Webinar

The Power of Snowflake and Posit Workbench: Macroeconomic Data Exploration in the Cloud

In this webinar, we utilized the Posit Workbench Native App to demonstrate that macroeconomic research can be run in the Snowflake cloud, but powered by R and RStudio.

Screenshot of the Positron IDE featuring Databot, showing an AI assistant generating R code for DuckDB and S3 integration alongside a data console.

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Starting with data sourced from the Snowflake marketplace, we will import, transform, visualize, and, finally, model data using the orbital framework to push tidymodels down to the cloud. This is full-stack, R-driven macroeconomic research in the cloud.

Speakers

Jonathan Regenstein

Head of Financial Services AI at Snowflake

Jonathan Regenstein currently serves as the Head of Financial Services AI at Snowflake, a position held since May 2023. In addition, Regenstein contributes as a Research Affiliate at the Georgia Tech Financial Services Innovation Lab and as an Adjunct Professor at Kennesaw State University's School of Data Science and Analytics, focusing on data mining, visualization, time series, and R. Previous roles include VP of Research and Analytics at Sylvan Road Capital, Head of Data and Quantamental Research at Truist Securities, and Director of Financial Services Practice at RStudio (now Posit).

James Blair

Sr. Product Manager, Posit

James Blair is a Senior Product Manager at Posit, where he focuses on helping Posit commercial products seamlessly integrate into cloud platforms and environments. He has a background in statistics and data science and finds any excuse he can to write R code and ride his bike, although usually not at the same time.