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Better Data Brings a Renewal at the Bank of England
Author Michael Fitzgerald
The Bank of England, one of the world’s oldest and most influential central banks, has made analytics excellence a key pillar of its mission to promote economic stability within the United Kingdom. Like other central banks, the Bank has relied on data and ana....
Release Date 2016/07 -
Data-Driven City Management: A Close Look at Amsterdam’s Smart City Initiative
Author Michael Fitzgerald
The opportunity to use data analytics to improve city life is enormous — but cities aren’t yet ready to make the transition. One city leading the way is Amsterdam, which has been working toward becoming a “smart city” for almost 7 years. The....
Release Date 2016/07 -
Ruby Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
Author Michael Fitzgerald
Updated for Ruby 2.2, this handy reference offers brief yet clear explanations of Ruby’s core elements—from operators to blocks to documentation creation—and highlights the key features you may work with every day. Need to know the correct syntax for a conditional? ....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Introducing Regular Expressions
Author Michael Fitzgerald
If you’re a programmer new to regular expressions, this easy-to-follow guide is a great place to start. You’ll learn the fundamentals step-by-step with the help of numerous examples, discovering first-hand how to match, extract, and transform text by matching specif....
Release Date 2012/07 -
Author Michael Fitzgerald
Although Ruby is an easy language to learn, in the heat of action you may find that you can't remember the correct syntax for a conditional or the name of a method. This handy pocket reference offers brief yet clear explanations of Ruby's core components, from ope....
Release Date 2007/07 -
Author Michael Fitzgerald
You don't have to know everything about a car to drive one, and you don't need to know everything about Ruby to start programming with it. Written for both experienced and new programmers alike, Learning Ruby is a just-get-in-and-drive book -- a hands-on tutorial ....
Release Date 2007/05 -
Author Michael Fitzgerald
Developers and system administrators alike are uncovering the true power of XML, the Extensible Markup Language that enables data to be sent over the Internet from one computer platform to another or one application to another and retain its original format. Flexib....
Release Date 2004/07 -
Author Michael Fitzgerald
XSLT is a powerful language for transforming XML documents into something else. That something else can be an HTML document, another XML document, a Portable Document Format (PDF) file, a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file, a Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML....
Release Date 2003/11