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Snowpark + Hex Ask Me Anything

What's this blog post about?

Hex recently held an AMA session with Snowflake about Snowpark for Python, focusing on Feature Engineering and Model Training for AI and ML. Key points from the live event include how to initiate a Snowpark instance in Hex, importing packages, benefits of using Hex over Jupyter, integrating Hex/Snowpark into CI/CD workflows, converting existing Jupyter notebooks to use this functionality, when and why to push compute demand down to Snowflake, differences between PySpark and Snowpark, leveraging warehouses for ML purposes, feature engineering offered by Snowpark, Hex Magic vs. Snowpark, and model versioning, testing, and hyperparameter tuning in Snowflake ML.

Company
Hex

Date published
Sept. 29, 2023

Author(s)
Armin Efendic

Word count
1344

Language
English

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