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Network Coding

Fundamentals and Applications

Edited by Muriel Medard, Alex Sprintson ...

Network coding is a field of information and coding theory and is a method of attaining maximum information flow in a network. This book is an ideal introduction for the communications and network engineer, working in research and development, who needs an intuitive introduction to network coding and to the increased performance and reliability it offers in many applications. This book is an ideal ... Read more

$80.99 USD

Network coding is a field of information and coding theory and is a method of attaining maximum information flow in a network. This book is an ideal introduction for the communications and network engineer, working in research and development, who needs an intuitive introduction to network coding and to the increased performance and reliability it offers in many applications. This book is an ideal
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Microsoft Excel Option Button, Check Box, Combo Box, List Box and Spin Button (Form Controls)

by Kenny L Keys ...

This book will allow users to quickly master Microsoft Excel Form Controls: combo box, check box, spin button, list box, and option button. The option button is also known as the radio button. Form controls are designed to work with Microsoft formulas and/or VBA; however, this book is strictly about form controls working with Microsoft formulas; there will be no VBA codes or macros discussed in ... Read more

$5.00 USD

This book will allow users to quickly master Microsoft Excel Form Controls: combo box, check box, spin button, list box, and option button. The option button is also known as the radio button. Form controls are designed to work with Microsoft formulas and/or VBA; however, this book is strictly about form controls working with Microsoft formulas; there will be no VBA codes or macros discussed in
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Cyber Security Awareness for CEOs and Management

by David Willson, Henry Dalziel ...

Cyber Security for CEOs and Managment is a concise overview of the security threats posed to organizations and networks by the ubiquity of USB Flash Drives used as storage devices. The book will provide an overview of the cyber threat to you, your business, your livelihood, and discuss what you need to do, especially as CEOs and Management, to lower risk, reduce or eliminate liability, and protect ... Read more

$35.99 USD

Cyber Security for CEOs and Managment is a concise overview of the security threats posed to organizations and networks by the ubiquity of USB Flash Drives used as storage devices. The book will provide an overview of the cyber threat to you, your business, your livelihood, and discuss what you need to do, especially as CEOs and Management, to lower risk, reduce or eliminate liability, and protect
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Advanced Analytics with PySpark

Patterns for Learning from Data at Scale Using Python and Spark

by Akash Tandon, Sandy Ryza, Uri Laserson, Sean Owen, Josh Wills ...

The amount of data being generated today is staggering and growing. Apache Spark has emerged as the de facto tool to analyze big data and is now a critical part of the data science toolbox. Updated for Spark 3.0, this practical guide brings together Spark, statistical methods, and real-world datasets to teach you how to approach analytics problems using PySpark, Spark's Python API, and other best ... Read more

$41.99 USD

The amount of data being generated today is staggering and growing. Apache Spark has emerged as the de facto tool to analyze big data and is now a critical part of the data science toolbox. Updated for Spark 3.0, this practical guide brings together Spark, statistical methods, and real-world datasets to teach you how to approach analytics problems using PySpark, Spark's Python API, and other best
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Data Visualization

A Practical Introduction

by Kieran Healy ...

An accessible primer on how to create effective graphics from dataThis book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail, how to make high-quality figures from data using powerful and reproducible methods, and how to think about data visualization in an honest and ... Read more

$35.99 USD

An accessible primer on how to create effective graphics from dataThis book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail, how to make high-quality figures from data using powerful and reproducible methods, and how to think about data visualization in an honest and
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Bad Data

Why We Measure the Wrong Things and Often Miss the Metrics That Matter

by Peter Schryvers ...

Highlights the pitfalls of data analysis and emphasizes the importance of using the appropriate metrics before making key decisions. Big data is often touted as the key to understanding almost every aspect of contemporary life. This critique of "information hubris" shows that even more important than data is finding the right metrics to evaluate it. The author, an expert in environmental design ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Highlights the pitfalls of data analysis and emphasizes the importance of using the appropriate metrics before making key decisions. Big data is often touted as the key to understanding almost every aspect of contemporary life. This critique of "information hubris" shows that even more important than data is finding the right metrics to evaluate it. The author, an expert in environmental design
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Digital Interaction and Machine Intelligence

Proceedings of MIDI’2021 – 9th Machine Intelligence and Digital Interaction Conference, December 9-10, 2021, Warsaw, Poland

Edited by Cezary Biele, Janusz Kacprzyk, Wiesław Kopeć, Jan W. Owsiński, Andrzej Romanowski, Marcin Sikorski ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.This book presents the Proceedings of the 9th Machine Intelligence and Digital Interaction Conference. Significant progress in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and its wider use in many interactive products are quickly transforming further areas of our life, which results in the emergence of various new ... Read more

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This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.This book presents the Proceedings of the 9th Machine Intelligence and Digital Interaction Conference. Significant progress in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and its wider use in many interactive products are quickly transforming further areas of our life, which results in the emergence of various new
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Raw Data Is an Oxymoron

Edited by Lisa Gitelman ...

Series series Infrastructures
Episodes in the history of data, from early modern math problems to today's inescapable “dataveillance,” that demonstrate the dependence of data on culture.We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta- denotes a quadrillion, or a thousand trillion). Data collection is constant and even insidious, with every click ... Read more

$29.99 USD

Episodes in the history of data, from early modern math problems to today's inescapable “dataveillance,” that demonstrate the dependence of data on culture.We live in the era of Big Data, with storage and transmission capacity measured not just in terabytes but in petabytes (where peta- denotes a quadrillion, or a thousand trillion). Data collection is constant and even insidious, with every click
... Read more
The Year in Tech, 2023: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

by Harvard Business Review, Beena Ammanath, Andrew Ng, Michael Luca, Bhaskar Ghosh ...

Series series HBR Insights Series
A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech—all in one place.Easy-to-use AI tools, contactless commerce, crypto for business, the mature metaverse—new technologies like these are reshaping organizations at the hybrid office, on factory floors, and in the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing now to take advantage of the new opportunities these technologies are creating—and avoid ... Read more

$16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech—all in one place.Easy-to-use AI tools, contactless commerce, crypto for business, the mature metaverse—new technologies like these are reshaping organizations at the hybrid office, on factory floors, and in the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing now to take advantage of the new opportunities these technologies are creating—and avoid
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Python Data Analysis

by Ivan Idris ...

This book is for programmers, scientists, and engineers who have knowledge of the Python language and know the basics of data science. It is for those who wish to learn different data analysis methods using Python and its libraries. This book contains all the basic ingredients you need to become an expert data analyst. ... Read more

$27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This book is for programmers, scientists, and engineers who have knowledge of the Python language and know the basics of data science. It is for those who wish to learn different data analysis methods using Python and its libraries. This book contains all the basic ingredients you need to become an expert data analyst.
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Number-Crunching

Taming Unruly Computational Problems from Mathematical Physics to Science Fiction

by Paul J. Nahin ...

More stimulating mathematics puzzles from bestselling author Paul NahinHow do technicians repair broken communications cables at the bottom of the ocean without actually seeing them? What's the likelihood of plucking a needle out of a haystack the size of the Earth? And is it possible to use computers to create a universal library of everything ever written or every photo ever taken? These are ... Read more

$21.59 USD

More stimulating mathematics puzzles from bestselling author Paul NahinHow do technicians repair broken communications cables at the bottom of the ocean without actually seeing them? What's the likelihood of plucking a needle out of a haystack the size of the Earth? And is it possible to use computers to create a universal library of everything ever written or every photo ever taken? These are
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Julia for Data Analysis

by Bogumil Bogumil ...

Master core data analysis skills using Julia. Interesting hands-on projects guide you through time series data, predictive models, popularity ranking, and more.In Julia for Data Analysis you will learn how to:Read and write data in various formatsWork with tabular data, including subsetting, grouping, and transformingVisualize your dataBuild predictive modelsCreate data processing pipelinesCreate ... Read more

$49.99 USD

Master core data analysis skills using Julia. Interesting hands-on projects guide you through time series data, predictive models, popularity ranking, and more.In Julia for Data Analysis you will learn how to:Read and write data in various formatsWork with tabular data, including subsetting, grouping, and transformingVisualize your dataBuild predictive modelsCreate data processing pipelinesCreate
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Practical Data Science with R, Second Edition

by John Mount, Nina Zumel ...

SummaryPractical Data Science with R, Second Edition takes a practice-oriented approach to explaining basic principles in the ever expanding field of data science. You’ll jump right to real-world use cases as you apply the R programming language and statistical analysis techniques to carefully explained examples based in marketing, business intelligence, and decision support.About the ... Read more

$49.99 USD

SummaryPractical Data Science with R, Second Edition takes a practice-oriented approach to explaining basic principles in the ever expanding field of data science. You’ll jump right to real-world use cases as you apply the R programming language and statistical analysis techniques to carefully explained examples based in marketing, business intelligence, and decision support.About the
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Causal AI

by Robert Osazuwa Ness ...

Build AI models that can reliably deliver causal inference.How do you know what might have happened, had you done things differently? Causal AI gives you the insight you need to make predictions and control outcomes based on causal relationships instead of pure correlation, so you can make precise and timely interventions. Causal AI is a practical introduction to building AI models that can reason ... Read more

$58.99 USD

Build AI models that can reliably deliver causal inference.How do you know what might have happened, had you done things differently? Causal AI gives you the insight you need to make predictions and control outcomes based on causal relationships instead of pure correlation, so you can make precise and timely interventions. Causal AI is a practical introduction to building AI models that can reason
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Tidy Modeling with R

A Framework for Modeling in the Tidyverse

by Max Kuhn, Julia Silge ...

Get going with tidymodels, a collection of R packages for modeling and machine learning. Whether you're just starting out or have years of experience with modeling, this practical introduction shows data analysts, business analysts, and data scientists how the tidymodels framework offers a consistent, flexible approach for your work.RStudio engineers Max Kuhn and Julia Silge demonstrate ways to ... Read more

$41.99 USD

Get going with tidymodels, a collection of R packages for modeling and machine learning. Whether you're just starting out or have years of experience with modeling, this practical introduction shows data analysts, business analysts, and data scientists how the tidymodels framework offers a consistent, flexible approach for your work.RStudio engineers Max Kuhn and Julia Silge demonstrate ways to
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Learning to Love Data Science

Explorations of Emerging Technologies and Platforms for Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning, Digital Manufacturing and Supply Chain Optimization

by Mike Barlow ...

Until recently, many people thought big data was a passing fad. "Data science" was an enigmatic term. Today, big data is taken seriously, and data science is considered downright sexy. With this anthology of reports from award-winning journalist Mike Barlow, you’ll appreciate how data science is fundamentally altering our world, for better and for worse.Barlow paints a picture of the emerging data ... Read more

$15.99 USD

Until recently, many people thought big data was a passing fad. "Data science" was an enigmatic term. Today, big data is taken seriously, and data science is considered downright sexy. With this anthology of reports from award-winning journalist Mike Barlow, you’ll appreciate how data science is fundamentally altering our world, for better and for worse.Barlow paints a picture of the emerging data
... Read more
Building Applications on Mesos

Leveraging Resilient, Scalable, and Distributed Systems

by David Greenberg ...

How can Apache Mesos make a difference in your organization? With this practical guide, you’ll learn how this cluster manager directs your datacenter’s resources, and provides real time APIs for interacting with (and developing for) the entire cluster. You’ll learn how to use Mesos as a deployment system, like Ansible or Chef, and as an execution platform for building and hosting higher-level ... Read more

$21.99 USD

How can Apache Mesos make a difference in your organization? With this practical guide, you’ll learn how this cluster manager directs your datacenter’s resources, and provides real time APIs for interacting with (and developing for) the entire cluster. You’ll learn how to use Mesos as a deployment system, like Ansible or Chef, and as an execution platform for building and hosting higher-level
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The Tableau Workshop

A practical guide to the art of data visualization with Tableau

by Sumit Gupta, Sylvester Pinto, JC Gillet, Kenneth Michael Cherven, Shweta Savale ...

Learn how to bring your data to life with this hands-on guide to visual analytics with TableauKey FeaturesMaster the fundamentals of Tableau Desktop and Tableau PrepLearn how to explore, analyze, and present data to provide business insightsBuild your experience and confidence with hands-on exercises and activitiesBook DescriptionLearning Tableau has never been easier, thanks to this practical ... Read more

$37.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Learn how to bring your data to life with this hands-on guide to visual analytics with TableauKey FeaturesMaster the fundamentals of Tableau Desktop and Tableau PrepLearn how to explore, analyze, and present data to provide business insightsBuild your experience and confidence with hands-on exercises and activitiesBook DescriptionLearning Tableau has never been easier, thanks to this practical
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Apache Sqoop Cookbook

Unlocking Hadoop for Your Relational Database

by Kathleen Ting, Jarek Jarcec Cecho ...

Integrating data from multiple sources is essential in the age of big data, but it can be a challenging and time-consuming task. This handy cookbook provides dozens of ready-to-use recipes for using Apache Sqoop, the command-line interface application that optimizes data transfers between relational databases and Hadoop.Sqoop is both powerful and bewildering, but with this cookbook’s problem ... Read more

$10.99 USD

Integrating data from multiple sources is essential in the age of big data, but it can be a challenging and time-consuming task. This handy cookbook provides dozens of ready-to-use recipes for using Apache Sqoop, the command-line interface application that optimizes data transfers between relational databases and Hadoop.Sqoop is both powerful and bewildering, but with this cookbook’s problem
... Read more
Apache Ignite Quick Start Guide

Distributed data caching and processing made easy

by Sujoy Acharya ...

Build efficient, high-performance & scalable systems to process large volumes of data with Apache IgniteKey FeaturesUnderstand Apache Ignite's in-memory technologyCreate High-Performance app components with IgniteBuild a real-time data streaming and complex event processing systemBook DescriptionApache Ignite is a distributed in-memory platform designed to scale and process large volume of data. ... Read more

$25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Build efficient, high-performance & scalable systems to process large volumes of data with Apache IgniteKey FeaturesUnderstand Apache Ignite's in-memory technologyCreate High-Performance app components with IgniteBuild a real-time data streaming and complex event processing systemBook DescriptionApache Ignite is a distributed in-memory platform designed to scale and process large volume of data.
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Data Engineering with AWS

Learn how to design and build cloud-based data transformation pipelines using AWS

by Gareth Eagar ...

The missing expert-led manual for the AWS ecosystem — go from foundations to building data engineering pipelines effortlessly Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format.Key FeaturesLearn about common data architectures and modern approaches to generating value from big dataExplore AWS tools for ingesting, transforming, and consuming data, and for orchestrating ... Read more

$46.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The missing expert-led manual for the AWS ecosystem — go from foundations to building data engineering pipelines effortlessly Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format.Key FeaturesLearn about common data architectures and modern approaches to generating value from big dataExplore AWS tools for ingesting, transforming, and consuming data, and for orchestrating
... Read more
Hands-On Entity Resolution

A Practical Guide to Data Matching with Python

by Michael Shearer ...

Entity resolution is a key analytic technique that enables you to identify multiple data records that refer to the same real-world entity. With this hands-on guide, product managers, data analysts, and data scientists will learn how to add value to data by cleansing, analyzing, and resolving datasets using open source Python libraries and cloud APIs.Author Michael Shearer shows you how to scale up ... Read more

$41.99 USD

Entity resolution is a key analytic technique that enables you to identify multiple data records that refer to the same real-world entity. With this hands-on guide, product managers, data analysts, and data scientists will learn how to add value to data by cleansing, analyzing, and resolving datasets using open source Python libraries and cloud APIs.Author Michael Shearer shows you how to scale up
... Read more
Learning Data Mining with Python

Harness the power of Python to analyze data and create insightful predictive models

by Robert Layton ...

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionIf you are a programmer who wants to get started with data mining, then this book is for you.What you will learnApply data mining concepts to realworld problemsPredict the outcome of sports matches based on past resultsDetermine the author of a document based on their writing styleUse APIs to download datasets from social media and other online servicesFind and extract ... Read more

$37.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionIf you are a programmer who wants to get started with data mining, then this book is for you.What you will learnApply data mining concepts to realworld problemsPredict the outcome of sports matches based on past resultsDetermine the author of a document based on their writing styleUse APIs to download datasets from social media and other online servicesFind and extract
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Building Integrations with MuleSoft

Integrating Systems and Unifying Data in the Enterprise

by Pooja Kamath, Diane Kesler ...

This concise yet comprehensive guide shows developers and architects how to tackle data integration challenges with MuleSoft. Authors Pooja Kamath and Diane Kesler take you through the process necessary to build robust and scalable integration solutions step-by-step.Supported by real-world use cases, Building Integrations with MuleSoft teaches you to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, ... Read more

$36.99 USD

This concise yet comprehensive guide shows developers and architects how to tackle data integration challenges with MuleSoft. Authors Pooja Kamath and Diane Kesler take you through the process necessary to build robust and scalable integration solutions step-by-step.Supported by real-world use cases, Building Integrations with MuleSoft teaches you to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks,
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