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Managing Your Snowflake’s Virtual Warehouse Costs

A Snowflake virtual warehouse consumes Snowflake credits when it runs. The number of credits consumed depends on the size of the warehouse and how long the virtual warehouse runs. Managing credit consumption to ensure that credits are being used efficiently helps avoid unexpected surprises when it’s time to pay the bill. There are some very simple …

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Why Data Refinement Matters More Than Model Complexity

By Elijah Reber

Being a data science enthusiast, I spend a lot of my time researching about what new and exciting things are going on in the data science and machine learning realm. I actively read research papers and tutorial websites to try to differentiate the methods being carried out by experienced data scientists from those that like to …

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The Second Mile : How to strategically conquer the vaccine distribution challenge

By Sindhu Adini

Fourteen months ago, before the pandemic hit, I decided to make a significant addition to my lifestyle - running. I read all the articles, self help blogs, spoke to my trainer, and was mentally prepared to make progress slowly - one mile at a time. What I wasn’t prepared for was overcoming the challenge of the …

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Tableau CRM with Dashboard Reusable Components

By Vishal Jain

With the recent Spring ‘21 release, Salesforce’s Tableau CRM now includes Reusable Components, which will bring ease in managing Tableau CRM dashboards and increase the work space to put multiple visualizations on a single page. There are many reasons for relying on Reusable Components that come from the new release: Efficiency Consistency Field Proven Code Easier …

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Leveraging the Power of Snowflake : Real Time Loading from GCS

By Archana Inapudi

Continuing our series “Leveraging the Power of Snowflake”, this blog looks at how to load data in Snowflake as soon as it appears in Google Cloud Storage (GCS). The previous blogs discussed Snowflake’s unique architecture and features like zero-copy data cloning, dynamic caching, and data sharing in Leveraging the Power of Snowflake: Key Benefits and Architecture …

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Building effective Document Management Systems using DocAI

By Kaushik Koilada

Introduction The first step towards achieving data-driven insights to plan and analyze the growth is to possess the data in the right format. A large volume of documents, say invoices or tax files, cannot themselves be used for analysis, but the information in them is what is needed. In this blog, we will look at SpringML's …

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Leveraging the Power of Snowflake: Bulk Loading from Google Cloud Storage

By Archana Inapudi

Continuing our series “Leveraging the Power of Snowflake", in this blog, we walk through how easy it is to load data from Google Cloud Storage into Snowflake. If you missed our first blog, check it out. We discuss Snowflake’s unique architecture and features like zero-copy data cloning, dynamic caching, and data sharing in Leveraging the Power …

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Leveraging the Power of Snowflake – Key Benefits and Architecture

By Archana Inapudi

Snowflake is the newest competitor providing Elastic Data warehouse. This blog is an attempt to provide a simple and high-level understanding of Snowflake and its architecture. Key features are highlighted but not discussed in detail in this blog. Snowflake’s documentation is the best source for additional information. The best way to learn is to get your …

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Highlighting SpringML’s COVID-19 Solutions

By Sara Jones

While we are all glad to put 2020 in hindsight, the COVID-19 global pandemic showed us just how innovative and nimble we could be in the face of a challenge. SpringML honed in on our machine learning, app development and analytical capabilities to create solutions in partnership with Google Cloud for organizations on the front lines …

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How to deploy/serve custom models on AI Platform (Unified)

By Archana Inapudi

A question arose while solutioning for a ML use case. "What is the best way to host and serve custom models on GCP?" Among the options was the AI Platform (Unified) which was released for preview on November 16, 2020. I set out to test the platform with the requirements of this use case in mind. …

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