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Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, (Revised) Third Edition

Distributed Data at Web Scale

by Jeff Carpenter, Eben Hewitt ...

Imagine what you could do if scalability wasn't a problem. With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how the Cassandra database management system handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers. This revised third edition--updated for Cassandra 4.0 and new developments in the Cassandra ecosystem, including deployments in Kubernetes with K8ssandra- ... Read more

$48.99 USD

Imagine what you could do if scalability wasn't a problem. With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how the Cassandra database management system handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers. This revised third edition--updated for Cassandra 4.0 and new developments in the Cassandra ecosystem, including deployments in Kubernetes with K8ssandra-
... Read more
Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas

A Python data science handbook for data collection, wrangling, analysis, and visualization

by Stefanie Molin ...

Get to grips with pandas by working with real datasets and master data discovery, data manipulation, data preparation, and handling data for analytical tasksKey FeaturesPerform efficient data analysis and manipulation tasks using pandas 1.xApply pandas to different real-world domains with the help of step-by-step examplesMake the most of pandas as an effective data exploration toolBook ... Read more

$49.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Get to grips with pandas by working with real datasets and master data discovery, data manipulation, data preparation, and handling data for analytical tasksKey FeaturesPerform efficient data analysis and manipulation tasks using pandas 1.xApply pandas to different real-world domains with the help of step-by-step examplesMake the most of pandas as an effective data exploration toolBook
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The Discipline of Organizing: Professional Edition

by Robert J. Glushko ...

Note about this ebook: This ebook exploits many advanced capabilities with images, hypertext, and interactivity and is optimized for EPUB3-compliant book readers, especially Apple's iBooks and browser plugins. These features may not work on all ebook readers.We organize things. We organize information, information about things, and information about information. Organizing is a fundamental issue ... Read more

$28.79 USD

Note about this ebook: This ebook exploits many advanced capabilities with images, hypertext, and interactivity and is optimized for EPUB3-compliant book readers, especially Apple's iBooks and browser plugins. These features may not work on all ebook readers.We organize things. We organize information, information about things, and information about information. Organizing is a fundamental issue
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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
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Pandas Cookbook

Practical recipes for scientific computing, time series, and exploratory data analysis using Python

by William Ayd, Matthew Harrison ...

From fundamental techniques to advanced strategies for handling big data, visualization, and more, this book equips you with skills to excel in real-world data analysis projects. Free with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader\*Key FeaturesThis book targets features in pandas 2.x and beyondPractical, easy to implement recipes for quick solutions to common problems in ... Read more

$35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

From fundamental techniques to advanced strategies for handling big data, visualization, and more, this book equips you with skills to excel in real-world data analysis projects. Free with your book: DRM-free PDF version + access to Packt's next-gen Reader\*Key FeaturesThis book targets features in pandas 2.x and beyondPractical, easy to implement recipes for quick solutions to common problems in
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Beyond Data

Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn of the Metaverse

by Elizabeth M. Renieris ...

Why laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people—and how an approach centered on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human dignity and autonomy in a cyberphysical world.Ever-pervasive technology poses a clear and present danger to human dignity and autonomy, as many have pointed out. And yet, for the past fifty years, we have been so busy protecting data that we have failed ... Read more

$15.99 USD

Why laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people—and how an approach centered on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human dignity and autonomy in a cyberphysical world.Ever-pervasive technology poses a clear and present danger to human dignity and autonomy, as many have pointed out. And yet, for the past fifty years, we have been so busy protecting data that we have failed
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Machine Learning Quick Reference

Quick and essential machine learning hacks for training smart data models

by Rahul Kumar ...

Your hands-on reference guide to developing, training, and optimizing your machine learning modelsKey FeaturesYour guide to learning efficient machine learning processes from scratchExplore expert techniques and hacks for a variety of machine learning conceptsWrite effective code in R, Python, Scala, and Spark to solve all your machine learning problemsBook DescriptionMachine learning makes it ... Read more

$22.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Your hands-on reference guide to developing, training, and optimizing your machine learning modelsKey FeaturesYour guide to learning efficient machine learning processes from scratchExplore expert techniques and hacks for a variety of machine learning conceptsWrite effective code in R, Python, Scala, and Spark to solve all your machine learning problemsBook DescriptionMachine learning makes it
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Agile Data Science 2.0

Building Full-Stack Data Analytics Applications with Spark

by Russell Jurney ...

Data science teams looking to turn research into useful analytics applications require not only the right tools, but also the right approach if they’re to succeed. With the revised second edition of this hands-on guide, up-and-coming data scientists will learn how to use the Agile Data Science development methodology to build data applications with Python, Apache Spark, Kafka, and other tools ... Read more

$36.79 USD

Data science teams looking to turn research into useful analytics applications require not only the right tools, but also the right approach if they’re to succeed. With the revised second edition of this hands-on guide, up-and-coming data scientists will learn how to use the Agile Data Science development methodology to build data applications with Python, Apache Spark, Kafka, and other tools
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Oracle Regular Expressions Pocket Reference

Tutorial & Quick Reference

by Jonathan Gennick, Peter Linsley ...

Support for regular expressions in SQL and PL/SQL is one of the most exciting features of Oracle Database 10G. Oracle has long supported the ANSI-standard LIKE predicate for rudimentary pattern matching, but regular expressions take pattern matching to a new level. They provide a powerful way to select data that matches a pattern, as well as to manipulate, rearrange, and change that data.This ... Read more

$7.99 USD

Support for regular expressions in SQL and PL/SQL is one of the most exciting features of Oracle Database 10G. Oracle has long supported the ANSI-standard LIKE predicate for rudimentary pattern matching, but regular expressions take pattern matching to a new level. They provide a powerful way to select data that matches a pattern, as well as to manipulate, rearrange, and change that data.This
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Linked Data Visualization

Techniques, Tools, and Big Data

by Laura Po, Nikos Bikakis, Federico Desimoni, George Papastefanatos ...

Series series Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology
Linked Data (LD) is a well-established standard for publishing and managing structured information on the Web, gathering and bridging together knowledge from different scientific and commercial domains. The development of Linked Data Visualization techniques and tools has been adopted as the established practice for the analysis of this vast amount of information by data scientists, domain experts ... Read more

$40.99 USD

Linked Data (LD) is a well-established standard for publishing and managing structured information on the Web, gathering and bridging together knowledge from different scientific and commercial domains. The development of Linked Data Visualization techniques and tools has been adopted as the established practice for the analysis of this vast amount of information by data scientists, domain experts
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Apache Oozie

The Workflow Scheduler for Hadoop

by Mohammad Kamrul Islam, Aravind Srinivasan ...

Get a solid grounding in Apache Oozie, the workflow scheduler system for managing Hadoop jobs. With this hands-on guide, two experienced Hadoop practitioners walk you through the intricacies of this powerful and flexible platform, with numerous examples and real-world use cases.Once you set up your Oozie server, you’ll dive into techniques for writing and coordinating workflows, and learn how to ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Get a solid grounding in Apache Oozie, the workflow scheduler system for managing Hadoop jobs. With this hands-on guide, two experienced Hadoop practitioners walk you through the intricacies of this powerful and flexible platform, with numerous examples and real-world use cases.Once you set up your Oozie server, you’ll dive into techniques for writing and coordinating workflows, and learn how to
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The Road to General Intelligence

by Jerry Swan, Eric Nivel, Neel Kant, Jules Hedges, Timothy Atkinson, Bas Steunebrink ...

Series Book 1049 - Studies in Computational Intelligence
Humans have always dreamed of automating laborious physical and intellectual tasks, but the latter has proved more elusive than naively suspected. Seven decades of systematic study of Artificial Intelligence have witnessed cycles of hubris and despair. The successful realization of General Intelligence (evidenced by the kind of cross-domain flexibility enjoyed by humans) will spawn an industry ... Read more

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Humans have always dreamed of automating laborious physical and intellectual tasks, but the latter has proved more elusive than naively suspected. Seven decades of systematic study of Artificial Intelligence have witnessed cycles of hubris and despair. The successful realization of General Intelligence (evidenced by the kind of cross-domain flexibility enjoyed by humans) will spawn an industry
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Learn Grafana 7.0

A beginner's guide to getting well versed in analytics, interactive dashboards, and monitoring

by Eric Salituro ...

A comprehensive introduction to help you get up and running with creating interactive dashboards to visualize and monitor time-series data in no timeKey FeaturesInstall, set up, and configure Grafana for real-time data analysis and visualizationVisualize and monitor data using data sources such as InfluxDB, Prometheus, and ElasticsearchExplore Grafana's multi-cloud support with Microsoft Azure, ... Read more

$53.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A comprehensive introduction to help you get up and running with creating interactive dashboards to visualize and monitor time-series data in no timeKey FeaturesInstall, set up, and configure Grafana for real-time data analysis and visualizationVisualize and monitor data using data sources such as InfluxDB, Prometheus, and ElasticsearchExplore Grafana's multi-cloud support with Microsoft Azure,
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Splunk 7.x Quick Start Guide

Gain business data insights from operational intelligence

by James H. Baxter ...

Learn how to architect, implement, and administer a complex Splunk Enterprise environment and extract valuable insights from business data.Key FeaturesUnderstand the various components of Splunk and how they work together to provide a powerful Big Data analytics solution.Collect and index data from a wide variety of common machine data sourcesDesign searches, reports, and dashboard visualizations ... Read more

$34.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Learn how to architect, implement, and administer a complex Splunk Enterprise environment and extract valuable insights from business data.Key FeaturesUnderstand the various components of Splunk and how they work together to provide a powerful Big Data analytics solution.Collect and index data from a wide variety of common machine data sourcesDesign searches, reports, and dashboard visualizations
... Read more
Deep Learning with PyTorch

by Luca Pietro Giovanni Antiga, Eli Stevens, Thomas Viehmann ...

“We finally have the definitive treatise on PyTorch! It covers the basics and abstractions in great detail. I hope this book becomes your extended reference document.” —Soumith Chintala, co-creator of PyTorchKey FeaturesWritten by PyTorch’s creator and key contributorsDevelop deep learning models in a familiar Pythonic wayUse PyTorch to build an image classifier for cancer detectionDiagnose ... Read more

$36.99 USD

“We finally have the definitive treatise on PyTorch! It covers the basics and abstractions in great detail. I hope this book becomes your extended reference document.” —Soumith Chintala, co-creator of PyTorchKey FeaturesWritten by PyTorch’s creator and key contributorsDevelop deep learning models in a familiar Pythonic wayUse PyTorch to build an image classifier for cancer detectionDiagnose
... Read more
Data Visualization

A Practical Introduction

by Kieran Healy ...

An accessible primer on how to create effective graphics from dataThis book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail, how to make high-quality figures from data using powerful and reproducible methods, and how to think about data visualization in an honest and ... Read more

$35.99 USD

An accessible primer on how to create effective graphics from dataThis book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail, how to make high-quality figures from data using powerful and reproducible methods, and how to think about data visualization in an honest and
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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

$27.89 USD 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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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
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
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
Communicating Data with Tableau

Designing, Developing, and Delivering Data Visualizations

by Ben Jones ...

Go beyond spreadsheets and tables and design a data presentation that really makes an impact. This practical guide shows you how to use Tableau Software to convert raw data into compelling data visualizations that provide insight or allow viewers to explore the data for themselves.Ideal for analysts, engineers, marketers, journalists, and researchers, this book describes the principles of ... Read more

$24.49 USD

Go beyond spreadsheets and tables and design a data presentation that really makes an impact. This practical guide shows you how to use Tableau Software to convert raw data into compelling data visualizations that provide insight or allow viewers to explore the data for themselves.Ideal for analysts, engineers, marketers, journalists, and researchers, this book describes the principles of
... Read more
Stream Analytics with Microsoft Azure

Real-time data processing for quick insights using Azure Stream Analytics

by Anindita Basak, Ryan Murphy, Manpreet Singh, Krishnaswamy Venkataraman ...

Develop and manage effective real-time streaming solutions by leveraging the power of Microsoft AzureKey FeaturesAnalyze your data from various sources using Microsoft Azure Stream AnalyticsDevelop, manage and automate your stream analytics solution with Microsoft AzureA practical guide to real-time event processing and performing analytics on the cloudBook DescriptionMicrosoft Azure is a very ... Read more

$37.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Develop and manage effective real-time streaming solutions by leveraging the power of Microsoft AzureKey FeaturesAnalyze your data from various sources using Microsoft Azure Stream AnalyticsDevelop, manage and automate your stream analytics solution with Microsoft AzureA practical guide to real-time event processing and performing analytics on the cloudBook DescriptionMicrosoft Azure is a very
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Troubleshooting PostgreSQL

Intercept problems and challenges typically faced by PostgreSQL database administrators with the best troubleshooting techniques

by Hans-Jürgen Schönig ...

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionIf you are a database administrator looking for solutions to common PostgreSQL problems, this is the book for you. The book is suitable for people with intermediate and professional expertise.What you will learnDetect bottlenecks caused by missing indexesOptimize your data structures for optimal memory footprintWrite better, performanceoptimized stored proceduresMonitor ... Read more

$25.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionIf you are a database administrator looking for solutions to common PostgreSQL problems, this is the book for you. The book is suitable for people with intermediate and professional expertise.What you will learnDetect bottlenecks caused by missing indexesOptimize your data structures for optimal memory footprintWrite better, performanceoptimized stored proceduresMonitor
... Read more
Mastering DynamoDB

by Tanmay Deshpande ...

If you have interest in DynamoDB and want to know what DynamoDB is all about and become proficient in using it, this is the book for you. If you are an intermediate user who wishes to enhance your knowledge of DynamoDB, this book is aimed at you. Basic familiarity with programming, NoSQL, and cloud computing concepts would be helpful. ... Read more

$26.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

If you have interest in DynamoDB and want to know what DynamoDB is all about and become proficient in using it, this is the book for you. If you are an intermediate user who wishes to enhance your knowledge of DynamoDB, this book is aimed at you. Basic familiarity with programming, NoSQL, and cloud computing concepts would be helpful.
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