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Genetic Algorithms in Java Basics

by Burak Kanber, Lee Jacobson ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Genetic Algorithms in Java Basics is a brief introduction to solving problems using genetic algorithms, with working projects and solutions written in the Java programming language. This brief book will guide you step-by-step through various implementations of genetic algorithms and some of their common applications, with the aim to give you a practical understanding allowing you to solve your own ... Read more

$53.99 USD

Genetic Algorithms in Java Basics is a brief introduction to solving problems using genetic algorithms, with working projects and solutions written in the Java programming language. This brief book will guide you step-by-step through various implementations of genetic algorithms and some of their common applications, with the aim to give you a practical understanding allowing you to solve your own
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Python Data Cleaning and Preparation Best Practices

A practical guide to organizing and handling data from various sources and formats using Python

by Maria Zervou ...

Take your data preparation skills to the next level by converting any type of data asset into a structured, formatted, and readily usable dataset Key FeaturesMaximize the value of your data through effective data cleaning methodsEnhance your data skills using strategies for handling structured and unstructured dataElevate the quality of your data products by testing and validating your data ... Read more

$34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Take your data preparation skills to the next level by converting any type of data asset into a structured, formatted, and readily usable dataset Key FeaturesMaximize the value of your data through effective data cleaning methodsEnhance your data skills using strategies for handling structured and unstructured dataElevate the quality of your data products by testing and validating your data
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Network Science with Python and NetworkX Quick Start Guide

Explore and visualize network data effectively

by Edward L. Platt ...

Manipulate and analyze network data with the power of Python and NetworkXKey FeaturesUnderstand the terminology and basic concepts of network scienceLeverage the power of Python and NetworkX to represent data as a networkApply common techniques for working with network data of varying sizesBook DescriptionNetworkX is a leading free and open source package used for network science with the Python ... Read more

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Manipulate and analyze network data with the power of Python and NetworkXKey FeaturesUnderstand the terminology and basic concepts of network scienceLeverage the power of Python and NetworkX to represent data as a networkApply common techniques for working with network data of varying sizesBook DescriptionNetworkX is a leading free and open source package used for network science with the Python
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Kinect for Windows SDK Programming Guide

by Abhijit Jana ...

This book is a practical tutorial that explains all the features of Kinect SDK by creating sample applications throughout the book. It includes a detailed discussion of APIs with step-by-step explanation of development of a real-world sample application. The purpose of this book is to explain how to develop applications using the Kinect for Windows SDK. If you are a beginner and looking to start ... Read more

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This book is a practical tutorial that explains all the features of Kinect SDK by creating sample applications throughout the book. It includes a detailed discussion of APIs with step-by-step explanation of development of a real-world sample application. The purpose of this book is to explain how to develop applications using the Kinect for Windows SDK. If you are a beginner and looking to start
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Introduction to R for Business Intelligence

Profit optimization using data mining, data analysis, and Business Intelligence

by Jay Gendron ...

Learn how to leverage the power of R for Business IntelligenceKey Features\[\*\] Use this easy-to-follow guide to leverage the power of R analytics and make your business data more insightful.\[\*\] This highly practical guide teaches you how to develop dashboards that help you make informed decisions using R.\[\*\] Learn the A to Z of working with data for Business Intelligence with the help of ... Read more

$27.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Learn how to leverage the power of R for Business IntelligenceKey Features\[\*\] Use this easy-to-follow guide to leverage the power of R analytics and make your business data more insightful.\[\*\] This highly practical guide teaches you how to develop dashboards that help you make informed decisions using R.\[\*\] Learn the A to Z of working with data for Business Intelligence with the help of
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Mastering MongoDB 3.x

An expert's guide to building fault-tolerant MongoDB applications

by Alex Giamas ...

An expert\\'s guide to build fault tolerant MongoDB applicationKey Features\[\*\] Master the advanced modeling, querying, and administration techniques in MongoDB and become a MongoDB expert\[\*\] Covers the latest updates and Big Data features frequently used by professional MongoDB developers and administrators\[\*\] If your goal is to become a certified MongoDB professional, this book is your ... Read more

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An expert\\'s guide to build fault tolerant MongoDB applicationKey Features\[\*\] Master the advanced modeling, querying, and administration techniques in MongoDB and become a MongoDB expert\[\*\] Covers the latest updates and Big Data features frequently used by professional MongoDB developers and administrators\[\*\] If your goal is to become a certified MongoDB professional, this book is your
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Android Programming with Kotlin for Beginners

Build Android apps starting from zero programming experience with the new Kotlin programming language

by John Horton ...

Build smart looking Kotlin apps with UI and functionality for the Android platformKey FeaturesStart your Android programming career, or just have fun publishing apps on Google Play marketplaceThe first-principle introduction to Kotlin through Android, to start building easy-to-use appsLearn by example and build four real-world apps and dozens of mini-appsBook DescriptionAndroid is the most popular ... Read more

$29.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Build smart looking Kotlin apps with UI and functionality for the Android platformKey FeaturesStart your Android programming career, or just have fun publishing apps on Google Play marketplaceThe first-principle introduction to Kotlin through Android, to start building easy-to-use appsLearn by example and build four real-world apps and dozens of mini-appsBook DescriptionAndroid is the most popular
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Learn Cocoa on the Mac

by Jack Nutting, Peter Clark ...

The Cocoa frameworks are some of the most powerful for creating native OS X apps available today. However, for a first-time Mac developer, just firing up Xcode 4 and starting to browse the documentation can be a daunting and frustrating task. The Objective-C class reference documentation alone would fill thousands of printed pages, not to mention all the other tutorials and guides included with ... Read more

$35.99 USD

The Cocoa frameworks are some of the most powerful for creating native OS X apps available today. However, for a first-time Mac developer, just firing up Xcode 4 and starting to browse the documentation can be a daunting and frustrating task. The Objective-C class reference documentation alone would fill thousands of printed pages, not to mention all the other tutorials and guides included with
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Writing for Developers

Blogs that get read

by Piotr Sarna, Cynthia Dunlop ...

Pragmatic methods for writing blogs, articles, and other technical pieces that stand out from the crowd!Do you want to connect with your community, share your state-of-the-art achievements, and help your peers benefit from your hard-fought lessons learned? Do you want to get the kind of attention that expands your career? Master the art of writing engineering blog posts and articles! This ... Read more

$49.99 USD

Pragmatic methods for writing blogs, articles, and other technical pieces that stand out from the crowd!Do you want to connect with your community, share your state-of-the-art achievements, and help your peers benefit from your hard-fought lessons learned? Do you want to get the kind of attention that expands your career? Master the art of writing engineering blog posts and articles! This
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AI 2027: The Future We Choose: The Truth About Artificial Intelligence, AGI, and the AI Singularity—From the Dark Scenarios to the Breakthroughs That Could Save Humanity

by Himanshoo Jaiswal ...

AI 2027: The Future We Choose is a powerful, future-focused AI book that explores the next phase of artificial intelligence and its impact on society, business, and human survival. Perfect for beginners, futurists, entrepreneurs, and business leaders, this essential guide explains AI in education, healthcare, governance, ethics, and generative AI technologies in simple, engaging language.Author ... Read more

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AI 2027: The Future We Choose is a powerful, future-focused AI book that explores the next phase of artificial intelligence and its impact on society, business, and human survival. Perfect for beginners, futurists, entrepreneurs, and business leaders, this essential guide explains AI in education, healthcare, governance, ethics, and generative AI technologies in simple, engaging language.Author
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SFML Essentials: Getting Started with Game Development

SFML Fundamentals

by Kameron Hussain, Frahaan Hussain ...

Series series SFML Fundamentals
"SFML Essentials: Getting Started with Game Development" is your gateway to the exciting world of game development using the Simple and Fast Multimedia Library (SFML) in C++. Whether you're a novice programmer or an experienced developer looking to explore game development, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to SFML, a cross-platform open-source framework renowned for its simplicity and ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

"SFML Essentials: Getting Started with Game Development" is your gateway to the exciting world of game development using the Simple and Fast Multimedia Library (SFML) in C++. Whether you're a novice programmer or an experienced developer looking to explore game development, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to SFML, a cross-platform open-source framework renowned for its simplicity and
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Data Preparation and Exploration

Applied to Healthcare Data

by Robert Hoyt, Robert Muenchen ...

Data scientists spend more than two-thirds of their time cleaning, preparing, exploring, and visualizing data before it is ready for modeling and mining. This textbook covers the important steps of data preparation and exploration that anyone who deals with data should know. The data preparation and exploration methods we include are spreadsheet and statistics package approaches, as well as the ... Read more

$11.59 USD

Data scientists spend more than two-thirds of their time cleaning, preparing, exploring, and visualizing data before it is ready for modeling and mining. This textbook covers the important steps of data preparation and exploration that anyone who deals with data should know. The data preparation and exploration methods we include are spreadsheet and statistics package approaches, as well as the
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Hybride KI mit Machine Learning und Knowledge Graphs

Innovative Lösungen aus der Praxis

Edited by Knut Hinkelmann, Thomas Hoppe, Bernhard G. Humm ...

Seit den 2010er Jahren hat die Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) durch Erfolge im Machine Learning (ML) einen enormen Schub erfahren. Einerseits durch die stark angewachsene Menge verfügbarer digitaler Daten und andererseits durch Innovationen im Bereich der Künstlichen Neuronalen Netze und des Deep Learning (DL). Wissensbasierte KI umfasst neben traditionellen Expertensystemen und Regelsystemen auch ... Read more

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Seit den 2010er Jahren hat die Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) durch Erfolge im Machine Learning (ML) einen enormen Schub erfahren. Einerseits durch die stark angewachsene Menge verfügbarer digitaler Daten und andererseits durch Innovationen im Bereich der Künstlichen Neuronalen Netze und des Deep Learning (DL). Wissensbasierte KI umfasst neben traditionellen Expertensystemen und Regelsystemen auch
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The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces, Volume 1

Foundations, User Modeling, and Common Modality Combinations

by Sharon Oviatt, Björn Schuller, Philip Cohen, Daniel Sonntag, Gerasimos Potamianos ...

Series series ACM Books
The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces provides the first authoritative resource on what has become the dominant paradigm for new computer interfaces— user input involving new media (speech, multi-touch, gestures, writing) embedded in multimodal-multisensor interfaces. These interfaces support smart phones, wearables, in-vehicle and robotic applications, and many other areas that are ... Read more

$71.99 USD

The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces provides the first authoritative resource on what has become the dominant paradigm for new computer interfaces— user input involving new media (speech, multi-touch, gestures, writing) embedded in multimodal-multisensor interfaces. These interfaces support smart phones, wearables, in-vehicle and robotic applications, and many other areas that are
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Technologies and Applications for Big Data Value

Edited by Edward Curry, Sören Auer, Arne J. Berre, Andreas Metzger, Maria S. Perez, Sonja Zillner ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This open access book explores cutting-edge solutions and best practices for big data and data-driven AI applications for the data-driven economy. It provides the reader with a basis for understanding how technical issues can be overcome to offer real-world solutions to major industrial areas.The book starts with an introductory chapter that provides an overview of the book by positioning the ... Read more

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This open access book explores cutting-edge solutions and best practices for big data and data-driven AI applications for the data-driven economy. It provides the reader with a basis for understanding how technical issues can be overcome to offer real-world solutions to major industrial areas.The book starts with an introductory chapter that provides an overview of the book by positioning the
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Going Text: Mastering the Command Line

by Brian Schell ...

Windows. MacOS. Gnome. GUIs (Graphical user interfaces) have been the mainstay of home and office computers for nearly 25 years. Before that there were DOS and the Unix command lines. For most users, the mouse and the attractive, colorful user interfaces offered were more intuitive and easier to learn that the cryptic keyboard commands needed to do most tasks on text-based interfaces. For most ... Read more

$4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Windows. MacOS. Gnome. GUIs (Graphical user interfaces) have been the mainstay of home and office computers for nearly 25 years. Before that there were DOS and the Unix command lines. For most users, the mouse and the attractive, colorful user interfaces offered were more intuitive and easier to learn that the cryptic keyboard commands needed to do most tasks on text-based interfaces. For most
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African Artificial Intelligence

Discovering Africa's AI Identity

by Mark Nasila ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is upending life, work, and play as we know it, and it's only just getting started. The rise of AI is a milestone on par with the discovery of fire, the invention of the wheel, and the creation of the internet. In short, AI is going to change everything. For some, that's an exciting prospect. For others, it's terrifying. However you feel about AI, there's no escaping ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Artificial intelligence (AI) is upending life, work, and play as we know it, and it's only just getting started. The rise of AI is a milestone on par with the discovery of fire, the invention of the wheel, and the creation of the internet. In short, AI is going to change everything. For some, that's an exciting prospect. For others, it's terrifying. However you feel about AI, there's no escaping
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Curso de Introducción a la Administración de Bases de Datos

by Miguel Ángel Benítez, Ángel Arias ...

El buen uso de las bases de datos es fundamental para las buenas prácticas en la programación actual. Una base de datos optimizada, con sus backups automatizados, con el uso de triggers, etc... es lo que dará finalmente agilidad al desarrollador de aplicaciones con bases de datos y al rendimiento de las propias aplicaciones que trabajan con bases de datos.Debido al aumento exponencial de las ... Read more

$6.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

El buen uso de las bases de datos es fundamental para las buenas prácticas en la programación actual. Una base de datos optimizada, con sus backups automatizados, con el uso de triggers, etc... es lo que dará finalmente agilidad al desarrollador de aplicaciones con bases de datos y al rendimiento de las propias aplicaciones que trabajan con bases de datos.Debido al aumento exponencial de las
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Cloud Application Architectures

Building Applications and Infrastructure in the Cloud

by George Reese ...

If you're involved in planning IT infrastructure as a network or system architect, system administrator, or developer, this book will help you adapt your skills to work with these highly scalable, highly redundant infrastructure services.While analysts hotly debate the advantages and risks of cloud computing, IT staff and programmers are left to determine whether and how to put their applications ... Read more

$17.99 USD

If you're involved in planning IT infrastructure as a network or system architect, system administrator, or developer, this book will help you adapt your skills to work with these highly scalable, highly redundant infrastructure services.While analysts hotly debate the advantages and risks of cloud computing, IT staff and programmers are left to determine whether and how to put their applications
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MySQL 8 Administrator???s Guide

Effective guide to administering high-performance MySQL 8 solutions

by Chintan Mehta, Hetal Oza, Subhash Shah, Ravi Shah ...

Step by step guide to monitor, manage, and secure your database engineKey FeaturesYour companion to master all the administration-related tasks in MySQL 8Ensure high performance and high availability of your MySQL solution using effective replication and backup techniquesA comprehensive guide to performing query optimization, security and a whole host of other administrative tasks in MySQL 8Book ... Read more

$34.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Step by step guide to monitor, manage, and secure your database engineKey FeaturesYour companion to master all the administration-related tasks in MySQL 8Ensure high performance and high availability of your MySQL solution using effective replication and backup techniquesA comprehensive guide to performing query optimization, security and a whole host of other administrative tasks in MySQL 8Book
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LLMs in Production

Engineering AI Applications

by Christopher Brousseau, Matt Sharp ...

Goes beyond academic discussions deeply into the applications layer of Foundation Models.This practical book offers clear, example-rich explanations of how LLMs work, how you can interact with them, and how to integrate LLMs into your own applications. Find out what makes LLMs so different from traditional software and ML, discover best practices for working with them out of the lab, and dodge ... Read more

$49.99 USD

Goes beyond academic discussions deeply into the applications layer of Foundation Models.This practical book offers clear, example-rich explanations of how LLMs work, how you can interact with them, and how to integrate LLMs into your own applications. Find out what makes LLMs so different from traditional software and ML, discover best practices for working with them out of the lab, and dodge
... Read more
Designing for Sustainability

A Guide to Building Greener Digital Products and Services

by Tim Frick ...

Pixels use electricity, and a lot of it. If the Internet were a country, it would be the sixth largest in terms of electricity use. That’s because today’s average web page has surpassed two megabytes in size, leading to slow load times, frustrated users, and a lot of wasted energy. With this practical guide, your web design team will learn how to apply sustainability principles for creating speedy ... Read more

$21.99 USD

Pixels use electricity, and a lot of it. If the Internet were a country, it would be the sixth largest in terms of electricity use. That’s because today’s average web page has surpassed two megabytes in size, leading to slow load times, frustrated users, and a lot of wasted energy. With this practical guide, your web design team will learn how to apply sustainability principles for creating speedy
... Read more
The User's Journey

Storymapping Products That People Love

by Donna Lichaw ...

Like a good story, successful design is a series of engaging moments structured over time. The User’s Journey will show you how, when, and why to use narrative structure, technique, and principles to ideate, craft, and test a cohesive vision for an engaging outcome. See how a “story first” approach can transform your product, feature, landing page, flow, campaign, content, or product strategy. ... Read more

$34.99 USD

Like a good story, successful design is a series of engaging moments structured over time. The User’s Journey will show you how, when, and why to use narrative structure, technique, and principles to ideate, craft, and test a cohesive vision for an engaging outcome. See how a “story first” approach can transform your product, feature, landing page, flow, campaign, content, or product strategy.
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R Graphics Cookbook

Practical Recipes for Visualizing Data

by Winston Chang ...

This practical guide provides more than 150 recipes to help you generate high-quality graphs quickly, without having to comb through all the details of R’s graphing systems. Each recipe tackles a specific problem with a solution you can apply to your own project, and includes a discussion of how and why the recipe works.Most of the recipes use the ggplot2 package, a powerful and flexible way to ... Read more

$23.99 USD

This practical guide provides more than 150 recipes to help you generate high-quality graphs quickly, without having to comb through all the details of R’s graphing systems. Each recipe tackles a specific problem with a solution you can apply to your own project, and includes a discussion of how and why the recipe works.Most of the recipes use the ggplot2 package, a powerful and flexible way to
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