Database Management in Computers & Nonfiction eBooks

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann, Chris Riccomini ...

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability need to be resolved. In addition, there's an overwhelming variety of systems, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, data warehouses, and data lakes. There are cloud services, on-premises services, and embedded databases. What ... Read more

$43.99 USD

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability need to be resolved. In addition, there's an overwhelming variety of systems, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, data warehouses, and data lakes. There are cloud services, on-premises services, and embedded databases. What
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Introduction to Information Retrieval

by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, Hinrich Schütze ...

Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic concepts. It gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents; methods for evaluating systems; and an introduction to the ... Read more

$65.99 USD

Class-tested and coherent, this textbook teaches classical and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic concepts. It gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents; methods for evaluating systems; and an introduction to the
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Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments

A Practical Guide to A/B Testing

by Ron Kohavi, Diane Tang, Ya Xu ...

Getting numbers is easy; getting numbers you can trust is hard. This practical guide by experimentation leaders at Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft will teach you how to accelerate innovation using trustworthy online controlled experiments, or A/B tests. Based on practical experiences at companies that each run more than 20,000 controlled experiments a year, the authors share examples, pitfalls, ... Read more

$36.99 USD

Getting numbers is easy; getting numbers you can trust is hard. This practical guide by experimentation leaders at Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft will teach you how to accelerate innovation using trustworthy online controlled experiments, or A/B tests. Based on practical experiences at companies that each run more than 20,000 controlled experiments a year, the authors share examples, pitfalls,
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Causal Inference with Bayesian Networks

Build Bayesian Networks and Causal Inference Models with R and Python

by Yousri El Fattah, Reza Bagheri ...

Learn Bayesian networks, graphical models, and causal inference for probabilistic reasoning, treatment effect estimation, and decision-making using observational data with hands-on examples in R and Python.Key FeaturesApply Bayesian networks for probabilistic and causal inference.Estimate causal effects from observational data using machine learning.Build practical causal inference workflows in R ... Read more

$35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Learn Bayesian networks, graphical models, and causal inference for probabilistic reasoning, treatment effect estimation, and decision-making using observational data with hands-on examples in R and Python.Key FeaturesApply Bayesian networks for probabilistic and causal inference.Estimate causal effects from observational data using machine learning.Build practical causal inference workflows in R
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CompTIA Cloud+ Certification Study Guide, Second Edition (Exam CV0-002)

by Scott Wilson, Eric A. Vanderburg ...

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.The best fully integrated study system availableSave 10% on any CompTIA exam voucher! Coupon code insideWith hundreds of practice exam questions, CompTIA Cloud+® Certification Study Guide, Second Edition covers ... Read more

$35.99 USD

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.The best fully integrated study system availableSave 10% on any CompTIA exam voucher! Coupon code insideWith hundreds of practice exam questions, CompTIA Cloud+® Certification Study Guide, Second Edition covers
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The Model Thinker

What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

by Scott E. Page ...

Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja.From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, ... Read more

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Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja.From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows,
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Data-Driven Hollywood

The New Data Professionals in the Age of Streaming

by Violaine Roussel ...

The rise of Hollywood’s data and algorithm specialists and their growing influence on creative decisionsIn Hollywood today, thousands of data specialists work for streaming video platforms, playing a role not just in distribution and marketing but also in decisions about content and production. In Data-Driven Hollywood, Violaine Roussel examines the emergence of this new category of professionals ... Read more

$23.09 USD

The rise of Hollywood’s data and algorithm specialists and their growing influence on creative decisionsIn Hollywood today, thousands of data specialists work for streaming video platforms, playing a role not just in distribution and marketing but also in decisions about content and production. In Data-Driven Hollywood, Violaine Roussel examines the emergence of this new category of professionals
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Librarian's Guide to Online Searching

Cultivating Database Skills for Research and Instruction

by Christopher C. Brown ...

Updates the premier textbook for students and librarians needing to know the landscape of current databases and how to search them.Librarians need to know of existing databases, and they must be able to teach search capabilities and strategies to library users. This practical guide introduces librarians to a broad spectrum of fee-based and freely available databases and explains how to teach them ... Read more

$55.99 USD

Updates the premier textbook for students and librarians needing to know the landscape of current databases and how to search them.Librarians need to know of existing databases, and they must be able to teach search capabilities and strategies to library users. This practical guide introduces librarians to a broad spectrum of fee-based and freely available databases and explains how to teach them
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How to Make Things Faster

Lessons in Performance from Technology and Everyday Life

by Cary Millsap ...

Slow systems are frustrating. They waste time and money. But making consistently great decisions about performance can be easy, if you understand what's going on. This book explains in a clear and thoughtful voice why systems perform the way they do. It's for anybody who's curious about how computer programs and other processes use their time and about what you can do to improve them.Through a mix ... Read more

$34.99 USD

Slow systems are frustrating. They waste time and money. But making consistently great decisions about performance can be easy, if you understand what's going on. This book explains in a clear and thoughtful voice why systems perform the way they do. It's for anybody who's curious about how computer programs and other processes use their time and about what you can do to improve them.Through a mix
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Predictive Statistics

Analysis and Inference beyond Models

by Bertrand S. Clarke, Jennifer L. Clarke ...

Series Book 46 - Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics
All scientific disciplines prize predictive success. Conventional statistical analyses, however, treat prediction as secondary, instead focusing on modeling and hence estimation, testing, and detailed physical interpretation, tackling these tasks before the predictive adequacy of a model is established. This book outlines a fully predictive approach to statistical problems based on studying ... Read more

$90.99 USD

All scientific disciplines prize predictive success. Conventional statistical analyses, however, treat prediction as secondary, instead focusing on modeling and hence estimation, testing, and detailed physical interpretation, tackling these tasks before the predictive adequacy of a model is established. This book outlines a fully predictive approach to statistical problems based on studying
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QGIS: Becoming a GIS Power User

by Anita Graser, Ben Mearns, Alex Mandel, Victor Olaya Ferrero, Alexander Bruy ...

Master data management, visualization, and spatial analysis techniques in QGIS and become a GIS power userAbout This BookLearn how to work with various types of data and create beautiful maps using this easy-to-follow guideGive a touch of professionalism to your maps, both for functionality and look and feel, with the help of this practical guideThis progressive, hands-on guide builds on a geo ... Read more

$61.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Master data management, visualization, and spatial analysis techniques in QGIS and become a GIS power userAbout This BookLearn how to work with various types of data and create beautiful maps using this easy-to-follow guideGive a touch of professionalism to your maps, both for functionality and look and feel, with the help of this practical guideThis progressive, hands-on guide builds on a geo
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The Art of SQL

by Stephane Faroult, Peter Robson ...

For all the buzz about trendy IT techniques, data processing is still at the core of our systems, especially now that enterprises all over the world are confronted with exploding volumes of data. Database performance has become a major headache, and most IT departments believe that developers should provide simple SQL code to solve immediate problems and let DBAs tune any "bad SQL" later.In The ... Read more

$25.99 USD

For all the buzz about trendy IT techniques, data processing is still at the core of our systems, especially now that enterprises all over the world are confronted with exploding volumes of data. Database performance has become a major headache, and most IT departments believe that developers should provide simple SQL code to solve immediate problems and let DBAs tune any "bad SQL" later.In The
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Definitive Guide to Social CRM, The

Maximizing Customer Relationships with Social Media to Gain Market Insights, Customers, and Profits

by Barton Goldenberg ...

Make Social CRM work! This book presents the first proven framework and step-by-step methodology for driving maximum value from Social CRM throughout sales, marketing, customer service, and beyond.Barton Goldenberg,the field’s #1 expert, offers a proven, four-step methodology for succeeding with Social CRM work in any B2B, B2C, or B2B2C organization. You’ll learn how to integrate people, process ... Read more

$53.99 USD

Make Social CRM work! This book presents the first proven framework and step-by-step methodology for driving maximum value from Social CRM throughout sales, marketing, customer service, and beyond.Barton Goldenberg,the field’s #1 expert, offers a proven, four-step methodology for succeeding with Social CRM work in any B2B, B2C, or B2B2C organization. You’ll learn how to integrate people, process
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Teaching Online

A Practical Guide

by Susan Ko ...

Teaching Online: A Practical Guide is an accessible, introductory, and comprehensive guide for anyone who teaches online. The fourth edition of this bestselling resource has been fully revised, maintains its reader-friendly tone, and offers exceptional practical advice, new teaching examples, faculty interviews, and an updated resource section.New to this edition:entire new chapter on MOOCs ... Read more

$63.99 USD

Teaching Online: A Practical Guide is an accessible, introductory, and comprehensive guide for anyone who teaches online. The fourth edition of this bestselling resource has been fully revised, maintains its reader-friendly tone, and offers exceptional practical advice, new teaching examples, faculty interviews, and an updated resource section.New to this edition:entire new chapter on MOOCs
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Building the Agile Enterprise

With Capabilities, Collaborations and Values

by Fred A. Cummins ...

Series series The MK/OMG Press
Building the Agile Enterprise with Capabilities, Collaborations and Values, Second Edition covers advances that make technology more powerful and pervasive while, at the same time, improving alignment of technology with business. Using numerous examples, illustrations, and case studies, Fred Cummins, an industry expert, author and former fellow with EDS and Hewlett Packard, updates his first ... Read more

$53.99 USD

Building the Agile Enterprise with Capabilities, Collaborations and Values, Second Edition covers advances that make technology more powerful and pervasive while, at the same time, improving alignment of technology with business. Using numerous examples, illustrations, and case studies, Fred Cummins, an industry expert, author and former fellow with EDS and Hewlett Packard, updates his first
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Database Design for Mere Mortals

25th Anniversary Edition

by Michael Hernandez, Michael J Hernandez ...

The #1 Easy, Commonsense Guide to Database Design—Now UpdatedForeword by Michelle Poolet, Mount Vernon Data Systems LLCMichael J. Hernandez's best-selling Database Design for Mere Mortals has earned worldwide respect as the simplest way to learn relational database design. Now, he's made this hands-on, software independent tutorial even clearer and easier to use.Step by step, this new 25th ... Read more

$38.19 USD

The #1 Easy, Commonsense Guide to Database Design—Now UpdatedForeword by Michelle Poolet, Mount Vernon Data Systems LLCMichael J. Hernandez's best-selling Database Design for Mere Mortals has earned worldwide respect as the simplest way to learn relational database design. Now, he's made this hands-on, software independent tutorial even clearer and easier to use.Step by step, this new 25th
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Spring in Action

by Craig Walls ...

SummarySpring in Action, 5th Edition is the fully updated revision of Manning's bestselling Spring in Action. This new edition includes all Spring 5.0 updates, along with new examples on reactive programming, Spring WebFlux, and microservices. You'll also find the latest Spring best practices, including Spring Boot for application setup and configuration.About the TechnologySpring Framework makes ... Read more

$38.99 USD

SummarySpring in Action, 5th Edition is the fully updated revision of Manning's bestselling Spring in Action. This new edition includes all Spring 5.0 updates, along with new examples on reactive programming, Spring WebFlux, and microservices. You'll also find the latest Spring best practices, including Spring Boot for application setup and configuration.About the TechnologySpring Framework makes
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Practical Lakehouse Architecture

Designing and Implementing Modern Data Platforms at Scale

by Gaurav Ashok Thalpati ...

This concise yet comprehensive guide explains how to adopt a data lakehouse architecture to implement modern data platforms. It reviews the design considerations, challenges, and best practices for implementing a lakehouse and provides key insights into the ways that using a lakehouse can impact your data platform, from managing structured and unstructured data and supporting BI and AI/ML use ... Read more

$43.99 USD

This concise yet comprehensive guide explains how to adopt a data lakehouse architecture to implement modern data platforms. It reviews the design considerations, challenges, and best practices for implementing a lakehouse and provides key insights into the ways that using a lakehouse can impact your data platform, from managing structured and unstructured data and supporting BI and AI/ML use
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Fundamentals of Data Engineering

Plan and Build Robust Data Systems

by Joe Reis, Matt Housley ...

Data engineering has grown rapidly in the past decade, leaving many software engineers, data scientists, and analysts looking for a comprehensive view of this practice. With this practical book, you'll learn how to plan and build systems to serve the needs of your organization and customers by evaluating the best technologies available through the framework of the data engineering lifecycle ... Read more

$48.99 USD

Data engineering has grown rapidly in the past decade, leaving many software engineers, data scientists, and analysts looking for a comprehensive view of this practice. With this practical book, you'll learn how to plan and build systems to serve the needs of your organization and customers by evaluating the best technologies available through the framework of the data engineering lifecycle
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Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide

Data Lakehouse Functionality, Performance, and Scalability on the Data Lake

by Tomer Shiran, Jason Hughes, Alex Merced ...

Traditional data architecture patterns are severely limited. To use these patterns, you have to ETL data into each tool—a cost-prohibitive process for making warehouse features available to all of your data. The lack of flexibility with these patterns requires you to lock into a set of priority tools and formats, which creates data silos and data drift. This practical book shows you a better way ... Read more

$43.99 USD

Traditional data architecture patterns are severely limited. To use these patterns, you have to ETL data into each tool—a cost-prohibitive process for making warehouse features available to all of your data. The lack of flexibility with these patterns requires you to lock into a set of priority tools and formats, which creates data silos and data drift. This practical book shows you a better way
... Read more
Conquering the Decision Abyss

by Keith Hartley ...

Conquering the Decision Abyss: How Smart Sourcing Teams Rise Above Manufacturing Data OverloadAre you a sourcing or procurement professional who feels overwhelmed by the tidal wave of manufacturing data-and still find it hard to make confident, strategic decisions?In today's complex supply chains, data is everywhere, but clarity is rare. Conquering the Decision Abyss is sourcing's must-read guide ... Read more

$8.99 USD

Conquering the Decision Abyss: How Smart Sourcing Teams Rise Above Manufacturing Data OverloadAre you a sourcing or procurement professional who feels overwhelmed by the tidal wave of manufacturing data-and still find it hard to make confident, strategic decisions?In today's complex supply chains, data is everywhere, but clarity is rare. Conquering the Decision Abyss is sourcing's must-read guide
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97 Things About Ethics Everyone in Data Science Should Know

by Bill Franks ...

Most of the high-profile cases of real or perceived unethical activity in data science arenâ??t matters of bad intent. Rather, they occur because the ethics simply arenâ??t thought through well enough. Being ethical takes constant diligence, and in many situations identifying the right choice can be difficult.In this in-depth book, contributors from top companies in technology, finance, and other ... Read more

$30.99 USD

Most of the high-profile cases of real or perceived unethical activity in data science arenâ??t matters of bad intent. Rather, they occur because the ethics simply arenâ??t thought through well enough. Being ethical takes constant diligence, and in many situations identifying the right choice can be difficult.In this in-depth book, contributors from top companies in technology, finance, and other
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Datenschutz – Konzepte, Algorithmen und Anwendung

Werkzeuge zum Datenschutz im Alltag

by Markus von Rimscha ...

Series series Computer Science and Engineering (German Language)
Daten sind eine wichtige Ressource des 21. Jahrhunderts. Das stellt Softwareentwickler vor die Aufgabe, Anwendungen schon bei der Entwicklung sicherer zu machen. Aber auch Endanwender können viel tun, um ihre Daten vor unerwünschten Zugriffen zu schützen. Wie aber kann ich vertraulich kommunizieren? Was ist zu tun, wenn ein Dienst-Anbieter gehackt wurde? Wie kann ich Risiken minimieren? Dieses ... Read more

$23.99 USD

Daten sind eine wichtige Ressource des 21. Jahrhunderts. Das stellt Softwareentwickler vor die Aufgabe, Anwendungen schon bei der Entwicklung sicherer zu machen. Aber auch Endanwender können viel tun, um ihre Daten vor unerwünschten Zugriffen zu schützen. Wie aber kann ich vertraulich kommunizieren? Was ist zu tun, wenn ein Dienst-Anbieter gehackt wurde? Wie kann ich Risiken minimieren? Dieses
... Read more
Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations

The Art of Analyzing Hacked and Leaked Data

by Micah Lee ...

Data-science investigations have brought journalism into the 21st century, and—guided by The Intercept’s infosec expert Micah Lee— this book is your blueprint for uncovering hidden secrets in hacked datasets.Unlock the internet’s treasure trove of public interest data with Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations by Micah Lee, an investigative reporter and security engineer. This hands-on guide blends real ... Read more

$34.99 USD

Data-science investigations have brought journalism into the 21st century, and—guided by The Intercept’s infosec expert Micah Lee— this book is your blueprint for uncovering hidden secrets in hacked datasets.Unlock the internet’s treasure trove of public interest data with Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations by Micah Lee, an investigative reporter and security engineer. This hands-on guide blends real
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