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SQL for Data Analysis

Advanced Techniques for Transforming Data into Insights

by Cathy Tanimura ...

With the explosion of data, computing power, and cloud data warehouses, SQL has become an even more indispensable tool for the savvy analyst or data scientist. This practical book reveals new and hidden ways to improve your SQL skills, solve problems, and make the most of SQL as part of your workflow.You'll learn how to use both common and exotic SQL functions such as joins, window functions, ... Read more

$57.59 CAD

With the explosion of data, computing power, and cloud data warehouses, SQL has become an even more indispensable tool for the savvy analyst or data scientist. This practical book reveals new and hidden ways to improve your SQL skills, solve problems, and make the most of SQL as part of your workflow.You'll learn how to use both common and exotic SQL functions such as joins, window functions,
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Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

25th International Conference, TACAS 2019, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, April 6–11, 2019, Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Tomáš Vojnar, Lijun Zhang ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence.The LNCS 11427 and 11428 proceedings set constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2019, held as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019.The total of ... Read more

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This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence.The LNCS 11427 and 11428 proceedings set constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2019, held as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019.The total of
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Evil by Design

Interaction Design to Lead Us into Temptation

by Chris Nodder ...

How to make customers feel good about doing what you wantLearn how companies make us feel good about doing what they want. Approaching persuasive design from the dark side, this book melds psychology, marketing, and design concepts to show why we’re susceptible to certain persuasive techniques. Packed with examples from every nook and cranny of the web, it provides easily digestible and applicable ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

How to make customers feel good about doing what you wantLearn how companies make us feel good about doing what they want. Approaching persuasive design from the dark side, this book melds psychology, marketing, and design concepts to show why we’re susceptible to certain persuasive techniques. Packed with examples from every nook and cranny of the web, it provides easily digestible and applicable
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R in a Nutshell

A Desktop Quick Reference

by Joseph Adler ...

If you’re considering R for statistical computing and data visualization, this book provides a quick and practical guide to just about everything you can do with the open source R language and software environment. You’ll learn how to write R functions and use R packages to help you prepare, visualize, and analyze data. Author Joseph Adler illustrates each process with a wealth of examples from ... Read more

$54.39 CAD

If you’re considering R for statistical computing and data visualization, this book provides a quick and practical guide to just about everything you can do with the open source R language and software environment. You’ll learn how to write R functions and use R packages to help you prepare, visualize, and analyze data. Author Joseph Adler illustrates each process with a wealth of examples from
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Designing with Data

Improving the User Experience with A/B Testing

by Rochelle King, Elizabeth F Churchill, Caitlin Tan ...

On the surface, design practices and data science may not seem like obvious partners. But these disciplines actually work toward the same goal, helping designers and product managers understand users so they can craft elegant digital experiences. While data can enhance design, design can bring deeper meaning to data.This practical guide shows you how to conduct data-driven A/B testing for making ... Read more

$45.59 CAD

On the surface, design practices and data science may not seem like obvious partners. But these disciplines actually work toward the same goal, helping designers and product managers understand users so they can craft elegant digital experiences. While data can enhance design, design can bring deeper meaning to data.This practical guide shows you how to conduct data-driven A/B testing for making
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MongoDB Applied Design Patterns

Practical Use Cases with the Leading NoSQL Database

by Rick Copeland ...

Whether you’re building a social media site or an internal-use enterprise application, this hands-on guide shows you the connection between MongoDB and the business problems it’s designed to solve. You’ll learn how to apply MongoDB design patterns to several challenging domains, such as ecommerce, content management, and online gaming. Using Python and JavaScript code examples, you’ll discover how ... Read more

$25.59 CAD

Whether you’re building a social media site or an internal-use enterprise application, this hands-on guide shows you the connection between MongoDB and the business problems it’s designed to solve. You’ll learn how to apply MongoDB design patterns to several challenging domains, such as ecommerce, content management, and online gaming. Using Python and JavaScript code examples, you’ll discover how
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The AIpreneur: 30+ AI Business Tools to Save Time, Increase Sales, and Improve the Bottom Line

by T. A. ...

One of the Best AI Books for BusinessesArtificial Intelligence is no longer science fiction, but changing the way we do everything, including business.And it's getting better and faster than ever!So, the need to adapt to AI has never been greater.This book presents a straightforward approach to integrating AI for businessIt doesn't waste time on ethics, theory, or t... ... Read more

$7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

One of the Best AI Books for BusinessesArtificial Intelligence is no longer science fiction, but changing the way we do everything, including business.And it's getting better and faster than ever!So, the need to adapt to AI has never been greater.This book presents a straightforward approach to integrating AI for businessIt doesn't waste time on ethics, theory, or t...
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Amazon Echo Manual Guide: Top 30 Hacks And Secrets To Master Amazon Echo & Alexa For Beginners

by The Blokehead ...

Series series The Blokehead Success Series
Your Perfect Guide to Amazon Echo! This book is a complete and handy companion that will enable you to set up and use your Amazon Echo device quickly and efficiently for beginners. By reading this book you will understand and be able to receive all the benefits that this wonderful device has to offer, allowing you to keep up with your busy schedule. You will learn: Hacking The Remote Control Fake ... Read more

$4.06 CAD

Your Perfect Guide to Amazon Echo! This book is a complete and handy companion that will enable you to set up and use your Amazon Echo device quickly and efficiently for beginners. By reading this book you will understand and be able to receive all the benefits that this wonderful device has to offer, allowing you to keep up with your busy schedule. You will learn: Hacking The Remote Control Fake
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Creativity in Art, Design and Technology

by Susan Liggett, Rae Earnshaw, Jill Townsley ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This is an open access book.Creativity is a difficult concept, how can it best be defined, understood, applied, and practiced? This book provides important answers to these questions.Technology can enable artists to be more creative. Scientific and artistic thinking give us two complementary tools to understand the complexity of the world, with science reducing subjective experience to essential ... Read more

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This is an open access book.Creativity is a difficult concept, how can it best be defined, understood, applied, and practiced? This book provides important answers to these questions.Technology can enable artists to be more creative. Scientific and artistic thinking give us two complementary tools to understand the complexity of the world, with science reducing subjective experience to essential
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Python for Finance

by Yves Hilpisch ...

The financial industry has recently adopted Python at a tremendous rate, with some of the largest investment banks and hedge funds using it to build core trading and risk management systems. Updated for Python 3, the second edition of this hands-on book helps you get started with the language, guiding developers and quantitative analysts through Python libraries and tools for building financial ... Read more

$67.99 CAD

The financial industry has recently adopted Python at a tremendous rate, with some of the largest investment banks and hedge funds using it to build core trading and risk management systems. Updated for Python 3, the second edition of this hands-on book helps you get started with the language, guiding developers and quantitative analysts through Python libraries and tools for building financial
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Using Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012

Updated for Version R2

by Andreas Luszczak ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Precise descriptions and instructions enable users, students and consultants to easily understand Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. Microsoft offers Dynamics AX as its premium ERP solution to support large and mid-sized organizations with a complete business management solution which is easy to use. Going through a simple but comprehensive case study – the sample company ‘Anso Technologies Inc.’ – this ... Read more

$47.79 CAD

Precise descriptions and instructions enable users, students and consultants to easily understand Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. Microsoft offers Dynamics AX as its premium ERP solution to support large and mid-sized organizations with a complete business management solution which is easy to use. Going through a simple but comprehensive case study – the sample company ‘Anso Technologies Inc.’ – this
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MongoDB and Python

Patterns and processes for the popular document-oriented database

by Niall O'Higgins ...

Learn how to leverage MongoDB with your Python applications, using the hands-on recipes in this book. You get complete code samples for tasks such as making fast geo queries for location-based apps, efficiently indexing your user documents for social-graph lookups, and many other scenarios.This guide explains the basics of the document-oriented database and shows you how to set up a Python ... Read more

$13.59 CAD

Learn how to leverage MongoDB with your Python applications, using the hands-on recipes in this book. You get complete code samples for tasks such as making fast geo queries for location-based apps, efficiently indexing your user documents for social-graph lookups, and many other scenarios.This guide explains the basics of the document-oriented database and shows you how to set up a Python
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Heatmaps and Session Recordings with Piwik Analytics

by InnoCraft, Piwik ...

Learn how to truly understand your website visitors by using Heatmaps and Session Recordings with Piwik Analytics. Find out where they click, hover, type and scroll on your pages and replay entire sessions of your visitors in a video. This cost effective method lets you find all the key & pain points on your website to ultimately increase conversions and sales. All this with 100% data ownership. ... Read more

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Learn how to truly understand your website visitors by using Heatmaps and Session Recordings with Piwik Analytics. Find out where they click, hover, type and scroll on your pages and replay entire sessions of your visitors in a video. This cost effective method lets you find all the key & pain points on your website to ultimately increase conversions and sales. All this with 100% data ownership.
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Windows 8: The Missing Manual

by David Pogue ...

With Windows 8, Microsoft completely reimagined the graphical user interface for its operating system, and designed it to run on tablets as well as PCs. It’s a big change that calls for a trustworthy guide—Windows 8: The Missing Manual. New York Times columnist David Pogue provides technical insight, lots of wit, and hardnosed objectivity to help you hit the ground running with Microsoft’s new OS ... Read more

$28.79 CAD

With Windows 8, Microsoft completely reimagined the graphical user interface for its operating system, and designed it to run on tablets as well as PCs. It’s a big change that calls for a trustworthy guide—Windows 8: The Missing Manual. New York Times columnist David Pogue provides technical insight, lots of wit, and hardnosed objectivity to help you hit the ground running with Microsoft’s new OS
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Microinteractions: Full Color Edition

Designing with Details

by Dan Saffer ...

It’s the little things that turn a good digital product into a great one. With this full color practical book, you’ll learn how to design effective microinteractions: the small details that exist inside and around features. How can users change a setting? How do they turn on mute, or know they have a new email message?Through vivid, real-world examples from today’s devices and applications, author ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

It’s the little things that turn a good digital product into a great one. With this full color practical book, you’ll learn how to design effective microinteractions: the small details that exist inside and around features. How can users change a setting? How do they turn on mute, or know they have a new email message?Through vivid, real-world examples from today’s devices and applications, author
... Read more
OS X Yosemite: The Missing Manual

by David Pogue ...

With Yosemite, Apple has unleashed the most innovative version of OS X yet—and once again, David Pogue brings his expertise and humor to the #1 bestselling Mac book. Mac OS X 10.10 includes more innovations from the iPad and adds a variety of new features throughout the operating system. This updated edition covers it all with something new on practically every page.Get the scoop on Yosemite’s big ... Read more

$25.59 CAD

With Yosemite, Apple has unleashed the most innovative version of OS X yet—and once again, David Pogue brings his expertise and humor to the #1 bestselling Mac book. Mac OS X 10.10 includes more innovations from the iPad and adds a variety of new features throughout the operating system. This updated edition covers it all with something new on practically every page.Get the scoop on Yosemite’s big
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Salesforce CRM: The Definitive Admin Handbook Second Edition

by Paul Goodey ...

A practical guide which will help to discover how to setup and configure the Salesforce CRM application. It offers solutions and practical examples on how to further improve and maintain its functionality with clear systematic instructions. Being highly organized and compact, this book contains detailed instructions with screenshots, diagrams, and tips that clearly describe how you can administer ... Read more

$37.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

A practical guide which will help to discover how to setup and configure the Salesforce CRM application. It offers solutions and practical examples on how to further improve and maintain its functionality with clear systematic instructions. Being highly organized and compact, this book contains detailed instructions with screenshots, diagrams, and tips that clearly describe how you can administer
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Beginning C for Arduino, Second Edition

Learn C Programming for the Arduino

by Jack Purdum ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Beginning C for Arduino, Second Edition is written for those who have no prior experience with microcontrollers or programming but would like to experiment and learn both. Updated with new projects and new boards, this book introduces you to the C programming language, reinforcing each programming structure with a simple demonstration of how you can use C to control the Arduino family of ... Read more

$80.79 CAD

Beginning C for Arduino, Second Edition is written for those who have no prior experience with microcontrollers or programming but would like to experiment and learn both. Updated with new projects and new boards, this book introduces you to the C programming language, reinforcing each programming structure with a simple demonstration of how you can use C to control the Arduino family of
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Learn PHP 7

Object Oriented Modular Programming using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, XML, JSON, and MySQL

by Steve Prettyman ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
This new book on PHP 7 introduces writing solid, secure, object-oriented code in the new PHP 7: you will create a complete three-tier application using a natural process of building and testing modules within each tier. This practical approach teaches you about app development and introduces PHP features when they are actually needed rather than providing you with abstract theory and contrived ... Read more

$56.69 CAD

This new book on PHP 7 introduces writing solid, secure, object-oriented code in the new PHP 7: you will create a complete three-tier application using a natural process of building and testing modules within each tier. This practical approach teaches you about app development and introduces PHP features when they are actually needed rather than providing you with abstract theory and contrived
... Read more
The Jobs To Be Done Playbook

Align Your Markets, Organization, and Strategy Around Customer Needs

by Jim Kalbach ...

"Jobs To Be Done is key to building successful products, and this book masterfully gives a step–by–step guide on how to put it into practice."—Melissa Perri, author of Escaping the Build TrapThese days, consumers have real power: they can research companies, compare ratings, and find alternatives with a simple tap. Focusing on customer needs isn't a nice–to–have, it's a strategic imperative.The ... Read more

$36.99 CAD

"Jobs To Be Done is key to building successful products, and this book masterfully gives a step–by–step guide on how to put it into practice."—Melissa Perri, author of Escaping the Build TrapThese days, consumers have real power: they can research companies, compare ratings, and find alternatives with a simple tap. Focusing on customer needs isn't a nice–to–have, it's a strategic imperative.The
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Outnumbered

From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-bubbles – The Algorithms That Control Our Lives

by David Sumpter ...

'Fascinating' - Financial TimesAlgorithms are running our society, and as the Cambridge Analytica story has revealed, we don't really know what they are up to.Our increasing reliance on technology and the internet has opened a window for mathematicians and data researchers to gaze through into our lives. Using the data they are constantly collecting about where we travel, where we shop, what we ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

'Fascinating' - Financial TimesAlgorithms are running our society, and as the Cambridge Analytica story has revealed, we don't really know what they are up to.Our increasing reliance on technology and the internet has opened a window for mathematicians and data researchers to gaze through into our lives. Using the data they are constantly collecting about where we travel, where we shop, what we
... Read more
Analyzing the Analyzers

An Introspective Survey of Data Scientists and Their Work

by Harlan Harris, Sean Murphy, Marck Vaisman ...

Despite the excitement around "data science," "big data," and "analytics," the ambiguity of these terms has led to poor communication between data scientists and organizations seeking their help. In this report, authors Harlan Harris, Sean Murphy, and Marck Vaisman examine their survey of several hundred data science practitioners in mid-2012, when they asked respondents how they viewed their ... Read more

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Despite the excitement around "data science," "big data," and "analytics," the ambiguity of these terms has led to poor communication between data scientists and organizations seeking their help. In this report, authors Harlan Harris, Sean Murphy, and Marck Vaisman examine their survey of several hundred data science practitioners in mid-2012, when they asked respondents how they viewed their
... Read more
Form Analytics with Piwik - Fix the Pain Points on Your Online Forms

by InnoCraft, Piwik ...

Do you have forms on your website, intranet, or web application? Do you hate losing your visitors on your forms and leaving revenue on the table? Whether it is a sign-up form, squeeze page, landing page, newsletter form, checkout, cart, feedback form, job application form, or a survey. Online forms have become super critical to all kind of businesses and governments. The problem is, you can only ... Read more

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Do you have forms on your website, intranet, or web application? Do you hate losing your visitors on your forms and leaving revenue on the table? Whether it is a sign-up form, squeeze page, landing page, newsletter form, checkout, cart, feedback form, job application form, or a survey. Online forms have become super critical to all kind of businesses and governments. The problem is, you can only
... Read more
Practical JIRA Administration

Using JIRA Effectively: Beyond the Documentation

by Matthew B. Doar ...

If you're familiar with JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, and other uses, you know it can sometimes be tricky to set up and manage. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar clarifies some of the more confusing aspects by answering difficult and frequently asked questions about JIRA administration.Practical JIRA Administration shows you how JIRA is intended to be used, making it an ... Read more

$14.39 CAD

If you're familiar with JIRA for issue tracking, bug tracking, and other uses, you know it can sometimes be tricky to set up and manage. In this concise book, software toolsmith Matt Doar clarifies some of the more confusing aspects by answering difficult and frequently asked questions about JIRA administration.Practical JIRA Administration shows you how JIRA is intended to be used, making it an
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