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Unstructured Data: Examples, Tools, Techniques, and Best Practices

AltexSoft

In today’s data-driven world, organizations amass vast amounts of information that can unlock significant insights and inform decision-making. A staggering 80 percent of this digital treasure trove is unstructured data, which lacks a pre-defined format or organization. What is unstructured data?

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Now in Public Preview: Processing Files and Unstructured Data with Snowpark for Python

Snowflake

With this new Snowpark capability, data engineers and data scientists can process any type of file directly in Snowflake, regardless if files are stored in Snowflake-managed storage or externally. Previously, working with these large and complex files would require a unique set of tools, creating data silos. ” U.S.

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Top 5 Data + AI Predictions for Financial Services in 2024

Snowflake

The foundation for success is a data platform that allows flexible, cost-effective ways to access gen AI — whether organizations want to use off-the-shelf commercial and open-source large language models (LLMs), or fine-tune their own LLMs for more complex applications. Rinesh Patel, Snowflake’s Global Head of Financial Services 2.

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Snowflake Summit 2023 Keynote Recap: Document AI, Container Services, and More!

Monte Carlo

He then announced Unifeid Iceberg Tables: a single mode to interact with external data with no tradeoffs whether or not the coordination of changes writes happens by Snowflake or a different system. Document AI Christian’s next announcement may have been the buzziest of the buzzy: Snowflake’s Document AI.

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Use AI in Seconds with Snowflake Cortex

Snowflake

For organizations to fully capitalize on this potential, it’s critical that everyone — not just those with AI expertise — is able to access and use generative AI. With just a single line of SQL or Python, analysts can instantly access specialized ML and LLM models tuned for specific tasks. See Document AI in action on YouTube.

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5 Steps to Data Diversity: More Diverse Data Makes for Smarter AI

Snowflake

Diverse data provides a broader view and helps avoid the potential blinders traditional sources can perpetuate. To ensure your AI models are trained with as much data as possible, here are five best practices for greater data diversity: 1. Break down internal silos to access cross-functional sources.

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Why a Solid Data Foundation Is the Key to Successful Gen AI

Snowflake

By 2025 it’s estimated that there will be 7 petabytes of data generated every day compared with “just” 2.3 And it’s not just any type of data. The majority of it (80%) is now estimated to be unstructured data such as images, videos, and documents — a resource from which enterprises are still not getting much value.