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12. Snowflake and Data Science

Dmitry Anoshin1 , Dmitry Shirokov2 and Donna Strok3
(1)
British Columbia, Canada
(2)
Burnaby, BC, Canada
(3)
Seattle, WA, USA
 

“You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”

—Robin Williams,

“Little spark of madness” stand-up, 1977

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.

In other words, elastic storage and computes allow you to store an unlimited amount of data at no extra ...

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