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A Primer on Mapping Class Groups (PMS-49)
Author Dan Margalit , Benson Farb
The study of the mapping class group Mod(S) is a classical topic that is experiencing a renaissance. It lies at the juncture of geometry, topology, and group theory. This book explains as many important theorems, examples, and techniques as possible, quickly and dir....
Release Date 2011/09 -
Author Niall O'Higgins
Learn how to leverage MongoDB with your Python applications, using the hands-on recipes in this book. You get complete code samples for tasks such as making fast geo queries for location-based apps, efficiently indexing your user documents for social-graph lookups, ....
Release Date 2011/09 -
Author Lars George
If you're looking for a scalable storage solution to accommodate a virtually endless amount of data, this book shows you how Apache HBase can fulfill your needs. As the open source implementation of Google's BigTable architecture, HBase scales to billions of rows ....
Release Date 2011/09 -
Author Julie Steele , Noah Iliinsky
Data visualization is an efficient and effective medium for communicating large amounts of information, but the design process can often seem like an unexplainable creative endeavor. This concise book aims to demystify the design process by showing you how to use a ....
Release Date 2011/09 -
Author John Verzani
Dive into the RStudio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for using and programming R, the popular open source software for statistical computing and graphics. This concise book provides new and experienced users with an overview of RStudio, as well as hands-on....
Release Date 2011/09 -
Getting Started with Oracle Hyperion Planning 11
Author Enti Sandeep Reddy
The perfect primer to Oracle Hyperion Planning, this step-by-step tutorial gives you the skills to manage all your business planning and budgeting. Real-world examples make it super-relevant to your own situation.Successfully implement Hyperion Planning—one of the l....
Release Date 2011/09 -
SAP NetWeaver MDM 7.1 Administrator's Guide
Author Uday Rao
Don't just manage – Excel at managing your master data with SAP NetWeaver MDM 7.1Written in an easy-to-follow manner, and in simple languageStep-by-step procedures that take you from basic to advanced administration of SAP MDM in no timeLearn various techniques for....
Release Date 2011/09 -
An Introduction to Trading In the Financial Markets: Technology: Systems, Data, and Networks
Author R. Tee Williams
Networks, systems, and data join the financial markets into a single interrelated environment that processes millions of transactions in real time. This volume, the third of four, investigates the interconnected nature of financial markets by examining networks, sy....
Release Date 2011/08 -
A Physicist's Guide to Mathematica, 2nd Edition
Author Patrick T. Tam
For the engineering and scientific professional, A Physicist’s Guide to Mathematica, Second Edition provides an updated reference guide based on the 2007 new 6.0 release, providing an organized and integrated desk reference with step-by-step instructions for the mos....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Integrating and Extending BIRT
Author Iana Chatalbasheva , Tom Bondur , Jason Weathers
The world-wide developer community has downloaded over ten million copies of BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools). Built on the open-source Eclipse platform, BIRT is a powerful reporting system that provides an end-to-end solution from creating and deplo....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Susan E. REED
Are we better off today than we were 50 years ago? Nearly 50 years after the Civil Rights Movement, there is a new crisis of opportunity in corporate America. Based on the author’s groundbreaking study of Fortune 100 companies, The Diversity Index identifies a....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Auditing Cloud Computing: A Security and Privacy Guide
Author Ben Halpert
The auditor's guide to ensuring correct security and privacy practices in a cloud computing environmentMany organizations are reporting or projecting a significant cost savings through the use of cloud computing—utilizing shared computing resources to provide ubiqu....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Logic for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Author Ricardo Caferra
Logic and its components (propositional, first-order, non-classical) play a key role in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. While a large amount of information exists scattered throughout various media (books, journal articles, webpages, etc.), the diffuse....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Tanel Pöder , Randy Johnson , Kerry Osborne
Throughout history, advances in technology have come in spurts. A single great idea can often spur rapid change as the idea takes hold and is propagated, often in totally unexpected directions. Exadata embodies such a change in how we think about and manage relation....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Oracle Database 11g Performance Tuning Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach
Author Bill Padfield , Darl Kuhn , Sam R. Alapati
Performance problems are rarely "problems" per se. They are more often "crises" during which you're pressured for results by a manager standing outside your cubicle while your phone rings with queries from the help desk. You won't have the time for a leisurely per....
Release Date 2011/08 -
The Manga Guide to the Universe
Author Verte Corp. , Kiyoshi Kawabata , Kenji Ishikawa
Join Kanna, Kanta, Yamane, and Gloria in The Manga Guide to the Universe as they explore our solar system, the Milky Way, and faraway galaxies in search of the universe's greatest mysteries: dark matter, cosmic expansion, and the Big Bang itself.
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Priscilla Chaffe-Stengel
Managers and analysts routinely collect and examine key performance measures to better understand their operations and make good decisions. Being able to render the complexity of operations data into a coherent account of significant events requires an understanding....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Statistical Analysis for Business Using JMP(R): A Student's Guide
Author Willbann D. Terpening
A complete and thorough introduction to business statistics using JMP. While the book is designed for introductory business statistics courses at the undergraduate or MBA level, industry professionals wanting to brush up on their knowledge of statistics and those wa....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Gabriel N. Schenker
Rapidly retrieve data from your database into .NET objectsIncorporate robust, efficient data access into your .Net projectsReduce hours of application development time and get better application architecture and performanceCreate your domain model first and then der....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Author Robert Kabacoff
SummaryR in Action is the first book to present both the R system and the use cases that make it such a compelling package for business developers. The book begins by introducing the R language, including the development environment. Focusing on practical solutions,....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Harnessed: How Language and Music Mimicked Nature and Transformed Ape to Man
Author Mark Changizi
The scientific consensus is that our ability to understand human speech has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. After all, there are whole portions of the brain devoted to human speech. We learn to understand speech before we can even walk, and c....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Master Data Management in Practice: Achieving True Customer MDM
Author Mark Allen , Dalton Cervo
Expert guidance for Master Data Management (MDM) implementationMaster Data Management in Practice provides a logical order toward planning, implementation, ongoing management, and advanced practices of Customer MDM with tables, graphs, and charts. Authors Dalton Cer....
Release Date 2011/07 -
The Hidden Power of Your Customers: Four Keys to Growing Your Business Through Existing Customers
Author Becky Carroll
Winning strategies to keep your existing customers coming backA business's current customer base needs to be considered among the company's most valuable assets. Discover the practical tools to preserve and grow this asset—and boost your business—by tapping into T....
Release Date 2011/07 -
Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics
Author Nathan Yau
Practical data design tips from a data visualization expert of the modern ageData doesn't decrease; it is ever-increasing and can be overwhelming to organize in a way that makes sense to its intended audience. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could actually visualiz....
Release Date 2011/07 -
Weyl Group Multiple Dirichlet Series
Author Ben Brubaker , Daniel Bump , Solomon Friedberg
Weyl group multiple Dirichlet series are generalizations of the Riemann zeta function. Like the Riemann zeta function, they are Dirichlet series with analytic continuation and functional equations, having applications to analytic number theory. By contrast, these We....
Release Date 2011/07 -
Expert PL/SQL Practices for Oracle Developers and DBAs
Author Riyaj Shamsudeen , Ron Sands , Michael Rosenblum , Stephan Petit , Arup Nanda , Conno
Expert PL/SQL Practices is a book of collected wisdom on PL/SQL programming from some of the best and the brightest in the field. Each chapter is a deep-dive into a specific problem, technology, or feature set that you'll face as a PL/SQL programmer. Each author ha....
Release Date 2011/07 -
Author Richard Chung , Steve Phillips , Ben Prusinski
Expert Oracle GoldenGate is a hands-on guide to creating and managing complex data replication environments using the latest in database replication technology from Oracle. GoldenGate is the future in replication technology from Oracle, and aims to be best-of-breed.....
Release Date 2011/07