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Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

The Definitive Guide

by Tom White ...

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide helps you harness the power of your data. Ideal for processing large datasets, the Apache Hadoop framework is an open source implementation of the MapReduce algorithm on which Google built its empire. This comprehensive resource demonstrates how to use Hadoop to build reliable, scalable, distributed systems: programmers will find details for analyzing large datasets, ... Read more

$25.99 USD

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide helps you harness the power of your data. Ideal for processing large datasets, the Apache Hadoop framework is an open source implementation of the MapReduce algorithm on which Google built its empire. This comprehensive resource demonstrates how to use Hadoop to build reliable, scalable, distributed systems: programmers will find details for analyzing large datasets,
... Read more
Mastering Blockchain

Distributed ledger technology, decentralization, and smart contracts explained

by Imran Bashir, Ankur Daharwal, Pranav Burnwal ...

Learn about cryptography and cryptocurrencies, so you can build highly secure, decentralized applications and conduct trusted in-app transactions.Key FeaturesGet to grips with the underlying technical principles and implementations of blockchainBuild powerful applications using Ethereum to secure transactions and create smart contractsExplore cryptography, mine cryptocurrencies, and solve ... Read more

$36.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Learn about cryptography and cryptocurrencies, so you can build highly secure, decentralized applications and conduct trusted in-app transactions.Key FeaturesGet to grips with the underlying technical principles and implementations of blockchainBuild powerful applications using Ethereum to secure transactions and create smart contractsExplore cryptography, mine cryptocurrencies, and solve
... Read more
The Cloud Data Lake

A Guide to Building Robust Cloud Data Architecture

by Rukmani Gopalan ...

More organizations than ever understand the importance of data lake architectures for deriving value from their data. Building a robust, scalable, and performant data lake remains a complex proposition, however, with a buffet of tools and options that need to work together to provide a seamless end-to-end pipeline from data to insights.This book provides a concise yet comprehensive overview on the ... Read more

$41.99 USD

More organizations than ever understand the importance of data lake architectures for deriving value from their data. Building a robust, scalable, and performant data lake remains a complex proposition, however, with a buffet of tools and options that need to work together to provide a seamless end-to-end pipeline from data to insights.This book provides a concise yet comprehensive overview on the
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Python 3 Text Processing with NLTK 3 Cookbook

by Jacob Perkins ...

This book is intended for Python programmers interested in learning how to do natural language processing. Maybe you've learned the limits of regular expressions the hard way, or you've realized that human language cannot be deterministically parsed like a computer language. Perhaps you have more text than you know what to do with, and need automated ways to analyze and structure that text. This ... Read more

$26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This book is intended for Python programmers interested in learning how to do natural language processing. Maybe you've learned the limits of regular expressions the hard way, or you've realized that human language cannot be deterministically parsed like a computer language. Perhaps you have more text than you know what to do with, and need automated ways to analyze and structure that text. This
... Read more
Machine Learning for Email

Spam Filtering and Priority Inbox

by Drew Conway, John Myles White ...

If you’re an experienced programmer willing to crunch data, this concise guide will show you how to use machine learning to work with email. You’ll learn how to write algorithms that automatically sort and redirect email based on statistical patterns. Authors Drew Conway and John Myles White approach the process in a practical fashion, using a case-study driven approach rather than a traditional ... Read more

$11.99 USD

If you’re an experienced programmer willing to crunch data, this concise guide will show you how to use machine learning to work with email. You’ll learn how to write algorithms that automatically sort and redirect email based on statistical patterns. Authors Drew Conway and John Myles White approach the process in a practical fashion, using a case-study driven approach rather than a traditional
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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

$71.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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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Mobile Data Loss

Threats and Countermeasures

by Michael T. Raggo ...

The mobile threat landscape is evolving bringing about new forms of data loss. No longer can organizations rely on security policies designed during the PC era. Mobile is different and therefore requires a revised approach to countermeasures to mitigate data loss. Understanding these differences is fundamental to creating a new defense-in-depth strategy designed for mobile. Mobile Data Loss: ... Read more

$28.49 USD

The mobile threat landscape is evolving bringing about new forms of data loss. No longer can organizations rely on security policies designed during the PC era. Mobile is different and therefore requires a revised approach to countermeasures to mitigate data loss. Understanding these differences is fundamental to creating a new defense-in-depth strategy designed for mobile. Mobile Data Loss:
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MongoDB: The Definitive Guide

Powerful and Scalable Data Storage

by Shannon Bradshaw, Eoin Brazil, Kristina Chodorow ...

Manage your data with a system designed to support modern application development. Updated for MongoDB 4.2, the third edition of this authoritative and accessible guide shows you the advantages of using document-oriented databases. You’ll learn how this secure, high-performance system enables flexible data models, high availability, and horizontal scalability.Authors Shannon Bradshaw, Eoin Brazil, ... Read more

$41.99 USD

Manage your data with a system designed to support modern application development. Updated for MongoDB 4.2, the third edition of this authoritative and accessible guide shows you the advantages of using document-oriented databases. You’ll learn how this secure, high-performance system enables flexible data models, high availability, and horizontal scalability.Authors Shannon Bradshaw, Eoin Brazil,
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The AI Ultimatum

Preparing for a World of Intelligent Machines and Radical Transformation

by Steve Brown, Paul Hill ...

Most business leaders know they must embrace AI, but are they asking the right questions? The step from "Should we deploy AI" to "How do we do it" is not far enough. Like digital transformation, AI transformation will be an ongoing, multi-year process that fundamentally reshapes every aspect of business and society. The AI Ultimatum provides business leaders with critical thinking frameworks and ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Most business leaders know they must embrace AI, but are they asking the right questions? The step from "Should we deploy AI" to "How do we do it" is not far enough. Like digital transformation, AI transformation will be an ongoing, multi-year process that fundamentally reshapes every aspect of business and society. The AI Ultimatum provides business leaders with critical thinking frameworks and
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Pandas Cookbook

Recipes for Scientific Computing, Time Series Analysis and Data Visualization using Python

by Theodore Petrou, Kuntal Ganguly ...

Publisher s Note: A new second edition, updated completely for pandas 1.x with additional chapters, has now been published. This edition from 2017 is outdated and is based on pandas 0.20. Over 95 hands-on recipes to leverage the power of pandas for efficient scientific computation and data analysisKey FeaturesUse the power of pandas 0.20 to solve most complex scientific computing problems with ... Read more

$41.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Publisher s Note: A new second edition, updated completely for pandas 1.x with additional chapters, has now been published. This edition from 2017 is outdated and is based on pandas 0.20. Over 95 hands-on recipes to leverage the power of pandas for efficient scientific computation and data analysisKey FeaturesUse the power of pandas 0.20 to solve most complex scientific computing problems with
... Read more
Data Science Algorithms in a Week

Top 7 algorithms for scientific computing, data analysis, and machine learning

by David Natingga ...

Build a strong foundation of machine learning algorithms in 7 daysKey FeaturesUse Python and its wide array of machine learning libraries to build predictive modelsLearn the basics of the 7 most widely used machine learning algorithms within a weekKnow when and where to apply data science algorithms using this guideBook DescriptionMachine learning applications are highly automated and self ... Read more

$34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Build a strong foundation of machine learning algorithms in 7 daysKey FeaturesUse Python and its wide array of machine learning libraries to build predictive modelsLearn the basics of the 7 most widely used machine learning algorithms within a weekKnow when and where to apply data science algorithms using this guideBook DescriptionMachine learning applications are highly automated and self
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Making Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Work for Business

A Guide to Understanding Information as an Asset

by John Ladley ...

Making Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Work for Business: A Guide to Understanding Information as an Asset provides a comprehensive discussion of EIM. It endeavors to explain information asset management and place it into a pragmatic, focused, and relevant light. The book is organized into two parts. Part 1 provides the material required to sell, understand, and validate the EIM program. ... Read more

$57.99 USD

Making Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Work for Business: A Guide to Understanding Information as an Asset provides a comprehensive discussion of EIM. It endeavors to explain information asset management and place it into a pragmatic, focused, and relevant light. The book is organized into two parts. Part 1 provides the material required to sell, understand, and validate the EIM program.
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Data-ism

The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else

by Steve Lohr ...

"Lohr uses his Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting skills to dig into and explain the power, pervasiveness, and potential downside of big data." — Library JournalIn Data-ism, New York Times reporter Steve Lohr explains how big-data technology is ushering in a revolution in proportions that promise to be the basis of the next wave of efficiency and innovation across the economy. But more is at work ... Read more

$12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"Lohr uses his Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting skills to dig into and explain the power, pervasiveness, and potential downside of big data." — Library JournalIn Data-ism, New York Times reporter Steve Lohr explains how big-data technology is ushering in a revolution in proportions that promise to be the basis of the next wave of efficiency and innovation across the economy. But more is at work
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Data Wrangling with Python

Creating actionable data from raw sources

by Dr. Tirthajyoti Sarkar, Shubhadeep Roychowdhury ...

Simplify your ETL processes with these hands-on data hygiene tips, tricks, and best practices.Key FeaturesFocus on the basics of data wranglingStudy various ways to extract the most out of your data in less timeBoost your learning curve with bonus topics like random data generation and data integrity checksBook DescriptionFor data to be useful and meaningful, it must be curated and refined. Data ... Read more

$34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Simplify your ETL processes with these hands-on data hygiene tips, tricks, and best practices.Key FeaturesFocus on the basics of data wranglingStudy various ways to extract the most out of your data in less timeBoost your learning curve with bonus topics like random data generation and data integrity checksBook DescriptionFor data to be useful and meaningful, it must be curated and refined. Data
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The AI-Savvy Leader

Nine Ways to Take Back Control and Make AI Work

by David De Cremer ...

Leaders, don't let AI get the best of you.The AI transformation is underway, but where are the leaders who will ensure their companies implement AI successfully and responsibly? Up until now, leaders have largely ceded their role in the AI transformation, pushing strategy formulation out to tech teams and leaving investment decisions to groups that don't have a full view of the organization or its ... Read more

$23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Leaders, don't let AI get the best of you.The AI transformation is underway, but where are the leaders who will ensure their companies implement AI successfully and responsibly? Up until now, leaders have largely ceded their role in the AI transformation, pushing strategy formulation out to tech teams and leaving investment decisions to groups that don't have a full view of the organization or its
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Analytics Engineering with SQL and dbt

Building Meaningful Data Models at Scale

by Rui Pedro Machado, Helder Russa ...

With the shift from data warehouses to data lakes, data now lands in repositories before it's been transformed, enabling engineers to model raw data into clean, well-defined datasets. dbt (data build tool) helps you take data further. This practical book shows data analysts, data engineers, BI developers, and data scientists how to create a true self-service transformation platform through the use ... Read more

$41.09 USD

With the shift from data warehouses to data lakes, data now lands in repositories before it's been transformed, enabling engineers to model raw data into clean, well-defined datasets. dbt (data build tool) helps you take data further. This practical book shows data analysts, data engineers, BI developers, and data scientists how to create a true self-service transformation platform through the use
... Read more
Akamai State of the Internet / Connectivity Report

Q3 2016

by Akamai Technologies ...

Akamai’s globally distributed Intelligent Platform™ allows us to gather massive amounts of data on many metrics including Internet connection speeds, network connectivity/availability issues, and IPv6 adoption progress as well as traffic patterns across leading web properties and digital media providers. Each quarter, Akamai publishes the State of the Internet Report based on this data.This ... Read more

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Akamai’s globally distributed Intelligent Platform™ allows us to gather massive amounts of data on many metrics including Internet connection speeds, network connectivity/availability issues, and IPv6 adoption progress as well as traffic patterns across leading web properties and digital media providers. Each quarter, Akamai publishes the State of the Internet Report based on this data.This
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Analyzing Business Data with Excel

Forecasting, Statistics, and Data Management

by Gerald Knight ...

As one of the most widely used desktop applications ever created, Excel is familiar to just about everyone with a computer and a keyboard. Yet most of us don't know the full extent of what Excel can do, mostly because of its recent growth in power, versatility, and complexity. The truth is that there are many ways Excel can help make your job easier-beyond calculating sums and averages in a ... Read more

$23.99 USD

As one of the most widely used desktop applications ever created, Excel is familiar to just about everyone with a computer and a keyboard. Yet most of us don't know the full extent of what Excel can do, mostly because of its recent growth in power, versatility, and complexity. The truth is that there are many ways Excel can help make your job easier-beyond calculating sums and averages in a
... Read more
Causal AI

by Robert Osazuwa Ness ...

Build AI models that can reliably deliver causal inference.How do you know what might have happened, had you done things differently? Causal AI gives you the insight you need to make predictions and control outcomes based on causal relationships instead of pure correlation, so you can make precise and timely interventions. Causal AI is a practical introduction to building AI models that can reason ... Read more

$58.99 USD

Build AI models that can reliably deliver causal inference.How do you know what might have happened, had you done things differently? Causal AI gives you the insight you need to make predictions and control outcomes based on causal relationships instead of pure correlation, so you can make precise and timely interventions. Causal AI is a practical introduction to building AI models that can reason
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ZooKeeper

Distributed Process Coordination

by Flavio Junqueira, Benjamin Reed ...

Building distributed applications is difficult enough without having to coordinate the actions that make them work. This practical guide shows how Apache ZooKeeper helps you manage distributed systems, so you can focus mainly on application logic. Even with ZooKeeper, implementing coordination tasks is not trivial, but this book provides good practices to give you a head start, and points out ... Read more

$21.59 USD

Building distributed applications is difficult enough without having to coordinate the actions that make them work. This practical guide shows how Apache ZooKeeper helps you manage distributed systems, so you can focus mainly on application logic. Even with ZooKeeper, implementing coordination tasks is not trivial, but this book provides good practices to give you a head start, and points out
... Read more
Mastering Parallel Programming with R

Master the robust features of R parallel programming to accelerate your data science computations

by Simon R. Chapple, Eilidh Troup, Thorsten Forster, Terence Sloan ...

Master the robust features of R parallel programming to accelerate your data science computationsKey Features\[\*\]Create R programs that exploit the computational capability of your cloud platforms and computers to the fullest\[\*\]Become an expert in writing the most efficient and highest performance parallel algorithms in R\[\*\]Get to grips with the concept of parallelism to accelerate your ... Read more

$27.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Master the robust features of R parallel programming to accelerate your data science computationsKey Features\[\*\]Create R programs that exploit the computational capability of your cloud platforms and computers to the fullest\[\*\]Become an expert in writing the most efficient and highest performance parallel algorithms in R\[\*\]Get to grips with the concept of parallelism to accelerate your
... Read more
The Definitive Guide to Power Query (M)

Mastering complex data transformation with Power Query

by Rick de Groot, Melissa de Korte, Greg Deckler ...

Learn how to use the Power Query M formula language and its functions effectively for better data modeling and impactful business intelligence reports. Free with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader\*Key FeaturesGet comprehensive coverage of fundamental and advanced Power Query conceptsGain hands-on experience with practical examples based on real-world problemsDelve ... Read more

$39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Learn how to use the Power Query M formula language and its functions effectively for better data modeling and impactful business intelligence reports. Free with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader\*Key FeaturesGet comprehensive coverage of fundamental and advanced Power Query conceptsGain hands-on experience with practical examples based on real-world problemsDelve
... Read more
Entity Information Life Cycle for Big Data

Master Data Management and Information Integration

by Yinle Zhou, John R. Talburt ...

Entity Information Life Cycle for Big Data walks you through the ins and outs of managing entity information so you can successfully achieve master data management (MDM) in the era of big data. This book explains big data's impact on MDM and the critical role of entity information management system (EIMS) in successful MDM. Expert authors Dr. John R. Talburt and Dr. Yinle Zhou provide a thorough ... Read more

$58.99 USD

Entity Information Life Cycle for Big Data walks you through the ins and outs of managing entity information so you can successfully achieve master data management (MDM) in the era of big data. This book explains big data's impact on MDM and the critical role of entity information management system (EIMS) in successful MDM. Expert authors Dr. John R. Talburt and Dr. Yinle Zhou provide a thorough
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Building Machine Learning Pipelines

by Hannes Hapke, Catherine Nelson ...

Companies are spending billions on machine learning projects, but it’s money wasted if the models can’t be deployed effectively. In this practical guide, Hannes Hapke and Catherine Nelson walk you through the steps of automating a machine learning pipeline using the TensorFlow ecosystem. You’ll learn the techniques and tools that will cut deployment time from days to minutes, so that you can focus ... Read more

$48.99 USD

Companies are spending billions on machine learning projects, but it’s money wasted if the models can’t be deployed effectively. In this practical guide, Hannes Hapke and Catherine Nelson walk you through the steps of automating a machine learning pipeline using the TensorFlow ecosystem. You’ll learn the techniques and tools that will cut deployment time from days to minutes, so that you can focus
... Read more

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