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The Subtle Sources of Sampling Bias Hiding in Your Data
Author Sam Ransbotham
Plummeting data acquisition costs have been a big part of the surge in business analytics. We have much richer samples of data to use for insight. But more data doesn’t inherently remove sampling bias; in fact, it may make it worse. Show and hide more ....
Release Date 2017/10 -
Author Joe Lazauskas , Shane Snow
A terrific and timely book that makes a compelling case for fundamentally rethinking how your business communicates. Recommended! -Jay Baer, founder of Convince & Convert and author of Hug Your Haters Once upon a time, storytelling was confused with talking at ....
Release Date 2018/02 -
Author Matt Malouf
Learn what not to do to grow your businessThe Stop Doing List gets you off the treadmill of unproductive, frenetic activity, and sets you on the path toward growth. Running a business has never been easy, but today's nonstop 24-7-365 world makes moving forward mor....
Release Date 2017/04 -
The Statistics and Calculus with Python Workshop
Author Peter Farrell , Alvaro Fuentes , Ajinkya Sudhir Kolhe
With examples and activities that help you achieve real results, applying calculus and statistical methods relevant to advanced data science has never been so easyKey FeaturesDiscover how most programmers use the main Python libraries when performing statistics with Pytho....
Release Date 2020/08 -
The State of Data Analytics and Visualization Adoption
Author Matthew D. Sarrel
Businesses regardless of industry or company size increasingly rely on data analytics and visualization to gain competitive advantage. That’s why organizations today are racing to gather, store, and analyze data from many sources in a wide range of formats. In the ....
Release Date 2017/11 -
Author Richard Grbavac , William Seidman
In every company, a select few produce more, sell more, and deliver better results. These stellar performers consistently outshine their peers—and achieve more than most would believe possible. If only these people could be cloned! The Star Factor deliver....
Release Date 2013/12 -
Author Awni Al Saqqa , Prashanth Jayaram , Frank Solomon
Cut through the noise and get real results with a step-by-step approach to learning SQLKey FeaturesA structured, straightforward introduction to SQL for beginners A SQL tutorial with step-by-step exercises and activities that help build key skills Structured to let....
Release Date 2019/12 -
Author Scott
Ideal as a stand-alone primer or when used in conjunction with another introductory computer science text, SQL: The Programming Language will prepare students for core SQL programming courses offered in CS and CIS. With a clear, concise, and descriptive writing sty....
Release Date 2010/10 -
Author Greg Orme
Includes interviews with Gail Rebuck (CEO of Penguin Random House), Sir John Hegarty (Founder of BBH) and Stuart Murphy (Director of Entertainment Channels atSky) Def: Spark (n) - an elusive moment when a new idea strikes that has the potential to transform the way ....
Release Date 2014/07 -
Author Beth Kanter , Allison H. Fine
A pragmatic framework for nonprofit digital transformation that embraces the human-centered nature of your organizationIn The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in an Automated World, a team of dedicated nonprofit thought leaders delivers a discussion of the information and tools nonprofit staf....
Release Date 2022/03 -
Author Math Bollen
This book links the challenges to which the electricity network is exposed with the range of new technology, methodologies and market mechanisms known under the name "smart grid." The main challenges will be described by the way in which they impact the electricity ....
Release Date 2011/10 -
Author Shumeet Baluja
What happens when a naive intern is granted unfettered access to people's most private thoughts and actions? Stephen Thorpe lands a coveted internship at Ubatoo, an Internet empire that provides its users with popular online services, from a search engine and e-mai....
Release Date 2011/03 -
Author Anasazi Foundation
Discover the Healing Power of the Wilderness People have moved away from Mother Earth, bringing heartache, pain, and other maladies of the modern age. The “self-help” movement claims to offer peace and fulfillment to individuals, but this solitary approach takes us....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Author Sandeep Uttamchandani
The world’s most valuable resource is data. Companies across all industry verticals are using data-driven insights as a key competitive advantage. But the time required for transforming raw data to insights can take days or weeks when you want it in minutes or hour....
Release Date 2020/12 -
Author Raffael Marty
Companies of all sizes are considering data lakes as a way to deal with terabytes of security data that can help them conduct forensic investigations and serve as an early indicator to identify bad or relevant behavior. Many think about replacing their existing SIE....
Release Date 2015/04 -
The Secrets of My Success: The Story of Boost Juice, Juicy Bits and All
Author Janine Allis
Janine Allis explains how she grew Boost Juice bars into a global phenomenon.How do you turn a single juice bar into a global company with more than 6000 employees and $160 million in global sales? Ask Janine Allis. In The Secrets of My Success, Australia's hottest....
Release Date 2013/06 -
Author Rob Reider
The Search for Best Practices will help you do the right thing and in the right way in spite of organizational roadblocks. It gives a real “how to” look to assist management and operations personnel to analyze their operations in a program of continuous improveme....
Release Date 2014/11 -
The Science and Technology of Counterterrorism
Author Carl Young
Scientists with little or no background in security and security professionals with little or no background in science and technology often have difficulty communicating in order to implement the best counterterrorism strategies. The Science and Technology of Counte....
Release Date 2014/02 -
The SAS Programmer's PROC REPORT Handbook: Basic to Advanced Reporting Techniques
Author Jane Eslinger
The SAS Programmer's PROC REPORT Handbook: Basic to Advanced Reporting Techniques is intended for programmers of all skill levels. Learn how to link multiple reports, add graphics and logos, and manipulate table of contents values to help refine your programs, mac....
Release Date 2016/03 -
The SAS Programmer's PROC REPORT Handbook
Author Jane Eslinger
Generate reports with style! The SAS Programmer's PROC REPORT Handbook: ODS Companion explains how to use style elements within a style template to customize reports generated by PROC REPORT, leading to more appealing and effective business reports. Many progra....
Release Date 2018/03 -
The SAP Materials Management Handbook
Author Ashfaque Ahmed
Although tens of thousands of global users have implemented Systems, Applications, and Products (SAP) for enterprise data processing for decades, there has been a need for a dependable reference on the subject, particularly for SAP materials management (SAP MM).Fill....
Release Date 2014/03 -
The Rise of the Knowledge Graph
Businesses manage data to understand the connections between their customers, products or services, features, markets, and anything else that affects the business. With a knowledge graph, you can represent these connections directly to analyze and understand the compound relationsh.... -
The Rise of Operational Analytics
Author Scott Haines
Fast access to data has become a critical game changer. Today, a new breed of company understands that the faster they can build, access, and share well-defined datasets, the more competitive they’ll be in our data-driven world. In this practical report, Scott Hain....
Release Date 2019/12 -
The Relational Database Dictionary
Author C.J. Date
Avoid misunderstandings that can affect the design, programming, and use of database systems. Whether you're using Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, MySQL, or PostgreSQL, The Relational Database Dictionary will prevent confusion about the precise meaning of database-related....
Release Date 2006/08 -
The Reinforcement Learning Workshop
Author Alessandro Palmas , Emanuele Ghelfi , Dr. Alexandra Ga
Start with the basics of reinforcement learning and explore deep learning concepts such as deep Q-learning, deep recurrent Q-networks, and policy-based methods with this practical guideKey FeaturesUse TensorFlow to write reinforcement learning agents for performing challe....
Release Date 2020/08 -
Author Michael C. Corballis
The Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes us in the animal kingdom is our capacity for recursion: the ability to embed our thoughts....
Release Date 2014/04 -
The Real MCTS SQL Server 2008 Exam 70-433 Prep Kit
Author Mark Horninger
SQL Server 2008 is the latest update to Microsoft's flagship database management system. This is the largest update since SQL Server 2005, and it brings increased ability to deliver data across more platforms, and thus many different types of devices. New fun....
Release Date 2009/05 -
The Real MCTS SQL Server 2008 Exam 70-432 Prep Kit
Author Mark Horninger
SQL Server 2008 is the latest update to Microsoft's flagship database management system. This is the largest update since SQL Server 2005. SQL Server 2008 is a much more significant update than SQL Server 2005, because it brings increased ability to deliver d....
Release Date 2009/04