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Julia for Scientific Computing

Julia in Production: A Data Science Journey

by Alexander Clifton ...

Series series Julia in Production: A Data Science Journey
Transform your data science workflows with Julia's lightning-fast performance. This practical guide helps Python and R developers transition to Julia for large-scale scientific computing, machine learning, and numerical analysis. Features real-world case studies, optimization techniques, and integration with popular data science tools. Includes parallel computing patterns and best practices for ... Read more

$4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Transform your data science workflows with Julia's lightning-fast performance. This practical guide helps Python and R developers transition to Julia for large-scale scientific computing, machine learning, and numerical analysis. Features real-world case studies, optimization techniques, and integration with popular data science tools. Includes parallel computing patterns and best practices for
... Read more
Streaming Architecture

New Designs Using Apache Kafka and MapR Streams

by Ted Dunning, Ellen Friedman ...

More and more data-driven companies are looking to adopt stream processing and streaming analytics. With this concise ebook, you’ll learn best practices for designing a reliable architecture that supports this emerging big-data paradigm.Authors Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman (Real World Hadoop) help you explore some of the best technologies to handle stream processing and analytics, with a focus ... Read more

$15.99 USD

More and more data-driven companies are looking to adopt stream processing and streaming analytics. With this concise ebook, you’ll learn best practices for designing a reliable architecture that supports this emerging big-data paradigm.Authors Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman (Real World Hadoop) help you explore some of the best technologies to handle stream processing and analytics, with a focus
... Read more
Impact for Marketing Data Analytics Making Data-Driven Decisions

IMPACT Marketing Series: A Complete Courses, #13

by Mustafa Al-Dori ...

Series Book 13 - IMPACT Marketing Series: A Complete Courses
Your Crash Course in Making Data Your Marketing SidekickPicture this: you're sipping coffee, flipping through a book that makes marketing analytics feel like a fun puzzle, not a headache. That's Impact for Marketing Data Analytics: Making Data-Driven Decisions, your no-fluff guide to turning numbers into campaign wins. Part of a killer marketing series, it's like a workshop with a buddy who's ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Your Crash Course in Making Data Your Marketing SidekickPicture this: you're sipping coffee, flipping through a book that makes marketing analytics feel like a fun puzzle, not a headache. That's Impact for Marketing Data Analytics: Making Data-Driven Decisions, your no-fluff guide to turning numbers into campaign wins. Part of a killer marketing series, it's like a workshop with a buddy who's
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Transact-SQL Cookbook

Help for Database Programmers

by Ales Spetic, Jonathan Gennick ...

This unique cookbook contains a wealth of solutions to problems that SQL programmers face all the time. The recipes inside range from how to perform simple tasks, like importing external data, to ways of handling issues that are more complicated, like set algebra. Authors Ales Spetic and Jonathan Gennick, two authorities with extensive database and SQL programming experience, include a discussion ... Read more

$20.99 USD

This unique cookbook contains a wealth of solutions to problems that SQL programmers face all the time. The recipes inside range from how to perform simple tasks, like importing external data, to ways of handling issues that are more complicated, like set algebra. Authors Ales Spetic and Jonathan Gennick, two authorities with extensive database and SQL programming experience, include a discussion
... Read more
Experimentation for Engineers

From A/B testing to Bayesian optimization

by David Sweet ...

Optimize the performance of your systems with practical experiments used by engineers in the world’s most competitive industries.In Experimentation for Engineers: From A/B testing to Bayesian optimization you will learn how to:Design, run, and analyze an A/B testBreak the "feedback loops" caused by periodic retraining of ML modelsIncrease experimentation rate with multi-armed banditsTune multiple ... Read more

$49.99 USD

Optimize the performance of your systems with practical experiments used by engineers in the world’s most competitive industries.In Experimentation for Engineers: From A/B testing to Bayesian optimization you will learn how to:Design, run, and analyze an A/B testBreak the "feedback loops" caused by periodic retraining of ML modelsIncrease experimentation rate with multi-armed banditsTune multiple
... Read more
Feature Engineering for Machine Learning

Principles and Techniques for Data Scientists

by Alice Zheng, Amanda Casari ...

Feature engineering is a crucial step in the machine-learning pipeline, yet this topic is rarely examined on its own. With this practical book, you’ll learn techniques for extracting and transforming features—the numeric representations of raw data—into formats for machine-learning models. Each chapter guides you through a single data problem, such as how to represent text or image data. Together, ... Read more

$36.79 USD

Feature engineering is a crucial step in the machine-learning pipeline, yet this topic is rarely examined on its own. With this practical book, you’ll learn techniques for extracting and transforming features—the numeric representations of raw data—into formats for machine-learning models. Each chapter guides you through a single data problem, such as how to represent text or image data. Together,
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Learning GraphQL

Declarative Data Fetching for Modern Web Apps

by Eve Porcello, Alex Banks ...

Why is GraphQL the most innovative technology for fetching data since Ajax? By providing a query language for your APIs and a runtime for fulfilling queries with your data, GraphQL presents a clear alternative to REST and ad hoc web service architectures. With this practical guide, Alex Banks and Eve Porcello deliver a clear learning path for frontend web developers, backend engineers, and project ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Why is GraphQL the most innovative technology for fetching data since Ajax? By providing a query language for your APIs and a runtime for fulfilling queries with your data, GraphQL presents a clear alternative to REST and ad hoc web service architectures. With this practical guide, Alex Banks and Eve Porcello deliver a clear learning path for frontend web developers, backend engineers, and project
... Read more
Mastering the Data Paradox

Key to Winning in the AI Age

by Nitin Seth ...

There are two remarkable phenomena that are unfolding almost simultaneously. The first is the emergence of a data-first world, where data has become a central driving force, shaping industries and fueling innovation. The second is the dawn of the AI age, propelled by the advent of Generative AI, that has created the possibility to leverage the data of the world for the first time. The convergence ... Read more

$4.99 USD

There are two remarkable phenomena that are unfolding almost simultaneously. The first is the emergence of a data-first world, where data has become a central driving force, shaping industries and fueling innovation. The second is the dawn of the AI age, propelled by the advent of Generative AI, that has created the possibility to leverage the data of the world for the first time. The convergence
... Read more
Human-Centered Data Science

An Introduction

by Cecilia Aragon, Shion Guha, Marina Kogan, Michael Muller, Gina Neff ...

Best practices for addressing the bias and inequality that may result from the automated collection, analysis, and distribution of large datasets.Human-centered data science is a new interdisciplinary field that draws from human-computer interaction, social science, statistics, and computational techniques. This book, written by founders of the field, introduces best practices for addressing the ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Best practices for addressing the bias and inequality that may result from the automated collection, analysis, and distribution of large datasets.Human-centered data science is a new interdisciplinary field that draws from human-computer interaction, social science, statistics, and computational techniques. This book, written by founders of the field, introduces best practices for addressing the
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Beginning Data Science with Python and Jupyter

Use powerful industry-standard tools within Jupyter and the Python ecosystem to unlock new, actionable insights from your data

by Alex Galea ...

Getting started with data science doesn t have to be an uphill battle. This step-by-step guide is ideal for beginners who know a little Python and are looking for a quick, fast-paced introduction.Key FeaturesGet up and running with the Jupyter ecosystem and some example datasetsLearn about key machine learning concepts like SVM, KNN classifiers and Random ForestsDiscover how you can use web ... Read more

$14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Getting started with data science doesn t have to be an uphill battle. This step-by-step guide is ideal for beginners who know a little Python and are looking for a quick, fast-paced introduction.Key FeaturesGet up and running with the Jupyter ecosystem and some example datasetsLearn about key machine learning concepts like SVM, KNN classifiers and Random ForestsDiscover how you can use web
... Read more
Hands-On Web Scraping with Python

Perform advanced scraping operations using various Python libraries and tools such as Selenium, Regex, and others

by Anish Chapagain ...

Collect and scrape different complexities of data from the modern Web using the latest tools, best practices, and techniquesKey FeaturesLearn different scraping techniques using a range of Python libraries such as Scrapy and Beautiful SoupBuild scrapers and crawlers to extract relevant information from the webAutomate web scraping operations to bridge the accuracy gap and manage complex business ... Read more

$37.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Collect and scrape different complexities of data from the modern Web using the latest tools, best practices, and techniquesKey FeaturesLearn different scraping techniques using a range of Python libraries such as Scrapy and Beautiful SoupBuild scrapers and crawlers to extract relevant information from the webAutomate web scraping operations to bridge the accuracy gap and manage complex business
... Read more
Akamai State of the Internet / Connectivity Report

Q4 2016

by Akamai Technologies ...

Akamai’s globally distributed Intelligent Platform™ allows us to gather massive amounts of data on many metrics including Internet connection speeds, network connectivity/availability issues, and IPv6 adoption progress as well as traffic patterns across leading web properties and digital media providers. Each quarter, Akamai publishes the State of the Internet Report based on this data.This ... Read more

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Akamai’s globally distributed Intelligent Platform™ allows us to gather massive amounts of data on many metrics including Internet connection speeds, network connectivity/availability issues, and IPv6 adoption progress as well as traffic patterns across leading web properties and digital media providers. Each quarter, Akamai publishes the State of the Internet Report based on this data.This
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The Data Journalism Handbook

How Journalists Can Use Data to Improve the News

by Jonathan Gray, Lucy Chambers, Liliana Bounegru ...

When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist’s "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. With The Data Journalism Handbook, you’ll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field.This valuable handbook has attracted scores of contributors since the European ... Read more

$10.69 USD

When you combine the sheer scale and range of digital information now available with a journalist’s "nose for news" and her ability to tell a compelling story, a new world of possibility opens up. With The Data Journalism Handbook, you’ll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field.This valuable handbook has attracted scores of contributors since the European
... Read more
Mindmasters

The Data-Driven Science of Predicting and Changing Human Behavior

by Sandra Matz ...

A fascinating exploration of how algorithms penetrate the most intimate aspects of our psychology—from the pioneering expert on psychological targeting.There are more pieces of digital data than there are stars in the universe. This data helps us monitor our planet, decipher our genetic code, and take a deep dive into our psychology.As algorithms become increasingly adept at accessing the human ... Read more

$21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A fascinating exploration of how algorithms penetrate the most intimate aspects of our psychology—from the pioneering expert on psychological targeting.There are more pieces of digital data than there are stars in the universe. This data helps us monitor our planet, decipher our genetic code, and take a deep dive into our psychology.As algorithms become increasingly adept at accessing the human
... Read more
Speak Data

Artists, Scientists, Thinkers, and Dreamers on How We Live Our Lives in Numbers

by Giorgia Lupi, Phillip Cox ...

The first pop nonfiction book to explore the definition of data and how we can learn to speak that language features thought-provoking conversations with 17 extraordinary leaders in business, tech, medicine, psychology, health, art, and more who share new ideas about data, unpacking its powerful ability to reveal patterns, tell stories, stir emotion, and illuminate complexity.Data may be the most ... Read more

$16.99 USD

The first pop nonfiction book to explore the definition of data and how we can learn to speak that language features thought-provoking conversations with 17 extraordinary leaders in business, tech, medicine, psychology, health, art, and more who share new ideas about data, unpacking its powerful ability to reveal patterns, tell stories, stir emotion, and illuminate complexity.Data may be the most
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XSLT

Mastering XML Transformations

by Doug Tidwell ...

After years of anticipation and delay, the W3C finally released the XSLT 2.0 standard in January 2007. The revised edition of this classic book offers practical, real-world examples that demonstrate how you can apply XSLT stylesheets to XML data using either the new specification, or the older XSLT 1.0 standard.XSLT is a critical language for converting XML documents into other formats, such as ... Read more

$28.99 USD

After years of anticipation and delay, the W3C finally released the XSLT 2.0 standard in January 2007. The revised edition of this classic book offers practical, real-world examples that demonstrate how you can apply XSLT stylesheets to XML data using either the new specification, or the older XSLT 1.0 standard.XSLT is a critical language for converting XML documents into other formats, such as
... Read more
Data Visualization with Microsoft Power BI

How to Design Savvy Dashboards

by Alex Kolokolov, Maxim Zelensky ...

The first book that delivers data viz best practices precisely for Power BIThis practical guide shows how to quickly create visualizations and build savvy dashboards, with 25 chapters that explore different chart types plus 40 visuals from the AppSource gallery, from default to advanced, all over 400 color pages.Key features:Beautiful examples of charts, along with specific use casesStep-by-step ... Read more

$36.99 USD

The first book that delivers data viz best practices precisely for Power BIThis practical guide shows how to quickly create visualizations and build savvy dashboards, with 25 chapters that explore different chart types plus 40 visuals from the AppSource gallery, from default to advanced, all over 400 color pages.Key features:Beautiful examples of charts, along with specific use casesStep-by-step
... Read more
50 Tips and Tricks for MongoDB Developers

Get the Most Out of Your Database

by Kristina Chodorow ...

Getting started with MongoDB is easy, but once you begin building applications with it, you'll face some complex issues. What are the tradeoffs between normalized and denormalized data? How do you handle replica set failure and failover? This collection of MongoDB tips, tricks, and hacks helps you resolve issues with everything from application design and implementation to data safety and ... Read more

$13.99 USD

Getting started with MongoDB is easy, but once you begin building applications with it, you'll face some complex issues. What are the tradeoffs between normalized and denormalized data? How do you handle replica set failure and failover? This collection of MongoDB tips, tricks, and hacks helps you resolve issues with everything from application design and implementation to data safety and
... Read more
Reliable Machine Learning

Applying SRE Principles to ML in Production

by Cathy Chen, Niall Richard Murphy, Kranti Parisa, D. Sculley, Todd Underwood ...

Whether you're part of a small startup or a multinational corporation, this practical book shows data scientists, software and site reliability engineers, product managers, and business owners how to run and establish ML reliably, effectively, and accountably within your organization. You'll gain insight into everything from how to do model monitoring in production to how to run a well-tuned model ... Read more

$48.99 USD

Whether you're part of a small startup or a multinational corporation, this practical book shows data scientists, software and site reliability engineers, product managers, and business owners how to run and establish ML reliably, effectively, and accountably within your organization. You'll gain insight into everything from how to do model monitoring in production to how to run a well-tuned model
... Read more
Oracle Quick Guides Part 1 - Oracle Basics: Database & Tools

by Malcolm Coxall ...

Series Book 1 - Oracle Quick Guides
This is Part 1 of a series of quick learning guides for Oracle designers, developers and managers. Part 1 introduces completely new entrants to the Oracle environment about Relational principles and history, the background of Oracle, the products, database architecture, installation, Oracle and 3rd party database and design tools and provides a glossary of basic Oracle terminology and simple ... Read more

$3.50 USD

This is Part 1 of a series of quick learning guides for Oracle designers, developers and managers. Part 1 introduces completely new entrants to the Oracle environment about Relational principles and history, the background of Oracle, the products, database architecture, installation, Oracle and 3rd party database and design tools and provides a glossary of basic Oracle terminology and simple
... Read more
Feedback Control for Computer Systems

Introducing Control Theory to Enterprise Programmers

by Philipp K. Janert ...

How can you take advantage of feedback control for enterprise programming? With this book, author Philipp K. Janert demonstrates how the same principles that govern cruise control in your car also apply to data center management and other enterprise systems. Through case studies and hands-on simulations, you’ll learn methods to solve several control issues, including mechanisms to spin up more ... Read more

$24.49 USD

How can you take advantage of feedback control for enterprise programming? With this book, author Philipp K. Janert demonstrates how the same principles that govern cruise control in your car also apply to data center management and other enterprise systems. Through case studies and hands-on simulations, you’ll learn methods to solve several control issues, including mechanisms to spin up more
... Read more
Great Big World of Computers - History and Evolution : 5th Grade Science Series

Fifth Grade Book History Of Computers for Kids

by Baby Professor ...

Series series Children's Computer Hardware Books
There's no denying the fact that we are moving towards a "computer world." You want your child to keep up with the pace of learning and you can help make that possible through the introduction of the right resources. This is one of those resources. This book is a mix of colors, pictures and select text to easily drive home a point but without boring a child too much. ... Read more

$4.99 USD

There's no denying the fact that we are moving towards a "computer world." You want your child to keep up with the pace of learning and you can help make that possible through the introduction of the right resources. This is one of those resources. This book is a mix of colors, pictures and select text to easily drive home a point but without boring a child too much.
... Read more
The Little Book of Data

Understanding the Powerful Analytics that Fuel AI, Make or Break Careers, and Could Just End Up Saving the World

by Justin Evans ...

Data is not about number crunching. It’s about ideas. And when used properly (read: ethically), it is the problem solver of our time.Yet many savvy people seem to be in data denial: they don’t think they need to understand data, or it’s too complicated, or worse, using it is somehow unethical. Yet as data and AI (just an accelerated way to put data to work) move to the center of professional and ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Data is not about number crunching. It’s about ideas. And when used properly (read: ethically), it is the problem solver of our time.Yet many savvy people seem to be in data denial: they don’t think they need to understand data, or it’s too complicated, or worse, using it is somehow unethical. Yet as data and AI (just an accelerated way to put data to work) move to the center of professional and
... Read more
Bayesian Analysis with Python

Introduction to statistical modeling and probabilistic programming using PyMC3 and ArviZ

by Osvaldo Martin, Eric Ma, Austin Rochford ...

Bayesian modeling with PyMC3 and exploratory analysis of Bayesian models with ArviZ Key FeaturesA step-by-step guide to conduct Bayesian data analyses using PyMC3 and ArviZA modern, practical and computational approach to Bayesian statistical modelingA tutorial for Bayesian analysis and best practices with the help of sample problems and practice exercises.Book DescriptionThe second edition of ... Read more

$37.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Bayesian modeling with PyMC3 and exploratory analysis of Bayesian models with ArviZ Key FeaturesA step-by-step guide to conduct Bayesian data analyses using PyMC3 and ArviZA modern, practical and computational approach to Bayesian statistical modelingA tutorial for Bayesian analysis and best practices with the help of sample problems and practice exercises.Book DescriptionThe second edition of
... Read more

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