Snowflake DSA-C02 Exam

By using ethnicity as a sensitive field, and comparing disparity between selection rates and performance metrics for each ethnicity value, you can evaluate the fairness of the model.

All are correct except a standard-only stream tracks row inserts only.

A standard (i.e. delta) stream tracks all DML changes to the source object, including inserts, up-dates, and deletes (including table truncates).

Evaluation metrics are tied to machine learning tasks. There are different metrics for the tasks of classification and regression. Some metrics, like precision-recall, are useful for multiple tasks. Classification and regression are examples of supervised learning, which constitutes a majority of machine learning applications. Using different metrics for performance evaluation, we should be able to im-prove our model's overall predictive power before we roll it out for production on unseen data. Without doing a proper evaluation of the Machine Learning model by using different evaluation metrics, and only depending on accuracy, can lead to a problem when the respective model is deployed on unseen data and may end in poor predictions.

Classification metrics are evaluation measures used to assess the performance of a classification model. Common metrics include accuracy (proportion of correct predictions), precision (true positives over total predicted positives), recall (true positives over total actual positives), F1 score (har-monic mean of precision and recall), and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC-ROC).

Confusion Matrix

Confusion Matrix is a performance measurement for the machine learning classification problems where the output can be two or more classes. It is a table with combinations of predicted and actual values.

It is extremely useful for measuring the Recall, Precision, Accuracy, and AUC-ROC curves.

The four commonly used metrics for evaluating classifier performance are:

1. Accuracy: The proportion of correct predictions out of the total predictions.

2. Precision: The proportion of true positive predictions out of the total positive predictions (precision = true positives / (true positives + false positives)).

3. Recall (Sensitivity or True Positive Rate): The proportion of true positive predictions out of the total actual positive instances (recall = true positives / (true positives + false negatives)).

4. F1 Score: The harmonic mean of precision and recall, providing a balance between the two metrics (F1 score = 2 * ((precision * recall) / (precision + recall))).

These metrics help assess the classifier's effectiveness in correctly classifying instances of different classes.

Understanding how well a machine learning model will perform on unseen data is the main purpose behind working with these evaluation metrics. Metrics like accuracy, precision, recall are good ways to evaluate classification models for balanced datasets, but if the data is imbalanced then other methods like ROC/AUC perform better in evaluating the model performance.

ROC curve isn't just a single number but it's a whole curve that provides nuanced details about the behavior of the classifier. It is also hard to quickly compare many ROC curves to each other.

All are correct except a standard-only stream tracks row inserts only.

A standard (i.e. delta) stream tracks all DML changes to the source object, including inserts, up-dates, and deletes (including table truncates).

Moving Data from Spark to Snowflake

The steps for saving the contents of a DataFrame to a Snowflake table are similar to writing from Snowflake to Spark:

1. Use the write() method of the DataFrame to construct a DataFrameWriter.

2. Specify SNOWFLAKE_SOURCE_NAME using the format() method.

3. Specify the connector options using either the option() or options() method.

4. Use the dbtable option to specify the table to which data is written.

5. Use the mode() method to specify the save mode for the content.

Examples

1. df.write

2. .format(SNOWFLAKE_SOURCE_NAME)

3. .options(sfOptions)

4. .option('dbtable', 't2')

5. .mode(SaveMode.Overwrite)

6. .save()