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The Pandas Workshop

A comprehensive guide to using Python for data analysis with real-world case studies

by Blaine Bateman, Saikat Basak, William So, Thomas Joseph ...

Learn the fundamentals of data science with Python by analyzing real datasets and solving problems using pandasKey FeaturesLearn how to apply data retrieval, transformation, visualization, and modeling techniques using pandasBecome highly efficient in unlocking deeper insights from your data, including databases, web data, and moreBuild your experience and confidence with hands-on exercises and ... Read more

$39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Learn the fundamentals of data science with Python by analyzing real datasets and solving problems using pandasKey FeaturesLearn how to apply data retrieval, transformation, visualization, and modeling techniques using pandasBecome highly efficient in unlocking deeper insights from your data, including databases, web data, and moreBuild your experience and confidence with hands-on exercises and
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Data-ism

The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else

by Steve Lohr ...

"Lohr uses his Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting skills to dig into and explain the power, pervasiveness, and potential downside of big data." — Library JournalIn Data-ism, New York Times reporter Steve Lohr explains how big-data technology is ushering in a revolution in proportions that promise to be the basis of the next wave of efficiency and innovation across the economy. But more is at work ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"Lohr uses his Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting skills to dig into and explain the power, pervasiveness, and potential downside of big data." — Library JournalIn Data-ism, New York Times reporter Steve Lohr explains how big-data technology is ushering in a revolution in proportions that promise to be the basis of the next wave of efficiency and innovation across the economy. But more is at work
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Writing Effective Business Rules

by Graham Witt ...

Writing Effective Business Rules moves beyond the fundamental dilemma of system design: defining business rules either in natural language, intelligible but often ambiguous, or program code (or rule engine instructions), unambiguous but unintelligible to stakeholders. Designed to meet the needs of business analysts, this book provides an exhaustive analysis of rule types and a set of syntactic ... Read more

$53.09 USD

Writing Effective Business Rules moves beyond the fundamental dilemma of system design: defining business rules either in natural language, intelligible but often ambiguous, or program code (or rule engine instructions), unambiguous but unintelligible to stakeholders. Designed to meet the needs of business analysts, this book provides an exhaustive analysis of rule types and a set of syntactic
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Elasticsearch 5.x Cookbook

Distributed Search and Analytics

by Alberto Paro ...

Over 170 advanced recipes to search, analyze, deploy, manage, and monitor data effectively with Elasticsearch 5.xKey Features\[\*\]Deploy and manage simple Elasticsearch nodes as well as complex cluster topologies\[\*\]Write native plugins to extend the functionalities of Elasticsearch 5.x to boost your business\[\*\]Packed with clear, step-by-step recipes to walk you through the capabilities of ... Read more

$44.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Over 170 advanced recipes to search, analyze, deploy, manage, and monitor data effectively with Elasticsearch 5.xKey Features\[\*\]Deploy and manage simple Elasticsearch nodes as well as complex cluster topologies\[\*\]Write native plugins to extend the functionalities of Elasticsearch 5.x to boost your business\[\*\]Packed with clear, step-by-step recipes to walk you through the capabilities of
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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
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Data Preparation and Exploration

Applied to Healthcare Data

by Robert Hoyt, Robert Muenchen ...

Data scientists spend more than two-thirds of their time cleaning, preparing, exploring, and visualizing data before it is ready for modeling and mining. This textbook covers the important steps of data preparation and exploration that anyone who deals with data should know. The data preparation and exploration methods we include are spreadsheet and statistics package approaches, as well as the ... Read more

$11.99 USD

Data scientists spend more than two-thirds of their time cleaning, preparing, exploring, and visualizing data before it is ready for modeling and mining. This textbook covers the important steps of data preparation and exploration that anyone who deals with data should know. The data preparation and exploration methods we include are spreadsheet and statistics package approaches, as well as the
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Beyond Data

Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse

by Elizabeth M. Renieris ...

Why laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people—and how an approach centered on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human dignity and autonomy in a cyberphysical world.Ever-pervasive technology poses a clear and present danger to human dignity and autonomy, as many have pointed out. And yet, for the past fifty years, we have been so busy protecting data that we have failed ... Read more

$15.99 USD

Why laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people—and how an approach centered on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human dignity and autonomy in a cyberphysical world.Ever-pervasive technology poses a clear and present danger to human dignity and autonomy, as many have pointed out. And yet, for the past fifty years, we have been so busy protecting data that we have failed
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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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Ensuring the Integrity of Electronic Health Records

The Best Practices for E-records Compliance

by Orlando López ...

Data integrity is a critical aspect to the design, implementation, and usage of any system which stores, processes, or retrieves data. The overall intent of any data integrity technique is the same: ensure data is recorded exactly as intended and, upon later retrieval, ensure the data is the same as it was when originally recorded. Any alternation to the data is then traced to the person who made ... Read more

$73.99 USD

Data integrity is a critical aspect to the design, implementation, and usage of any system which stores, processes, or retrieves data. The overall intent of any data integrity technique is the same: ensure data is recorded exactly as intended and, upon later retrieval, ensure the data is the same as it was when originally recorded. Any alternation to the data is then traced to the person who made
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iPhone 12 User Guide

The Simplified Manual For Beginners and Seniors on How To Master Your iPhone 12, Mini, Pro and Pro Max Using iOS14 (Tips and Tricks Version) 4th Edition

by Stone O. Crux ...

iPhone 12 is packed full with many novel features that promises to give every user the ‘WOW experience’: with a powerful A14 Bionic processor, it boasts to be one of the fastest devices on the planet. Apple has also improved on the camera of the iPhone, with 3 rear cameras, each of which packs 12-megapixel lenses, and another 12 megapixels in the front camera.The iPhone 12 Series comes with a ... Read more

$5.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

iPhone 12 is packed full with many novel features that promises to give every user the ‘WOW experience’: with a powerful A14 Bionic processor, it boasts to be one of the fastest devices on the planet. Apple has also improved on the camera of the iPhone, with 3 rear cameras, each of which packs 12-megapixel lenses, and another 12 megapixels in the front camera.The iPhone 12 Series comes with a
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Azure Databricks Cookbook

Accelerate and scale real-time analytics solutions using the Apache Spark-based analytics service

by Phani Raj, Vinod Jaiswal ...

Get to grips with building and productionizing end-to-end big data solutions in Azure and learn best practices for working with large datasetsKey FeaturesIntegrate with Azure Synapse Analytics, Cosmos DB, and Azure HDInsight Kafka Cluster to scale and analyze your projects and build pipelinesUse Databricks SQL to run ad hoc queries on your data lake and create dashboardsProductionize a solution ... Read more

$41.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Get to grips with building and productionizing end-to-end big data solutions in Azure and learn best practices for working with large datasetsKey FeaturesIntegrate with Azure Synapse Analytics, Cosmos DB, and Azure HDInsight Kafka Cluster to scale and analyze your projects and build pipelinesUse Databricks SQL to run ad hoc queries on your data lake and create dashboardsProductionize a solution
... Read more
Data Engineering Best Practices

Architect robust and cost-effective data solutions in the cloud era

by David Larochelle, Richard J. Schiller ...

Explore modern data engineering techniques and best practices to build scalable, efficient, and future-proof data processing systems across cloud platformsKey FeaturesArchitect and engineer optimized data solutions in the cloud with best practices for performance and cost-effectivenessExplore design patterns and use cases to balance roles, technology choices, and processes for a future-proof ... Read more

$35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Explore modern data engineering techniques and best practices to build scalable, efficient, and future-proof data processing systems across cloud platformsKey FeaturesArchitect and engineer optimized data solutions in the cloud with best practices for performance and cost-effectivenessExplore design patterns and use cases to balance roles, technology choices, and processes for a future-proof
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Mulheres invisíveis

O viés dos dados em um mundo projetado para homens

by Caroline Criado Perez ...

Translated by Renata Guerra ...

Como a coleta e o uso dos dados contribuem para o enorme desequilíbrio entre as experiências de homens e mulheres na sociedadeDesde o controle do fogo e o domínio da agricultura até as evoluções tecnológicas da atualidade, as conquistas dos seres humanos sempre começaram com a observação do mundo, algo conhecido hoje como coleta de dados. Como base da ciência, são os dados que determinam a ... Read more

$11.99 USD

Como a coleta e o uso dos dados contribuem para o enorme desequilíbrio entre as experiências de homens e mulheres na sociedadeDesde o controle do fogo e o domínio da agricultura até as evoluções tecnológicas da atualidade, as conquistas dos seres humanos sempre começaram com a observação do mundo, algo conhecido hoje como coleta de dados. Como base da ciência, são os dados que determinam a
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97 Things Every Data Engineer Should Know

by Tobias Macey ...

Take advantage of today's sky-high demand for data engineers. With this in-depth book, current and aspiring engineers will learn powerful real-world best practices for managing data big and small. Contributors from notable companies including Twitter, Google, Stitch Fix, Microsoft, Capital One, and LinkedIn share their experiences and lessons learned for overcoming a variety of specific and often ... Read more

$30.99 USD

Take advantage of today's sky-high demand for data engineers. With this in-depth book, current and aspiring engineers will learn powerful real-world best practices for managing data big and small. Contributors from notable companies including Twitter, Google, Stitch Fix, Microsoft, Capital One, and LinkedIn share their experiences and lessons learned for overcoming a variety of specific and often
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Data Engineering with dbt

A practical guide to building a cloud-based, pragmatic, and dependable data platform with SQL

by Roberto Zagni ...

Use easy-to-apply patterns in SQL and Python to adopt modern analytics engineering to build agile platforms with dbt that are well-tested and simple to extend and run Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookKey FeaturesBuild a solid dbt base and learn data modeling and the modern data stack to become an analytics engineerBuild automated and reliable pipelines to deploy, test, ... Read more

$35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Use easy-to-apply patterns in SQL and Python to adopt modern analytics engineering to build agile platforms with dbt that are well-tested and simple to extend and run Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookKey FeaturesBuild a solid dbt base and learn data modeling and the modern data stack to become an analytics engineerBuild automated and reliable pipelines to deploy, test,
... Read more
Learning Neo4j 3.x

Effective data modeling, performance tuning and data visualization techniques in Neo4j

by Jerome Baton, Rik Van Bruggen ...

Run blazingly fast queries on complex graph datasets with the power of the Neo4j graph databaseKey Features\[\*\]Get acquainted with graph database systems and apply them in real-world use cases\[\*\] Use Cypher query language, APOC and other Neo4j extensions to derive meaningful analysis from complex data sets.\[\*\]A practical guide filled with ready to use examples on querying, graph processing ... Read more

$41.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Run blazingly fast queries on complex graph datasets with the power of the Neo4j graph databaseKey Features\[\*\]Get acquainted with graph database systems and apply them in real-world use cases\[\*\] Use Cypher query language, APOC and other Neo4j extensions to derive meaningful analysis from complex data sets.\[\*\]A practical guide filled with ready to use examples on querying, graph processing
... Read more
Machine Learning Model Serving Patterns and Best Practices

A definitive guide to deploying, monitoring, and providing accessibility to ML models in production

by Md Johirul Islam ...

Become a successful machine learning professional by effortlessly deploying machine learning models to production and implementing cloud-based machine learning models for widespread organizational useKey FeaturesLearn best practices about bringing your models to productionExplore the tools available for serving ML models and the differences between themUnderstand state-of-the-art monitoring ... Read more

$32.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Become a successful machine learning professional by effortlessly deploying machine learning models to production and implementing cloud-based machine learning models for widespread organizational useKey FeaturesLearn best practices about bringing your models to productionExplore the tools available for serving ML models and the differences between themUnderstand state-of-the-art monitoring
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Intelligent Workloads at the Edge

Deliver cyber-physical outcomes with data and machine learning using AWS IoT Greengrass

by Indraneel Mitra, Ryan Burke ...

Explore IoT, data analytics, and machine learning to solve cyber-physical problems using the latest capabilities of managed services such as AWS IoT Greengrass and Amazon SageMaker Key Features • Accelerate your next edge-focused product development with the power of AWS IoT Greengrass • Develop proficiency in architecting resilient solutions for the edge with proven best practices • Harness the ... Read more

$35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Explore IoT, data analytics, and machine learning to solve cyber-physical problems using the latest capabilities of managed services such as AWS IoT Greengrass and Amazon SageMaker Key Features • Accelerate your next edge-focused product development with the power of AWS IoT Greengrass • Develop proficiency in architecting resilient solutions for the edge with proven best practices • Harness the
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Puppet 3 Cookbook

by John Arundel ...

Puppet 3 Cookbook is written in a Cookbook style, showing you how to set up and expand your Puppet infrastructure. It not only gives you everything you need to become a Puppet expert, but includes powerful code samples and techniques developed over many years of production experience. With it, you'll save time and effort by automating tedious manual processes, impress your boss by delivering ... Read more

$26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Puppet 3 Cookbook is written in a Cookbook style, showing you how to set up and expand your Puppet infrastructure. It not only gives you everything you need to become a Puppet expert, but includes powerful code samples and techniques developed over many years of production experience. With it, you'll save time and effort by automating tedious manual processes, impress your boss by delivering
... Read more
Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate Study Guide

by Derar Alhussein ...

Data engineers proficient in Databricks are currently in high demand. As organizations gather more data than ever before, skilled data engineers on platforms like Databricks become critical to business success. The Databricks Data Engineer Associate certification is proof that you have a complete understanding of the Databricks platform and its capabilities, as well as the essential skills to ... Read more

$48.99 USD

Data engineers proficient in Databricks are currently in high demand. As organizations gather more data than ever before, skilled data engineers on platforms like Databricks become critical to business success. The Databricks Data Engineer Associate certification is proof that you have a complete understanding of the Databricks platform and its capabilities, as well as the essential skills to
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Developing High-Frequency Trading Systems

Learn how to implement high-frequency trading from scratch with C++ or Java basics

by Sebastien Donadio, Sourav Ghosh, Romain Rossier ...

Use your programming skills to create and optimize high-frequency trading systems in no time with Java, C++, and PythonKey FeaturesLearn how to build high-frequency trading systems with ultra-low latencyUnderstand the critical components of a trading systemOptimize your systems with high-level programming techniquesBook DescriptionThe world of trading markets is complex, but it can be made easier ... Read more

$39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Use your programming skills to create and optimize high-frequency trading systems in no time with Java, C++, and PythonKey FeaturesLearn how to build high-frequency trading systems with ultra-low latencyUnderstand the critical components of a trading systemOptimize your systems with high-level programming techniquesBook DescriptionThe world of trading markets is complex, but it can be made easier
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Learning Microsoft Power BI

Transforming Data into Insights

by Jeremey Arnold ...

Microsoft Power BI is a data analytics and visualization tool powerful enough for the most demanding data scientists, but accessible enough for everyday use for anyone who needs to get more from data. The market has many books designed to train and equip professional data analysts to use Power BI, but few of them make this tool accessible to anyone who wants to get up to speed on their own.This ... Read more

$41.99 USD

Microsoft Power BI is a data analytics and visualization tool powerful enough for the most demanding data scientists, but accessible enough for everyday use for anyone who needs to get more from data. The market has many books designed to train and equip professional data analysts to use Power BI, but few of them make this tool accessible to anyone who wants to get up to speed on their own.This
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Mastering Python for Bioinformatics

How to Write Flexible, Documented, Tested Python Code for Research Computing

by Ken Youens-Clark ...

Life scientists today urgently need training in bioinformatics skills. Too many bioinformatics programs are poorly written and barely maintained, usually by students and researchers who've never learned basic programming skills. This practical guide shows postdoc bioinformatics professionals and students how to exploit the best parts of Python to solve problems in biology while creating documented ... Read more

$61.99 USD

Life scientists today urgently need training in bioinformatics skills. Too many bioinformatics programs are poorly written and barely maintained, usually by students and researchers who've never learned basic programming skills. This practical guide shows postdoc bioinformatics professionals and students how to exploit the best parts of Python to solve problems in biology while creating documented
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Access Data Analysis Cookbook

Slicing and Dicing to Find the Results You Need

by Ken Bluttman, Wayne S. Freeze ...

If you have large quantities of data in a Microsoft Access database, and need to study that data in depth, this book is a data cruncher's dream. Access Data Analysis Cookbook offers practical recipes to solve a variety of common problems that users have with extracting Access data and performing calculations on it. Each recipe includes a discussion on how and why the solution works.Whether you use ... Read more

$28.99 USD

If you have large quantities of data in a Microsoft Access database, and need to study that data in depth, this book is a data cruncher's dream. Access Data Analysis Cookbook offers practical recipes to solve a variety of common problems that users have with extracting Access data and performing calculations on it. Each recipe includes a discussion on how and why the solution works.Whether you use
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