Radio 4's Book of the Week A Financial Times Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey Business Book of the Year Longlisted for the National Book Award 'The story of the original data science hucksters of the 1960s is hilarious, scathing and sobering - what you might get if you crossed Mad Men with Theranos' David Runciman The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disor...
Releasedatum: 2020-09-17 Genre:Datorer och internet 75,00 kr
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ WAGmob: Over One million Paying Customers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ WAGmob brings you Simple 'n Easy, on-the-go learning book for "Learn MySQL". All you need to know about MySQL is in one Book. The Book helps you understand the basics in a nice and organized manner. A real simple 'n easy Book for MySQL. You will love this Book. The Book provides: 1. Snack sized chapters for easy learning. 2. Bite sized flashcards to memorize key concepts. 3. Simple and easy quizzes for ...
Releasedatum: 2013-09-14 15,00 kr
Power BI is a self-service (and enterprise) Business Intelligence (BI) tool that facilitates data acquisition, modeling, and visualization—and the skills needed to succeed with Power BI are fully transferable to Microsoft Excel. There are three learning areas required to master everything Power BI Desktop has to offer: TheM Language, The DAX Language, and analysis. Super Charge Power BI clearly explains the necessary concepts while at the same time giving hands-on practice to engage the r...
Releasedatum: 2018-06-01 Genre:Datorer och internet 125,00 kr
Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja. From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, numbers aren't enough: we need to know how to make those numbers talk. In The Model Thinker , social scie...
Releasedatum: 2018-11-27 149,00 kr
MySQL 5 Essentials is intended to teach the basics of using the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS) to create and manage databases. It is ideal for those unfamiliar with both databases in general and MySQL in particular. Topics covered include the basics of relational databases, MySQL installation on Linux and Windows systems, an overview of the MySQL administration tools, database security and detailed tutorials on using SQL to create, manage and retrieve data.
Releasedatum: 2011-01-19 69,00 kr
This concise, easy-to-use reference puts one of the most popular frameworks for deep learning research and development at your fingertips. Author Joe Papa provides instant access to syntax, design patterns, and code examples to accelerate your development and reduce the time you spend searching for answers. Research scientists, machine learning engineers, and software developers will find clear, structured PyTorch code that covers every step of neural network developmentâ??from loading data to ...
Releasedatum: 2021-05-11 Genre:Datorer och internet 109,00 kr
A pattern is a general, reusable solution to a frequent or common challenge. This book is the second edition of the most comprehensive collection of ready-to-use solutions in DAX, that you can use in Microsoft Power BI, Analysis Services Tabular, and Power Pivot for Excel. The book includes the following patterns: Time-related calculations, Standard time-related calculations, Month-related calculations, Week-related calculations, Custom time-related calculations, Comparing different time periods...
Releasedatum: 2020-07-28 269,00 kr
Statistical methods are a key part of data science, yet few data scientists have formal statistical training. Courses and books on basic statistics rarely cover the topic from a data science perspective. The second edition of this popular guide adds comprehensive examples in Python, provides practical guidance on applying statistical methods to data science, tells you how to avoid their misuse, and gives you advice on what’s important and what’s not. Many data science resources incorporate s...
Releasedatum: 2020-04-10 Genre:Datorer och internet 549,00 kr
'Fascinating' Financial Times Algorithms are running our society, and as the Cambridge Analytica story has revealed, we don't really know what they are up to. Our increasing reliance on technology and the internet has opened a window for mathematicians and data researchers to gaze through into our lives. Using the data they are constantly collecting about where we travel, where we shop, what we buy and what interests us, they can begin to predict our daily habits. But how reliable is...
Releasedatum: 2018-04-19 139,00 kr
Develop, validate, and deploy powerful decentralized applications using blockchain Get the most out of cutting-edge blockchain technology using the hands-on information contained in this comprehensive resource. Written by a team of technology and legal experts, Blockchain: A Practical Guide to Developing Business, Law, and Technology Solutions demonstrates each topic through a start-to-finish, illustrated case study. The book includes financial, technology, governance, and legal use cases along ...
Releasedatum: 2018-02-16 209,00 kr
This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book. “This book is a critically needed resource for the newly released Apache Hadoop 2.0, highlighting YARN as the significant breakthrough that broadens Hadoop beyond the MapReduce paradigm.” —From the Foreword by Raymie Stata, CEO of Altiscale The Insider’s Guide to Building Distributed, Big Data Applications with Apache Hadoop™ YARN Apache Hadoop is helping drive the Big Data revolution. Now, its data processing has been completely overh...
Releasedatum: 2014-03-21 29,00 kr
SAP APO Interview Questions, Answers, and Explanations guides you easily through your learning process. From helping you to assess your SAP APO skills, to helping screen candidates for your APO positions, SAP APO Interview Questions will help you understand what you really need to know. This book is organized around several areas of SAP APO: Demand Planning, Master Data, Basis, CoreInterFace (CIF), Production Planning, Transport Planning, and more. More than just a rehash of SAP documentation an...
Releasedatum: 2012-01-01 85,00 kr
Get the most out of the popular Java libraries and tools to perform efficient data analysis About This Book Get your basics right for data analysis with Java and make sense of your data through effective visualizations.Use various Java APIs and tools such as Rapidminer and WEKA for effective data analysis and machine learning.This is your companion to understanding and implementing a solid data analysis solution using Java Who This Book Is For If you are a student or Java developer or a budding ...
Releasedatum: 2017-09-19 Genre:Datorer och internet 269,00 kr
What happens when a researcher and a practitioner spend hours crammed in a Fiat discussing data visualization? Beyond creating beautiful charts, they found greater richness in the craft as an integrated whole. Drawing from their unconventional backgrounds, these two women take readers through a journey around perception, semantics, and intent as the triad that influences visualization. This visually engaging book blends ideas from theory, academia, and practice to craft beautiful, yet meaningful...
Releasedatum: 2022-05-18 239,00 kr
Make data analysis fast, reliable, and clean with Python, Pandas and Matplotlib. KEY FEATURES ● A detailed walk-through of the Pandas library's features with multiple examples. ● Numerous graphical representations and reporting capabilities using popular Matplotlib. ● A high-level overview of extracting data from including files, databases, and the web. DESCRIPTION No matter how large or small your dataset is, the author 'Fabio Nelli' simply used this book to teach all t...
Releasedatum: 2022-04-25 Genre:Datorer och internet 105,00 kr
Summary Entity Framework Core in Action teaches you how to access and update relational data from .NET applications. Following the crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, and around 100 diagrams, you'll discover time-saving patterns and best practices for security, performance tuning, and unit testing. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology There's a mismatch in the way OO programs and relational ...
Releasedatum: 2018-07-15 469,00 kr
As you move data to the cloud, you need to consider a comprehensive approach to data governance, along with well-defined and agreed-upon policies to ensure your organization meets compliance requirements. Data governance incorporates the ways people, processes, and technology work together to ensure data is trustworthy and can be used effectively. This practical guide shows you how to effectively implement and scale data governance throughout your organization. Chief information, data, and secur...
Releasedatum: 2021-03-08 Genre:Datorer och internet 549,00 kr
The AI revolution is moving at a breakneck speed. Organizations are beginning to invest in innovative ways to monetize their data through the use of artificial intelligence. Businesses need to understand the reality of AI. To be successful, it is imperative that organizations understand that augmented intelligence is the secret to success. Augmented Intelligence: The Business Power of Human–Machine Collaboration is about the process of combining human and machine intelligence. This book provid...
Releasedatum: 2019-12-06 239,00 kr
If you have a question about PostgreSQL this is the book with the answers. PostgreSQL: Questions and Answers takes some of the best questions and answers asked on the stackoverflow.com website. You can use this book to look up commonly asked questions, browse questions on a particular topic, compare answers to common topics, check out the original source and much more. This book has been designed to be very easy to use, with many internal links set up that makes browsing in many different ways p...
Releasedatum: 2019-12-11 59,00 kr
Explore, create, and manage highly interactive data visualizations using Microsoft Power BI Extract meaningful business insights from your disparate enterprise data using the detailed information contained in this practical guide. Written by a recognized BI expert and bestselling author, Data Analysis with Microsoft Power BI teaches you the skills you need to interact with, author, and maintain robust visualizations and custom data models. Hands-on exercises based on real-life business scenarios...
Releasedatum: 2020-01-03 299,00 kr
SQL Made Easy- The Ultimate Step by Step Guide To Success Do you want to learn SQL programming without the complicated explanations? Do you want to understand how to manage databases without all the confusion? Well than, this is your go to guide to help you master SQL programming in no time! This book breaks down the fundamentals elements that are essential to make you proficient in SQL programming and database management. By the end of this book you will be confident enough to take on any...
Releasedatum: 2019-08-16 49,00 kr
Unravel the mysteries of blockchains Blockchain technologies are disrupting some of the world’s biggest industries. Blockchain For Dummies provides a fast way to catch up with the essentials of this quickly evolving tech. Written by an author involved in founding and analyzing blockchain solutions, this book serves to help those who need to understand what a blockchain can do (and can't do). This revised edition walks you through how a blockchainsecurely records data across independent ...
Releasedatum: 2019-04-03 179,00 kr
Learn how the crisis over digital privacy and manipulation evolved in this “utterly fascinating” look at the growth of data mining and analysis ( Seattle Post-Intelligencer ). Award-winning journalist Stephen Baker traces the rise of the “global math elite”: computer scientists who invent ways to not only record our behavior, but also to predict and alter it. Nowadays, we don’t need to be online to create a digital trail; we do it simply by driving through an automated tollbooth...
Releasedatum: 2009-09-08 Genre:Datorer och internet 85,00 kr
Thinking of migrating to PostgreSQL? This clear, fast-paced introduction helps you understand and use this open source database system. Not only will you learn about the enterprise class features in versions 9.5 to 10, you’ll also discover that PostgeSQL is more than a database system—it’s an impressive application platform as well. With examples throughout, this book shows you how to achieve tasks that are difficult or impossible in other databases. This third edition covers new features,...
Releasedatum: 2017-10-10 309,00 kr
This book introduces the problems facing Internet of Things developers and explores current technologies and techniques to help you manage, mine, and make sense of the data being collected through the use of the world’s most popular database on the Internet - MySQL. The IoT is poised to change how we interact with and perceive the world around us, and the possibilities are nearly boundless. As more and more connected devices generate data, we will need to solve the problem of how to collect, s...
Releasedatum: 2016-02-13 229,00 kr
The Definitive Guide to MongoDB, Third Edition, is updated for MongoDB 3 and includes all of the latest MongoDB features, including the aggregation framework introduced in version 2.2 and hashed indexes in version 2.4. The Third Edition also now includes Python. MongoDB is the most popular of the "Big Data" NoSQL database technologies, and it's still growing. David Hows from 10gen, along with experienced MongoDB authors Peter Membrey and Eelco Plugge, provide their expertise and experience in te...
Releasedatum: 2015-12-11 379,00 kr
A mailing list is entirely useless unless you have some form of engagement with your audience. And with this book, we explain exactly how to build up that audience engagement that will lead to mailing lists being a potent marketing tool at your disposal: * The importance of subject lines * The importance of building trust with your subscribers * The best ways of getting subscribers to opt in * The most common pitfalls that you will want to avoid Are you ready? You c...
Releasedatum: 2015-03-30 9,00 kr
“This readable, practical book helps business people quickly understand what business intelligence is, how it works, where it's used, and why and when to use it—all illustrated by real case studies, not just theory.” Nigel Pendse Author of The OLAP Report www.olapreport.com So much information, so little time. All too often, business data is hard to get at and use—thus slowing decision-making to a crawl. This insightful book illustrates how organizations c...
Releasedatum: 2008-12-10 119,00 kr
”Eric and Russell were early adopters of Cassandra at SimpleReach. In Practical Cassandra, you benefit from their experience in the trenches administering Cassandra, developing against it, and building one of the first CQL drivers. If you are deploying Cassandra soon, or you inherited a Cassandra cluster to tend, spend some time with the deployment, performance tuning, and maintenance chapters… If you are new to Cassandra, I highly recommend the chapters on data modeling and CQL.” – From...
Releasedatum: 2013-12-20 159,00 kr
Written by renowned data science experts Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett, Data Science for Business introduces the fundamental principles of data science, and walks you through the "data-analytic thinking" necessary for extracting useful knowledge and business value from the data you collect. This guide also helps you understand the many data-mining techniques in use today. Based on an MBA course Provost has taught at New York University over the past ten years, Data Science for Business provides...
Releasedatum: 2013-07-27 389,00 kr
Dieses Lehrbuch gibt einen fundierten Einblick sowohl in die Architektur und Entwicklung eines Data-Warehouse-Systems als auch in den gesamten Ablauf des Data-Warehouse-Prozesses - vom Laden der Daten bis zu deren Auswertung. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf den Datenbanken und deren Konzeption, Modellierung und Optimierung. Die Autoren zeigen u. a. betriebswirtschaftliche Einsatzbereiche sowie wissenschaftliche und technische Anwendungsgebiete auf und geben Hinweise für den Aufbau und die Wartung ein...
Releasedatum: 2013-05-27 489,00 kr
The only Oracle Press guide to MySQL Workbench explains how to design and model MySQL databases. MySQL Workbench Data Modeling and Development helps developers learn how to effectively use this powerful product for database modeling, reverse engineering, and interaction with the database without writing SQL statements. MySQL Workbench is a graphical user interface that can be used to create and maintain MySQL databases without coding. The book covers the interface and explains how to accomplish ...
Releasedatum: 2013-05-06 269,00 kr
All of the data within a database installation is at risk unless one has designed, tested and implemented a robust backup and recovery strategy. The objective of this Oracle 11g training module is to assist you in doing just that. Furthermore, when a major failure occurs, a variety of recovery and troubleshooting techniques must be employed. The focus of this course is the Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) tool. Additional facilities covered include the Data Recovery Advisor, Redo Log File Size Adv...
Releasedatum: 2013-01-07 649,00 kr
The overall objective of this Oracle 11g training module is to bring database administrators beyond a basic understanding of their duties and to transfer advanced skills needed to effectively administer an Oracle database installation within a large-scale enterprise. Important subject areas include advanced database configuration, performance monitoring and tuning, configuring for recovery, troubleshooting and fault diagnosis, and use of the extensive advisory framework. Among the topics covered...
Releasedatum: 2013-01-07 439,00 kr
For those of you who need to quickly ramp up on SQL, but have no time to plow through a 600-page tome, this is for you. SQL in 30 Pages is a brief e-booklet of fewer than 4,000 words, designed to get you into SQL as fast as possible, as easily as possible. There is no bull in this Micro-Manual by popular online teacher U.Q. Magnusson. From the very first page you will learn about the basic concepts of SQL, including the command-line interface, the CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, and Delet...
Releasedatum: 2012-09-21 25,00 kr
The latest techniques for building a customer-focused enterprise environment "The authors have appreciated that MDM is a complex multidimensional area, and have set out to cover each of these dimensions in sufficient detail to provide adequate practical guidance to anyone implementing MDM. While this necessarily makes the book rather long, it means that the authors achieve a comprehensive treatment of MDM that is lacking in previous works." -- Malcolm Chisholm, Ph.D., President, AskGet.com Consu...
Releasedatum: 2010-12-06 389,00 kr
There are a lot of books on SQL and many more web sites. The classic difficulty is that the books tend to be shallow overviews for complete beginners and the web sites tend to have deep knowledge on one very specific problem. How is a newcomer to this growing field supposed to work with the small whispers provided by most books or weed through the mountains of very specific data to be found online? This book attempts to bridge the gap. $0$0 $0 $0Practical SQL is written by David Perry, a profess...
Releasedatum: 2011-05-20 69,00 kr
The vast majority of software applications use relational databases that virtually every application developer must work with. This book introduces you to database design, whether you're a DBA or database developer. You'll discover what databases are, their goals, and why proper design is necessary to achieve those goals. Additionally, you'll master how to structure the database so it gives good performance while minimizing the chance for error. You will learn how to decide what should be i...
Releasedatum: 2010-12-30 269,00 kr
Advice and techniques that you need to get the job done. Looking for ways to streamline your work so that you can focus on maximizing your time? In Depth provides specific, tested, and proven solutions to the problems you run into every day–things other books ignore or oversimplify. This is the one book that you can rely on to answer all the questions you have now and will have in the future. In Depth offers: Comprehensive coverage, with detailed solutions Breakthrough techniques and shortcuts...
Releasedatum: 2009-02-11 189,00 kr
As the foundation of the Microsoft Business Intelligence Strategy, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services provides users with faster access to data and even more tools for managing and analyzing data across multidimensional objects (databases, dimensions, cubes). Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services Unleashed is the ultimate guide for anyone who is planning to use the latest version of Analysis Services. It gives readers insight into the way Analysis Services functions, and explains ...
Releasedatum: 2008-12-14 279,00 kr