HL7 Processing & Transformation with Snowpark Python and Snowflake
David Hrncir from Hashmap, an NTT DATA Company, presents a demo on unstructured data for Snowflake’s Snowpark Day.
Hashmap Takes on Snowpark Day (again!)
This year’s Snowpark Day — presented by Snowflake, Streamsets, Dataiku, and Hashmap, an NTT DATA Company — was held on April 21, 2022 and it was certainly one for the books!
Hashmap played a part in bringing this event to life as David Hrncir, Regional Technical Expert, represented Hashmap with a demo that does an excellent job of capturing what’s changed with Snowpark and showcasing the range of its possibilities.
David expertly breaks down parsing and transforming HL7 messages (a healthcare industry-specific, unstructured data format) with Snowpark Python using Snowflake. He also covers Snowpark use cases, advantages, and key differences, as well as an overview of understanding the use of HL7 in the healthcare industry. David then brings all of this knowledge together with a walkthrough of the Snowflake Snowpark Demo with HL7: Processing & Transformation for Patient 360.
If you missed the demo live at Snowpark Day, don’t worry — we’ve got you covered!
Watch David’s demo:
What is Snowpark (and Snowpark Day)?
Snowpark Day is all about — you guessed it! — Snowpark, which is a developer framework of Snowflake. Snowpark was designed to ease the difficulty that data professionals face when collaborating in a complex data environment.
Snowpark allows data engineers, data scientists, & developers to write code in their own language of choice. With the simplicity and power of DataFrames in mind, you can leverage the Snowpark API to write data engineering applications or even do exploratory analysis using its intuitive table-like structures with the strong data typing of Scala.
For a quick summary (or refresh) on Snowpark, watch this Hashmap Perspective video:
The sessions at this year’s Snowpark Day featured 10 speakers from Snowflake, Streamsets, Dataiku, and of course, Hashmap, an NTT DATA Company. Each of the sessions aims to educate about the newest features of Snowpark and offers the chance to visualize their potential by exploring new use cases.
So why Snowpark (and Snowflake in general)? Well, that’s simple — the goal of Snowpark is to improve collaboration, and at Hashmap, we’re all about building better, together.
Snowflake Data Cloud Services for Healthcare
Speaking of building better, together, Hashmap has partnered with Snowflake and NTT DATA to bring you Snowflake Healthcare Solutions — an extended suite of healthcare offerings! Together, we’re working to bring you personalized healthcare data solutions that utilize the Snowflake Data Cloud, with a special focus on chronic diseases (prediction, progression, intervention).
The combination of Hashmap’s superior consulting services experience, NTT DATA’s global industry expertise, and Snowflake’s insights, analytical power, and collaborative tools allows us to deliver better, more personalized experiences for both patients and members.
Visit our healthcare page to learn more about how Hashmap and NTT DATA can use the power of Snowflake’s tools to help you leverage advanced analytics insights and industry-leading data sets.
(Bonus: For more on Hashmap’s long-time partnership with Snowflake, check out our Snowflake Partner page to see use cases, case studies, and more!)
Want more on Snowpark?
Check out some of these resources to learn all about this powerful framework and what it can do for your data teams.
Snowpark Day 2022 sessions on-demand:
Read this article written by a Hashmapper, George Luft:
In 2021, Hashmap was given early access to Snowpark. In this article, George reviews the capabilities of Snowpark for different data actions and shares how Snowpark aligns with Hashmap’s 7S design principles.
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