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Build a Mathematical Mind - Even If You Think You Can't Have One

by Albert Rutherford ...

Would you like to be a proficient mathematician… without using numbers?There is so much more to math than geometry and calculus! It is present in almost every life aspect, from improving your communication skills to how to fit your luggage into your car.Did you always hate math because you couldn't understand complex formulas?Don't let a few equations or a bad teacher deter you from building a ... Read more

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Would you like to be a proficient mathematician… without using numbers?There is so much more to math than geometry and calculus! It is present in almost every life aspect, from improving your communication skills to how to fit your luggage into your car.Did you always hate math because you couldn't understand complex formulas?Don't let a few equations or a bad teacher deter you from building a
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Alex's Adventures in Numberland

Dispatches from the Wonderful World of Mathematics

by Alex Bellos ...

A tenth anniversary edition of the iconic book about the wonderful world of mathsSunday Times bestseller | Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize'Original and highly entertaining' Sunday Times'A page turner about humanity's strange, never easy and, above all, never dull relationship with numbers' New Scientist'Will leave you hooked on n... ... Read more

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A tenth anniversary edition of the iconic book about the wonderful world of mathsSunday Times bestseller | Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize'Original and highly entertaining' Sunday Times'A page turner about humanity's strange, never easy and, above all, never dull relationship with numbers' New Scientist'Will leave you hooked on n...
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Data Visualization: a successful design process

by Andy Kirk ...

A comprehensive yet quick guide to the best approaches to designing data visualizations, with real examples and illustrative diagrams. Whatever the desired outcome ensure success by following this expert design process. This book is for anyone who has responsibility for, or is interested in trying to find innovative and effective ways to visually analyze and communicate data. There is no skill, no ... Read more

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A comprehensive yet quick guide to the best approaches to designing data visualizations, with real examples and illustrative diagrams. Whatever the desired outcome ensure success by following this expert design process. This book is for anyone who has responsibility for, or is interested in trying to find innovative and effective ways to visually analyze and communicate data. There is no skill, no
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ggplot2

Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis

by Hadley Wickham ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
This new edition to the classic book by ggplot2 creator Hadley Wickham highlights compatibility with knitr and RStudio. ggplot2 is a data visualization package for R that helps users create data graphics, including those that are multi-layered, with ease. With ggplot2, it's easy to:produce handsome, publication-quality plots with automatic legends created from the plot specificationsuperimpose ... Read more

£46.79

This new edition to the classic book by ggplot2 creator Hadley Wickham highlights compatibility with knitr and RStudio. ggplot2 is a data visualization package for R that helps users create data graphics, including those that are multi-layered, with ease. With ggplot2, it's easy to:produce handsome, publication-quality plots with automatic legends created from the plot specificationsuperimpose
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Graph Algorithms

Practical Examples in Apache Spark and Neo4j

by Mark Needham, Amy E. Hodler ...

Discover how graph algorithms can help you leverage the relationships within your data to develop more intelligent solutions and enhance your machine learning models. You’ll learn how graph analytics are uniquely suited to unfold complex structures and reveal difficult-to-find patterns lurking in your data. Whether you are trying to build dynamic network models or forecast real-world behavior, ... Read more

£34.99

Discover how graph algorithms can help you leverage the relationships within your data to develop more intelligent solutions and enhance your machine learning models. You’ll learn how graph analytics are uniquely suited to unfold complex structures and reveal difficult-to-find patterns lurking in your data. Whether you are trying to build dynamic network models or forecast real-world behavior,
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The Fascinating World of Graph Theory

by Arthur Benjamin, Gary Chartrand, Ping Zhang ...

The history, formulas, and most famous puzzles of graph theoryGraph theory goes back several centuries and revolves around the study of graphs—mathematical structures showing relations between objects. With applications in biology, computer science, transportation science, and other areas, graph theory encompasses some of the most beautiful formulas in mathematics—and some of its most famous ... Read more

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The history, formulas, and most famous puzzles of graph theoryGraph theory goes back several centuries and revolves around the study of graphs—mathematical structures showing relations between objects. With applications in biology, computer science, transportation science, and other areas, graph theory encompasses some of the most beautiful formulas in mathematics—and some of its most famous
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Visualising Safety, an Exploration

Drawings, Pictures, Images, Videos and Movies

Edited by Jean-Christophe Le Coze, Teemu Reiman ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This open access book explores the role visual tools and graphical models play in safety management. It explains the importance of visualising safety, for teaching concepts, communicating ideas to peers, and raising awareness of potential threats through posters.Visualising Safety, an Exploration introduces graphical models which have been influential in promoting ideas of safety, and impacting ... Read more

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This open access book explores the role visual tools and graphical models play in safety management. It explains the importance of visualising safety, for teaching concepts, communicating ideas to peers, and raising awareness of potential threats through posters.Visualising Safety, an Exploration introduces graphical models which have been influential in promoting ideas of safety, and impacting
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Applied Graph Theory

An Introduction with Graph Optimization and Algebraic Graph Theory

by Christopher Griffin ...

This book serves as an introduction to graph theory and its applications. It is intended for a senior undergraduate course in graph theory but is also appropriate for beginning graduate students in science or engineering. The book presents a rigorous (proof-based) introduction to graph theory while also discussing applications of the results for solving real-world problems of interest. The book is ... Read more

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This book serves as an introduction to graph theory and its applications. It is intended for a senior undergraduate course in graph theory but is also appropriate for beginning graduate students in science or engineering. The book presents a rigorous (proof-based) introduction to graph theory while also discussing applications of the results for solving real-world problems of interest. The book is
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Bézier Circles and other shapes

Fun with Numbers, #2

by G. Adam Stanislav ...

Series Book 2 - Fun with Numbers
While it is impossible to draw a circle with Bézier curves, it is quite possible to emulate one so well that, when viewed by human eyes, the drawing is indistinguishable from an actual circle. All you need to do is use the right value of the Bézier control points. This value is the radius of the circle multiplied by a constant known as the kappa. This book tells you the right value of the kappa, ... Read more

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While it is impossible to draw a circle with Bézier curves, it is quite possible to emulate one so well that, when viewed by human eyes, the drawing is indistinguishable from an actual circle. All you need to do is use the right value of the Bézier control points. This value is the radius of the circle multiplied by a constant known as the kappa. This book tells you the right value of the kappa,
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The Easiest Way to Understand Algebra

Math, #1

by Roy Sawyer ...

Series Book 1 - Math
The Easiest Way to Understand Algebra: Algebra Equations with Answers and SolutionsIs your child struggling with Algebra? This beginner-friendly guide offers a fresh, simplified approach to help children grasp the logic behind Algebraic equations. With 90 practice problems, complete answers, and step-by-step solutions, this book makes learning Algebra approachable and confidence-building.Designed ... Read more

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The Easiest Way to Understand Algebra: Algebra Equations with Answers and SolutionsIs your child struggling with Algebra? This beginner-friendly guide offers a fresh, simplified approach to help children grasp the logic behind Algebraic equations. With 90 practice problems, complete answers, and step-by-step solutions, this book makes learning Algebra approachable and confidence-building.Designed
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Geometry for Students and Parents

Math, #2

by Roy Sawyer ...

Series Book 2 - Math
Unlock Geometry Success: A Practical Guide for Students and ParentsStruggling with geometry homework or prepping for an exam? This clear, concise guide makes learning geometry approachable for both students and parents. Covering essential plane geometry and introductory trigonometry, it features 70 illustrations and 25 practice problems with step-by-step solutions.Explore key topics like triangles ... Read more

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Unlock Geometry Success: A Practical Guide for Students and ParentsStruggling with geometry homework or prepping for an exam? This clear, concise guide makes learning geometry approachable for both students and parents. Covering essential plane geometry and introductory trigonometry, it features 70 illustrations and 25 practice problems with step-by-step solutions.Explore key topics like triangles
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Explainable and Interpretable Reinforcement Learning for Robotics

by Aaron M. Roth, Dinesh Manocha, Ram D. Sriram, Elham Tabassi ...

Series series Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0)
This book surveys the state of the art in explainable and interpretable reinforcement learning (RL) as relevant for robotics. While RL in general has grown in popularity and been applied to increasingly complex problems, several challenges have impeded the real-world adoption of RL algorithms for robotics and related areas. These include difficulties in preventing safety constraints from being ... Read more

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This book surveys the state of the art in explainable and interpretable reinforcement learning (RL) as relevant for robotics. While RL in general has grown in popularity and been applied to increasingly complex problems, several challenges have impeded the real-world adoption of RL algorithms for robotics and related areas. These include difficulties in preventing safety constraints from being
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Computational Diffusion MRI and Brain Connectivity

MICCAI Workshops, Nagoya, Japan, September 22nd, 2013

Edited by Thomas Schultz, Gemma Nedjati-Gilani, Archana Venkataraman, Lauren O'Donnell, Eleftheria Panagiotaki ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This volume contains the proceedings from two closely related workshops: Computational Diffusion MRI (CDMRI’13) and Mathematical Methods from Brain Connectivity (MMBC’13), held under the auspices of the 16th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, which took place in Nagoya, Japan, September 2013.Inside, readers will find contributions ranging from ... Read more

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This volume contains the proceedings from two closely related workshops: Computational Diffusion MRI (CDMRI’13) and Mathematical Methods from Brain Connectivity (MMBC’13), held under the auspices of the 16th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, which took place in Nagoya, Japan, September 2013.Inside, readers will find contributions ranging from
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Human Bias in Visual Data Analysis

A Synthesis of Research to Empower Decision Makers

by Emily Wall ...

Series series Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0)
This open access book demonstrates how human biases affect the process of visual data analysis, a subject which has typically been left to researchers in cognitive and perceptual psychology and the social sciences. Human biases affect the way that people interpret and experience the world and how they operate within it and make decisions. These can include cognitive biases such as confirmation or ... Read more

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This open access book demonstrates how human biases affect the process of visual data analysis, a subject which has typically been left to researchers in cognitive and perceptual psychology and the social sciences. Human biases affect the way that people interpret and experience the world and how they operate within it and make decisions. These can include cognitive biases such as confirmation or
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Translational Recurrences

From Mathematical Theory to Real-World Applications

Edited by Norbert Marwan, Michael Riley, Alessandro Giuliani, Charles L. Webber, Jr. ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book features 13 papers presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Recurrence Plots, held August 2013 in Chicago, IL. It examines recent applications and developments in recurrence plots and recurrence quantification analysis (RQA) with special emphasis on biological and cognitive systems and the analysis of coupled systems using cross-recurrence methods.Readers will discover new ... Read more

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This book features 13 papers presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Recurrence Plots, held August 2013 in Chicago, IL. It examines recent applications and developments in recurrence plots and recurrence quantification analysis (RQA) with special emphasis on biological and cognitive systems and the analysis of coupled systems using cross-recurrence methods.Readers will discover new
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Advanced Studies in Behaviormetrics and Data Science

Essays in Honor of Akinori Okada

Edited by Tadashi Imaizumi, Atsuho Nakayama, Satoru Yokoyama ...

Series Book 5 - Behaviormetrics: Quantitative Approaches to Human Behavior
This book focuses on the latest developments in behaviormetrics and data science, covering a wide range of topics in data analysis and related areas of data science, including analysis of complex data, analysis of qualitative data, methods for high-dimensional data, dimensionality reduction, visualization of such data, multivariate statistical methods, analysis of asymmetric relational data, and ... Read more

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This book focuses on the latest developments in behaviormetrics and data science, covering a wide range of topics in data analysis and related areas of data science, including analysis of complex data, analysis of qualitative data, methods for high-dimensional data, dimensionality reduction, visualization of such data, multivariate statistical methods, analysis of asymmetric relational data, and
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Plug-and-Play Visual Subgraph Query Interfaces

by Sourav S. Bhowmick, Byron Choi ...

Series series eBColl Synthesis Collection 12
This book details recent developments in the emerging area of plug-and-play (PnP) visual subgraph query interfaces (VQI). These PnP interfaces are grounded in the principles of human-computer interaction (HCI) and cognitive psychology to address long-standing limitations to bottom-up search capabilities in graph databases using traditional graph query languages, which often require domain experts ... Read more

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This book details recent developments in the emerging area of plug-and-play (PnP) visual subgraph query interfaces (VQI). These PnP interfaces are grounded in the principles of human-computer interaction (HCI) and cognitive psychology to address long-standing limitations to bottom-up search capabilities in graph databases using traditional graph query languages, which often require domain experts
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Mathematical Foundations for Data Analysis

by Jeff M. Phillips ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
This textbook, suitable for an early undergraduate up to a graduate course, provides an overview of many basic principles and techniques needed for modern data analysis. In particular, this book was designed and written as preparation for students planning to take rigorous Machine Learning and Data Mining courses. It introduces key conceptual tools necessary for data analysis, including ... Read more

£46.79

This textbook, suitable for an early undergraduate up to a graduate course, provides an overview of many basic principles and techniques needed for modern data analysis. In particular, this book was designed and written as preparation for students planning to take rigorous Machine Learning and Data Mining courses. It introduces key conceptual tools necessary for data analysis, including
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Falling Liquid Films

by C. Ruyer-Quil, M. G. Velarde, S. Kalliadasis, B. Scheid ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Falling Liquid Films gives a detailed review of state-of-the-art theoretical, analytical and numerical methodologies, for the analysis of dissipative wave dynamics and pattern formation on the surface of a film falling down a planar inclined substrate. This prototype is an open-flow hydrodynamic instability, that represents an excellent paradigm for the study of complexity in active nonlinear ... Read more

£68.99

Falling Liquid Films gives a detailed review of state-of-the-art theoretical, analytical and numerical methodologies, for the analysis of dissipative wave dynamics and pattern formation on the surface of a film falling down a planar inclined substrate. This prototype is an open-flow hydrodynamic instability, that represents an excellent paradigm for the study of complexity in active nonlinear
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Computational Statistics

by Geof H. Givens, Jennifer A. Hoeting ...

Series Book 710 - Wiley Series in Computational Statistics
This new edition continues to serve as a comprehensive guide to modern and classical methods of statistical computing. The book is comprised of four main parts spanning the field:OptimizationIntegration and SimulationBootstrappingDensity Estimation and SmoothingWithin these sections,each chapter includes a comprehensive introduction and step-by-step implementation summaries to accompany the ... Read more

£99.99

This new edition continues to serve as a comprehensive guide to modern and classical methods of statistical computing. The book is comprised of four main parts spanning the field:OptimizationIntegration and SimulationBootstrappingDensity Estimation and SmoothingWithin these sections,each chapter includes a comprehensive introduction and step-by-step implementation summaries to accompany the
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A Bird's Eye view of Data Visualisation

by Nisarg Patel, Hetarth Shah ...

A bird's eye view of anything is usually the first step to enter a new field of interest. The vast field of Data Visualisation might seem overwhelming at first, but a bird's eye view with this book might just be enough to nudge you over that cliff. We will try to go through every little detail about Data Visualisation, from its etymology all the way to its future enhancements. A detailed analysis ... Read more

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A bird's eye view of anything is usually the first step to enter a new field of interest. The vast field of Data Visualisation might seem overwhelming at first, but a bird's eye view with this book might just be enough to nudge you over that cliff. We will try to go through every little detail about Data Visualisation, from its etymology all the way to its future enhancements. A detailed analysis
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Visualizing Music

by Eric Isaacson ...

To feel the emotional force of music, we experience it aurally. But how can we convey musical understanding visually?Visualizing Music explores the art of communicating about music through images. Drawing on principles from the fields of vision science and information visualization, Eric Isaacson describes how graphical images can help us understand music. By explaining the history of music ... Read more

£16.59

To feel the emotional force of music, we experience it aurally. But how can we convey musical understanding visually?Visualizing Music explores the art of communicating about music through images. Drawing on principles from the fields of vision science and information visualization, Eric Isaacson describes how graphical images can help us understand music. By explaining the history of music
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Anisotropy Across Fields and Scales

Edited by Evren Özarslan, Thomas Schultz, Eugene Zhang, Andrea Fuster ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This open access book focuses on processing, modeling, and visualization of anisotropy information, which are often addressed by employing sophisticated mathematical constructs such as tensors and other higher-order descriptors. It also discusses adaptations of such constructs to problems encountered in seemingly dissimilar areas of medical imaging, physical sciences, and engineering. Featuring ... Read more

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This open access book focuses on processing, modeling, and visualization of anisotropy information, which are often addressed by employing sophisticated mathematical constructs such as tensors and other higher-order descriptors. It also discusses adaptations of such constructs to problems encountered in seemingly dissimilar areas of medical imaging, physical sciences, and engineering. Featuring
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Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization VI

Theory, Applications, and Software

Edited by Ingrid Hotz, Talha Bin Masood, Filip Sadlo, Julien Tierny ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book is a result of a workshop, the 8th of the successful TopoInVis workshop series, held in 2019 in Nyköping, Sweden. The workshop regularly gathers some of the world’s leading experts in this field. Thereby, it provides a forum for discussions on the latest advances in the field with a focus on finding practical solutions to open problems in topological data analysis for visualization. The ... Read more

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This book is a result of a workshop, the 8th of the successful TopoInVis workshop series, held in 2019 in Nyköping, Sweden. The workshop regularly gathers some of the world’s leading experts in this field. Thereby, it provides a forum for discussions on the latest advances in the field with a focus on finding practical solutions to open problems in topological data analysis for visualization. The
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