Daan – Daanalytics

Why didn’t we see this coming?

Early this month I attended the two days International Master Class in Strategic Intelligence executed by Rodenberg Tillman & Associates. If you’re really determined to move beyond simply gathering data and truly understand its strategic impact, this Master Class is designed for you. The Master Class is built around the Six Building Blocks™, ensuring comprehensive coverage of the critical aspects of Strategic Management and Intelligence. It’s perfect for business professionals who aim to excel by integrating Strategic Intelligence into their everyday practices, gaining the insights necessary to not only anticipate, but shape the future.

Snowflake Dutch User Group – October 2024

Last night I had the privilege to organize a Snowflake ❄️ User Group in Snowflake’s Amsterdam Office.

Johan van der Kooij shared his experiences regarding optimizing Snowflake from a cost & performance perspective. He shared practical hints, as well as example queries, that you can use to optimize your Snowflake environment.

Snowflake Snowflake Data Cloud Summit — Wrap Up

Snowflake Data Cloud Summit proved that after all this years the core idea remains the same and is still strong. Technology should serve and Snowflake makes things simple. One Single Unified Platform, one product and one engine. Ease of use and Govenance. Maximum efficiency and maximum simplicity.

Bring the processing of data to the data instead of the other way around. Snowflake as a Platform where you build and share your Data, Apps and AI Products. Your data never has to leave the Platform and Snowflake takes care of this Platform.

Snowflake Data Cloud Summit – Day II

The second day of Snowflake Summit in the Moscone Center in San Francisco started with Platform Keynote packed with announcements and demo’s. The announcements were not necessarily completely new, but a continuation of things Snowflake was already working on. Lot’s of Developments and Previews have made it to GA status and are now Generally Available to the public. A few announcements were made as wel.

This blogpost a summarization of my notes with were possible a link to Snowflake publications or documentation.

Snowflake Data Cloud Summit – Day I

The first day of Snowflake Summit in the Moscone Center in San Francisco was a day with the first two announcements made during the Opening Keynote. These two announcements built upon the theme for this years Summit; “The Era of Enterprise AI”

Summarize Snowflake Earnings for Fiscal Q1-2025 with Cortex

This blogpost is an example of how you can use Snowflake Cortex AI, Streamlit and a native Python UDF to scrape text from a website and summarize it all from within Snowflake.

Snowflake Data Governance directly from Snowsight

Last year I blogged about how to use Snowflake functionality to; “Know your Data”. Especially in these times where Generative AI becomes more and more mainstream, it’s essential to know what data is input for the LLM’s. Now Snowflake has made this a few clicks easier, offering classifying functionalities directly from Snowsight.