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Reliable Machine Learning

Applying SRE Principles to ML in Production

by Cathy Chen, Niall Richard Murphy, Kranti Parisa, D. Sculley, Todd Underwood ...

Whether you're part of a small startup or a multinational corporation, this practical book shows data scientists, software and site reliability engineers, product managers, and business owners how to run and establish ML reliably, effectively, and accountably within your organization. You'll gain insight into everything from how to do model monitoring in production to how to run a well-tuned model ... Read more

£39.89

Whether you're part of a small startup or a multinational corporation, this practical book shows data scientists, software and site reliability engineers, product managers, and business owners how to run and establish ML reliably, effectively, and accountably within your organization. You'll gain insight into everything from how to do model monitoring in production to how to run a well-tuned model
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Learn Grafana 10.x

A beginner's guide to practical data analytics, interactive dashboards, and observability

by Eric Salituro ...

Get up and running with building data pipelines and creating interactive dashboards to visualize, monitor, and present a wide variety of time-series data with this comprehensive introductory guideKey FeaturesInstall, set up, and configure Grafana for real-time data analysis, visualization, and alertingVisualize and monitor data using data sources such as InfluxDB, Telegraf, Prometheus, and ... Read more

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Get up and running with building data pipelines and creating interactive dashboards to visualize, monitor, and present a wide variety of time-series data with this comprehensive introductory guideKey FeaturesInstall, set up, and configure Grafana for real-time data analysis, visualization, and alertingVisualize and monitor data using data sources such as InfluxDB, Telegraf, Prometheus, and
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Excel Portable Genius

by Lisa A. Bucki ...

Series series Portable Genius
Your genius-level guide to Excel excellenceExcel Portable Genius covers the key features of Microsoft Excel in a concise, fast-paced, portable format that provides the perfect quick and easy-to-follow reference for novices and experienced users alike. Written by seasoned tech expert and trainer Lisa A. Bucki, it answers the nine key questions Excel users are most likely to face in their work and ... Read more

£11.99

Your genius-level guide to Excel excellenceExcel Portable Genius covers the key features of Microsoft Excel in a concise, fast-paced, portable format that provides the perfect quick and easy-to-follow reference for novices and experienced users alike. Written by seasoned tech expert and trainer Lisa A. Bucki, it answers the nine key questions Excel users are most likely to face in their work and
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Deep Learning with PyTorch Quick Start Guide

Learn to train and deploy neural network models in Python

by David Julian ...

Introduction to deep learning and PyTorch by building a convolutional neural network and recurrent neural network for real-world use cases such as image classification, transfer learning, and natural language processing.Key FeaturesClear and concise explanationsGives important insights into deep learning modelsPractical demonstration of key conceptsBook DescriptionPyTorch is extremely powerful and ... Read more

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Introduction to deep learning and PyTorch by building a convolutional neural network and recurrent neural network for real-world use cases such as image classification, transfer learning, and natural language processing.Key FeaturesClear and concise explanationsGives important insights into deep learning modelsPractical demonstration of key conceptsBook DescriptionPyTorch is extremely powerful and
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Python: Data Analytics and Visualization

by Phuong Vo.T.H, Martin Czygan, Ashish Kumar, Kirthi Raman ...

Understand, evaluate, and visualize dataAbout This BookLearn basic steps of data analysis and how to use Python and its packagesA step-by-step guide to predictive modeling including tips, tricks, and best practicesEffectively visualize a broad set of analyzed data and generate effective resultsWho This Book Is ForThis book is for Python Developers who are keen to get into data analysis and wish to ... Read more

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Understand, evaluate, and visualize dataAbout This BookLearn basic steps of data analysis and how to use Python and its packagesA step-by-step guide to predictive modeling including tips, tricks, and best practicesEffectively visualize a broad set of analyzed data and generate effective resultsWho This Book Is ForThis book is for Python Developers who are keen to get into data analysis and wish to
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Using Microsoft Excel for Social Research

by Charlotte Brookfield ...

Full of practical advice and real-world examples, this step-by-step guide offers you an accessible introduction to doing quantitative social research using Microsoft Excel. ... Read more

£35.59

Full of practical advice and real-world examples, this step-by-step guide offers you an accessible introduction to doing quantitative social research using Microsoft Excel.
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Data Contracts

Developing Production-Grade Pipelines at Scale

by Chad Sanderson, Mark Freeman, B. E. Schmidt ...

Poor data quality can cause major problems for data teams, from breaking revenue-generating data pipelines to losing the trust of data consumers. Despite the importance of data quality, many data teams still struggle to avoid these issues—especially when their data is sourced from upstream workflows outside of their control. The solution: data contracts. Data contracts enable high-quality, well ... Read more

£45.29

Poor data quality can cause major problems for data teams, from breaking revenue-generating data pipelines to losing the trust of data consumers. Despite the importance of data quality, many data teams still struggle to avoid these issues—especially when their data is sourced from upstream workflows outside of their control. The solution: data contracts. Data contracts enable high-quality, well
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Python Polars: The Definitive Guide

Transforming, Analyzing, and Visualizing Data with a Fast and Expressive DataFrame API

by Jeroen Janssens, Thijs Nieuwdorp ...

Unlock the power of Polars, a Python package for transforming, analyzing, and visualizing data. In this hands-on guide, Jeroen Janssens and Thijs Nieuwdorp walk you through every feature of Polars, showing you how to use it for real-world tasks like data wrangling, exploratory data analysis, building pipelines, and more.Whether you're a seasoned data professional or new to data science, you'll ... Read more

£45.29

Unlock the power of Polars, a Python package for transforming, analyzing, and visualizing data. In this hands-on guide, Jeroen Janssens and Thijs Nieuwdorp walk you through every feature of Polars, showing you how to use it for real-world tasks like data wrangling, exploratory data analysis, building pipelines, and more.Whether you're a seasoned data professional or new to data science, you'll
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Why Data Science Projects Fail

The Harsh Realities of Implementing AI and Analytics, without the Hype

by Douglas Gray, Evan Shellshear ...

Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Science Series
The field of artificial intelligence, data science, and analytics is crippling itself. Exaggerated promises of unrealistic technologies, simplifications of complex projects, and marketing hype are leading to an erosion of trust in one of our most critical approaches to making decisions: data driven.This book aims to fix this by countering the AI hype with a dose of realism. Written by two experts ... Read more

£40.99

The field of artificial intelligence, data science, and analytics is crippling itself. Exaggerated promises of unrealistic technologies, simplifications of complex projects, and marketing hype are leading to an erosion of trust in one of our most critical approaches to making decisions: data driven.This book aims to fix this by countering the AI hype with a dose of realism. Written by two experts
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DAX Cookbook

Over 120 recipes to enhance your business with analytics, reporting, and business intelligence

by Greg Deckler ...

Solve real-world business problems by learning how to create common industry key performance indicators and other calculations using DAX within Microsoft products such as Power BI, SQL Server, and Excel.Key FeaturesLearn to write sophisticated DAX queries to solve business intelligence and data analytics challengesHandle performance issues and optimization within the data model, DAX calculations ... Read more

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Solve real-world business problems by learning how to create common industry key performance indicators and other calculations using DAX within Microsoft products such as Power BI, SQL Server, and Excel.Key FeaturesLearn to write sophisticated DAX queries to solve business intelligence and data analytics challengesHandle performance issues and optimization within the data model, DAX calculations
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Semantic Modeling for Data

by Panos Alexopoulos ...

What value does semantic data modeling offer? As an information architect or data science professional, let’s say you have an abundance of the right data and the technology to extract business gold—but you still fail. The reason? Bad data semantics.In this practical and comprehensive field guide, author Panos Alexopoulos takes you on an eye-opening journey through semantic data modeling as applied ... Read more

£45.29

What value does semantic data modeling offer? As an information architect or data science professional, let’s say you have an abundance of the right data and the technology to extract business gold—but you still fail. The reason? Bad data semantics.In this practical and comprehensive field guide, author Panos Alexopoulos takes you on an eye-opening journey through semantic data modeling as applied
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Mastering Kafka Streams and ksqlDB

by Mitch Seymour ...

Working with unbounded and fast-moving data streams has historically been difficult. But with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB, building stream processing applications is easy and fun. This practical guide shows data engineers how to use these tools to build highly scalable stream processing applications for moving, enriching, and transforming large amounts of data in real time.Mitch Seymour, data ... Read more

£34.09

Working with unbounded and fast-moving data streams has historically been difficult. But with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB, building stream processing applications is easy and fun. This practical guide shows data engineers how to use these tools to build highly scalable stream processing applications for moving, enriching, and transforming large amounts of data in real time.Mitch Seymour, data
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Data Science-Based Full-Lifespan Management of Lithium-Ion Battery

Manufacturing, Operation and Reutilization

by Kailong Liu, Yujie Wang, Xin Lai ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This open access book comprehensively consolidates studies in the rapidly emerging field of battery management. The primary focus is to overview the new and emerging data science technologies for full-lifespan management of Li-ion batteries, which are categorized into three groups, namely (i) battery manufacturing management, (ii) battery operation management, and (iii) battery reutilization ... Read more

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This open access book comprehensively consolidates studies in the rapidly emerging field of battery management. The primary focus is to overview the new and emerging data science technologies for full-lifespan management of Li-ion batteries, which are categorized into three groups, namely (i) battery manufacturing management, (ii) battery operation management, and (iii) battery reutilization
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Good Data

An Optimist's Guide to Our Digital Future

by Sam Gilbert ...

AN FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE MONTHThe book that will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about data, privacy and the future of Big Tech.'We are currently living in a moment of extreme pessimism about data. This book will change your mind.'Almost everything we do generates data.Digital technology is now so pervasive that it's very hard to escape its influence, and with that growth comes ... Read more

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AN FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE MONTHThe book that will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about data, privacy and the future of Big Tech.'We are currently living in a moment of extreme pessimism about data. This book will change your mind.'Almost everything we do generates data.Digital technology is now so pervasive that it's very hard to escape its influence, and with that growth comes
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Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Disaster Recovery Guide

Learn everything you need to know to design and implement a solid disaster recovery plan for SharePoint 2013

by Peter Ward ...

Learn everything you need to know to design and implement a solid disaster recovery plan for SharePoint 2013Key FeaturesDesign, implement, test, and execute solid disaster recovery plans for your SharePoint environment with this essential guideLearn outofthebox backup and restore proceduresImplement a solid disaster recovery strategy for custom development environmentsA quick handson guide to get ... Read more

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Learn everything you need to know to design and implement a solid disaster recovery plan for SharePoint 2013Key FeaturesDesign, implement, test, and execute solid disaster recovery plans for your SharePoint environment with this essential guideLearn outofthebox backup and restore proceduresImplement a solid disaster recovery strategy for custom development environmentsA quick handson guide to get
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Advanced Machine Learning with Python

Solve challenging data science problems by mastering cutting-edge machine learning techniques in Python

by John Hearty ...

Solve challenging data science problems by mastering cutting-edge machine learning techniques in PythonKey Features\[\*\] Resolve complex machine learning problems and explore deep learning\[\*\] Learn to use Python code for implementing a range of machine learning algorithms and techniques\[\*\] A practical tutorial that tackles real-world computing problems through a rigorous and effective ... Read more

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Solve challenging data science problems by mastering cutting-edge machine learning techniques in PythonKey Features\[\*\] Resolve complex machine learning problems and explore deep learning\[\*\] Learn to use Python code for implementing a range of machine learning algorithms and techniques\[\*\] A practical tutorial that tackles real-world computing problems through a rigorous and effective
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Learning PySpark

Build data-intensive applications locally and deploy at scale using the combined powers of Python and Spark 2.0

by Tomasz Drabas, Denny Lee ...

Build data-intensive applications locally and deploy at scale using the combined powers of Python and Spark 2.0Key Features\[\*\] Learn why and how you can efficiently use Python to process data and build machine learning models in Apache Spark 2.0\[\*\] Develop and deploy efficient, scalable real-time Spark solutions\[\*\] Take your understanding of using Spark with Python to the next level with ... Read more

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Build data-intensive applications locally and deploy at scale using the combined powers of Python and Spark 2.0Key Features\[\*\] Learn why and how you can efficiently use Python to process data and build machine learning models in Apache Spark 2.0\[\*\] Develop and deploy efficient, scalable real-time Spark solutions\[\*\] Take your understanding of using Spark with Python to the next level with
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Causal Inference in Python

Applying Causal Inference in the Tech Industry

by Matheus Facure ...

How many buyers will an additional dollar of online marketing bring in? Which customers will only buy when given a discount coupon? How do you establish an optimal pricing strategy? The best way to determine how the levers at our disposal affect the business metrics we want to drive is through causal inference.In this book, author Matheus Facure, senior data scientist at Nubank, explains the ... Read more

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How many buyers will an additional dollar of online marketing bring in? Which customers will only buy when given a discount coupon? How do you establish an optimal pricing strategy? The best way to determine how the levers at our disposal affect the business metrics we want to drive is through causal inference.In this book, author Matheus Facure, senior data scientist at Nubank, explains the
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SQL for Data Analytics

Harness the power of SQL to extract insights from data

by Jun Shan, Matt Goldwasser, Upom Malik, Benjamin Johnston ...

Take your first steps to becoming a fully qualified data analyst by learning how to explore complex datasetsKey FeaturesMaster each concept through practical exercises and activitiesDiscover various statistical techniques to analyze your dataImplement everything you’ve learned on a real-world case study to uncover valuable insightsBook DescriptionEvery day, businesses operate around the clock, and ... Read more

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Take your first steps to becoming a fully qualified data analyst by learning how to explore complex datasetsKey FeaturesMaster each concept through practical exercises and activitiesDiscover various statistical techniques to analyze your dataImplement everything you’ve learned on a real-world case study to uncover valuable insightsBook DescriptionEvery day, businesses operate around the clock, and
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Python Natural Language Processing Cookbook

Over 50 recipes to understand, analyze, and generate text for implementing language processing tasks

by Zhenya Antić ...

Get to grips with solving real-world NLP problems, such as dependency parsing, information extraction, topic modeling, and text data visualizationKey FeaturesAnalyze varying complexities of text using popular Python packages such as NLTK, spaCy, sklearn, and gensimImplement common and not-so-common linguistic processing tasks using Python librariesOvercome the common challenges faced while ... Read more

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Get to grips with solving real-world NLP problems, such as dependency parsing, information extraction, topic modeling, and text data visualizationKey FeaturesAnalyze varying complexities of text using popular Python packages such as NLTK, spaCy, sklearn, and gensimImplement common and not-so-common linguistic processing tasks using Python librariesOvercome the common challenges faced while
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R Statistics Cookbook

Over 100 recipes for performing complex statistical operations with R 3.5

by Francisco Juretig ...

Solve real-world statistical problems using the most popular R packages and techniquesKey FeaturesLearn how to apply statistical methods to your everyday research with handy recipesFoster your analytical skills and interpret research across industries and business verticalsPerform t-tests, chi-squared tests, and regression analysis using modern statistical techniquesBook DescriptionR is a popular ... Read more

£16.39 or Free with Kobo Plus

Solve real-world statistical problems using the most popular R packages and techniquesKey FeaturesLearn how to apply statistical methods to your everyday research with handy recipesFoster your analytical skills and interpret research across industries and business verticalsPerform t-tests, chi-squared tests, and regression analysis using modern statistical techniquesBook DescriptionR is a popular
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Pandas 1.x Cookbook

Practical recipes for scientific computing, time series analysis, and exploratory data analysis using Python

by Theodore Petrou, Matthew Harrison ...

Use the power of pandas to solve most complex scientific computing problems with ease. Revised for pandas 1.x.Key FeaturesThis is the first book on pandas 1.xPractical, easy to implement recipes for quick solutions to common problems in data using pandasMaster the fundamentals of pandas to quickly begin exploring any datasetBook DescriptionThe pandas library is massive, and it's common for ... Read more

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Use the power of pandas to solve most complex scientific computing problems with ease. Revised for pandas 1.x.Key FeaturesThis is the first book on pandas 1.xPractical, easy to implement recipes for quick solutions to common problems in data using pandasMaster the fundamentals of pandas to quickly begin exploring any datasetBook DescriptionThe pandas library is massive, and it's common for
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Learn Algorithmic Trading

Build and deploy algorithmic trading systems and strategies using Python and advanced data analysis

by Sebastien Donadio, Sourav Ghosh ...

Understand the fundamentals of algorithmic trading to apply algorithms to real market data and analyze the results of real-world trading strategiesKey FeaturesUnderstand the power of algorithmic trading in financial markets with real-world examplesGet up and running with the algorithms used to carry out algorithmic tradingLearn to build your own algorithmic trading robots which require no human ... Read more

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Understand the fundamentals of algorithmic trading to apply algorithms to real market data and analyze the results of real-world trading strategiesKey FeaturesUnderstand the power of algorithmic trading in financial markets with real-world examplesGet up and running with the algorithms used to carry out algorithmic tradingLearn to build your own algorithmic trading robots which require no human
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Mastering PostgreSQL 13

Build, administer, and maintain database applications efficiently with PostgreSQL 13

by Hans-Jürgen Schönig ...

Explore expert techniques such as advanced indexing and high availability to build scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant database applications using PostgreSQL 13Key FeaturesMaster advanced PostgreSQL 13 concepts with the help of real-world datasets and examplesLeverage PostgreSQL’s indexing features to fine-tune the performance of your queriesExtend PostgreSQL's functionalities to suit your ... Read more

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Explore expert techniques such as advanced indexing and high availability to build scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant database applications using PostgreSQL 13Key FeaturesMaster advanced PostgreSQL 13 concepts with the help of real-world datasets and examplesLeverage PostgreSQL’s indexing features to fine-tune the performance of your queriesExtend PostgreSQL's functionalities to suit your
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