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Author Daniel Cowles
Oil and gas companies have been dealing with large amounts of data much longer than most industries, and some energy analysts even refer to it as the "original big data industry." Now, with massive increases of seismic data, advances in network-attached devices, and....
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Data Preparation for Analytics Using SAS
Author Gerhard Svolba
Written for anyone involved in the data preparation process for analytics, Gerhard Svolba's Data Preparation for Analytics Using SAS offers practical advice in the form of SAS coding tips and tricks, and provides the reader with a conceptual background on data str....
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Analyzing Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves with SAS
Author Mithat Gonen
As a diagnostic decision-making tool, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves provide a comprehensive and visually attractive way to summarize the accuracy of predictions. They are used extensively in medical diagnosis and increasingly in fields such as data ....
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Author Robert Allison
Robert Allison's SAS/GRAPH: Beyond the Basics collects examples that demonstrate a variety of techniques you can use to create custom graphs using SAS/GRAPH software. SAS/GRAPH is known for its flexibility and power, but few people know how to use it to its full po....
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Big Data: Principles and best practices of scalable realtime data systems
Author Nathan Marz with James Warren
SummaryBig Data teaches you to build big data systems using an architecture that takes advantage of clustered hardware along with new tools designed specifically to capture and analyze web-scale data. It describes a scalable, easy-to-understand approach to big data ....
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PostGIS in Action, Second Edition
Author Leo S. Hsu , Regina O. Obe
Processing data tied to location and topology requires specialized know-how. PostGIS is a free spatial database extender for PostgreSQL, every bit as good as proprietary software. With it, you can easily create location-aware queries in just a few lines of SQL code ....
Release Date 2015/04 -
No One Understands You and What to Do About It
Author Heidi Halvorson
Have you ever felt you’re not getting through to the person you’re talking to, or not coming across the way you intend? You’re not alone.That’s the bad news. But there is something we can do about it. Heidi Grant Halvorson, social psychologist and bestselling author....
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Scaling Big Data with Hadoop and Solr - Second Edition
Author Hrishikesh Vijay Karambelkar
Understand, design, build, and optimize your big data search engine with Hadoop and Apache SolrIn DetailTogether, Apache Hadoop and Apache Solr help organizations resolve the problem of information extraction from big data by providing excellent distributed faceted ....
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Author Jayant Kumar
Leverage the power of Apache Solr to power up your business by navigating your users to their data quickly and efficientlyIn DetailApache Solr is an open source search platform built on a Java library called Lucene. It serves as a search platform for many websites, ....
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Author Michael Heydt
Get to grips with pandas—a versatile and high-performance Python library for data manipulation, analysis, and discoveryIn DetailThis learner's guide will help you understand how to use the features of pandas for interactive data manipulation and analysis.This book ....
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Author Joshua N. Milligan
Leverage the power of Tableau 9.0 to design rich data visualizations and build fully interactive dashboardsIn DetailIn the professional world, turning massive amounts of data into something that can be seen and understood is vitally important. This is where Tableau ....
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Author Rajiv Tiwari
Harness big data to provide meaningful insights, analytics, and business intelligence for your financial institutionIn DetailWith the exponential growth of data and many enterprises crunching more and more data every day, Hadoop as a data platform has gained a lot o....
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Author Swizec Teller
Delve into the key concepts of Hadoop and get a thorough understanding of the Hadoop ecosystemIn DetailThis book jumps into the world of Hadoop ecosystem components and its tools in a simplified manner, and provides you with the skills to utilize them effectively fo....
Release Date 2015/04 -
Data Visualization with D3 and AngularJS
Author Christoph Körner
Build dynamic and interactive visualizations from real-world data with D3 on AngularJSIn DetailUsing D3.js, the powerful JavaScript toolkit for creating cross-platform vector graphics, you can now combine performance with maximum compatibility to build a web-based v....
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Python Data Science Essentials
Author Luca Massaron , Alberto Boschetti
Become an efficient data science practitioner by thoroughly understanding the key concepts of PythonIn DetailThe book starts by introducing you to setting up your essential data science toolbox. Then it will guide you across all the data munging and preprocessing ph....
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The Tao of Open Source Intelligence
Author Stewart Bertram
The Tao of Open Source Intelligence The Internet has become the defining medium for information exchange in the modern world, and the unprecedented success of new web publishing platforms such as those associated with social media has confirmed its dominance as th....
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PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition
Author Simon Riggs , Gianni Ciolli , Hannu Krosing , Gabriele Bartolini
Over 150 recipes to help you run an efficient PostgreSQL database in the cloudIn DetailPostgreSQL is a powerful, open source, object-relational database system, fast becoming one of the world's most popular server databases with an enviable reputation for performan....
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Practical Guide to Machine Vision Software: An Introduction with LabVIEW
Author Steven Ready , Kye-Si Kwon
For both students and engineers in R&D, this book explains machine vision in a concise, hands-on way, using the Vision Development Module of the LabView software by National Instruments.Following a short introduction to the basics of machine vision and the tech....
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Operations Management, 3rd Edition
Author B. Mahadevan
Operations Management: Theory and Practice is the outcome of continuous testing of alternative ideas, concepts and pedagogical designs with MBA students, working executives from diverse industries, and research scholars. The basic concept of this book is to incorpo....
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Author E. Keshava Reddy , E. Rukmangadachari
This book is designed for engineering students studying for the core paper on probability and statistics. The topics have been dealt in a coherent manner, supported by illustrations for better compre¬hension. Each chapter is replete with examples and exercises....
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Author R.K. Hegde
* Information on contemporary topics in power plant technology such as super critical boiler technology * Practical approach to delineate complex topics with visual aids and representational schemes * Exhaustive coverage of power generation from non-conventional so....
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Formal Languages and Automata Theory
Author K.V.N. Sunitha
Formal Languages and Automata Theory deals with the mathematical abstraction model of computation and its relation to formal languages. This book is intended to expose students to the theoretical development of computer science. It also provides conceptual tools th....
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Multi-Domain Master Data Management
Author Dalton Cervo , Mark Allen
Multi-Domain Master Data Management delivers practical guidance and specific instruction to help guide planners and practitioners through the challenges of a multi-domain master data management (MDM) implementation. Authors Mark Allen and Dalton Cervo bring their ex....
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Author Dejan Sarka , Kevin Farlee , Itzik Ben-Gan , Adam Machanic
T-SQL insiders help you tackle your toughest queries and query-tuning problems Squeeze maximum performance and efficiency from every T-SQL query you write or tune. Four leading experts take an in-depth look at T-SQL’s internal architecture and offer advanced practic....
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GPS Satellite Surveying, 4th Edition
Author Dmitry Tatarnikov , Lev Rapoport , Alfred Leick
Employ the latest satellite positioning tech with this extensive guideGPS Satellite Surveying is the classic text on the subject, providing the most comprehensive coverage of global navigation satellite systems applications for surveying. Fully updated and expanded....
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Creating Courses for Adults: Design for Learning
Author Ralf St. Clair
Become an effective adult educator by approaching teaching systematicallyAs the author describes at the beginning of Creating Courses for Adults, "The big idea of this book is that education for adults has to be designed." Whether in basic skills training, English l....
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Author Lillian Pierson
Discover how data science can help you gain in-depth insight into your business - the easy way!Jobs in data science abound, but few people have the data science skills needed to fill these increasingly important roles in organizations. Data Science For Dummies is th....
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Data Mining and Predictive Analytics, 2nd Edition
Author Daniel T. Larose , Chantal D. Larose
Learn methods of data analysis and their application to real-world data setsThis updated second edition serves as an introduction to data mining methods and models, including association rules, clustering, neural networks, logistic regression, and multivariate analy....
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Probabilities: The Little Numbers That Rule Our Lives, 2nd Edition
Author Peter Olofsson
Praise for the First Edition"If there is anything you want to know, or remind yourself, about probabilities, then look no further than this comprehensive, yet wittily written and enjoyable, compendium of how to apply probability calculations in real-world situations....
Release Date 2015/03