Snowflake Cortex Masterclass 2024 Hands-On!

Cristian Scutaru
2 min readApr 9, 2024

Snowflake Cortex Masterclass 2024 Hands-On! is my new 20+ hours mega-course on Udemy.

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(1) Roadmap to Snowflake Cortex

  • Course Structure and Content
  • Roadmap of AI/ML Solutions in Snowflake
  • Overview of Snowflake Cortex

(2) ML Pipelines on Datasets (outside Snowflake)

  • Overview of ML Pipelines
  • Data Sources (Sample Datasets)
  • Data Exploration
  • Feature Engineering
  • Data Preprocessing
  • Model Training
  • Model Validation (Hyperparameter Optimization)
  • Model Evaluation (Performance Metrics)
  • Model Deployment
  • Snowflake Integrations with DS/ML Partners

(3) ML Pipelines using Snowpark (no Cortex)

  • Overview of Snowpark
  • Sample Data Extraction and Generation (in Snowflake)
  • Feature Engineering (in Snowpark DataFrames)
  • Model Training (in Stored Procedure)
  • Model Deployment (with Vectorized Python UDF)
  • ML Pipelines in Snowpark Container Services (SPCS)

(4) ML Pipelines with Snowpark ML (in Cortex)

  • Overview of Snowpark ML APIs
  • Snowpark ML Modeling (Classes)
  • Feature Engineering (in Snowpark DataFrame)
  • Distributed Preprocessing (for Transformers)
  • Model Training (with Estimators)
  • Model Validation (Distributed HPO)
  • Model Evaluation (Distributed Metrics)
  • Snowpark ML Operations: Model Registry
  • Snowpark ML Data Access
  • Cost of Snowpark ML

(5) ML-Powered Functions (in Cortex)

  • Overview of ML-Based Classes
  • Quick Intro to GBM (Gradient Boosting Machine)
  • Quick Intro to Snowflake Classes
  • Time-Series Forecasting
  • Anomaly Detection
  • Contribution Explorer
  • Classification
  • Access Rights to ML-Based Functions
  • Cost of ML-Based Functions

(6) LLM Functions (in Cortex)

  • Overview of LLM Functions
  • Quick Intro to Deep Learning
  • Quick Intro to Generative AI
  • Snowflake Integrations with ChatGPT
  • COMPLETE LLM Functions
  • EXTRACT_ANSWER LLM Function
  • SENTIMENT LLM Function
  • SUMMARIZE LLM Functions
  • TRANSLATE LLM Function
  • Access Rights to LLM Functions
  • Cost of LLM Functions

(7) LLM UI Extensions (in Cortex)

  • Overview of LLM UI Extensions
  • Snowflake Copilot
  • Universal Search
  • Document AI

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Cristian Scutaru

World-class expert in Snowflake Data Cloud. Former Snowflake "Data Superhero". SnowPro SME (Subject Matter Expert). 5x SnowPro certification exams.