HITCHHIKING ADVENTURES—This modern-day Huck Finn-like adventure—only true—tells about two 16-year-old boys who run into unexpected circumstances while hitchhiking coast-to-coast. The boys find fun and freedom while covering over 7,000 miles of America, including stories of near-death and other incredible eye-opening experiences sprinkled with humor. Challenged with little money, they solely depended on the generosity and compassion of others to provide rides and sometimes more.

When you think of a brand the first thing that probably comes to mind is a brand on livestock. Branding of a product should be viewed as the same thing. When you have a successful brand, it sets your product apart from your competition. You want your brand to be able to expand your customer base and increase your market share. The larger your customer base and market share the more powerful your brand will become.There are many factors that go into making a brand successful and the...

This timely text/reference explores the business and technical issues involved in the management of information systems in the era of big data and beyond. Topics and features: presents review questions and discussion topics in each chapter for classroom group work and individual research assignments; discusses the potential use of a variety of big data tools and techniques in a business environment, explaining how these can fit within an information systems strategy; reviews existing theor...

The issue of data quality is as old as data itself. However, the proliferation of diverse, large-scale and often publically available data on the Web has increased the risk of poor data quality and misleading data interpretations. On the other hand, data is now exposed at a much more strategic level e.g. through business intelligence systems, increasing manifold the stakes involved for individuals, corporations as well as government agencies. There, the lack of knowledge about data accurac...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime, ICDF2C 2013, held in September 2013 in Moscow, Russia. The 16 revised full papers presented together with 2 extended abstracts and 1 poster paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The papers cover diverse topics in the field of digital forensics and cybercrime, ranging from regulation of social networks to file carv...

Perform Interactive Data Analysis with Smarter Visualizations and Support your Enterprise-wide Analytical NeedsKey FeaturesGet a practical demonstration of discovering data for sales, human resources, and more using Qlik SenseCreate dynamic dashboards for business intelligence and predictive analyticsCreate and collaborate comprehensive analytical solutions using Rattle and Qlik SenseBook DescriptionQlik ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering, FDSE 2015, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in November 2015. The 20 revised full papers and 3 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. They have been organized in the following topical sections: big data analytics and massive dataset mining; security and privacy engineering; crowdsourcing and social network data analytics;...

Re-architect relational applications to NoSQL, integrate relational database management systems with the Hadoop ecosystem, and transform and migrate relational data to and from Hadoop components. This book covers the best-practice design approaches to re-architecting your relational applications and transforming your relational data to optimize concurrency, security, denormalization, and performance.Winner of IBM’s 2012 Gerstner Award for his implementation of big data and data war...

A practical guide designed to get you from basics to current state of art in computer vision systems.Key FeaturesMaster the different tasks associated with Computer Vision and develop your own Computer Vision applications with easeLeverage the power of Python, Tensorflow, Keras, and OpenCV to perform image processing, object detection, feature detection and moreWith real-world datasets and fully functional code, this book is your one-stop guide...

Build effective regression models in R to extract valuable insights from real dataKey FeaturesImplement different regression analysis techniques to solve common problems in data science - from data exploration to dealing with missing valuesFrom Simple Linear Regression to Logistic Regression - this book covers all regression techniques and their implementation in RA complete guide to building effective regression models in R and interpreting re...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Future Data and Security Engineering, FDSE 2016, held in Can Tho City, Vietnam, in November 2016.The 27 revised full papers and 2 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. They have been organized in the following topical sections: Big Data Analytics and Cloud Data Management; Internet of Things and Applications; Security and Privacy Engineering; Data Prote...

This book presents a comprehensive approach to protecting sensitive information when large data collections are released by their owners. It addresses three key requirements of data privacy: the protection of data explicitly released, the protection of information not explicitly released but potentially vulnerable due to a release of other data, and the enforcement of owner-defined access restrictions to the released data. It is also the first book with a complete examination of how to enf...