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TinyML

Machine Learning with TensorFlow Lite on Arduino and Ultra-Low-Power Microcontrollers

by Pete Warden, Daniel Situnayake ...

Deep learning networks are getting smaller. Much smaller. The Google Assistant team can detect words with a model just 14 kilobytes in size—small enough to run on a microcontroller. With this practical book you’ll enter the field of TinyML, where deep learning and embedded systems combine to make astounding things possible with tiny devices.Pete Warden and Daniel Situnayake explain how you can ... Read more

$45.59 CAD

Deep learning networks are getting smaller. Much smaller. The Google Assistant team can detect words with a model just 14 kilobytes in size—small enough to run on a microcontroller. With this practical book you’ll enter the field of TinyML, where deep learning and embedded systems combine to make astounding things possible with tiny devices.Pete Warden and Daniel Situnayake explain how you can
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Getting Started with Couchbase Server

Extreme Scalability at Your Fingertips

by MC Brown ...

Do you know what to do if your web application goes viral and usage suddenly explodes? This concise guide introduces you to Couchbase Server, an extremely fast NoSQL database that automatically distributes data across a cluster of commodity servers or virtual machines. You’ll learn hands-on how to build a Couchbase cluster without changing your application, and how to expand your database on the ... Read more

$14.39 CAD

Do you know what to do if your web application goes viral and usage suddenly explodes? This concise guide introduces you to Couchbase Server, an extremely fast NoSQL database that automatically distributes data across a cluster of commodity servers or virtual machines. You’ll learn hands-on how to build a Couchbase cluster without changing your application, and how to expand your database on the
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Microcopy: Discover How Tiny Bits of Text Make Tasty Apps and Websites

by Niaw de Leon ...

Microcopy consists of small pieces of text like headings, hint texts, placeholders, summaries, and instructions throughout a website or app. These little bits of content often get overlooked to the detriment of the application or website you're building, which is tragic since they make the difference between technology that fades into obscurity and technology that goes on to become extremely ... Read more

$8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Microcopy consists of small pieces of text like headings, hint texts, placeholders, summaries, and instructions throughout a website or app. These little bits of content often get overlooked to the detriment of the application or website you're building, which is tragic since they make the difference between technology that fades into obscurity and technology that goes on to become extremely
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Choice Hacking: How To Use Psychology And Behavioral Science To Create An Experience That Sings

by Jennifer L. Clinehens ...

What if you could use Nobel prize-winning science to predict the choices your customers will make?Customer and user behaviors can seem irrational. Shaped by mental shortcuts and psychological biases, their actions often appear random on the surface. In Choice Hacking, we'll learn to predict these irrational behaviors and apply the science of decision-making to create unforgettable customer ... Read more

$8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

What if you could use Nobel prize-winning science to predict the choices your customers will make?Customer and user behaviors can seem irrational. Shaped by mental shortcuts and psychological biases, their actions often appear random on the surface. In Choice Hacking, we'll learn to predict these irrational behaviors and apply the science of decision-making to create unforgettable customer
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Mastering Graphics Programming with Vulkan

Develop a modern rendering engine from first principles to state-of-the-art techniques

by Marco Castorina, Gabriel Sassone ...

Develop a rendering framework in this part-color guide by implementing next-generation 3D graphics, leveraging advanced Vulkan features, and getting familiar with efficient real-time ray tracing techniques uncovered by leading industry veterans, Marco Castorina and Gabriel SassoneKey FeaturesUse a pre-built "Raptor" engine to abstract tedious aspects like file systems, memory allocation, and ... Read more

$38.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Develop a rendering framework in this part-color guide by implementing next-generation 3D graphics, leveraging advanced Vulkan features, and getting familiar with efficient real-time ray tracing techniques uncovered by leading industry veterans, Marco Castorina and Gabriel SassoneKey FeaturesUse a pre-built "Raptor" engine to abstract tedious aspects like file systems, memory allocation, and
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Access Data Analysis Cookbook

Slicing and Dicing to Find the Results You Need

by Ken Bluttman, Wayne S. Freeze ...

If you have large quantities of data in a Microsoft Access database, and need to study that data in depth, this book is a data cruncher's dream. Access Data Analysis Cookbook offers practical recipes to solve a variety of common problems that users have with extracting Access data and performing calculations on it. Each recipe includes a discussion on how and why the solution works.Whether you use ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

If you have large quantities of data in a Microsoft Access database, and need to study that data in depth, this book is a data cruncher's dream. Access Data Analysis Cookbook offers practical recipes to solve a variety of common problems that users have with extracting Access data and performing calculations on it. Each recipe includes a discussion on how and why the solution works.Whether you use
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Foundations of Programming Languages

by Kent D. Lee ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This clearly written textbook provides an accessible introduction to the three programming paradigms of object-oriented/imperative, functional, and logic programming. Highly interactive in style, the text encourages learning through practice, offering test exercises for each topic covered. Review questions and programming projects are also presented, to help reinforce the concepts outside of the ... Read more

$70.99 CAD

This clearly written textbook provides an accessible introduction to the three programming paradigms of object-oriented/imperative, functional, and logic programming. Highly interactive in style, the text encourages learning through practice, offering test exercises for each topic covered. Review questions and programming projects are also presented, to help reinforce the concepts outside of the
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Data Source Handbook

A Guide to Public Data

by Pete Warden ...

If you're a developer looking to supplement your own data tools and services, this concise ebook covers the most useful sources of public data available today. You'll find useful information on APIs that offer broad coverage, tie their data to the outside world, and are either accessible online or feature downloadable bulk data. You'll also find code and helpful links.This guide organizes APIs by ... Read more

$13.59 CAD

If you're a developer looking to supplement your own data tools and services, this concise ebook covers the most useful sources of public data available today. You'll find useful information on APIs that offer broad coverage, tie their data to the outside world, and are either accessible online or feature downloadable bulk data. You'll also find code and helpful links.This guide organizes APIs by
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Microsoft 365 Excel: The Only App That Matters

Calculations, Analytics, Modeling, Data Analysis and Dashboard Reporting for the New Era of Dynamic Data Driven Decision Making & Insight

by Mike ExcelisFun Girvin ...

This is a book about Microsoft 365 Excel, or Excel 365. No other version in history has as much power, as many features or more possibilities than does Excel 365. With a new formula calculations engine and many new built-in functions, creating formula solutions and business models in Excel 365 is dramatically easier than at any time in the history of spreadsheets. In addition, with the new data ... Read more

$26.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This is a book about Microsoft 365 Excel, or Excel 365. No other version in history has as much power, as many features or more possibilities than does Excel 365. With a new formula calculations engine and many new built-in functions, creating formula solutions and business models in Excel 365 is dramatically easier than at any time in the history of spreadsheets. In addition, with the new data
... Read more
Interfaces and Us

User Experience Design and the Making of the Computable Subject

by Zachary Kaiser ...

We're all familiar with smart TVs making suggestions on our future watching, real-world exercise data being transferred into stats and infographics on our workout apps and turning up our home heating before we start our commute – but how does this world of technological interfaces affect our actions and perceptions of self?When society relies on computer models and their interfaces to explain and ... Read more

$32.79 CAD

We're all familiar with smart TVs making suggestions on our future watching, real-world exercise data being transferred into stats and infographics on our workout apps and turning up our home heating before we start our commute – but how does this world of technological interfaces affect our actions and perceptions of self?When society relies on computer models and their interfaces to explain and
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Python Data Analysis, Second Edition

Data manipulation and complex data analysis with Python

by Armando Fandango ...

Learn how to apply powerful data analysis techniques with popular open source Python modulesKey Features\[\*\]Find, manipulate, and analyze your data using the Python 3.5 libraries\[\*\]Perform advanced, high-performance linear algebra and mathematical calculations with clean and efficient Python code\[\*\]An easy-to-follow guide with realistic examples that are frequently used in real-world data ... Read more

$47.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Learn how to apply powerful data analysis techniques with popular open source Python modulesKey Features\[\*\]Find, manipulate, and analyze your data using the Python 3.5 libraries\[\*\]Perform advanced, high-performance linear algebra and mathematical calculations with clean and efficient Python code\[\*\]An easy-to-follow guide with realistic examples that are frequently used in real-world data
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A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming

by John Hunt ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This textbook on Python 3 explains concepts such as variables and what they represent, how data is held in memory, how a for loop works and what a string is. It also introduces key concepts such as functions, modules and packages as well as object orientation and functional programming. Each section is prefaced with an introductory chapter, before continuing with how these ideas work in Python ... Read more

$58.09 CAD

This textbook on Python 3 explains concepts such as variables and what they represent, how data is held in memory, how a for loop works and what a string is. It also introduces key concepts such as functions, modules and packages as well as object orientation and functional programming. Each section is prefaced with an introductory chapter, before continuing with how these ideas work in Python
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Instant Heat Maps in R: How-to

by Sebastian Raschka ...

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. Heat Maps in R: How-to is an easy to understand book that starts with a simple heat map and takes you all the way through to advanced heat maps with graphics and data manipulation.Heat Maps in R: How-to is the book for you if you want to make use of this free and open source software to ... Read more

$17.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Filled with practical, step-by-step instructions and clear explanations for the most important and useful tasks. Heat Maps in R: How-to is an easy to understand book that starts with a simple heat map and takes you all the way through to advanced heat maps with graphics and data manipulation.Heat Maps in R: How-to is the book for you if you want to make use of this free and open source software to
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Secrets of VBA for Modelers!

Developing Decision Support Systems with Microsoft Office Excel

by Andrei Besedin ...

Secrets of VBA for Modelers: Developing Decision Support Systems with Microsoft Office ExcelVisual Basic Application (VBA) is one of the powerful tools that Microsoft Office Excel can offer you. It is the best when you master both basic and advanced skills of VBA. So you can become a skilled modeler we have made available an incredible short book titled “SECRETS OF VBA FOR MODELERS: DEVELOPING ... Read more

$2.99 CAD

Secrets of VBA for Modelers: Developing Decision Support Systems with Microsoft Office ExcelVisual Basic Application (VBA) is one of the powerful tools that Microsoft Office Excel can offer you. It is the best when you master both basic and advanced skills of VBA. So you can become a skilled modeler we have made available an incredible short book titled “SECRETS OF VBA FOR MODELERS: DEVELOPING
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Product Management for UX People

From Designing to Thriving in a Product World

by Christian Crumlish ...

"This is the book to read if you're thinking of a career transition from UX to product." —Ellen Chisa, Founder in Residence, Boldstart VenturesUser experience designers and researchers are wrestling with product management—as a peer discipline, a job title, a future career—or simply wondering exactly what it entails. In Product Management for UX People, Christian Crumlish demystifies product ... Read more

$48.99 CAD

"This is the book to read if you're thinking of a career transition from UX to product." —Ellen Chisa, Founder in Residence, Boldstart VenturesUser experience designers and researchers are wrestling with product management—as a peer discipline, a job title, a future career—or simply wondering exactly what it entails. In Product Management for UX People, Christian Crumlish demystifies product
... Read more
R for Data Science

Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data

by Hadley Wickham, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Garrett Grolemund ...

Use R to turn data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. With this practical book, aspiring data scientists will learn how to do data science with R and RStudio, along with the tidyverse—a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Even if you have no programming experience, this updated edition will have you doing data science quickly.You ... Read more

$67.99 CAD

Use R to turn data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. With this practical book, aspiring data scientists will learn how to do data science with R and RStudio, along with the tidyverse—a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Even if you have no programming experience, this updated edition will have you doing data science quickly.You
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Vue.js 3 Cookbook

Discover actionable solutions for building modern web apps with the latest Vue features and TypeScript

by Heitor Ramon Ribeiro ...

Explore the new features of Vue.js 3 and discover best practices for building fault-tolerant and professional frontend web applicationsKey FeaturesMigrate your apps from Vue.js 2 to Vue.js 3 with the help of practical recipesExplore the latest Vue.js 3 features such as reactivity API, composition API, and TypeScript supportExtend the capabilities and performance of Vue.js apps with Quasar, Vuetify ... Read more

$41.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Explore the new features of Vue.js 3 and discover best practices for building fault-tolerant and professional frontend web applicationsKey FeaturesMigrate your apps from Vue.js 2 to Vue.js 3 with the help of practical recipesExplore the latest Vue.js 3 features such as reactivity API, composition API, and TypeScript supportExtend the capabilities and performance of Vue.js apps with Quasar, Vuetify
... Read more
Man vs. Machine

Challenging Human Supremacy at Chess

by Karsten Müller, Jonathan Schaeffer ...

Man vs. Machine Technology continues to advance at a rapid pace. It may sound quaint today, but not so long ago, computers battled humans for supremacy at the game of chess. The challenge of building a computer program capable of defeating the best of human-kind at chess was one of the original grand challenges of the fledgling field of artificial intelligence. On one side were dedicated ... Read more

$37.99 CAD

Man vs. Machine Technology continues to advance at a rapid pace. It may sound quaint today, but not so long ago, computers battled humans for supremacy at the game of chess. The challenge of building a computer program capable of defeating the best of human-kind at chess was one of the original grand challenges of the fledgling field of artificial intelligence. On one side were dedicated
... Read more
The Hackable City

Digital Media and Collaborative City-Making in the Network Society

Edited by Michiel de Lange, Martijn de Waal ...

This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media technologies for ... Read more

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This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media technologies for
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Learn LLVM 17

A beginner's guide to learning LLVM compiler tools and core libraries with C++

by Kai Nacke, Amy Kwan ...

Learn how to build and use the complete spectrum of real-world compilers, including the frontend, optimization pipeline, and a new backend by leveraging the power of LLVM core librariesKey FeaturesGet to grips with using LLVM libraries step by stepUnderstand the high-level design of LLVM compilers and apply these principles to your own compilerAdd a new backend to target an unsupported CPU ... Read more

$42.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Learn how to build and use the complete spectrum of real-world compilers, including the frontend, optimization pipeline, and a new backend by leveraging the power of LLVM core librariesKey FeaturesGet to grips with using LLVM libraries step by stepUnderstand the high-level design of LLVM compilers and apply these principles to your own compilerAdd a new backend to target an unsupported CPU
... Read more
Modern CMake for C++

Discover a better approach to building, testing, and packaging your software

by Rafal Swidzinski ...

Write comprehensive, professional-standard CMake projects and ensure the quality and simplicity of your solutionsPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF formatKey FeaturesUnderstand and automate compilation and linking with CMakeManage internal and external dependencies easilyAdd quality checks and tests as an inherent step for your buildsBook Description... ... Read more

$41.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Write comprehensive, professional-standard CMake projects and ensure the quality and simplicity of your solutionsPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF formatKey FeaturesUnderstand and automate compilation and linking with CMakeManage internal and external dependencies easilyAdd quality checks and tests as an inherent step for your buildsBook Description...
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Towards a Code of Ethics for Artificial Intelligence

by Paula Boddington ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
The author investigates how to produce realistic and workable ethical codes or regulations in this rapidly developing field to address the immediate and realistic longer-term issues facing us. She spells out the key ethical debates concisely, exposing all sides of the arguments, and addresses how codes of ethics or other regulations might feasibly be developed, looking for pitfalls and ... Read more

$83.89 CAD

The author investigates how to produce realistic and workable ethical codes or regulations in this rapidly developing field to address the immediate and realistic longer-term issues facing us. She spells out the key ethical debates concisely, exposing all sides of the arguments, and addresses how codes of ethics or other regulations might feasibly be developed, looking for pitfalls and
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Service Design

From Insight to Implementation

by Lavrans Løvlie, Dr. Andy Polaine, Ben Reason ...

Over the past decade, service designers have played an essential role in creating comprehensive, customer-focused products and services. This updated edition of an industry classic highlights the practice’s evolution and broadened impact in the business world. You’ll benefit from new frameworks, tools, and methods, and learn from fresh case studies that demonstrate the value of service design ... Read more

$50.99 CAD

Over the past decade, service designers have played an essential role in creating comprehensive, customer-focused products and services. This updated edition of an industry classic highlights the practice’s evolution and broadened impact in the business world. You’ll benefit from new frameworks, tools, and methods, and learn from fresh case studies that demonstrate the value of service design
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Hands-On Data Analysis with NumPy and pandas

Implement Python packages from data manipulation to processing

by Curtis Miller ...

Get to grips with the most popular Python packages that make data analysis possibleKey FeaturesExplore the tools you need to become a data analystDiscover practical examples to help you grasp data processing conceptsWalk through hierarchical indexing and grouping for data analysisBook DescriptionPython, a multi-paradigm programming language, has become the language of choice for data scientists ... Read more

$28.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Get to grips with the most popular Python packages that make data analysis possibleKey FeaturesExplore the tools you need to become a data analystDiscover practical examples to help you grasp data processing conceptsWalk through hierarchical indexing and grouping for data analysisBook DescriptionPython, a multi-paradigm programming language, has become the language of choice for data scientists
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