In this lab you will learn below concepts -

1. How to ingest data in Snowflake

2. How to do data explorations and understanding with Pandas and visualization

3. How to encode the data for algorithms to use

4. How to normalize the data

5. How to training models with Scikit-Learn and Snowpark (including using Snowpark Optimized warehouse)

6. How to evaluate models for accuracy

7. How to deploy models on Snowflake

In this lab we start by loading the data into Snowflake, do some data transformation and finally we fit/train a Scikit-Learn ML pipeline that includes common feature engineering tasks such as Imputations, Scaling and One-Hot Encoding. The pipeline also includes a RandomForestRegressor model that will predict median house values in California.

We will fit/train the pipeline using a Snowpark Python Stored Procedure (SPROC) and then save the pipeline to a Snowflake stage. This example concludes by showing how a saved model/pipeline can be loaded and run in a scalable fashion on a snowflake warehouse using Snowpark Python User-Defined Functions (UDFs).

1.1 Clone the repository and switch into the directory

1.2 Open environment.yml and paste in the following config:

name: snowpark_scikit_learn
channels:
  - https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/snowflake/
  - nodefaults
dependencies:
  - python=3.8
  - pip
  - snowflake-snowpark-python
  - ipykernel
  - pyarrow
  - numpy
  - scikit-learn
  - pandas
  - joblib
  - cachetools
  - matplotlib
  - seaborn

1.3 Create the conda environment

conda env create -f environment.yml

1.4 Activate the conda environment

conda activate snowpark_scikit_learn

1.5 Download and install VS Code or you can use juypter notebook or any other IDE of your choice

1.6 Update the config.py file with your Snowflake account and credentials

1.7 Configure the conda environment in VS Code

In the terminal, run this command and note the path of the newly create conda environment

`conda env list`

Open the notebook named 1_snowpark_housing_ingest_data.ipynb in VS Code and in the top right corner click Select Kernal

Paste in the path to the conda env you copied earlier

Run the rest of the cells in 1_snowpark_data_ingest.ipynb to ingest data into Snowflake

Open and run 2_data_exploration_transformation.ipynb notebook.

Open and run 3_snowpark_end_to_end_ml.ipynb notebook.