Jumpstart Snowflake: A Step-by-Step Guide to Modern Cloud Analytics

© Dmitry Anoshin, Dmitry Shirokov, Donna Strok 2020

D. Anoshin et al.Jumpstart Snowflakehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5328-1_12

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 ...