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Author Tathagata Das , Brooke Wenig , Denny Lee , Jules Damji
Data is getting bigger, arriving faster, and coming in varied formats—and it all needs to be processed at scale for analytics or machine learning. How can you process such varied data workloads efficiently? Enter Apache Spark.Updated to emphasize new features in Sp....
Release Date 2020/07 -
Author Scott Davis , Carter Copeland , Rob Wertheimer
Three top Wall Street analysts reveal enduring lessons in sustainable success from the great industrial titans—the high-tech companies of their day—to the disruptors that now dominate the economy.Before Silicon Valley disrupted the world with new technologies and business....
Release Date 2020/07 -
Practical R 4: Applying R to Data Manipulation, Processing and Integration
Author Jon Westfall
Get started with an accelerated introduction to the R ecosystem, programming language, and tools including R script and RStudio. Utilizing many examples and projects, this book teaches you how to get data into R and how to work with that data using R. Once grounded i....
Release Date 2020/06 -
100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People, 2nd Edition
Author Susan M. Weinschenk
WE DESIGN TO ELICIT RESPONSES from people. We want them to buy something, read more, or take action of some kind. Designing without understanding what makes people act the way they do is like exploring a new city without a map: results will be haphazard, confusing, and in....
Release Date 2020/06 -
Author Nicholas Robert Weldin , Brian Jepson , Michael Margolis
Want to create devices that interact with the physical world? This cookbook is perfect for anyone who wants to experiment with the popular Arduino microcontroller and programming environment. You’ll find more than 200 tips and techniques for building a variety of o....
Release Date 2020/05 -
SQL Server Big Data Clusters : Data Virtualization, Data Lake, and AI Platform
Author Benjamin Weissman , Enrico van de Laar
Use this guide to one of SQL Server 2019’s most impactful features—Big Data Clusters. You will learn about data virtualization and data lakes for this complete artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) platform within the SQL Server database engine. You....
Release Date 2020/05 -
Author Jian Gong , Wei Xu
"A systematic review of the structure and context of the blockchain-derived economic model... (the book) describes cryptoeconomics in connection with the game theory, behavioral economics and others in simple understandable language."—Wang Feng, founder of Linekong Interactive Group and Mars Finance....
Release Date 2020/04 -
Author Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg
"The author makes a compelling case that we often start solving a problem before thinking deeply about whether we are solving the right problem. If you want the superpower of solving better problems, read this book." -- Eric Schmidt, former CEO, GoogleAre you solving the ....
Release Date 2020/03 -
Author Alyssa F. Westring , Stewart D. Friedman
How working parents can lead more purposeful lives, characterized by harmony, connection, and impact.Parents in today's fast-paced, disorienting world can easily lose track of who they are and what really matters most. But it doesn't have to be this way. As a par....
Release Date 2020/03 -
Author Yang Yang , Jianwei Huang , Tao Zhang , Joe Weinman
THE ONE-STOP RESOURCE FOR ANY INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANIZATION CONSIDERING FOG COMPUTINGFog and Fogonomics is a comprehensive and technology-centric resource that highlights the system model, architectures, building blocks, and IEEE standards for fog computing platforms and solutions. The "fog" is defined....
Release Date 2020/03 -
SQL Server 2019 Administration Inside Out
Author Randolph West , Melody Zacharias , William Assaf
Conquer SQL Server 2019 administration–from the inside out Dive into SQL Server 2019 administration–and really put your SQL Server DBA expertise to work. This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, tips, and workarounds–all you need to ....
Release Date 2020/03 -
The 11 Sources of Disruption Every Company Must Monitor
Author Amy Webb
When faced with deep uncertainty, organizations often develop a habit of controlling for internal, known variables and fail to track external factors as potential disrupters. This practice lures decision-makers into a false sense of security, and it forces a narrow framin....
Release Date 2020/03 -
A Crisis of Ethics in Technology Innovation
Author Max Wessel , Nicole Helmer
Technology innovation has created a new ethical paradigm. As companies specialize in delivering single components of complex systems, value chains are being reshaped across industries. Product interfaces are becoming standardized, and companies are profiting by perfecting....
Release Date 2020/03 -
Value-Based Management in Government
Author Douglas W. Webster , Gary Cokins
Provides step-by-step guidance on implementing and using a value-based management system within the government Countless books on proposed management practices have been written and published over the past century. Some of these have focused on specific management pr....
Release Date 2020/01 -
How Women Can Improve Their Venture Pitch Outcomes
Author Malin Malmström , Henrik Wesemann , Joakim Wincent
A large-scale study in Europe of funding decisions finds that VCs evaluate male and female entrepreneurs by different standards. Savvy entrepreneurs can anticipate potentially biased responses to their pitches and plan accordingly. Certain tactics keep audiences engaged a....
Release Date 2020/01 -
Author Dan Toomey , Wesley Banfield , Joseph Oladokun , Melissa Ferrari , Lindsay Richman
Get to grips with the basics of JupyterLab and its web interface with the help of this quick start guideKey FeaturesManage JupyterLab kernels, code consoles, and terminals, and share your work over the cloud Organize your data solutions within JupyterLab Install an....
Release Date 2019/12 -
3D Electro-Rotation of Single Cells
Author Liang Huang , Wenhui Wang
Dielectrophoresis microfluidic chips have been widely used in various biological applications due to their advantages of convenient operation, high throughput, and low cost.However, most of the DEP microfluidic chips are based on 2D planar electrodes which have some limit....
Release Date 2019/12 -
Integrated Circuit Design for Radiation Environments
Author Stephen J. Gaul , Nicolaas van Vonno , Steven H. Voldman , Wesley H. Morris
A practical guide to the effects of radiation on semiconductor components of electronic systems, and techniques for the designing, laying out, and testing of hardened integrated circuitsThis book teaches the fundamentals of radiation environments and their effects on electronic components, as well a....
Release Date 2019/12 -
J.K. Lasser's Guide to Self-Employment, 2nd Edition
Author Barbara Weltman
What every self-employed person needs to know about their taxes!If you’re self-employed, chances are the majority of your time is spent finding new customers or clients, servicing existing ones, and handling each and every aspect of your business. Freelancers, independent contractors, gig economy pa....
Release Date 2019/12 -
Machine Learning with Business Rules on IBM Z: Acting on Your Insights
Author Hao Zhang , Ke Wei Wei , Yann Kindelberger , David Griffiths , Stéphane Faure , Chris
This Redpaper introduces the integration between two IBM products that you might like to consider when implementing a modern agile solution on your Z systems. The document briefly introduces Operational Decision Manager on z/OS and Machine learning on z/OS. In the ....
Release Date 2019/12 -
Author Ron Weisman
Updated November 21, 2019For most of us, the one app we couldn't possibly live without is a web browser. You can do almost anything in a browser these days…but are you browsing with one hand tied behind your back? It's easy to get into inefficient browsing habits....
Release Date 2019/11 -
Author Matthew Weston
A step-by-step guide that will help you create, share, and deploy applications across your organization using MS PowerAppsKey FeaturesCreate apps with rich user experiences without paying for costly developers Improve productivity with business process automation u....
Release Date 2019/11 -
Case Studies in Infrastructure Change Management
Author Mark Dallman , Wendy Look
If you’re rolling out a large-scale infrastructure change, you know it can be like swapping out a jet engine while flying. Staying aloft takes coordination and communication with many teams, good processes and documentation, risk identification and management, moni....
Release Date 2019/11 -
An Introduction to Cloud Databases
Author Sam Alapati , Andy Oram , Wendy A. Neu , Vlad Vlasceanu
Cloud deployments have not only changed the way companies run mission critical databases; they’ve also transformed the roles of many people in production. With this practical report, database and system administrators, IT managers, and DevOps engineers will learn t....
Release Date 2019/11 -
SQL Server Big Data Clusters : Early First Edition Based on Release Candidate 1
Author Enrico van de Laar , Benjamin Weissman
Get a head-start on learning one of SQL Server 2019’s latest and most impactful features—Big Data Clusters—that combines large volumes of non-relational data for analysis along with data stored relationally inside a SQL Server database. This book provides a fi....
Release Date 2019/11 -
The Definitive Guide to Modern Java Clients with JavaFX: Cross-Platform Mobile and Cloud Development
Author James Weaver , Johan Vos , Stephen Chin
Build enhanced visual experiences and design and deploy modern, easy-to-maintain, client applications across a variety of platforms. This book will show you how these applications can take advantage of the latest user interface components, 3D technology, and cloud ....
Release Date 2019/11 -
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Practical Guidance for Deployment, Configuration, and Usage
Author Bert Dufrasne , Daniel Wendler , Joerg Walter , Peter Minig , Mikael Lindstrom , Wilh
IBM® Spectrum Protect Plus is a data protection solution that provides near-instant recovery, replication, retention, and reuse for virtual machines, databases, and applications in hybrid multicloud environments.IBM Knowledge Center for IBM Spectrum® Protect Plus p....
Release Date 2019/11 -
Author Seth Weidman
With the resurgence of neural networks in the 2010s, deep learning has become essential for machine learning practitioners and even many software engineers. This book provides a comprehensive introduction for data scientists and software engineers with machine lear....
Release Date 2019/10 -
AWS Certified Developer Official Study Guide, Associate Exam
Author Michael Roth , Santosh Patlolla , Marife Pagan , Heiwad Osman , Asim Jalis , Wes Gruv
The AWS exam has been updated. Your study guide should be, too.The AWS Certified Developer Official Study Guide–Associate Exam is your ultimate preparation resource for the latest exam! Covering all exam objectives, this invaluable resource puts a team of AWS exper....
Release Date 2019/09