even when defenders finally collect log data, it’s rarely in a format that’s ready for analysis. Cyber logs are often unstructured or semi-structured, making it difficult to derive insights from them.

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Monte Carlo

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Still, it’s one thing to show your boss a cool demo of a data discovery tool or text-to-SQL generator – it’s another thing to use it with your company’s proprietary data, or even more concerning, customer data. All of these currently exist in databases and data warehouses. Think: SecOps for AI.

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Snowflake

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Snowpark is the set of libraries and runtimes that enables data engineers, data scientists and developers to build data engineering pipelines, ML workflows, and data applications in Python, Java, and Scala. With this announcement, External Access is in public preview on Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions.

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Monte Carlo

MAY 31, 2022

onFailure(funcName, qe, exception)) } } Spline provided a head-start in building Spark lineage. Instead of building a series of listeners from scratch, we decided to take advantage of that open source technology, Spline. A good engineer can build solutions for hard problems. .”)) new SparkLineageInitializer(sparkSession).createListener(isCodelessInit

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Snowflake

APRIL 10, 2023

We transform unstructured data, such as text, images, and videos, into semantic fingerprints. We were super-quick to get everything ready for the build from our side, and the Snowflake team acted just as fast.” With this partnership, semantha provides access to the data for any business that’s on Snowflake.

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phData: Data Engineering

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Hence, the metadata files record schema and partition changes, enabling systems to process data with the correct schema and partition structure for each relevant historical dataset. Data Versioning and Time Travel Open Table Formats empower users with time travel capabilities, allowing them to access previous dataset versions.

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

And, since historically tools and commercial platforms were often designed to align with one specific architecture pattern, organizations struggled to adapt to changing business needs – which of course has implications on data architecture. With our customers, we’ve seen Conway’s Law playing out more often than not.

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Cloudera

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Financial inclusion, defined as the availability and accessibility of financial services to underserved communities, is a critical issue facing the banking industry today. Access to financial services and credit can help lift individuals and entire underserved communities out of poverty. According to the World Bank, 1.7

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Snowflake

JULY 25, 2024

Snowflake Cortex Search, a fully managed search service for documents and other unstructured data, is now in public preview. Solving the challenges ofbuilding high-quality RAG applications From the beginning, Snowflake’s mission has been to empower customers to extract more value from their data.

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Cloudyard

APRIL 7, 2023

These functions are used to generate the URL and grant the access based on their authorizations. When users send a file URL to the REST API to access files, Snowflake performs the following actions: Authenticate the user. Only roles that have privileges on the view can access the files. That is, the file URL does not expire.

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Snowflake

JULY 9, 2024

Assess your current reality In recent strategy workshops with customers, we’ve focused on assessing four areas: data access, analytics and AI capabilities, organizational structure, and culture and communication. As we all know there is no AI strategy without a data strategy, so we start with the data.

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Snowflake

JANUARY 18, 2024

A robust, flexible architecture Snowflake’s unique architecture is designed to handle the full volume, velocity and variety of data without making manufacturers deal with downtime for upgrades or compute changes. Built-in automation eliminates the need for customers to build indexes or do housekeeping.

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Monte Carlo

JANUARY 25, 2023

In an evolving data landscape, the explosion of new tooling solutions—from cloud-based transforms to data observability —has made the question of “build versus buy” increasingly important for data leaders. Hint: it’s not a one-size-fits-all answer, but answering a few critical questions can help. Let’s jump in!

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Striim

OCTOBER 11, 2024

A well-executed data pipeline can make or break your company’s ability to leverage real-time insights and stay competitive. Thriving in today’s world requires building modern data pipelines that make moving data and extracting valuable insights quick and simple. Today, we’ll answer the question, “What is a data pipeline?”

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Monte Carlo

JANUARY 5, 2024

Data lakehouse architecture combines the benefits of data warehouses and data lakes, bringing together the structure and performance of a data warehouse with the flexibility of a data lake. The data lakehouse’s semantic layer also helps to simplify and open data access in an organization.

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Monte Carlo

JANUARY 5, 2024

Data lakehouse architecture combines the benefits of data warehouses and data lakes, bringing together the structure and performance of a data warehouse with the flexibility of a data lake. The data lakehouse’s semantic layer also helps to simplify and open data access in an organization.

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Knowledge Hut

DECEMBER 26, 2023

In the twenty-first century, data science is regarded as a profitable career. It is simply the study of mathematics, statistics, and computer science to extract information from structured and unstructured data. Data science, which solves problems by connecting relevant data for later use, aids these emerging technologies.

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