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R for Data Science Cookbook

Over 100 hands-on recipes to effectively solve real-world data problems using the most popular R packages and techniques

by Yu-Wei, Chiu (David Chiu), Prabhanjan Narayanachar Tattar ...

Over 100 hands-on recipes to effectively solve real-world data problems using the most popular R packages and techniquesKey Features\[\] Gain insight into how data scientists collect, process, analyze, and visualize data using some of the most popular R packages\[\] Understand how to apply useful data analysis techniques in R for real-world applications\[\] An easy-to-follow guide to make the life ... Read more

$41.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Over 100 hands-on recipes to effectively solve real-world data problems using the most popular R packages and techniquesKey Features\[\] Gain insight into how data scientists collect, process, analyze, and visualize data using some of the most popular R packages\[\] Understand how to apply useful data analysis techniques in R for real-world applications\[\] An easy-to-follow guide to make the life
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Hands-On Web Scraping with Python

Perform advanced scraping operations using various Python libraries and tools such as Selenium, Regex, and others

by Anish Chapagain ...

Collect and scrape different complexities of data from the modern Web using the latest tools, best practices, and techniquesKey FeaturesLearn different scraping techniques using a range of Python libraries such as Scrapy and Beautiful SoupBuild scrapers and crawlers to extract relevant information from the webAutomate web scraping operations to bridge the accuracy gap and manage complex business ... Read more

$42.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Collect and scrape different complexities of data from the modern Web using the latest tools, best practices, and techniquesKey FeaturesLearn different scraping techniques using a range of Python libraries such as Scrapy and Beautiful SoupBuild scrapers and crawlers to extract relevant information from the webAutomate web scraping operations to bridge the accuracy gap and manage complex business
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ChatGPT

by Gary Stevens ...

Artificial Intelligence is the future that's already here, and it's going to change everything!ChatGPT has exploded onto the scene, and the need to harness the immense power of this phenomenal AI technology is right now!In this book, you'll discover everything you need to know about ChatGPT and how to use it to your advantage and gain a head start on everyone else… before they find out about it ... Read more

$7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Artificial Intelligence is the future that's already here, and it's going to change everything!ChatGPT has exploded onto the scene, and the need to harness the immense power of this phenomenal AI technology is right now!In this book, you'll discover everything you need to know about ChatGPT and how to use it to your advantage and gain a head start on everyone else… before they find out about it
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AI for Democracy

Human-Centric, Trustworthy, and Inclusive Innovations

Edited by Ilaria Mariani, Jennifer Edmond, George Manias, Maria Panou ...

Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
This open access book examines the debate on Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the evolving landscape of democratic governance, where technological innovation is reshaping participation, decision-making, and institutional practices. Drawing on four Horizon Europe projects—ORBIS, AI4Gov, ITHACA, and KT4D—it offers concrete insights into how AI can be designed and governed to reflect democratic ... Read more

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This open access book examines the debate on Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the evolving landscape of democratic governance, where technological innovation is reshaping participation, decision-making, and institutional practices. Drawing on four Horizon Europe projects—ORBIS, AI4Gov, ITHACA, and KT4D—it offers concrete insights into how AI can be designed and governed to reflect democratic
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High Performance Spark

Best Practices for Scaling and Optimizing Apache Spark

by Holden Karau, Adi Polak, Rachel Warren ...

Apache Spark is amazing when everything clicks. But if you haven't seen the performance improvements you expected or still don't feel confident enough to use Spark in production, this practical book is for you. Authors Holden Karau, Adi Polak, and Rachel Warren walk you through the secrets of the Spark code base and demonstrate performance optimizations that will help your data pipelines run ... Read more

$57.59 CAD

Apache Spark is amazing when everything clicks. But if you haven't seen the performance improvements you expected or still don't feel confident enough to use Spark in production, this practical book is for you. Authors Holden Karau, Adi Polak, and Rachel Warren walk you through the secrets of the Spark code base and demonstrate performance optimizations that will help your data pipelines run
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Advanced Machine Learning with R

Tackle data analytics and machine learning challenges and build complex applications with R 3.5

by Cory Lesmeister, Dr. Sunil Kumar Chinnamgari ...

Master machine learning techniques with real-world projects that interface TensorFlow with R, H2O, MXNet, and other languagesKey FeaturesGain expertise in machine learning, deep learning and other techniquesBuild intelligent end-to-end projects for finance, social media, and a variety of domainsImplement multi-class classification, regression, and clusteringBook DescriptionR is one of the most ... Read more

$38.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Master machine learning techniques with real-world projects that interface TensorFlow with R, H2O, MXNet, and other languagesKey FeaturesGain expertise in machine learning, deep learning and other techniquesBuild intelligent end-to-end projects for finance, social media, and a variety of domainsImplement multi-class classification, regression, and clusteringBook DescriptionR is one of the most
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Distributed Systems

Concurrency and Consistency

by Matthieu Perrin ...

Distributed Systems: Concurrency and Consistency explores the gray area of distributed systems and draws a map of weak consistency criteria, identifying several families and demonstrating how these may be implemented into a programming language. Unlike their sequential counterparts, distributed systems are much more difficult to design, and are therefore prone to problems. On a large scale, ... Read more

$88.79 CAD

Distributed Systems: Concurrency and Consistency explores the gray area of distributed systems and draws a map of weak consistency criteria, identifying several families and demonstrating how these may be implemented into a programming language. Unlike their sequential counterparts, distributed systems are much more difficult to design, and are therefore prone to problems. On a large scale,
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Big Data: the Revolution That Is Transforming Our Work, Market and World

by PAT NAKAMOTO ...

"Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it." – Dan ArielyWithin 2 days we produce the same amount of data generated by at the beginning of the civilization until 2003", said Eric Schmidt in 2010. According to IBM, by 2020 the world will have generated a mass of data on the ... Read more

$3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

"Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it." – Dan ArielyWithin 2 days we produce the same amount of data generated by at the beginning of the civilization until 2003", said Eric Schmidt in 2010. According to IBM, by 2020 the world will have generated a mass of data on the
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Streaming Data

Understanding the real-time pipeline

by Andrew Psaltis ...

SummaryStreaming Data introduces the concepts and requirements of streaming and real-time data systems. The book is an idea-rich tutorial that teaches you to think about how to efficiently interact with fast-flowing data.About the TechnologyAs humans, we're constantly filtering and deciphering the information streaming toward us. In the same way, streaming data applications can accomplish amazing ... Read more

$65.99 CAD

SummaryStreaming Data introduces the concepts and requirements of streaming and real-time data systems. The book is an idea-rich tutorial that teaches you to think about how to efficiently interact with fast-flowing data.About the TechnologyAs humans, we're constantly filtering and deciphering the information streaming toward us. In the same way, streaming data applications can accomplish amazing
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Learning Elastic Stack 6.0

A beginner's guide to distributed search, analytics, and visualization using Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana

by Pranav Shukla, Sharath Kumar ...

Deliver end-to-end real-time distributed data processing solutions by leveraging the power of Elastic Stack 6.0Key Features- Get to grips with the new features introduced in Elastic Stack 6.0- Get valuable insights from your data by working with the different components of the Elastic stack such as Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, X-Pack, and Beats- Includes handy tips and techniques to build, ... Read more

$33.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Deliver end-to-end real-time distributed data processing solutions by leveraging the power of Elastic Stack 6.0Key Features- Get to grips with the new features introduced in Elastic Stack 6.0- Get valuable insights from your data by working with the different components of the Elastic stack such as Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, X-Pack, and Beats- Includes handy tips and techniques to build,
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R Machine Learning By Example

Understand the fundamentals of machine learning with R and build your own dynamic algorithms to tackle complicated real-world problems successfully

by Raghav Bali ...

Understand the fundamentals of machine learning with R and build your own dynamic algorithms to tackle complicated real-world problems successfully Key Features\[\*\] Get to grips with the concepts of machine learning through exciting real-world examples\[\*\] Visualize and solve complex problems by using power-packed R constructs and its robust packages for machine learning\[\*\] Learn to build ... Read more

$47.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Understand the fundamentals of machine learning with R and build your own dynamic algorithms to tackle complicated real-world problems successfully Key Features\[\*\] Get to grips with the concepts of machine learning through exciting real-world examples\[\*\] Visualize and solve complex problems by using power-packed R constructs and its robust packages for machine learning\[\*\] Learn to build
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Bad Data Handbook

Cleaning Up The Data So You Can Get Back To Work

by Q. Ethan McCallum ...

What is bad data? Some people consider it a technical phenomenon, like missing values or malformed records, but bad data includes a lot more. In this handbook, data expert Q. Ethan McCallum has gathered 19 colleagues from every corner of the data arena to reveal how they’ve recovered from nasty data problems.From cranky storage to poor representation to misguided policy, there are many paths to ... Read more

$27.19 CAD

What is bad data? Some people consider it a technical phenomenon, like missing values or malformed records, but bad data includes a lot more. In this handbook, data expert Q. Ethan McCallum has gathered 19 colleagues from every corner of the data arena to reveal how they’ve recovered from nasty data problems.From cranky storage to poor representation to misguided policy, there are many paths to
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MongoDB Administrator's Guide

Over 100 practical recipes to efficiently maintain and administer your MongoDB solution

by Cyrus Dasadia ...

Manage, fine-tune, secure and deploy your MongoDB solution with ease with the help of practical recipesKey Features-Configure and deploy your MongoDB instance securely, without any hassle-Optimize your database's query performance, perform scale-out operations, and make your database highly available-Practical guide with a recipe-based approach to help you tackle any problem in the application and ... Read more

$37.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Manage, fine-tune, secure and deploy your MongoDB solution with ease with the help of practical recipesKey Features-Configure and deploy your MongoDB instance securely, without any hassle-Optimize your database's query performance, perform scale-out operations, and make your database highly available-Practical guide with a recipe-based approach to help you tackle any problem in the application and
... Read more
Become a Python Data Analyst

Perform exploratory data analysis and gain insight into scientific computing using Python

by Alvaro Fuentes ...

Enhance your data analysis and predictive modeling skills using popular Python toolsKey FeaturesCover all fundamental libraries for operation and manipulation of Python for data analysisImplement real-world datasets to perform predictive analytics with PythonAccess modern data analysis techniques and detailed code with scikit-learn and SciPyBook DescriptionPython is one of the most common and ... Read more

$22.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Enhance your data analysis and predictive modeling skills using popular Python toolsKey FeaturesCover all fundamental libraries for operation and manipulation of Python for data analysisImplement real-world datasets to perform predictive analytics with PythonAccess modern data analysis techniques and detailed code with scikit-learn and SciPyBook DescriptionPython is one of the most common and
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Using Flume

Flexible, Scalable, and Reliable Data Streaming

by Hari Shreedharan ...

How can you get your data from frontend servers to Hadoop in near real time? With this complete reference guide, you’ll learn Flume’s rich set of features for collecting, aggregating, and writing large amounts of streaming data to the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), Apache HBase, SolrCloud, Elastic Search, and other systems.Using Flume shows operations engineers how to configure, deploy, ... Read more

$28.79 CAD

How can you get your data from frontend servers to Hadoop in near real time? With this complete reference guide, you’ll learn Flume’s rich set of features for collecting, aggregating, and writing large amounts of streaming data to the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), Apache HBase, SolrCloud, Elastic Search, and other systems.Using Flume shows operations engineers how to configure, deploy,
... Read more
Mastering Predictive Analytics with R, Second Edition

Machine learning techniques for advanced models

by James D. Miller, Rui Miguel Forte ...

Master the craft of predictive modeling in R by developing strategy, intuition, and a solid foundation in essential conceptsKey FeaturesGrasping the major methods of predictive modeling and moving beyond black box thinking to a deeper level of understandingLeveraging the flexibility and modularity of R to experiment with a range of different techniques and data typesPacked with practical advice ... Read more

$47.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Master the craft of predictive modeling in R by developing strategy, intuition, and a solid foundation in essential conceptsKey FeaturesGrasping the major methods of predictive modeling and moving beyond black box thinking to a deeper level of understandingLeveraging the flexibility and modularity of R to experiment with a range of different techniques and data typesPacked with practical advice
... Read more
Scaling CouchDB

Replication, Clustering, and Administration

by Bradley Holt ...

This practical guide offers a short course on scaling CouchDB to meet the capacity needs of your distributed application. Through a series of scenario-based examples, this book lets you explore several methods for creating a system that can accommodate growth and meet expected demand. In the process, you learn about several tools that can help you with replication, load balancing, clustering, and ... Read more

$9.89 CAD

This practical guide offers a short course on scaling CouchDB to meet the capacity needs of your distributed application. Through a series of scenario-based examples, this book lets you explore several methods for creating a system that can accommodate growth and meet expected demand. In the process, you learn about several tools that can help you with replication, load balancing, clustering, and
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Learn Hadoop in 24 Hours

by Alex Nordeen ...

Hadoop has changed the way large data sets are analyzed, stored, transferred, and processed. At such low cost, it provides benefits like supports partial failure, fault tolerance, consistency, scalability, flexible schema, and so on. It also supports cloud computing. More and more number of individuals are looking forward to mastering their Hadoop skills.While initiating with Hadoop, most users ... Read more

$13.73 CAD

Hadoop has changed the way large data sets are analyzed, stored, transferred, and processed. At such low cost, it provides benefits like supports partial failure, fault tolerance, consistency, scalability, flexible schema, and so on. It also supports cloud computing. More and more number of individuals are looking forward to mastering their Hadoop skills.While initiating with Hadoop, most users
... Read more
Go Web Scraping Quick Start Guide

Implement the power of Go to scrape and crawl data from the web

by Vincent Smith ...

Learn how some Go-specific language features help to simplify building web scrapers along with common pitfalls and best practices regarding web scraping.Key FeaturesUse Go libraries like Goquery and Colly to scrape the webCommon pitfalls and best practices to effectively scrape and crawlLearn how to scrape using the Go concurrency modelBook DescriptionWeb scraping is the process of extracting ... Read more

$23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Learn how some Go-specific language features help to simplify building web scrapers along with common pitfalls and best practices regarding web scraping.Key FeaturesUse Go libraries like Goquery and Colly to scrape the webCommon pitfalls and best practices to effectively scrape and crawlLearn how to scrape using the Go concurrency modelBook DescriptionWeb scraping is the process of extracting
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Functional Reactive Programming

by Stephen Blackheath ...

SummaryFunctional Reactive Programming teaches the concepts and applications of FRP. It offers a careful walk-through of core FRP operations and introduces the concepts and techniques you'll need to use FRP in any language.About the TechnologyToday's software is shifting to more asynchronous, event-based solutions. For decades, the Observer pattern has been the go-to event infrastructure, but it ... Read more

$65.99 CAD

SummaryFunctional Reactive Programming teaches the concepts and applications of FRP. It offers a careful walk-through of core FRP operations and introduces the concepts and techniques you'll need to use FRP in any language.About the TechnologyToday's software is shifting to more asynchronous, event-based solutions. For decades, the Observer pattern has been the go-to event infrastructure, but it
... Read more
Learn Power BI

A beginner's guide to developing interactive business intelligence solutions using Microsoft Power BI

by Greg Deckler ...

Solve business challenges with Microsoft Power BI\\'s advanced visualization and data analysis techniquesKey FeaturesCreate effective storytelling reports by implementing simple-to-intermediate Power BI featuresDevelop powerful analytical models to extract key insights for changing business needsBuild, publish, and share impressive dashboards for your organizationBook DescriptionTo succeed in ... Read more

$37.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Solve business challenges with Microsoft Power BI\\'s advanced visualization and data analysis techniquesKey FeaturesCreate effective storytelling reports by implementing simple-to-intermediate Power BI featuresDevelop powerful analytical models to extract key insights for changing business needsBuild, publish, and share impressive dashboards for your organizationBook DescriptionTo succeed in
... Read more
Mastering Hadoop 3

Big data processing at scale to unlock unique business insights

by Chanchal Singh, Manish Kumar, Timothy Wong ...

A comprehensive guide to mastering the most advanced Hadoop 3 conceptsKey FeaturesGet to grips with the newly introduced features and capabilities of Hadoop 3Crunch and process data using MapReduce, YARN, and a host of tools within the Hadoop ecosystemSharpen your Hadoop skills with real-world case studies and codeBook DescriptionApache Hadoop is one of the most popular big data solutions for ... Read more

$51.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

A comprehensive guide to mastering the most advanced Hadoop 3 conceptsKey FeaturesGet to grips with the newly introduced features and capabilities of Hadoop 3Crunch and process data using MapReduce, YARN, and a host of tools within the Hadoop ecosystemSharpen your Hadoop skills with real-world case studies and codeBook DescriptionApache Hadoop is one of the most popular big data solutions for
... Read more
Algorithms and Data Structures for Massive Datasets

by Dzejla Medjedovic, Emin Tahirovic ...

Massive modern datasets make traditional data structures and algorithms grind to a halt. This fun and practical guide introduces cutting-edge techniques that can reliably handle even the largest distributed datasets.In Algorithms and Data Structures for Massive Datasets you will learn:Probabilistic sketching data structures for practical problemsChoosing the right database engine for your ... Read more

$77.99 CAD

Massive modern datasets make traditional data structures and algorithms grind to a halt. This fun and practical guide introduces cutting-edge techniques that can reliably handle even the largest distributed datasets.In Algorithms and Data Structures for Massive Datasets you will learn:Probabilistic sketching data structures for practical problemsChoosing the right database engine for your
... Read more
Mastering Geospatial Analysis with Python

Explore GIS processing and learn to work with GeoDjango, CARTOframes and MapboxGL-Jupyter

by Silas Toms, Eric van Rees, Paul Crickard ...

Explore GIS processing and learn to work with various tools and libraries in Python. Key Features\[\*\] Analyze and process geospatial data using Python libraries such as; Anaconda, GeoPandas\[\*\] Leverage new ArcGIS API to process geospatial data for the cloud.\[\*\] Explore various Python geospatial web and machine learning frameworks.Book DescriptionPython comes with a host of open source ... Read more

$47.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Explore GIS processing and learn to work with various tools and libraries in Python. Key Features\[\*\] Analyze and process geospatial data using Python libraries such as; Anaconda, GeoPandas\[\*\] Leverage new ArcGIS API to process geospatial data for the cloud.\[\*\] Explore various Python geospatial web and machine learning frameworks.Book DescriptionPython comes with a host of open source
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