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Snowflake’s New Python API Empowers Data Engineers to Build Modern Data Pipelines with Ease

Snowflake

In today’s data-driven world, developer productivity is essential for organizations to build effective and reliable products, accelerate time to value, and fuel ongoing innovation. While the Python API connector remains available for specific SQL use cases, the new API is designed to be your go-to solution.

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RAG vs Fine Tuning: How to Choose the Right Method

Monte Carlo

It can involve prompt engineering, vector databases like Pinecone , embedding vectors and semantic layers, data modeling, data orchestration, and data pipelines – all tailored for RAG. But when it’s done right, RAG can add an incredible amount of value to AI-powered data products. What is Fine Tuning?

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Data Pipeline vs. ETL: Which Delivers More Value?

Ascend.io

In the modern world of data engineering, two concepts often find themselves in a semantic tug-of-war: data pipeline and ETL. Fast forward to the present day, and we now have data pipelines. Data Ingestion Data ingestion is the first step of both ETL and data pipelines.

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Data Pipelines in the Healthcare Industry

DareData

One paper suggests that there is a need for a re-orientation of the healthcare industry to be more "patient-centric". Furthermore, clean and accessible data, along with data driven automations, can assist medical professionals in taking this patient-centric approach by freeing them from some time-consuming processes.

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How to Become a Data Engineer in 2024?

Knowledge Hut

Data Engineering is typically a software engineering role that focuses deeply on data – namely, data workflows, data pipelines, and the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process. This job requires a handful of skills, starting from a strong foundation of SQL and programming languages like Python , Java , etc.

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Data News — Week 23.14

Christophe Blefari

The only normalisation I did was back at the engineering school while learning SQL with Normal Forms. Actually what I cared was physical storage, data formats, logical partitioning or indexing. At the same time Maxime Beauchemin wrote a post about Entity-Centric data modeling. Denormalisation everywhere. YAML configured.

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Data News — Week 13.14

Christophe Blefari

The only normalisation I did was back at the engineering school while learning SQL with Normal Forms. Actually what I cared was physical storage, data formats, logical partitioning or indexing. At the same time Maxime Beauchemin wrote a post about Entity-Centric data modeling. Denormalisation everywhere. YAML configured.