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Serverless ETL and Analytics with AWS Glue
Use AWS Glue to integrate growing data sources with serverless ETL, building secure, observable pipelines that support reliable analytics while managing performance and cost across a governed AWS data platform as workloads growKey FeaturesUse runnable code, console walkthroughs, and downloadable examples for core AWS Glue workflowsApply DataOps practices with AWS CDK, Docker, and CI/CD in real-world scenariosLearn from six data specialists with AWS, Spark, Apache Iceberg, and data lake expertiseBook DescriptionWhether you build data pipelines, design cloud architectures, or deliver analytics on AWS, bringing data together is only part of the challenge. You must also keep this data clean, trustworthy, and available while controlling costs. AWS Glue offers serverless data integration, but using it effectively requires decisions about storage, metadata, security, orchestration, monitoring, and performance.This book guides you from modern data management and core AWS Glue features through ingestion from files, streams, SaaS applications, and JDBC sources, preparation, storage layout, metadata, security, sharing, and pipeline operations. Console walkthroughs and runnable examples show how to manage schemas and lineage in AWS Glue Data Catalog, apply AWS Lake Formation access controls, monitor workloads, tune Spark jobs, troubleshoot failures, and manage development with AWS CDK, Docker, and CI/CD. You will also examine analytics, machine learning and generative AI integrations, real-world data lake scenarios, and cost optimization. Learn how Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, and Delta Lake add transactions, schema evolution, and efficient data management to data lakes.By the end, you will be able to design, build, operate, and continuously improve a serverless data platform that fits your organization's scale, structure, and priorities.What you will learnDesign scalable serverless ETL pipelines with AWS GlueIngest data from files, streams, SaaS, and JDBC sourcesOptimize file formats, partitions, compression, and layoutsManage schemas, partitions, and lineage in AWS Glue Data CatalogSecure data with access control, encryption, and auditingAutomate testing and multi account CI/CD using AWS CDK and DockerMonitor, tune, and troubleshoot AWS Glue and Spark workloadsApply Apache Iceberg, Hudi, and Delta Lake to data lakes with AWS GlueWho this book is forThis book is for data engineers, ETL developers, cloud architects, and analytics professionals who build or operate data platforms on AWS. It suits readers working on serverless data lakes, Spark ETL, governance, data sharing, reliability, or cost control. It is especially useful if you aim to improve pipeline reliability, governance, or cost visibility as workloads grow. Basic familiarity with the AWS Management Console, Amazon S3, and IAM is recommended. Experience with Python, SQL, or Apache Spark will help with the code examples, and an AWS account is useful for following the walkthroughs.
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Applied Big Data Analytics in Operations Management
Operations management is a tool by which companies can effectively meet customers’ needs using the least amount of resources necessary. With the emergence of sensors and smart metering, big data is becoming an intrinsic part of modern operations management.Applied Big Data Analytics in Operations Management enumerates the challenges and creative solutions and tools to apply when using big data in operations management. Outlining revolutionary concepts and applications that help businesses predict customer behavior along with applications of artificial neural networks, predictive analytics, and opinion mining on business management, this comprehensive publication is ideal for IT professionals, software engineers, business professionals, managers, and students of management.
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Big Data Analytics Using Multiple Criteria Decision-Making Models
Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is a subfield of Operations Research, dealing with decision making problems. A decision-making problem is characterized by the need to choose one or a few among a number of alternatives. The field of MCDM assumes special importance in this era of Big Data and Business Analytics. In this volume, the focus will be on modelling-based tools for Business Analytics (BA), with exclusive focus on the sub-field of MCDM within the domain of operations research. The book will include an Introduction to Big Data and Business Analytics, and challenges and opportunities for developing MCDM models in the era of Big Data.
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Big Data Analytics
This book constitutes the refereedconference proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Big DataAnalytics, BDA 2015, held in Hyderabad, India, in December 2015. The 9 revised full papers and 9invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions andcover topics on big data: security and privacy; big data in commerce; big data:models and algorithms; and big data in medicine.
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Forest Analytics with R
Forest Analytics with R combines practical, down-to-earth forestry data analysis and solutions to real forest management challenges with state-of-the-art statistical and data-handling functionality. Theauthors adopt a problem-driven approach, in which statistical and mathematical tools are introduced in the context of the forestry problem that they can help to resolve. All the tools are introduced in the context of real forestry datasets, which provide compelling examples of practical applications.The modeling challenges covered within the book include imputation and interpolation for spatial data, fitting probability density functions to tree measurement data using maximum likelihood, fitting allometric functions using both linear and non-linear least-squares regression, and fitting growth models using both linear and non-linear mixed-effects modeling. The coverage also includes deploying andusing forest growth models written in compiled languages, analysis of natural resources and forestry inventory data, and forest estate planning and optimization using linear programming. The book would be ideal for a one-semester class in forest biometrics or applied statistics for natural resources management. The text assumes no programming background, some introductory statistics,and very basic applied mathematics.
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Python for Geeks
Take your Python skills to the next level to develop scalable, real-world applications for local as well as cloud deploymentKey FeaturesAll code examples have been tested with Python 3.7 and Python 3.8 and are expected to work with any future 3.x releaseLearn how to build modular and object-oriented applications in PythonDiscover how to use advanced Python techniques for the cloud and clustersBook DescriptionPython is a multipurpose language that can be used for multiple use cases. Python for Geeks will teach you how to advance in your career with the help of expert tips and tricks.You'll start by exploring the different ways of using Python optimally, both from the design and implementation point of view. Next, you'll understand the life cycle of a large-scale Python project. As you advance, you'll focus on different ways of creating an elegant design by modularizing a Python project and learn best practices and design patterns for using Python. You'll also discover how to scale out Python beyond a single thread and how to implement multiprocessing and multithreading in Python. In addition to this, you'll understand how you can not only use Python to deploy on a single machine but also use clusters in private as well as in public cloud computing environments. You'll then explore data processing techniques, focus on reusable, scalable data pipelines, and learn how to use these advanced techniques for network automation, serverless functions, and machine learning. Finally, you'll focus on strategizing web development design using the techniques and best practices covered in the book.By the end of this Python book, you'll be able to do some serious Python programming for large-scale complex projects.What you will learnUnderstand how to design and manage complex Python projectsStrategize test-driven development (TDD) in PythonExplore multithreading and multiprogramming in PythonUse Python for data processing with Apache Spark and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)Deploy serverless programs on public clouds such as GCPUse Python to build web applications and application programming interfacesApply Python for network automation and serverless functionsGet to grips with Python for data analysis and machine learningWho this book is forThis book is for intermediate-level Python developers in any field who are looking to build their skills to develop and manage large-scale complex projects. Developers who want to create reusable modules and Python libraries and cloud developers building applications for cloud deployment will also find this book useful. Prior experience with Python will help you get the most out of this book.
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Python 3 Using DeepSeek
This book is your definitive guide to mastering DeepSeek, a leading open-source Large Language Model (LLM), and leveraging its power through practical Python programming. It is structured to build your expertise from foundational Python data structures and object-oriented programming to advanced model deployment.The initial chapters establish a strong technical base in Python's core features, including comprehensions, iterators, and the OOP paradigm. The focus then shifts entirely to DeepSeek, detailing its innovative Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, its superior performance on code-centric benchmarks like HumanEval, and its efficiency advantages. You will gain crucial insight into model management, specifically through the concept of quantization and local deployment with tools like Ollama, which is essential for maximizing performance while minimizing resource usage. The final chapter provides numerous, practical Python mini-projects, allowing you to immediately apply DeepSeek's capabilities to a range of real-world tasks from basic web scraping and data visualization to advanced object-oriented programming and linear regression.Python 3 Using DeepSeek is essential reading for Python developers (intermediate to advanced), machine learning practitioners, and data scientists. It is your guide to integrating high-performing, open-source LLMs into your workflows, particularly for code generation, algorithmic reasoning, and highly efficient local model deployment.
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Data Analytics Applications in Education
The abundance of data and the rise of new quantitative and statistical techniques have created a promising area: data analytics. This combination of a culture of data-driven decision making and techniques to include domain knowledge allows organizations to exploit big data analytics in their evaluation and decision processes. Also, in education and learning, big data analytics is being used to enhance the learning process, to evaluate efficiency, to improve feedback, and to enrich the learning experience.As every step a student takes in the online world can be traced, analyzed, and used, there are plenty of opportunities to improve the learning process of students. First, data analytics techniques can be used to enhance the student’ s learning process by providing real-time feedback, or by enriching the learning experience. Second, data analytics can be used to support the instructor or teacher. Using data analytics, the instructor can better trace, and take targeted actions to improve, the learning process of the student. Third, there are possibilities in using data analytics to measure the performance of instructors. Finally, for policy makers, it is often unclear how schools use their available resources to "produce" outcomes. By combining structured and unstructured data from various sources, data analytics might provide a solution for governments that aim to monitor the performance of schools more closely.Data analytics in education should not be the domain of a single discipline. Economists should discuss the possibilities, issues, and normative questions with a multidisciplinary team of pedagogists, philosophers, computer scientists, and sociologists. By bringing together various disciplines, a more comprehensive answer can be formulated to the challenges ahead. This book starts this discussion by highlighting some economic perspectives on the use of data analytics in education. The book begins a rich, multidisciplinary discussion that may make data analytics in education seem as natural as a teacher in front of a classroom.
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Global Entrepreneurship Analytics
This innovative book proposes new methodologies for the measurement of entrepreneurship by applying techniques of demography, engineering, mathematics and statistics. Using the data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), statistical demographic techniques are used for the evaluation of data quality (EDQ), and a new methodology for the estimation of Specific Entrepreneurship Rates (SER) and the Global Entrepreneurship Rate (GER) is proposed. At the same time the authors present artificial intelligence techniques such as Fuzzy Time Series (FTS) to forecast data series of the entrepreneurial population. Finally, they present a case study of the implementation of Big Data in Entrepreneurship using GEM data that shows the latest technological trends for the management of data, in support of making more accurate decisions. Being a methodological book, the techniques presented can be applied to any dataset in different areas. Readers will learn new methodologies of analysis and measurement of entrepreneurship using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. They will be able to access the experience of the authors through each of the applied cases in which the reader is taken by the hand, both through the scientific method and through the methodology of construction of more accurate metrics in entrepreneurship, with less error.This book will be of value to students at an advanced level, academics and researchers in the fields of Entrepreneurship, Business Analytics and Research Methodology.
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Fast Track to Structured Finance Modeling, Monitoring, and Valuation
This book is designed to start with simple examples that progressively develop the reader's confidence to take on more complex tasks. There is very little theoretical discussion about computer science, operations research algorithms, mathematics, or finance. The thrust of the book is to teach the reader to break complex tasks down into simple tasks. It then looks to implement those simple tasks into VBA code using a critical subset of the features of the language. The tentative contents is: (1) Why? What? Who? Where? and How? (2) Common Sense (3) Securitizing A Loan Portfolio (4) Understanding the Excel Waterfall (5) Designing the VBA Model (6) Laying the Model Groundwork (7) Recorded Macros: A First Look at the VBA Language (8) Writing Menus: An Introduction to Data, Ranges, Arrays, and Objects (9) Controlling the Flow of the Model (10) Building Messaging Capabilities (11) Designing the Model’s Reports (12) Main Program and Menus (13) Writing the Collateral Selection Code (14) Calculating the Cash Flows (15) Running the Waterfall: Producing Initial Results (16) Debugging the Model (17) Validating the Model (18) Running the Model (19) Building Additional Capabilities (20) Documentation of the Model (21) Managing the Growth of the Model (22) Building Portfolio Monitoring Model (23) Valuation Techniques: How do we Determine Price? (24) Challenging Times For the Deal (25) Parting Admonitions
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Fintech For Finance Professionals
As technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and blockchain have been applied to various areas in finance, there is an increasing demand for finance professionals with the skills and knowledge related to fintech. Knowledge of the technologies involved and finance concepts is crucial for the finance professional to understand the architecture of technologies as well as how they can be applied to solve various aspects of finance.This book covers the main concepts and theories of the technologies in fintech which consist of big data, data science, artificial intelligence, data structure and algorithm, computer network, network security, and Python programming. Fintech for Finance Professionals is a companion volume to the book on finance that covers the fundamental concepts in the field. Together, these two books form the foundation for a good understanding of finance and fintech applications which will be covered in subsequent volumes.Bundle set: Global Fintech Institute-Chartered Fintech Professional Set I
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Financial Mathematics
This textbook is designed to facilitate a thorough learning for students of financial mathematics. It includes exercises and theoretical questions across seven chapters: Interest Theory, Financial Flows and Annuities, Profitability and Risk of Financial Operations, Portfolio Analysis, Bonds, Modigliani-Miller Theory, and Brusov-Filatova-Orekhova Theory. The last two chapters are dedicated to modern theories of capital structure, including problems and tasks. More than 130 detailed solutions are provided to help students solve the assignments in the textbook.This textbook is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students in all financial and economic fields, including finance and credit, accounting and auditing, taxes, insurance, and international economic relations. It is also useful for professionals in financial and economic specialties, including financial analysts, as well as anyone interested in mastering quantitative methods in finance and economics.
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Integration Challenges for Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Data Mining
As technology continues to advance, it is critical for businesses to implement systems that can support the transformation of data into information that is crucial for the success of the company. Without the integration of data (both structured and unstructured) mining in business intelligence systems, invaluable knowledge is lost. However, there are currently many different models and approaches that must be explored to determine the best method of integration. Integration Challenges for Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Data Mining is a relevant academic book that provides empirical research findings on increasing the understanding of using data mining in the context of business intelligence and analytics systems. Covering topics that include big data, artificial intelligence, and decision making, this book is an ideal reference source for professionals working in the areas of data mining, business intelligence, and analytics; data scientists; IT specialists; managers; researchers; academicians; practitioners; and graduate students.
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Network Science Models for Data Analytics Automation
This book explains network science and its applications in data analytics for critical infrastructures, engineered systems, and knowledge acquisition. Each chapter describes step-by-step processes of how network science enables and automates data analytics through examples. The book not only dissects modeling techniques and analytical results but also explores the intrinsic development of these models and analyses. This unique approach bridges the gap between theory and practice and channels’ managerial and problem-solving skills.Engineers, researchers, and managers would benefit from the extensive theoretical background and practical examples discussed in this book. Advanced undergraduate students and graduate students in mathematics, statistics, engineering, business, public health, and social science may use this book as a one-semester textbook or a reference book. Readers who are more interested in applications may skip Chapter 1 and peruse through the rest of the book with ease.
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Health Services Research and Analytics Using Excel®
Your all-in-one resource for quantitative, qualitative, and spatial analyses in Excel® using current real-world healthcare datasets.Health Services Research and Analytics Using Excel® is a practical resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in programs studying healthcare administration, public health, and social work as well as public health workers and healthcare managers entering or working in the field. This book provides one integrated, application-oriented resource for common quantitative, qualitative, and spatial analyses using only Excel. With an easy-to-follow presentation of qualitative and quantitative data, students can foster a balanced decision-making approach to financial data, patient statistical data and utilization information, population health data, quality metrics and cultivate analytical skills that are necessary in a data-driven healthcare world. Whereas Excel is typically thought of as limited to quantitative application, this book expands into other Excel applications based on spatial analysis and data visualization represented through 3D Maps as well as text analysis using the free add-in in Excel.Chapters cover the important methods and statistical analysis tools that a practitioner will face when navigating and analyzing data in the public domain or from internal data collection at their health services organization. Topics covered include importing and working with data in Excel, identifying, categorizing and presenting data, setting bounds and hypothesis testing, testing the mean, checking for patterns, data visualization and spatial analysis, interpreting variance, text analysis and much more. A concise overview of research design also provides helpful background on how to gather and measure useful data prior to analyzing in Excel. Because Excel is the most common data analysis software used in the workplace setting, all case examples, exercises, and tutorials are provided with the latest updates to the Excel® software from Office365 ProPlus and newer versions, including all important "Add-ins" such as 3D Maps, Meaning Cloud, and Power Pivots among others. With numerous practice problems and over 100 step-by-step videos, Health Services Research and Analytics Using Excel® is an extremely practical tool for students and health service professionals who must know how to work with data, how to analyze it, and how to use it to improve outcomes unique to healthcare settings.Key Features:Provides a competency-based analytical approach to health services research using ExcelIncludes applications of spatial analysis and data visualization tools based on 3D Maps in ExcelLists select sources of useful national healthcare data with descriptions and website informationChapters contain case examples and practice problems unique to health servicesAll figures and videos are applicable to Office365 ProPlus Excel® and newer versionsContaining over 100 step-by-step videos of Excel applications covered in the chapters
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Social Media Data Mining and Analytics
Harness the power of social media to predict customer behavior and improve sales Social media is the biggest source of Big Data. Because of this, 90% of Fortune 500 companies are investing in Big Data initiatives that will help them predict consumer behavior to produce better sales results. Social Media Data Mining and Analytics shows analysts how to use sophisticated techniques to mine social media data, obtaining the information they need to generate amazing results for their businesses. Social Media Data Mining and Analytics isn't just another book on the business case for social media. Rather, this book provides hands-on examples for applying state-of-the-art tools and technologies to mine social media - examples include Twitter, Wikipedia, Stack Exchange, LiveJournal, movie reviews, and other rich data sources. In it, you will learn: The four key characteristics of online services-users, social networks, actions, and contentThe full data discovery lifecycle-data extraction, storage, analysis, and visualizationHow to work with code and extract data to create solutionsHow to use Big Data to make accurate customer predictionsHow to personalize the social media experience using machine learning Using the techniques the authors detail will provide organizations the competitive advantage they need to harness the rich data available from social media platforms.
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Advances in Analytics and Applications
This book includes selected papers submitted to the ICADABAI-2017 conference, offering an overview of the new methodologies and presenting innovative applications that are of interest to both academicians and practitioners working in the area of analytics. It discusses predictive analytics applications, machine learning applications, human resource analytics, operations analytics, analytics in finance, methodology and econometric applications. The papers in the predictive analytics applications section discuss web analytics, email marketing, customer churn prediction, retail analytics and sports analytics. The section on machine learning applications then examines healthcare analytics, insurance analytics and machine analytics using different innovative machine learning techniques. Human resource analytics addresses important issues relating to talent acquisition and employability using analytics, while a paper in the section on operations analytics describe an innovative application in oil and gas industry. The papers in the analytics in finance part discuss the use of analytical tools in banking and commodity markets, and lastly the econometric applications part presents interesting banking and insurance applications.
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Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting
Part of a series which discusses advances in the quantitative analysis of finance and accounting, this volume is the fifth in the series.
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Scala Programming for Big Data Analytics
Gain the key language concepts and programming techniques of Scala in the context of big data analytics and Apache Spark. The book begins by introducing you to Scala and establishes a firm contextual understanding of why you should learn this language, how it stands in comparison to Java, and how Scala is related to Apache Spark for big data analytics. Next, you’ll set up the Scala environment ready for examining your first Scala programs. This is followed by sections on Scala fundamentals including mutable/immutable variables, the type hierarchy system, control flow expressions and code blocks.The author discusses functions at length and highlights a number of associated concepts such as functional programming and anonymous functions. The book then delves deeper into Scala’s powerful collections system because many of Apache Spark’s APIs bear a strong resemblance to Scala collections. Along the way you’ll see the development life cycle of a Scala program. This involves compiling and building programs using the industry-standard Scala Build Tool (SBT). You’ll cover guidelines related to dependency management using SBT as this is critical for building large Apache Spark applications. Scala Programming for Big Data Analytics concludes by demonstrating how you can make use of the concepts to write programs that run on the Apache Spark framework. These programs will provide distributed and parallel computing, which is critical for big data analytics.What You Will LearnSee the fundamentals of Scala as a general-purpose programming languageUnderstand functional programming and object-oriented programming constructs in ScalaUse Scala collections and functions Develop, package and run Apache Spark applications for big data analyticsWho This Book Is ForData scientists, data analysts and data engineers who intend to use Apache Spark for large-scale analytics.
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Handbook of Healthcare Analytics
How can analytics scholars and healthcare professionals access the most exciting and important healthcare topics and tools for the 21st century? Editors Tinglong Dai and Sridhar Tayur, aided by a team of internationally acclaimed experts, have curated this timely volume to help newcomers and seasoned researchers alike to rapidly comprehend a diverse set of thrusts and tools in this rapidly growing cross-disciplinary field. The Handbook covers a wide range of macro-, meso- and micro-level thrusts—such as market design, competing interests, global health, personalized medicine, residential care and concierge medicine, among others—and structures what has been a highly fragmented research area into a coherent scientific discipline. The handbook also provides an easy-to-comprehend introduction to five essential research tools—Markov decision process, game theory and information economics, queueing games, econometric methods, and data science—by illustrating their uses and applicability on examples from diverse healthcare settings, thus connecting tools with thrusts. The primary audience of the Handbook includes analytics scholars interested in healthcare and healthcare practitioners interested in analytics. This Handbook: Instills analytics scholars with a way of thinking that incorporates behavioral, incentive, and policy considerations in various healthcare settings. This change in perspective—a shift in gaze away from narrow, local and one-off operational improvement efforts that do not replicate, scale or remain sustainable—can lead to new knowledge and innovative solutions that healthcare has been seeking so desperately.Facilitates collaboration between healthcare experts and analytics scholar to frame and tackle their pressing concerns through appropriate modern mathematical tools designed for this very purpose. The handbook is designed to be accessible to the independent reader, and it may be used in a variety of settings, from a short lecture series on specific topics to a semester-long course.
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Business Analytics for Managers
The practice of business is changing. More and more companies are amassing larger and larger amounts of data, and storing them in bigger and bigger data bases. Consequently, successful applications of data-driven decision making are plentiful and increasing on a daily basis. This book will motivate the need for data and data-driven solutions, using real data from real business scenarios. It will allow managers to better interact with personnel specializing in analytics by exposing managers and decision makers to the key ideas and concepts of data-driven decision making. Business Analytics for Managers conveys ideas and concepts from both statistics and data mining with the goal of extracting knowledge from real business data and actionable insight for managers. Throughout, emphasis placed on conveying data-driven thinking. While the ideas discussed in this book can be implemented using many different software solutions from many different vendors, it also provides a quick-start to one of the most powerful software solutions available.The main goals of this book are as follows: to excite managers and decision makers about the potential that resides in data and the value that data analytics can add to business processes and provide managers with a basic understanding of the main concepts of data analytics and a common language to convey data-driven decision problems so they can better communicate with personnel specializing in data mining or statistics.
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Data Analysis for Business Decision Making
This laboratory manual is intended for business analysts who wish to increase their skills in the use of statistical analysis to support business decisions. Most of the case studies use Excel,today's most common analysis tool. They range from the most basic descriptive analytical techniques to more advanced techniques such as linear regression and forecasting. Advanced projects cover inferential statistics for continuous variables (t-Test) and categorical variables (chi-square), as well as A/B testing. The manual ends with techniques to deal with the analysis of text data and tools to manage the analysis of large data sets (Big Data) using Excel. Includes companion files with solution spreadsheets, sample files, data sets, etc. from the book.Features:Teaches the statistical analysis skills needed to support business decisionsProvides projects ranging from the most basic descriptive analytical techniques to more advanced techniques such as linear regression, forecasting, inferential statistics, and analyzing big data setsIncludes companion files with solution spreadsheets, sample files, data sets, etc. used in the book's case studies
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Python For ArcGIS
This book introduces Python scripting for geographic information science (GIS) workflow optimization using ArcGIS. It builds essential programming skills for automating GIS analysis. Over 200 sample Python scripts and 175 classroom-tested exercises reinforce the learning objectives. Readers will learn to: • Write and run Python in the ArcGIS Python Window, the PythonWin IDE, and the PyScripter IDE • Work with Python syntax and data types • Call ArcToolbox tools, batch process GIS datasets, and manipulate map documents using the arcpy package • Read and modify proprietary and ASCII text GIS data • Parse HTML web pages and KML datasets • Create Web pages and fetch GIS data from Web sources. • Build user-interfaces with the native Python file dialog toolkit or the ArcGIS Script tools and PyToolboxes Python for ArcGIS is designed as a primary textbook for advanced-level students in GIS. Researchers, government specialists and professionals working in GIS will also find this book useful as a reference.
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Python Programming for Biology
Do you have a biological question that could be readily answered by computational techniques, but little experience in programming? Do you want to learn more about the core techniques used in computational biology and bioinformatics? Written in an accessible style, this guide provides a foundation for both newcomers to computer programming and those interested in learning more about computational biology. The chapters guide the reader through: a complete beginners' course to programming in Python, with an introduction to computing jargon; descriptions of core bioinformatics methods with working Python examples; scientific computing techniques, including image analysis, statistics and machine learning. This book also functions as a language reference written in straightforward English, covering the most common Python language elements and a glossary of computing and biological terms. This title will teach undergraduates, postgraduates and professionals working in the life sciences how to program with Python, a powerful, flexible and easy-to-use language.
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Data Analytics and Business Intelligence
Business Analytics (BA) is an evolving phenomenon that showcases the increasing importance of using huge volumes of data to generate value for businesses. Advances in BA have offered great opportunities for organisations to improve, innovate, and develop existing or new processes, products, and services. BA is the process of transforming data into actionable insight by using statistical and mathematical analysis, descriptive, prescriptive, and predictive models, machine learning, information systems and network science methods, among others, along with a variety of data, expert knowledge, and fact-based management to support better and faster decision-making.BA and Business Intelligence (BI) generate capabilities for companies to compete in the market effectively and has become one of the main functional areas in most companies. BA tools are used in diverse ways, for example, to identify consumer behaviour patterns and market trends, to derive valuable insights on the performance of stocks, to find information on the attrition rate of employees, to analyse and solve healthcare problems, to offer insight into inventory management and supply chain management, to analyse data from social networks, and to infer traffic behaviour and develop traffic management policy, among others.BA and BI have become one of the most popular research areas in academic circles, as well as in the industry, driven by the increasing demand in the business world. This book aims to become a stimulus for innovative business solutions covering a wide range of aspects of business analytics, such as management science, information technology, descriptive, prescriptive, and predictive models, machine learning, network science, mathematical and statistical techniques. The book will encompass a valuable collection of chapters exploring and discussing computational frameworks, practices, and applications of BA that can assist industries and relevant stakeholders in decision-making and problem-solving exercises, with a view to driving competitive advantage.
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Health Analytics
A hands-on, analytics road map for health industry leaders The industry-wide transformation taking place across the health and life sciences ecosystem is mandating that organizations adopt new decision-making capabilities, based on science and real-world information. Analytics will be a required competency for the modern health enterprise; this book is about how to "cross the chasm." The ultimate analytics guide for the health industry leader, this essential book equips business leaders with little-to-no experience in analytics to understand how to incorporate analytics as a cornerstone of their 21st century competitive business strategy. Paints the picture for a new health enterprise, one focused on the patientExplores the financial components of this new operating model, using analytics to optimize the tradeoffs between cost and valueDeals with the rising role of the consumer, using analytics to create a completely new health engagement model with individual recipients of careLooks at how analytics can drive innovations in care practice, patient-experienced medical outcomes, and analytically driven novel therapies optimized for the individual patientPresents a variety of text, tables, and graphics illustrating the various concepts being described Within each section and chapter, Health Analytics assesses the current landscape, proposing a new model/concept, sharing real-world stories of how the old and new world come together, and framing a "how-to" for the reader in terms of growing that particular set of capabilities in their own enterprises.
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Sports Analytics in Practice with R
Sports Analytics in Practice with R A practical guide for those looking to employ the latest and leading analytical software in sport In the last twenty years, sports organizations have become a data-driven business. Before this, most decisions in sports were qualitatively driven by subject-matter experts. In the years since numerous teams found success with “Money Ball” analytical perspectives, the industry has sought to advance its analytical acumen to improve on- and off-field outcomes. The increasing demand for data to inform decisions for coaches, scouts, and players before and during sporting events has led to intriguing efforts to build upon this quantitative approach. As this methodology for assessing performance has matured and grown in importance, so too has the open-source R software emerged as one of the leading analytical software packages. In fact, R is a top 10 programming language that is useful in academia and industry for statistics, machine learning, and rapid prototyping. Sports Analytics in Practice with R neatly marries these two advances to teach basic analytics for sports-related use—from cricket to baseball, from basketball to tennis, from soccer to sports gambling, and more. Sports Analytics in Practice with R readers will also find: A broad perspective of sports, focusing on a wide range of sports rather than just oneThe first book of its kind that features coding examplesCase study approach throughout the bookCompanion website including data sets to work through alongside the explanations Sports Analytics in Practice with R is a helpful tool for students and professionals in the sports management field, but also for sports enthusiasts who have a coding background.
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Datamining und Computational Finance
Der Schwerpunkt des siebten Karlsruher Ökonometrie-Workshops lag auf der Anwendung Neuronaler Netze bei Finanzzeitreihen, dem Einsatz von Datamining und Maschinellen Lernverfahren bei Fragestellungen des Finanzbereichs und quantitativen Methoden zur Beurteilung von Markt- und Länderrisiken. Das Spektrum ausgewählter Referate in diesem Buch, u.a. auch von international renommierten Experten, reicht von allgemeinen Betrachtungen zur Prognose mit Neuronalen Netzen und empirischen Ergebnissen für Wechselkurse, Rentenmärkte und Absatzzahlen über die Beurteilung von Marktrisiken und die Kreditüberwachung mit Maschinellen Lernverfahren bis zur Ermittlung und Einschätzung von Länderrisiken. Dieser Band berichtet über die aktuelle Entwicklung in diesen Gebieten und bietet ein Forum für Diskussionen.
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People Analytics
How can you turn HR data into insights that boost business performance? People Analytics by Cole Napper is a practical guide for HR managers, business partners and mid-career professionals who want to use data, analytics and AI to deliver measurable value across the organization. Written by a leading voice in the field, the book explains how to integrate people analytics into daily decision-making, from building robust HR data infrastructure to applying ethical, AI-driven insights. Drawing on real-world examples from Toyota, PepsiCo, Lightcast, Booster and FedEx, it provides a clear roadmap for building capability and confidence in data-led HR. You'll learn how to: - Design a people analytics function that supports strategic business goals - Build high-quality HR data systems for accurate, reliable insights - Apply AI and generative AI to enhance analysis and forecasting - Use analytics ethically to improve talent decisions and workforce planning With practical models, step-by-step guidance and proven real-world examples, People Analytics equips mid-career professionals to turn HR data into a competitive advantage, helping you make smarter decisions and demonstrate the strategic value of your role. Themes include: people analytics, HR data strategy, AI in HR, ethical analytics, data-driven decision-making
R 4,892.18
Urban Analytics with Social Media Data
The use of data science and urban analytics has become a defining feature of smart cities. This timely book is a clear guide to the use of social media data for urban analytics.The book presents the foundations of urban analytics with social media data, along with real-world applications and insights on the platforms we use today. It looks at social media analytics platforms, cyberphysical data analytics platforms, crowd detection platforms, City-as-a-Platform, and city-as-a-sensor for platform urbanism. The book provides examples to illustrate how we apply and analyse social media data to determine disaster severity, assist authorities with pandemic policy, and capture public perception of smart cities.This will be a useful reference for those involved with and researching social, data, and urban analytics and informatics.
R 2,665.29
Optical Electromagnetic Field Analysis Using Python
In this book, Kajikawa and Okamoto explain how to use Python to calculate and visualize the optical response of microscopic structures and systems. Throughout, the authors provide varied examples to instruct readers in the application of theoretical knowledge to real-world scenarios.Electromagnetic field analysis is often necessary to determine the optical response of materials with microscopic structures. Although the principles are widely described, the manual calculation and visualization of results are not and remain challenging. Python is the ideal language to use for this as it has a large functional library for visualizing analysis results and is suitable for programming beginners to use at low cost, so it has many advantages over languages like Fortran, BASIC, and C. Here, the authors introduce the application of Python to various electromagnetic field analysis scenarios in the field of nanophotonics. The first half of the book describes cases in which there is an analytical solution for the structure and addresses scenarios such as scattering and absorption in spherical and cylindrical structures and complex structures such as rotating ellipsoids, sphere-aggregated structures, and hemispherical structures. The second half describes methods including rigorous coupling wave analysis, finite-difference time-domain method and discrete dipole approximation for numerically solving varied structures. This book enables readers to conduct their own electromagnetic field analysis quickly, cheaply, and accurately without in-depth study of other complicated and time-consuming approaches or programs.This book is invaluable for researchers and postgraduate students working in the fields of optics and photonics. Additionally, the contents are useful not only for those conducting electromagnetic field analysis but also those simulating physical, chemical, and biological phenomena.
R 7,576.00
Fundamentals of HR Analytics
The future of the Human Resource Management profession is inextricably linked to understanding data analytics. This book provides practical, hands-on approaches to connect data to HR policies and practices to help influence overall business performance. Building on traditional HR skillsets, the book makes understanding and engaging with data analytics possible for professionals at all levels. Leveraging key statistical and financial concepts, including ROI and people productivity, and commonly available tools such as Workday and Tableau, the authors explore key skills and tasks in an accessible and illuminating way, including: data-analytic thinking data management data collection clean-up and warehousing building descriptive and predictive models applying HR analytics skills and tools to workforce planning, recruitment, training, and turnover analysis. Fundamentals of HR Analytics is an essential resource for aspiring, new and experienced HR professionals across a wide range of industrial contexts, as well as data analysts working on business workforce focused projects and upper level students of HR encountering data analytics in this context for the first time.
R 1,557.00
Neural Network Data Analysis Using Simulnet™
This book and software package complements the traditional data analysis tools already widely available. It presents an introduction to the analysis of data using neural network functions such as multilayer feed-forward networks using error back propagation, genetic algorithm-neural network hybrids, generalised regression neural networks, learning quantizer networks, and self-organising feature maps. In an easy-to-use, Windows-based environment it offers a wide range of data analytic tools which are not usually found together: genetic algorithms, probabilistic networks, as well as a number of related techniques that support these. Readers are assumed to have a basic understanding of computers and elementary mathematics, allowing them to quickly conduct sophisticated hands-on analyses of data sets.
R 2,198.12
Computing Predictive Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Economics
This volume brings together research and system designs that address the scientific basis and the practical systems design issues that support areas ranging from intelligent business interfaces and predictive analytics to economics modeling. Applications for management science and IT have been of interest areas for business schools and computing experts during recent years. Among the areas that are being treated are modern analytics, heterogeneous computing, business intelligence, ERP (enterprise resource planning), and decision science. Consumers have been pledging their love for data visualizations for a while now, and data is the area being explored, such as B2B and EC (E-commerce), E-business and the Intelligent Web, CRM (customer relationship management), infrastructures, and more. The digitization implications of these many new applications are described and explored in this informative volume.One of BookAuthority’s Best New Analytics Books to Read in 2020!
R 6,001.40
Big Data Analytics
Big Data Analytics: Digital Marketing and Decision-Making covers the advances related to marketing and business analytics. Investment marketing analytics can create value through proper allocation of resources and resource orchestration processes. The use of data analytics tools can be used to improve and speed decision-making processes.Chapters examining analytics for decision-making cover such topics as: Big data analytics for gathering business intelligenceData analytics and consumer behaviorThe role of big data analytics in organizational decision-makingThis book also looks at digital marketing and focuses on such areas as: The prediction of marketing by consumer analyticsWeb analytics for digital marketingSmart retailingLeveraging web analytics for optimizing digital marketing strategiesBig Data Analytics: Digital Marketing and Decision-Making aims to help organizations increase their profits by making better decisions on time through the use of data analytics. It is written for students, practitioners, industry professionals, researchers, and faculty working in the field of commerce and marketing, big data analytics, and organizational decision-making.
R 2,716.09
Data Science and Machine Learning
Praise for the first edition:“In nine succinct but information-packed chapters, the authors provide a logically structured and robust introduction to the mathematical and statistical methods underpinning the still-evolving field of AI and data science.”- Joacim Rocklöv and Albert A. Gayle, International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 49, Issue 6“This book organizes the algorithms clearly and cleverly. The way the Python code was written follows the algorithm closely—very useful for readers who wish to understand the rationale and flow of the background knowledge.”- Yin-Ju Lai and Chuhsing Kate Hsiao, Biometrics, Volume 77, Issue 4The purpose of Data Science and Machine Learning: Mathematical and Statistical Methods is to provide an accessible, yet comprehensive textbook intended for students interested in gaining a better understanding of the mathematics and statistics that underpin the rich variety of ideas and machine learning algorithms in data science.New in the Second EditionThis expanded edition provides updates across key areas of statistical learning: Monte Carlo Methods: A new section introducing regenerative rejection sampling - a simpler alternative to MCMC. Unsupervised Learning: Inclusion of two multidimensional diffusion kernel density estimators, as well as the bandwidth perturbation matching method for the optimal data-driven bandwidth selection. Regression: New automatic bandwidth selection for local linear regression. Feature Selection and Shrinkage: A new chapter introducing the klimax method for model selection in high-dimensions. Reinforcement Learning: A new chapter on contemporary topics such as policy iteration, temporal difference learning, and policy gradient methods, all complete with Python code. Appendices: Expanded treatment of linear algebra, functional analysis, and optimization that includes the coordinate-descent method and the novel Majorization–Minimization method for constrained optimization.Key Features:Focuses on mathematical understanding.Presentation is self-contained, accessible, and comprehensive.Extensive list of exercises and worked-out examples.Many concrete algorithms with Python code.Full color throughout and extensive indexing.A single-counter consecutive numbering of all theorems, definitions, equations, etc., for easier text searches.
R 4,066.00
