Technology Explorations in Data & AI

Your dashboards only answer the questions you thought of last quarter. Every new question is a ticket, a dependency, or a gut call. Snowflake Intelligence wants to fix that -- a chat interface on top of governed enterprise data that turns plain English into SQL, runs it, and gives you a chart back. No analysts involved.

Jelle builds the full setup live: semantic view, verified queries, Cortex Agent, access control. They get honest about what this actually requires -- data quality, governance, and whether Snowflake is worth the cost.

Resources:
- Snowflake Intelligence docs: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-intelligence
- Demo code: https://github.com/datamindedbe/demo-technology-exploration
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• (00:00) - Intro & meet Jelle
• (02:04) - What is Snowflake Intelligence?
• (02:54) - Demo: talking to your data
• (10:36) - Where it fits & how it works
• (15:14) - Build: the Semantic View
• (22:37) - Build: the Agent
• (29:20) - Challenges & data quality
• (34:26) - How ETL is evolving
• (40:33) - Will this replace engineers & analysts?
• (43:23) - Is Snowflake worth the cost?
• (45:14) - How do you get started?
• (50:06) - Summary & takeaways

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Data & AI: Technology Explorations is a biweekly show from Dataminded. Each episode a Dataminded engineer demos a tool or technique worth knowing about -- working code, honest takes, no hype.

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