Snowflake

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The trend to centralize data will accelerate, making sure that data is high-quality, accurate and well managed. Overall, data must be easily accessible to AI systems, with clear metadata management and a focus on relevance and timeliness.

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Snowflake

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Yet organizations struggle to pave a path to production due to an AI and data mismatch. LLMs excel at unstructured data, but many organizations lack mature preparation practices for this type of data; meanwhile, structured data is better managed, but challenges remain in enabling LLMs to understand rows and columns.

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Snowflake

MARCH 6, 2025

Entity extraction : Extracting key entities (names, dates, locations, financial figures) from contracts, invoices or medical records to transform unstructured text into structured data. Being able to flexibly switch LLMs helps businesses optimize costs by right-sizing models for each use case and easily upgrading as models improve.

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Snowflake

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Conducting quant research and investment analytics: Tuning into structured data such as pricing, estimates and environmental, social and governance (ESG) data is only the beginning of valuable quant research and investment analytics.

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Snowflake

MARCH 26, 2025

By leveraging SQL functions, Snowflake staging and other Snowflake-native capabilities, end users can query or transform unstructured data using ROE AI in a self-service fashion exactly the way they query their structured data. How has the Snowflake Native App Framework shaped your startup's growth and development strategy?

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Snowflake

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Deliver multimodal analytics with familiar SQL syntax Database queries are the underlying force that runs the insights across organizations and powers data-driven experiences for users. Traditionally, SQL has been limited to structured data neatly organized in tables.

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Snowflake

JANUARY 30, 2025

Kumos native app provides this intelligence by combining graph learning over structured data and gen AI models trained on unstructured data, all within the Snowflake environment. For example, Snowflake partner Kumo uses Snowflakes AI capabilities to predict whether patients might need to be readmitted to the hospital.

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Unstructured Data Entertainment Healthcare Telecommunication 97

databricks

JUNE 2, 2024

We are excited to announce a new data type called variant for semi-structured data. Variant provides an order of magnitude performance improvements compared.

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Snowflake

JANUARY 29, 2025

Snowflake Cortex AI Snowflake Cortex AI is a suite of integrated features and services that include fully-managed LLM inference, fine-tuning, and RAG for structured and unstructured data, to enable customers to quickly analyze unstructured data alongside their structured data, and expedite the building of AI apps.

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Unstructured Data SQL Python Government 97

Snowflake

APRIL 2, 2025

Data storage has been evolving, from databases to data warehouses and expansive data lakes, with each architecture responding to different business and data needs. Traditional databases excelled at structured data and transactional workloads but struggled with performance at scale as data volumes grew.

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Waitingforcode

JANUARY 23, 2025

Even though Apache Spark SQL provides an API for structured data, the framework sometimes behaves unexpectedly. It's the case of an insertInto operation that can even lead to some data quality issues. Let's try to understand in this short article.

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Simon Späti

MAY 3, 2023

We have also touched upon the significance of understanding the data landscape, its challenges, and much more. As we delve deeper into this topic, Part 2 will focus on data modeling approaches and techniques.

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Simon Späti

MAY 3, 2023

We have also touched upon the significance of understanding the data landscape, its challenges, and much more. As we delve deeper into this topic, Part 2 will focus on data modeling approaches and techniques.

Data Engineering 130

Data Engineering Data Engineer Engineering Structured Data 130

Cloudyard

JANUARY 15, 2025

Apply advanced data cleansing and transformation logic using Python. Automate structured data insertion into Snowflake tables for downstream analytics. Use Case: Extracting Insurance Data from PDFs Imagine a scenario where an insurance company receives thousands of policy documents daily.

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KDnuggets

JULY 1, 2023

Building a datalake for semi-structured data or json has always been challenging. Imagine if the json documents are streaming or continuously flowing from healthcare vendors then we need a robust modern architecture that can deal with such a high volume.

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Azure Data Engineering

MAY 15, 2022

When it comes to transforming structured data, (e.g., The Stored Procedure Activity in Data Factory provides and simple and convenient way to execute Stored Procedures. applying business logic, standardization etc.) stored in a database, SQL is the most convenient and fit-to-purpose option.

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Data Engineering Weekly

MARCH 5, 2025

Start the Data Governance Process: Don't wait until the last minute to build the data governance framework. The Catalog Conundrum: Beyond Structured Data The role of the catalog is evolving. Initially, catalogs focused on managing metadata for structured data in Iceberg tables.

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Monte Carlo

JULY 15, 2024

Not only can the LLM turn unstructured data into structured data, but it can also give a summary of exactly what happened – and it can do so dynamically, so new context is always added and taken into account. This new dataset opened the door for even more machine learning analysis on newly structured data.

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Monte Carlo

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

As training data becomes more scarce, companies like OpenAI believe that synthetic data will be an important part of how they train their models in the future. But is synthetic data a long-term solution? Probably not.

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Monte Carlo

MARCH 3, 2025

The most common themes: Data readiness- You cant have good AI with bad data. On the structured data side of the house, teams are racing to achieve AI-Ready data. In other words, to create a central source of truth and reduce their data + AI downtime. Piecing them together is complexity squared.

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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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Data Engineering Podcast

AUGUST 31, 2020

Your host is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Eldad Farkash about Firebolt, a cloud data warehouse optimized for speed and elasticity on structured and semi-structured data Interview Introduction How did you get involved in the area of data management?

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Analytics Vidhya

JANUARY 31, 2023

But are they still useful without the data? The machine learning algorithms heavily rely on data that we feed to them. The quality of data we feed to the algorithms […] The post Practicing Machine Learning with Imbalanced Dataset appeared first on Analytics Vidhya. The answer is No.

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Monte Carlo

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Data Lakehouse Pattern Data lakehouses are the sporks of architectural patterns – combining the best parts of data warehouses with data lakes. You get the structure and performance of a warehouse with the flexibility and scalability of a lake. The data lakehouse has got you covered!

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databricks

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Many AI use cases now depend on transforming unstructured inputs into structured data. Developers are increasingly relying on LLMs to extract structured data.

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Structured Data Data 64

Cloudera

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In terms of representation, data can be broadly classified into two types: structured and unstructured. Structured data can be defined as data that can be stored in relational databases, and unstructured data as everything else.

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Data Engineering Weekly

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The blog narrates how Protobuf serialization converts structured data into a compact binary format by encoding each field with a tag (field number and wire type) and a value, using efficient methods like variable-length integers and length-prefixed strings.

Data Engineering 57

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Monte Carlo

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Proficiency in Programming Languages Knowledge of programming languages is a must for AI data engineers and traditional data engineers alike. In addition, AI data engineers should be familiar with programming languages such as Python , Java, Scala, and more for data pipeline, data lineage, and AI model development.

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Snowflake

JUNE 5, 2024

Cortex AI Cortex Analyst: Enable business users to chat with data and get text-to-answer insights using AI Cortex Analyst, built with Meta’s Llama 3 and Mistral Large models, lets you get the insights you need from your structured data by simply asking questions in natural language.

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Data Engineering Weekly

JANUARY 12, 2025

Generative AI demands the processing of vast amounts of diverse, unstructured data (e.g., meeting recordings and videos), which contrasts with traditional SQL-centric systems for structured data. The fundamental shift from traditional SQL-centric to AI-centric data processing further widened the efficiency gap.

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Snowflake

MARCH 30, 2023

Schema drift on a wide table structure needs an ALTER TABLE statement, whereas the tall table structure does not. Raw vault does not dictate how those business process outcomes were calculated at the source system, nor does business vault dictate how the soft rules were calculated based on raw data. Enter Snowpark !

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Hevo

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

A data warehouse is a centralized system that stores, integrates, and analyzes large volumes of structured data from various sources. It is predicted that more than 200 zettabytes of data will be stored in the global cloud by 2025.

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Christophe Blefari

JANUARY 14, 2024

Every data transform is technical debt. How BigQuery stores semi-structured data? — It relates to Dremel and parquet structures. Mixpanel modern data stack fast lane. To be able to publish on Monday morning I don't have the time to read all the following articles. How Monzo built Year in Monzo.

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Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As training data becomes more scarce, companies like OpenAI believe that synthetic data will be an important part of how they train their models in the future. But is synthetic data a long-term solution? Probablynot.

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Unstructured Data Data Food Data Engineering 80

Striim

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In an ETL-based architecture, data is first extracted from source systems, then transformed into a structured format, and finally loaded into data stores, typically data warehouses. This method is advantageous when dealing with structured data that requires pre-processing before storage.

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Analytics Vidhya

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We can use this to steal sensitive information or make unauthorized changes to the data stored in the database. Introduction SQL injection is an attack in which a malicious user can insert arbitrary SQL code into a web application’s query, allowing them to gain unauthorized access to a database.

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databricks

APRIL 1, 2025

To understand why one may use a Knowledge Graph (KG) instead of another structured data representation, its important Understanding GraphRAG What is a Knowledge Graph?

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