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Azure Data Fundamentals

A Guide to DP-900 Certification and Beyond

by Michael John Pena ...

Learn the essential skills and concepts for working with data in the cloud using Microsoft Azure. With this practical guide, professionals new to data management and Azure will learn how to leverage Azure services such as Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Storage, Azure SQL, and Microsoft Fabric to create, store, process, analyze, and visualize data.Author Michael John Peña, principal data and application ... Read more

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Learn the essential skills and concepts for working with data in the cloud using Microsoft Azure. With this practical guide, professionals new to data management and Azure will learn how to leverage Azure services such as Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Storage, Azure SQL, and Microsoft Fabric to create, store, process, analyze, and visualize data.Author Michael John Peña, principal data and application
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Banco de dados: bases conceituais e pragmáticas

by Leonardo Alexandre Ferreira Leite ...

Series series Série Universitária
A Série Universitária foi desenvolvida pelo Senac São Paulo com o intuito de preparar profissionais para o mercado de trabalho. Os títulos abrangem diversas áreas, abordando desde conhecimentos teóricos e práticos adequados às exigências profissionais até a formação ética e sólida.Banco de dados: bases conceituais e pragmáticas oferece ao leitor uma introdução a bancos de dados, combinando ... Read more

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A Série Universitária foi desenvolvida pelo Senac São Paulo com o intuito de preparar profissionais para o mercado de trabalho. Os títulos abrangem diversas áreas, abordando desde conhecimentos teóricos e práticos adequados às exigências profissionais até a formação ética e sólida.Banco de dados: bases conceituais e pragmáticas oferece ao leitor uma introdução a bancos de dados, combinando
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Building Responsible AI with Python

Learn to identify and mitigate bias with hands-on code examples

by Dr. Ali El-Sharif, Serg Masís, Nicholas Schmidt ...

Generate different forms of machine learning model explanations to gain insight into the logic of models Learn how to measure bias in machine learning modelsKey FeaturesMeasure group fairness, individual fairness and choose the right metric for different scenariosExplain model’s logic using different explanation techniquesMitigate bias at different stages of the machine learning pipelineBook ... Read more

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Generate different forms of machine learning model explanations to gain insight into the logic of models Learn how to measure bias in machine learning modelsKey FeaturesMeasure group fairness, individual fairness and choose the right metric for different scenariosExplain model’s logic using different explanation techniquesMitigate bias at different stages of the machine learning pipelineBook
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Graph Sampling

by Li-Chun Zhang ...

Many technological, socio-economic, environmental, biomedical phenomena exhibit an underlying graph structure. Valued graph allows one to incorporate the connections or links among the population units in addition. The links may provide effectively access to the part of population that is the primary target, which is the case for many unconventional sampling methods, such as indirect, network, ... Read more

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Many technological, socio-economic, environmental, biomedical phenomena exhibit an underlying graph structure. Valued graph allows one to incorporate the connections or links among the population units in addition. The links may provide effectively access to the part of population that is the primary target, which is the case for many unconventional sampling methods, such as indirect, network,
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The Rise Of AI Agents

by Tamer AlaaEldine ...

"The Rise of AI Agents: Transforming Work and Society" by Tamer AlaaEldine examines artificial intelligence's impact on work and society, with a focus on agentic AI. The book presents a comprehensive analysis of automation's evolution and its implications for the future.The narrative begins with automation's historical context, from ancient innovations to modern technology. Through a creative ... Read more

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"The Rise of AI Agents: Transforming Work and Society" by Tamer AlaaEldine examines artificial intelligence's impact on work and society, with a focus on agentic AI. The book presents a comprehensive analysis of automation's evolution and its implications for the future.The narrative begins with automation's historical context, from ancient innovations to modern technology. Through a creative
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The Data Bank Society (Routledge Revivals)

Organizations, Computers and Social Freedom

by Malcolm Warner, Mike Stone ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
This study, written in the context of its first publication in 1970, discusses and documents the invasion of privacy by the corporation and the social institution in the search for efficiency in information processing. Discussing areas such as the impact of the computer on administration, privacy and the storage on information, the authors assess the technical and social feasibility of ... Read more

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This study, written in the context of its first publication in 1970, discusses and documents the invasion of privacy by the corporation and the social institution in the search for efficiency in information processing. Discussing areas such as the impact of the computer on administration, privacy and the storage on information, the authors assess the technical and social feasibility of
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Data Observability for Data Engineering

Proactive strategies for ensuring data accuracy and addressing broken data pipelines

by Michele Pinto, Sammy El Khammal ...

Discover actionable steps to maintain healthy data pipelines to promote data observability within your teams with this essential guide to elevating data engineering practicesKey FeaturesLearn how to monitor your data pipelines in a scalable wayApply real-life use cases and projects to gain hands-on experience in implementing data observabilityInstil trust in your pipelines among data producers and ... Read more

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Discover actionable steps to maintain healthy data pipelines to promote data observability within your teams with this essential guide to elevating data engineering practicesKey FeaturesLearn how to monitor your data pipelines in a scalable wayApply real-life use cases and projects to gain hands-on experience in implementing data observabilityInstil trust in your pipelines among data producers and
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Python Essentials You Always Wanted to Know

Beginner's Guide to Python Programming, Data Structures, Data Analytics with Hands-On Coding Exercises

by Shawn Peters, Vibrant Publishers ...

Series series Self-Learning Management Series
Beginner's Guide to Python Programming, Data Structures, Data Analytics with Hands-On Coding Exercises. Learn Python the Easy Way with No Prior Experience!Key Features include:Comprehensive coverage of Python basicsIdeal for beginners and career changersReal-world applications and case studiesPractical examples and quizzes for reinforcement</str... ... Read more

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Beginner's Guide to Python Programming, Data Structures, Data Analytics with Hands-On Coding Exercises. Learn Python the Easy Way with No Prior Experience!Key Features include:Comprehensive coverage of Python basicsIdeal for beginners and career changersReal-world applications and case studiesPractical examples and quizzes for reinforcement</str...
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Proceedings of 17th International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing

ICMLC2025, Volume 1

Edited by Lin Huang, David Greenhalgh ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book comprises original and peer reviewed research papers presented at 2025 17th International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing that was held in Guangzhou, China, from February 14 to 17, 2025. The focus of the conference is to establish an effective platform for institutions and industries to share ideas and to present the works of scientists, engineers, educators and students ... Read more

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This book comprises original and peer reviewed research papers presented at 2025 17th International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing that was held in Guangzhou, China, from February 14 to 17, 2025. The focus of the conference is to establish an effective platform for institutions and industries to share ideas and to present the works of scientists, engineers, educators and students
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RAG from First Principles

Engineering retrieval-augmented generation systems with Python, LangChain, and LlamaIndex

by Jia Huang ...

A rigorous, code-first guide to RAG engineering by a bestselling AI author. Master data ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector storage, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and evaluation from the ground up. Free with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader\*Key FeaturesEngineer RAG systems layer by layer, from ingestion to evaluationMaster hybrid retrieval, reranking, and ... Read more

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A rigorous, code-first guide to RAG engineering by a bestselling AI author. Master data ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector storage, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and evaluation from the ground up. Free with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader\*Key FeaturesEngineer RAG systems layer by layer, from ingestion to evaluationMaster hybrid retrieval, reranking, and
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Breaking the Social Media Prism

How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing

by Chris Bail ...

A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online—and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social mediaIn an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use social media as a mirror to decipher our place in society but, as Chris Bail explains, it functions more ... Read more

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A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online—and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social mediaIn an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use social media as a mirror to decipher our place in society but, as Chris Bail explains, it functions more
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Vejo Estatística em TUDO

Como entender os dados, tomar decisões melhores e não ser enganado pelos números

by Vania Corrêa Mota ...

Se um gráfico pode mentir… quantas decisões da sua vida já foram influenciadas por isso? Todos os dias, você é exposto a números que parecem verdadeiros, gráficos que parecem confiáveis e algoritmos que parecem inteligentes. Mas será que você realmente entende o que está por trás deles? Neste livro, a Profa. 220V revela como a estatística influencia silenciosamente o seu cotidiano — do conteúdo ... Read more

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Se um gráfico pode mentir… quantas decisões da sua vida já foram influenciadas por isso? Todos os dias, você é exposto a números que parecem verdadeiros, gráficos que parecem confiáveis e algoritmos que parecem inteligentes. Mas será que você realmente entende o que está por trás deles? Neste livro, a Profa. 220V revela como a estatística influencia silenciosamente o seu cotidiano — do conteúdo
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Emerging Challenges in Intelligent Management Information Systems

Proceedings of 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ECAI 2024 - IMIS Workshop. Volume 1

Edited by Marcin Hernes, Jaroslaw Wątróbski, Artur Rot ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book contains the first volume of proceedings of the ECAI 2024 Workshop on Intelligent Management Information Systems (IMIS 2024). IMIS 2024 was part of the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ECAI 2024, held in Santiago de Compostela from October 19, 2024, to October 24, 2024.The book discusses emerging challenges related to implementing artificial intelligence in management ... Read more

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This book contains the first volume of proceedings of the ECAI 2024 Workshop on Intelligent Management Information Systems (IMIS 2024). IMIS 2024 was part of the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence ECAI 2024, held in Santiago de Compostela from October 19, 2024, to October 24, 2024.The book discusses emerging challenges related to implementing artificial intelligence in management
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Visual Reasoning in Science, Engineering, and the Humanities

Expert Culture for the Challenges of the Future, Volume 1

Edited by Daria Bylieva, Dong Luo, Alfred Nordmann ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book investigate visualization practices conceptually, historically, and strategically, showing what visual thinking can achieve especially in professional training and educational contexts. For a long time, science and education were dominated by the word. What mattered were written texts, mathematical formulae, and verbalizations. And yet, similes, metaphors, illustrations, diagrams, and ... Read more

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This book investigate visualization practices conceptually, historically, and strategically, showing what visual thinking can achieve especially in professional training and educational contexts. For a long time, science and education were dominated by the word. What mattered were written texts, mathematical formulae, and verbalizations. And yet, similes, metaphors, illustrations, diagrams, and
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Rust for Data Engineers: Processing Large Datasets with Memory-Efficient Parallel Computing

Practical Rust for Developers

by James Neil ...

Series series Practical Rust for Developers
Transform your data infrastructure with the speed and safety of Rust.In the era of massive datasets, data engineers are hitting the performance limits of traditional programming languages. Memory leaks, garbage collection pauses, and concurrency bottlenecks can cripple large pipelines. Rust offers a paradigm shift. By combining low level hardware control with high level memory safety, Rust ... Read more

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Transform your data infrastructure with the speed and safety of Rust.In the era of massive datasets, data engineers are hitting the performance limits of traditional programming languages. Memory leaks, garbage collection pauses, and concurrency bottlenecks can cripple large pipelines. Rust offers a paradigm shift. By combining low level hardware control with high level memory safety, Rust
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Carrera Profesional en Ingeniería de IA en 2025

by David Ernesto Albarracín ...

Carrera Profesional en Ingeniería de IA en 2025 es una guía práctica y actualizada para quienes desean construir, desarrollar y consolidar una carrera profesional en el campo de la Inteligencia Artificial.En un contexto donde la IA evoluciona a gran velocidad y la información disponible suele ser fragmentada, este ebook ofrece un mapa claro y estructurado para comprender qué significa realmente ... Read more

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Carrera Profesional en Ingeniería de IA en 2025 es una guía práctica y actualizada para quienes desean construir, desarrollar y consolidar una carrera profesional en el campo de la Inteligencia Artificial.En un contexto donde la IA evoluciona a gran velocidad y la información disponible suele ser fragmentada, este ebook ofrece un mapa claro y estructurado para comprender qué significa realmente
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Russian Grammar: System – Usus – Variation / Русская грамматика: Cистема – узус – варьирование

Edited by Vladislava Warditz ...

Series Book 1 - Linguistica Philologica
The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Fifth International Symposium Russian Grammar: System–Usus–Language Variation, from September 22 to 24, 2021, at the University of Potsdam (Germany). The selected essays tackle the issues that arise when Russian Grammar meets new linguistic paradigms (such as corpus linguistics) and new challenges (such as heritage languages). The ... Read more

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The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Fifth International Symposium Russian Grammar: System–Usus–Language Variation, from September 22 to 24, 2021, at the University of Potsdam (Germany). The selected essays tackle the issues that arise when Russian Grammar meets new linguistic paradigms (such as corpus linguistics) and new challenges (such as heritage languages). The
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Structured Data Parsing: Managing and Transforming Information Using Kotlin

The Kotlin Automation

by David Vance ...

Series series The Kotlin Automation
Master the Core of Modern Backend Engineering with KotlinIn today's interconnected software landscape, data is constantly in motion. Whether you are building high-speed APIs, consuming massive flat files, or designing enterprise data pipelines, understanding how to handle structured information is a non-negotiable skill.Structured Data Parsing: Managing and Transforming Information Using Kotlin is ... Read more

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Master the Core of Modern Backend Engineering with KotlinIn today's interconnected software landscape, data is constantly in motion. Whether you are building high-speed APIs, consuming massive flat files, or designing enterprise data pipelines, understanding how to handle structured information is a non-negotiable skill.Structured Data Parsing: Managing and Transforming Information Using Kotlin is
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Data-Intensive Applications

Design, Development, and Deployment Strategies for Scalable and Reliable Systems

by Brian Murray ...

Series Book 2 - Data Engineering
This book will provide a comprehensive introduction to the field of data engineering, covering key topics such as data storage and retrieval, data pipelines, data governance and security, data infrastructure, and data engineering tools and technologies.Through a combination of theoretical concepts and real-world examples, readers will gain a deep understanding of how to design and build scalable ... Read more

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This book will provide a comprehensive introduction to the field of data engineering, covering key topics such as data storage and retrieval, data pipelines, data governance and security, data infrastructure, and data engineering tools and technologies.Through a combination of theoretical concepts and real-world examples, readers will gain a deep understanding of how to design and build scalable
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Cyber Security Intelligence and Analytics

The 5th International Conference on Cyber Security Intelligence and Analytics (CSIA 2023), Volume 2

Edited by Zheng Xu, Saed Alrabaee, Octavio Loyola-González, Niken Dwi Wahyu Cahyani, Nurul Hidayah Ab Rahman ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book provides the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cyber Security Intelligence and Analytics. The 5th International Conference on Cyber Security Intelligence and Analytics (CSIA 2023) is an international conference dedicated to promoting novel theoretical and applied research advances in the interdisciplinary agenda of cyber security, particularly focusing on threat ... Read more

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This book provides the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cyber Security Intelligence and Analytics. The 5th International Conference on Cyber Security Intelligence and Analytics (CSIA 2023) is an international conference dedicated to promoting novel theoretical and applied research advances in the interdisciplinary agenda of cyber security, particularly focusing on threat
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Big Data in Information Society and Digital Economy

Edited by Aleksei V. Bogoviz ...

Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
This book redefines the essence of the information society and the digital economy, offering a new approach to their management and organization based on big data. The novelty of the new approach is that it ensures the use of the advanced technological capabilities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to accelerate socio-economic development. The success of the new approach is based on progressive ... Read more

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This book redefines the essence of the information society and the digital economy, offering a new approach to their management and organization based on big data. The novelty of the new approach is that it ensures the use of the advanced technological capabilities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to accelerate socio-economic development. The success of the new approach is based on progressive
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Applied Data Science

Data Translators Across the Disciplines

Edited by Douglas G. Woolford, Donna Kotsopoulos, Boba Samuels ...

Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
The use of data to guide action is growing. Even the public uses data to guide everyday decisions! How do we develop data acumen across a broad range of fields and varying levels of expertise? How do we foster the development of effective data translators? This book explores these questions, presenting an interdisciplinary collection of edited contributions across fields such as education, health ... Read more

$230.59 CAD

The use of data to guide action is growing. Even the public uses data to guide everyday decisions! How do we develop data acumen across a broad range of fields and varying levels of expertise? How do we foster the development of effective data translators? This book explores these questions, presenting an interdisciplinary collection of edited contributions across fields such as education, health
... Read more
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Big Data and Internet of Things

Edited by Mohamed Lazaar, El Mokhtar En-Naimi, Abdelhamid Zouhair, Mohammed Al Achhab, Oussama Mahboub ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book is a collection of papers that were presented at the 6th International Conference on Big Data Cloud and Internet of Things, BDIoT 2022. The conference took place on October 25-27, 2022, Tangier, Morocco.The book consisted of 49 chapters, which correspond to the four major areas that are covered during the conference, namely Big Data & Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Machine Learning, ... Read more

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This book is a collection of papers that were presented at the 6th International Conference on Big Data Cloud and Internet of Things, BDIoT 2022. The conference took place on October 25-27, 2022, Tangier, Morocco.The book consisted of 49 chapters, which correspond to the four major areas that are covered during the conference, namely Big Data & Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity, Machine Learning,
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Data Engineering in Medical Imaging

First MICCAI Workshop, DEMI 2023, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 8, 2023, Proceedings

Edited by Binod Bhattarai, Sharib Ali, Anita Rau, Anh Nguyen, Ana Namburete, Razvan Caramalau, Danail Stoyanov ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
Volume LNCS 14414 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2023, which was held in Vancouver, Canada in October 2023.The DEMI 2023 proceedings contain 11 high-quality papers of 9 to 15 pages pre-selected through a rigorous peer review process (with an average of three reviews per paper). All ... Read more

$192.19 CAD

Volume LNCS 14414 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2023, which was held in Vancouver, Canada in October 2023.The DEMI 2023 proceedings contain 11 high-quality papers of 9 to 15 pages pre-selected through a rigorous peer review process (with an average of three reviews per paper). All
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