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Snowflake Resources from The Data Warrior

Since you are on this blog, I assume that means you are “following” me in that techie, non-stalker sort of way. 😉

That being the case you are aware of my tenure for the last 5+ years at the hottest data-focused software company in the world – Snowflake. And you know I have produced a lot of content (really – A LOT!). Everything from blogs to ebooks to videos to podcasts – in addition to my usual array of industry and Snowflake sponsored webinars and talks.

But if, like me, you have consumed so much content in the last year or so, you have probably lost track of some of it, right?

Well if you are trying to find something you saw me do (or tweet about doing) but just can’t remember what it was (or when or where) and you want to find it but don’t want to sift through the hundreds of Google search results or the thousands of social media posts I have done, look no further!

I decided to make it easier for you (and me frankly) by putting a pretty comprehensive list together on a permanent page here on my site.

I broke it up into videos/Podcasts, Thought Leader articles, ebooks, and blogs and have included links to all of these so you can quickly get to the content you need when you need it.

So check it out and bookmark the page now, before you forget or lose track of this post too. 🙂

You’re welcome.

Kent

The Data Warrior

Snowflake Summit 2021

It’s almost time! The annual Snowflake Summit is just a few weeks away.

Data is everywhere and it holds the keys to unlocking your organization’s success today and in the future. Attend Snowflake Summit and you’ll learn how to use the #DataCloud to unify, analyze, and share data previously out of your reach for more impact than you have ever imagined.

Data Together Now will inspire business and technical leaders, data scientists and engineers, data and analytics professionals, and application developers, to lead their organizations to a data-driven future, today. There is something for everyone in the organization.

You can be a DATA LEADER!

SAVE THE DATE:

AMERICAS: June 8-9  | 9  am PT  |  12 pm ET |  View Agenda

ASIA PACIFIC: June 9-10  | 10 am AEST  |  9 am JST |   View Agenda

EMEA AND INDIA: June 9-10  | 9 am BST  |  10 am CEST  |  1.30 pm IST |  View Agenda

So what are you waiting for? Register today.

Let it snow!

Kent

The Data Warrior

Snowflake at Stoweflake

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Every year the World Wide Data Vault Consortium (WWDVC) gets better and better! This year’s event was the 4th Annual and was again held at the lovely Stoweflake Mountain Lodge in Stowe, Vermont.

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And once again this year, my employer, Snowflake Computing, was a proud sponsor of the event. This year I even got to help with a hands on workshop with our ELT partner Talend as we walked folks through building a Data Vault in Snowflake using Talend!

WWDVC Sponsors

100 attendees got their minds filled and horizons broadened by an amazing slate of presentations given by great speakers from all over the world. Not only did we hear some real-life case studies from companies like Micron and Intact Financials (who have VERY large data vaults) but we even got to hear from someone at the US DoD (yes the Department of Defense!).

Then there were these mind-bending talks that challenged the most experienced in the audience:

– Measuring Data as an Asset (by Nols Ebersohn)
– How to get a DV project Approved (by Neil Strange)
– Uncertainty, Risk, & The Value of Information (by Brad Bergh)

And there were of course absolutely awesome keynotes from Tamara Dull (A Big Data Cheat Sheet for the Technically Savvy Data Professional) and from Scott Ambler we heard (very clearly!): Are You Agile or Are You Fragile?

What? You missed WWDVC 2017?

Well I guess you will have to wait for the 5th Annual WWDVC in 2018…

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Can’t wait? You are in luck!

This year Dan hired professional videographers to record the entire event.

Yup, all the workshops, the keynotes, and all the presentations.

I have seen the videos and they came out great.

So, if you would like to join the elite group of 100 data vault aficionados that attended WWDVC17, you now have the chance to see and hear the same great content we all were exposed to. Then you can be the champion for brining Data Vault 2.0 to your organization.

You can purchase access to all the recordings right here.

NB: There are no refunds on this purchase out of consideration for those who spent the time and money to attend the event.

Here’s what you get:

Pre-Conference Sessions

  • Brainstorming with Dan Linstedt (Inventor of the Data Vault and DV 2.0), Michael Olschimke (Co-Author, Building a Scalable Data Warehouse with DV 2.0) and Sanjay Pande (co-founder, LearnDataVault)
  • Talend and Snowflake Hand’s On Session
  • WhereScape Hands On Session
  • Analytix DS Hands On Workshop

Conference Sessions

Day 1

  • Keynote I – A Big Data Cheat Sheet for the Technically Savvy Data Professional (Tamara Dull, Director of Emerging Technologies, SAS)
  • Implementing a Data Vault 2.0 in the DoD (Cynthia Meyersohn, Senior Technical Consultant, Quadrint)
  • Data Vault 2.0 and the Power of Metadata (Steven Mellare, Data and Information Architect and Strategist, Pepper Money)
  • Software Defined Data Warehouse Using Data Vault 2.0 (Tevje Olin, Data Architect and Consultant, Solita)
  • Big Data Vault at Micron (Mike Magalsky, Enterprise Data Architect, Micron and Chris Sundstrom, Principal Data Architect, IM Flash Technologies)
  • Talend in the world of Data Vault (Dale Anderson, Customer Success Architect, Talend)
  • Analytix DS (Sam Benedict, VP Strategic Accounts, Analytix DS)
  • Data Mining in the Data Vault (Michael Olschimke, CEO, ScaleFree)

Day 2

  • Keynote II – Are You Agile or Are You Fragile? (Scott Ambler, Senior Consulting Partner, Scott Ambler + Associates)
  • Agile Methods and Data Warehousing: How to Deliver Faster (Kent Graziano, Senior Technical Evangelist, Snowflake Computing)
  • No DV is an Island: What Lies Beyond (Nols Ebersohn, Principal Architect, Certus Solutions Limited)
  • Beyond a Hadoop DV 2.0 Data Warehouse (Sanjay Pande, Co-Founder, LearnDataVault.com)
  • Business Vault Creation using a Rules Engine (Bruce McCartney, Senior Information Architect, First4 Database Partners)
  • Getting a Data Vault Project Approved (Neil Strange, Founder and MD, Business Thinking)
  • A Data Modeler and Process Modeler Walk into a Data Vault (John Giles, Independent Consultant and author of “The Nimble Elephant”)
  • WhereScape Automation Enabling Data Vault 2.0 (Neil Barton, CTO, WhereScape and Paul Watson Gover, Senior Solution Architect, WhereScape)

Day 3

  • Data Vault Automation – An OnGoing Story at Intact Financial (Francois Trudeau, Application Architect for Enterprise Information Systems, Intact Financial)
  • Moving to the Cloud, Metadata Driven Automation at Yale (Robert Scott, CTO, EON Collective)
  • Uncertainty, Risk and the Value of Information (Brad Bergh, Enterprise Information Consultant)

The only thing you miss out on is the great food and of course the in-person networking. So put WWDVC18 on your calendar (May 2018) but in the meantime get started by purchasing the videos from WWDVC17 now.

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Hopefully seeing these talk may even inspire you to not only attend next year but maybe even speak yourself!

Enjoy!

Kent

The Data Warrior & Data Vault Master

P.S. Of course if you have any questions or want to learn more about Snowflake, the 1st cloud-native data warehouse as a service, please reach out to me or follow me on twitter @kentgraziano.

Introduction to Snowflake!

Heads up! I will be giving a webinar next week, called Enabling Cloud-Native Elastic Data Warehousing to introduce folks to the Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse. Sign up here and join me on July 12th!

Special thanks to DAMA International for inviting me to do this!

See you there!

Kent

The Data Warrior

#Kscope16 Blog Hop: #BigData and #AdvancedAnalytics Sessions Not to Miss

You are attending #KScope16 right?

Me too.

But there are so many sessions to choose from (mine included), which do you pick? How do you pick?

Well, I (and my fellow bloggers) are here to help you out with a Blog Hop. We are going to give you our top picks for for each track. In this post, I will give you my picks for the Big Data and Advanced Analytics track.

Big Data and Advanced Analytics Sessions

Why did I pick that this track? Really because it is a necessary adjunct to BI and Data Warehousing. In fact I find it hard to imagine that these two really won’t merge over the next few years (at my company, Snowflake, it really has already). Every company that is investing in BI/DW is also finding that they need to deal with Big Data too. And Advanced Analytics is, to me, the logical extension to BI.

So after looking at the agenda, really most of the sessions are of interest to me (sigh). But in reality I am sure I will not be able to attend them all, so here are my top 5 picks to see at KScope16:

  1. How to Build an Internet of Things Data Pipeline presented by Rex Eng
  2. Oracle Big Data Discovery: Extending into Machine Learning and Advanced Visualizations presented by Mark Rittman
  3. Introduction to Apache Kafka and Real-Time ETL presented by Gwen Shapira
  4. Getting Started with a Data Discovery Lab: You Don’t Have to Go Big to Gain Big presented by Kathryn Watson
  5. Getting Started with Oracle R and OBIEE presented by Kevin McGinley
 Why those? Simply because they hit on all the top issues and topics that see being discussed (or written about) in the field, and I need to get a better grip on these things:
  • IoT – it is here already
  • Machine Learning – I am pretty clueless about this one so far
  • Kafka – ETL/ELT in the cloud
  • Data Discovery – the next step beyond BI
  • R – the language of choice for data scientists

And I actually know all of but one of the presenters, so am sure they will be very informative and lively talks.

The rest of the blog hop:

Thanks for attending this ODTUG blog hop!

Looking for some other juicy cross-track sessions to make your Kscope16 experience more educational? Check out the following session recommendations from fellow experts!

I hope this gives you some great ideas on what to see at KScope16!

See you in Chicago.

Kent

The Data Warrior

P.S. Don’t forget to make time to attend my Morning Chi Gung sessions down by the river to get each day started right with a clear mind and strong heart. Look for signs at the hotel.

 

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