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 linear decision-making process to encode your information visually.Delve into different kinds of visualization, including infographics and visual art, and explore the influences at work in each one. Then learn how to app...

Visualization is the graphic presentation of data -- portrayals meant to reveal complex information at a glance. Think of the familiar map of the New York City subway system, or a diagram of the human brain. Successful visualizations are beautiful not only for their aesthetic design, but also for elegant layers of detail that efficiently generate insight and new understanding.This book examines the methods of two dozen visualization experts who approach their projects from a variet...

The UX Book, winner of a 2013 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association, is a comprehensive textbook on designing interaction to ensure a quality user experience. Combining breadth, depth, and practical applications, this book takes a time-tested process-and-guidelines approach that provides readers with actionable methods and techniques while retaining a firm grounding in human-computer interaction (HCI) concepts and theory.The autho...

A step-by-step practical implementation tutorial that equips you with high-level knowledge of configuring, deploying, extending, and integrating Splunk to bring machine-generated operational intelligence (?)to your advantage. The book targets professionals and organizations who want to implement or have already implemented Splunk for log analysis and indexing. Analysts and IT staff for end-to-end investigation, performance monitoring, and so on will also learn from the practical examples. ...

The Essential Guide to Scaling Your Business Solution Written by Oracle ACE Director and MySQL expert Ronald Bradford, with coauthor Chris Schneider, Effective MySQL: Replication Techniques in Depth describes what is needed to understand and implement MySQL replication to build scalable solutions. This book includes detailed syntax examples to demonstrate the features, options, and limitations of native MySQL replication. Providing an evaluation of various new replication f...

We live in a three-dimensional world. To design objects for everyday living, users must learn how to create in three dimensions. For precise modern designs that must conform to specific tolerances, we use computers to create a digital model first, and then pass that model on to a machine, such as a CNC router or 3D printer for fabrication.There are many software packages that are used to create digital models. One such package that is popular for industrial, product, and g...

The Essential Guide to Protecting Your Business InformationWritten by Oracle ACE Director and MySQL expert Ronald Bradford, Effective MySQL: Backup and Recovery covers all the options with detailed descriptions and syntax examples to ensure an appropriate backup and recovery plan can be developed. Featuring a side-by-side evaluation of the various backup strategies and complementary recovery implementations, this Oracle Press book helps you to protect your...

InDesign is the graphic design tool of choice for many designers.A lot of the graphics in a book or brochure, if they are not photos, are smallvector illustrations which are much faster and easier to draw in InDesign. Try it. You'll like it.

SQL Cheat Sheet & Guide, is designed as a quick reference, goto book for the working Microsoft and MySQL user. If you are like me, you like to keep all of your reference material together and not in a hundred internet searches. This QUICK LOOK reference is intended for the working IT professional in real world scenarios without having to find what you are looking for within a sea of webpage advertising, or author’s filler material.

Understanding Augmented Reality addresses the elements that are required to create augmented reality experiences. The technology that supports augmented reality will come and go, evolve and change. The underlying principles for creating exciting, useful augmented reality experiences are timeless. Augmented reality designed from a purely technological perspective will lead to an AR experience that is novel and fun for one-time consumption - but is no more than a toy. Imagine a filmmaking bo...

This book covers the fundamentals of machine learning with Python in a concise and dynamic manner. It covers data mining and large-scale machine learning using Apache Spark.Key FeaturesTake your first steps in the world of data science by understanding the tools and techniques of data analysisTrain efficient Machine Learning models in Python using the supervised and unsupervised learning methodsLearn how to use Apache Spark for processing Big D...

But I’m not a graphics artist, you say? Think you have to pay someone to make your E-Book graphics? Let’s get down to Earth here. You don’t need to be a graphics artist to make a very attractive E-Book Cover. You can make your own with the tools already on your computer desktop. You didn’t hire a professional editor and you didn’t hire a professional agent. Why hire someone to make your cover for you? Let me show you how.The two things you will need are Internet Explorer and a Word ...