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Snowflake and Data Science

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Nowadays, data is one of the main assets of any company. As a result, each team of analysts is faced with the need to organize data science processes. Snowflake is a smart choice as a data source for storing structured and semistructured data.

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    You can find more information about the Alteryx platform at https://www.alteryx.com/.

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    You can find more information about Apache Spark at https://spark.apache.org/.

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    You can find more information about the Databricks platform at https://databricks.com/.

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    You can find more information about DataRobot at https://www.datarobot.com/.

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    You can find more information about the H2O platform at https://www.h2o.ai/.

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    You can find more information about R Studio at https://www.rstudio.com/.

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    You can find more information about Qubola at https://www.qubole.com/.

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    Pandas is a Python library providing data structures and data analysis methods. For more information, see https://pandas.pydata.org.

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    Scikit-learn is a free Python machine learning library. For more information, see https://scikit-learn.org.

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    TensorFlow is an open source deep learning library. For more information, see https://www.tensorflow.org.

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    MLflow is an open source platform for the machine learning lifecycle. For more information, see https://mlflow.org/.

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    Apache Airflow is a schedule and monitor workflows tool. For more information, see https://airflow.apache.org.

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    AWS Elastic MapReduce (EMR) is a Hadoop managed service on AWS. For more information, see https://aws.amazon.com/emr/.

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    HDInsight is a Hadoop–managed service on Azure. For more information, see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/hdinsight/.

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    Google Cloud Dataproc is a Hadoop–managed service on GCP. For more information, see https://cloud.google.com/dataproc/.

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    Spark provides data frames and data sets. For more information, see https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html.

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    For more information about Snowflake Connector for Spark, see https://docs.snowflake.net/manuals/user-guide/spark-connector.html.

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    For more information about column mapping, see https://docs.snowflake.net/manuals/user-guide/spark-connector-use.html#label-spark-options.

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    Maven is a build automation tool used primarily for Java projects. For more information, see https://maven.apache.org/.

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    For more information, see https://databricks.com/product/unified-analytics-platform.

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    For more information about Delta Lake, see https://delta.io/.

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    For more information about Apache Hadoop Distributed File System, see https://hadoop.apache.org/.

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    For more information about MLFlow, see https://mlflow.org/.

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    For more information about Microsoft Azure, see https://azure.microsoft.com.

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    For more information about limits, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-subscription-service-limits.

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    For more information about Azure Databricks, see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/databricks/.

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    For more about optimizing performance with caching, see https://docs.databricks.com/delta/delta-cache.html.

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    For more about Databricks secrets, see https://docs.databricks.com/user-guide/secrets/index.html.

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Anoshin, D., Shirokov, D., Strok, D. (2020). Snowflake and Data Science. In: Jumpstart Snowflake. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5328-1_12

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