Data Engineering Weekly

JANUARY 15, 2025

The Critical Role of AI Data Engineers in a Data-Driven World How does a chatbot seamlessly interpret your questions? The answer lies in unstructured data processing—a field that powers modern artificial intelligence (AI) systems. How does a self-driving car understand a chaotic street scene?

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Snowflake

APRIL 16, 2025

This major enhancement brings the power to analyze images and other unstructured data directly into Snowflakes query engine, using familiar SQL at scale. Unify your structured and unstructured data more efficiently and with less complexity. Start analyzing call center data with our easy Snowflake quickstart.

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Data Engineering Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2021

In this episode Davit Buniatyan, founder and CEO of Activeloop, explains why he is spending his time and energy on building a platform to simplify the work of getting your unstructured data ready for machine learning. Satori has built the first DataSecOps Platform that streamlines data access and security.

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Hear Dr. Andrew Ng talk about AI, agents and how to mobilize unstructured data Prominent AI researcher, founder of DeepLearning.AI Andrew Ng talk about AI, agents and how to mobilize unstructured data Prominent AI researcher, founder of DeepLearning.AI Does it have to change how your team works too?

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Snowflake

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The next evolution in data is making it AI ready. For years, an essential tenet of digital transformation has been to make data accessible, to break down silos so that the enterprise can draw value from all of its data. For this reason, internal-facing AI will continue to be the focus for the next couple of years.

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Snowflake

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

From improving patient outcomes to increasing clinical efficiencies, better access to data is helping healthcare organizations deliver better patient care. Healthcare organizations must ensure they have a data infrastructure that enables them to collect and analyze large amounts of structured and unstructured data at the point of care.

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Snowflake

MARCH 19, 2025

Hear from technology and industry experts about the ways in which leading retail and consumer goods companies are building connected consumer experiences with Snowflakes AI Data Cloud and maximizing the potential of AI.

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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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AltexSoft

MAY 12, 2023

In today’s data-driven world, organizations amass vast amounts of information that can unlock significant insights and inform decision-making. A staggering 80 percent of this digital treasure trove is unstructured data, which lacks a pre-defined format or organization. What is unstructured data?

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Snowflake

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The foundation for success is a data platform that allows flexible, cost-effective ways to access gen AI — whether organizations want to use off-the-shelf commercial and open-source large language models (LLMs), or fine-tune their own LLMs for more complex applications. Rinesh Patel, Snowflake’s Global Head of Financial Services 2.

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Snowflake

JANUARY 21, 2025

More clients are asking about the security and governance of their customer data. How can they get access to more transparency into where and why their marketing dollars are being spent (to reduce fraud, saturation and leverage for higher-level internal measurement practices, among other reasons)?

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Cloudera

JANUARY 7, 2025

This transition streamlined data analytics workflows to accommodate significant growth in data volumes. By leveraging the Open Data Lakehouse’s ability to unify structured and unstructured data with built-in governance and security, the organization tripled its analyzed data volume within a year, boosting operational efficiency.

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Snowflake

APRIL 22, 2025

To pile onto the challenge, the vast majority of any companys data is unstructured think PDFs, videos and images. So to capitalize on AI's potential, you need a platform that supports structured and unstructured data without compromising accuracy, quality and governance.

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

At BUILD 2024, we announced several enhancements and innovations designed to help you build and manage your data architecture on your terms. Ingest data more efficiently and manage costs For data managed by Snowflake, we are introducing features that help you access data easily and cost-effectively.

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Snowflake

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Diverse data provides a broader view and helps avoid the potential blinders traditional sources can perpetuate. To ensure your AI models are trained with as much data as possible, here are five best practices for greater data diversity: 1. Break down internal silos to access cross-functional sources.

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Snowflake

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Furthermore, most vendors require valuable time and resources for cluster spin-up and spin-down, disruptive upgrades, code refactoring or even migrations to new editions to access features such as serverless capabilities and performance improvements.

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Data Engineering Weekly

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

[link] QuantumBlack: Solving data quality for gen AI applications Unstructured data processing is a top priority for enterprises that want to harness the power of GenAI. It brings challenges in data processing and quality, but what data quality means in unstructured data is a top question for every organization.

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Snowflake

APRIL 13, 2025

Agentic AI continuously monitors and validates data sources, detecting anomalies, correcting errors and updating records in real time. The Deloitte and Snowflake alliance provides a robust framework for supporting and improving data quality across platforms.

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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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Cloudera

JUNE 11, 2024

By leveraging an organization’s proprietary data, GenAI models can produce highly relevant and customized outputs that align with the business’s specific needs and objectives. Structured data is highly organized and formatted in a way that makes it easily searchable in databases and data warehouses.

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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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Striim

APRIL 18, 2025

Why AI and Analytics Require Real-Time, High-Quality Data To extract meaningful value from AI and analytics, organizations need data that is continuously updated, accurate, and accessible. Heres why: AI Models Require Clean Data: Machine learning models are only as good as their training data.

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KDnuggets

MAY 15, 2023

Mojo Lang: The New Programming Language • Stop Doing this on ChatGPT and Get Ahead of the 99% of its Users • 3 Ways to Access GPT-4 for Free • 8 Open-Source Alternative to ChatGPT and Bard • Exploratory Data Analysis Techniques for Unstructured Data

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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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Rockset

APRIL 18, 2023

Organizations have continued to accumulate large quantities of unstructured data, ranging from text documents to multimedia content to machine and sensor data. Comprehending and understanding how to leverage unstructured data has remained challenging and costly, requiring technical depth and domain expertise.

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Cloudera

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Are you struggling to manage the ever-increasing volume and variety of data in today’s constantly evolving landscape of modern data architectures? Bucket Layouts in Apache Ozone Interoperability between FS and S3 API Users can store their data in Apache Ozone and can access the data with multiple protocols.

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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

MARCH 18, 2024

By 2025 it’s estimated that there will be 7 petabytes of data generated every day compared with “just” 2.3 And it’s not just any type of data. The majority of it (80%) is now estimated to be unstructured data such as images, videos, and documents — a resource from which enterprises are still not getting much value.

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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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Cloudera

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Just like when it comes to data access in business. Enabling data access for end-users so they can drive insight and business value is a typical area of compromise between IT and users. Data access can either be very secure but restrictive or very open yet risky. Quickly onboard data.

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Snowflake

JUNE 4, 2024

Generative AI presents enterprises with the opportunity to extract insights at scale from unstructured data sources, like documents, customer reviews and images. It also presents an opportunity to reimagine every customer and employee interaction with data to be done via conversational applications.

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Snowflake

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The growing role of data science in the modern business Today’s businesses are facing an unprecedented expansion of unstructured data that can permeate every department in an organization. Here are five trends that startups should keep an eye on in the months ahead. From a user-based perspective, it’s fast.

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Snowflake

JANUARY 8, 2024

While the possibilities of gen AI and large language models (LLMs) are limitless, there are several data challenges and risks financial executives need to be aware of when implementing AI that generates original content. Access to high-quality source data, strong governance controls and robust security are paramount.

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Snowflake

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

We are excited to announce the public preview of External Access, which enables customers to reach external endpoints from Snowpark seamlessly and securely. With this announcement, External Access is in public preview on Amazon Web Services (AWS) regions.

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Cloudera

APRIL 1, 2024

We scored the highest in hybrid, intercloud, and multi-cloud capabilities because we are the only vendor in the market with a true hybrid data platform that can run on any cloud including private cloud to deliver a seamless, unified experience for all data, wherever it lies.

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phData: Data Engineering

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Data governance plays a critical role in the successful implementation of Generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLM), with 86.7% It serves as a vital protective measure, ensuring proper data access while managing risks like data breaches and unauthorized use. of respondents rating it as highly impactful.

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Rather than defining schema upfront, a user can decide which data and schema they need for their use case. Snowflake has long supported semi-structured data types and file formats like JSON, XML, Parquet, and more recently storage and processing of unstructured data such as PDF documents, images, videos, and audio files.

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