• High Performance Spark: Best Practices for Scaling and Optimizing Apache Spark

    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 and Rachel Warren demonstrate performance optimizations to help your Spark queries run faster and handle larger data sizes, while using fewer resources.Ideal for software engineers, data engineers, developers, and system administrators working with large-scale data applications, this book describes techniques that can reduce data infrastructure costs and develo... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1491943203
    • ASIN: 1491943203
    • ISBN: 9781491943205
    • Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media

  • Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice: Pattern and Process

    This work provides in-depth analysis of the origins of landscape ecology and its close alignment with the understanding of scale, the causes of landscape pattern, and the interactions of spatial pattern with a variety of ecological processes. The text covers the quantitative approaches that are applied widely in landscape studies, with emphasis on their appropriate use and interpretation.The field of landscape ecology has grown rapidly during this period, its concepts and methods have matured, and the published literature has increased exponentially. Landscape research has enhanced understandi... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1493927930
    • ASIN: 1493927930
    • ISBN: 9781493927937
    • Manufacturer: Springer

  • Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy, and IPython

    Get complete instructions for manipulating, processing, cleaning, and crunching datasets in Python. Updated for Python 3.6, the second edition of this hands-on guide is packed with practical case studies that show you how to solve a broad set of data analysis problems effectively. You’ll learn the latest versions of pandas, NumPy, IPython, and Jupyter in the process.Written by Wes McKinney, the creator of the Python pandas project, this book is a practical, modern introduction to data science tools in Python. It’s ideal for analysts new to Python and for Python programmers new to data scie... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1491957662
    • ASIN: 1491957662
    • ISBN: 1491957662
    • Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media

  • Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals

    Don't simply show your data—tell a story with it!  Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You'll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory, but made accessible through numerous real-world examples—ready for immediate application to your next graph or presentation.  Storytelling is not an inherent skill, especially when it comes to data visualization, and the tools at our disposal don't make it ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1119002257
    • ASIN: 1119002257
    • ISBN: 1119002257
    • Manufacturer: Wiley

  • Best Practices in Data Cleaning: A Complete Guide to Everything You Need to Do Before and After Collecting Your Data

    Many researchers jump from data collection directly into testing hypothesis without realizing these tests can go profoundly wrong without clean data. This book provides a clear, accessible, step-by-step process of important best practices in preparing for

    • ASIN: 1412988012
    • ASIN: 1412988012
    • ISBN: 9781412988018
    • Brand: SAGE Publications, Inc
    • Manufacturer: SAGE Publications, Inc

  • Best Practices in Logistic Regression (NULL)

    Jason W. Osborne’s Best Practices in Logistic Regression provides students with an accessible, applied approach that communicates logistic regression in clear and concise terms. The book effectively leverages readers’ basic intuitive understanding of simple and multiple regression to guide them into a sophisticated mastery of logistic regression. Osborne’s applied approach offers students and instructors a clear perspective, elucidated through practical and engaging tools that encourage student comprehension.

    • ASIN: 1452244790
    • ASIN: 1452244790
    • ISBN: 1452244790
    • Brand: SAGE Publications, Inc
    • Manufacturer: SAGE Publications, Inc

  • Tableau Your Data!: Fast and Easy Visual Analysis with Tableau Software

    Transform your organization's data into actionable insights with Tableau Tableau is designed specifically to provide fast and easy visual analytics. The intuitive drag-and-drop interface helps you create interactive reports, dashboards, and visualizations, all without any special or advanced training. This all new edition of Tableau Your Data! is your Tableau companion, helping you get the most out of this invaluable business toolset.Tableau Your Data! shows you how to build dynamic, best of breed visualizations using the Tableau Software toolset. This comprehensive guide covers the core featu... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1119001196
    • ASIN: 1119001196
    • ISBN: 1119001196
    • Brand: Wiley
    • Manufacturer: Wiley

  • Analysis of Categorical Data with R (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science)

    Learn How to Properly Analyze Categorical DataAnalysis of Categorical Data with R presents a modern account of categorical data analysis using the popular R software. It covers recent techniques of model building and assessment for binary, multicategory, and count response variables and discusses fundamentals, such as odds ratio and probability estimation. The authors give detailed advice and guidelines on which procedures to use and why to use them. The Use of R as Both a Data Analysis Method and a Learning ToolRequiring no prior experience with R, the text offers an introduction to the essen... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1439855676
    • ASIN: 1439855676
    • ISBN: 1439855676
    • Brand: Chapman and Hall/CRC
    • Manufacturer: Chapman and Hall/CRC

  • R in Action: Data Analysis and Graphics with R

    Summary R in Action, Second Edition presents both the R language and the examples that make it so useful for business developers. Focusing on practical solutions, the book offers a crash course in statistics and covers elegant methods for dealing with messy and incomplete data that are difficult to analyze using traditional methods. You'll also master R's extensive graphical capabilities for exploring and presenting data visually. And this expanded second edition includes new chapters on time series analysis, cluster analysis, and classification methodologies, including decision trees, random ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1617291382
    • UPC: 783324944471
    • ASIN: 1617291382
    • ISBN: 9781617291388
    • Brand: Manning Publications
    • Manufacturer: Manning Publications

  • Modeling and Analysis of Compositional Data (Statistics in Practice)

    Modeling and Analysis of Compositional Data presents a practical and comprehensive introduction to the analysis of compositional data along with numerous examples to illustrate both theory and application of each method. Based upon short courses delivered by the authors, it provides a complete and current compendium of fundamental to advanced methodologies along with exercises at the end of each chapter to improve understanding, as well as data and a solutions manual which is available on an accompanying website. Complementing Pawlowsky-Glahn’s earlier collective text that provides an overvi... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1118443063
    • ASIN: 1118443063
    • ISBN: 9781118443064
    • Brand: Wiley
    • Manufacturer: Wiley

  • System Engineering Analysis, Design, and Development: Concepts, Principles, and Practices (Wiley Series in Systems Engineering and Management)

    Praise for the first edition: “This excellent text will be useful to every system engineer (SE) regardless of the domain. It covers ALL relevant SE material and does so in a very clear, methodical fashion. The breadth and depth of the author's presentation of SE principles and practices is outstanding.”  –Philip Allen This textbook presents a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to System Engineering analysis, design, and development via an integrated set of concepts, principles, practices, and methodologies. The methods presented in this text apply to any type of human system -- small, ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1118442261
    • ASIN: 1118442261
    • ISBN: 9781118442265
    • Brand: Wiley
    • Manufacturer: Wiley

  • R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data

    Learn how to use R to turn raw data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. This book introduces you to R, RStudio, and the tidyverse, a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Suitable for readers with no previous programming experience, R for Data Science is designed to get you doing data science as quickly as possible.Authors Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund guide you through the steps of importing, wrangling, exploring, and modeling your data and communicating the results. You’ll get a complete, big-picture understanding of t... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1491910399
    • ASIN: 1491910399
    • ISBN: 1491910399
    • Brand: O Reilly Media
    • Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media

  • Leveraging Data in Healthcare: Best Practices for Controlling, Analyzing, and Using Data (HIMSS Book Series)

    The healthcare industry is in a state of accelerated transition. The proliferation of data and its assimilation, access, use, and security are ever-increasing challenges. Finding ways to operationalize business and clinical data management in the face of government and market mandates is enough to keep most chief officers up at night! Leveraging Data in Healthcare: Best Practices for Controlling, Analyzing, and Using Data argues that the key to survival for any healthcare organization in today’s data-saturated market is to fundamentally redefine the roles of chief information executives―C... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1938904842
    • ASIN: 1938904842
    • ISBN: 1938904842
    • Manufacturer: CRC Press

  • Categorical Data Analysis

    Praise for the Second Edition "A must-have book for anyone expecting to do research and/or applications in categorical data analysis." ―Statistics in Medicine "It is a total delight reading this book." ―Pharmaceutical Research "If you do any analysis of categorical data, this is an essential desktop reference." ―Technometrics The use of statistical methods for analyzing categorical data has increased dramatically, particularly in the biomedical, social sciences, and financial industries. Responding to new developments, this book offers a comprehensive treatment of the most important meth... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0470463635
    • ASIN: 0470463635
    • ISBN: 9780470463635
    • Brand: Wiley
    • Manufacturer: Wiley

  • RNA-seq Data Analysis: A Practical Approach (Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical and Computational Biology)

    The State of the Art in Transcriptome AnalysisRNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data offers unprecedented information about the transcriptome, but harnessing this information with bioinformatics tools is typically a bottleneck. RNA-seq Data Analysis: A Practical Approach enables researchers to examine differential expression at gene, exon, and transcript levels and to discover novel genes, transcripts, and whole transcriptomes. Balanced Coverage of Theory and PracticeEach chapter starts with theoretical background, followed by descriptions of relevant analysis tools and practical examples. Accessible t... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1466595000
    • ASIN: 1466595000
    • ISBN: 1466595000
    • Brand: Chapman and Hall/CRC
    • Manufacturer: Chapman and Hall/CRC

  • Statistical Methods for Practice and Research : A Guide to Data Analysis Using SPSS

    This book is designed to help the managers and researchers in solving statistical problems using SPSS and to help them understand how they can use various statistical tools for their own research problems. SPSS is

    • UPC: 11066568
    • Rating: 2.0

  • Big Data : Principles and Best Practices of Scalable Realtime Data Systems

    Teaches readers how to build big data systems using Lambda Architecture, an architecture designed specifically to capture and analyze web-scale

    • UPC: 21851283
    • Rating: 5.0

  • Compositional Data Analysis in Practice - eBook

    Compositional Data Analysis in Practice is a user-oriented practical guide to the analysis of data with the property of a constant sum, for example percentages adding up to 100%. Compositional data can give misleading results

    • UPC: 765005606

  • National Defense Intelligence College Paper: Bringing Intelligence About - Practitioners Reflect on Best Practices - CIA Analysis, Analytical Tradecraft, Process Management - eBook

    This unique and informative paper was produced by the National Intelligence University / National Defense Intelligence College. Topics and subjects include: CIA analysis, internet and electronic media, analytical tradecraft, process management, U.S. Coast Guard, DIA,

    • UPC: 533192614

  • Business Analysis : Best Practices for Success

    The definitive guide on the roles and responsibilities of the business analyst Business Analysis offers a complete description of the process of business analysis in solving business problems. Filled with tips, tricks, techniques, and guerilla

    • UPC: 16433659

  • Business Analyst's Mentor Book : With Best Practice Business Analysis Techniques and Software Requirements Management Tips

    Business Analyst's Mentor Book includes tips and best practices in a broad range of topics like: Business analysis techniques and tools Agile and waterfall methodologies Scope management Change request management Conflict management Use cases UML

    • UPC: 39388197

  • Case Studies in Neural Data Analysis : A Guide for the Practicing Neuroscientist

    A practical guide to neural data analysis techniques that presents sample datasets and hands-on methods for analyzing the

    • UPC: 52564578

  • Data Analysis for the Social Sciences : Integrating Theory and Practice

    Packed with global, interdisciplinary examples that ground statistical theory and concepts in real-world situations, it shows students not only how to apply newfound knowledge using IBM SPSS Statistics, but also why they would want to

    • UPC: 158235042

  • Advanced Windows Memory Dump Analysis with Data Structures : Training Course Transcript and Windbg Practice Exercises with Notes, Second Edition

    The full transcript of Memory Dump Analysis Services Training with 10 step-by-step exercises, notes, and selected questions and answers. Learn how to navigate through memory dump space and Windows data structures to troubleshoot and debug

    • UPC: 53376715

  • Best Practices in Data Cleaning : A Complete Guide to Everything You Need to Do Before and After Collecting Your Data

    Many researchers jump from data collection directly into testing hypothesis without realizing these tests can go profoundly wrong without clean data. This book provides a clear, accessible, step-by-step process of important best practices in preparing

    • UPC: 16825709

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