With rapidly evolving emerging technologies, the business world is entering a phase of reform. Within times of change, transformative and disruptive environments as well as uncertain futures have created a difficult landscape for leaders within business.Exploring the landscape and providing valuable insight into the leadership among these challenging times, mean that business leaders can rely on Leading within Digital Worlds to provide them with a robust analysis of leadership prac...

Analytics is the application of mathematical and statistical concepts to large data sets so as to distil insights that offer the owner some options for action and competitive advantage or value. This makes it the most desirable and valuable part of big data science. Driven by the increased data capture from digital platforms, commercial fields are becoming data rich and analytics is growing in many sectors. This book presents analytics within a framework of mathematical theory and concepts...

Master the XML Programming Features in Oracle Database 11gDevelop, debug, and administer data-backed XML applications using the expert instruction and best practices in this Oracle Press guide. Oracle Database 11g: Building Oracle XML DB Applications discusses the latest development tools, technologies, and components. Find out how to set up Oracle XML Database (Oracle XML DB), build XML applications in Oracle JDeveloper 11g, work with XSLT stylesheets,...

Expert Oracle Exadata, 2nd Edition opens up the internals of Oracle's Exadata platform so that you can fully benefit from the most performant and scalable database hardware appliance capable of running Oracle Database. This edition is fully-updated to cover Exadata 5-2 and Oracle Database 12c. If you're new to Exadata, you'll soon learn that it embodies a change in how you think about and manage relational databases. A key part of that change lies in the concept of offloading SQL ...

In this age of information overload, people use a variety of strategies to make choices about what to buy, how to spend their leisure time, and even whom to date. Recommender systems automate some of these strategies with the goal of providing affordable, personal, and high-quality recommendations. This book offers an overview of approaches to developing state-of-the-art recommender systems. The authors present current algorithmic approaches for generating personalized buying proposals, su...

Present a unified view of complex BI using the entire Tableau 8 toolkitCreate and distribute dynamic, feature-rich data visualizations and highly interactive BI dashboards—quickly and easily! Tableau 8: The Official Guide provides the hands-on instruction and best practices you need to meet your business intelligence objectives and drive better decision making. Discover how to work from the Tableau GUI, load BI from disparate sources, drag and drop to analyze data, set u...

Get a solid grounding in Apache Oozie, the workflow scheduler system for managing Hadoop jobs. With this hands-on guide, two experienced Hadoop practitioners walk you through the intricacies of this powerful and flexible platform, with numerous examples and real-world use cases.Once you set up your Oozie server, you’ll dive into techniques for writing and coordinating workflows, and learn how to write complex data pipelines. Advanced topics show you how to handle shared libraries i...

Create your own massively scalable Cassandra database with highly responsive database queriesKey FeaturesCreate a Cassandra cluster and tweak its configuration to get the best performance based on your environmentAnalyze the key concepts and architecture of Cassandra, which are essential to create highly responsive Cassandra databasesA fast-paced and step-by-step guide on handling huge amount of data and getting the best out of your database ap...

Phylogenetic combinatorics is a branch of discrete applied mathematics concerned with the combinatorial description and analysis of phylogenetic trees and related mathematical structures such as phylogenetic networks and tight spans. Based on a natural conceptual framework, the book focuses on the interrelationship between the principal options for encoding phylogenetic trees: split systems, quartet systems and metrics. Such encodings provide useful options for analyzing and manipulating p...

A practical roadmap for database upgrade, migration, and transformationThis Oracle Press guide provides best practices for migrating between different operating systems and platforms, transforming existing databases to use different storage or enterprise systems, and upgrading databases from one release to the next. Based on the expert authors’ real-world experience, Oracle Database Upgrade, Migration & Transformation Tips & Techniques will help you choose the best migra...

This volume comprises a collection of papers presented at an Open Data in Education Seminar and the LILE workshops during 2014-2015.In the first part of the book, two chapters give different perspectives on the current use of linked and open data in education, including the use of technology and the topics that are being covered.The second part of the book focuses on the specific, practical applications that are being put in place to exploit open and linked data in educatio...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking, WBDB 2015, held in Toronto, ON, Canada, in June 2015 and the 7th International Workshop, WBDB 2015, held in New Delhi, India, in December 2015.The 8 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They deal with recent trends in big data and HPC convergence, new proposals for big data benchmarking, as well a...