A Delicate Balance
by Eric Landree, Richard Silberglitt, and Brian G Chow
A practical and fast-paced guide that gives you all the information you need to start developing charts from your data.Learning QlikView Data Visualization is for anybody interested in performing powerful data analysis and crafting insightful data visualization, independent of any previous knowledge of QlikView. Experience with spreadsheet software will help you understand QlikView functions.
Data is the foundation of any current and future market transformation during this digital era. Companies are expected to adjust or to disappear. However, following assessments by Gartner and Forrester during the past two years, only a small fraction of all enterprises has adequately addressed the handling of data so far. Yet, more and more business leaders have become aware of the topic. They recognize the increasing relevance of data, and the need to act now. Those leaders will welcome this b...
Word Equations and Related Topics (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #572)
This volume contains papers presented at the first international workshop onword equations and related topics held at the University of T}bingen in October 1990. Word equations, the central topic of this annual workshop, lieat the intersection of several important areas of computer science, suchas unification theory, combinatorics on words, list processing, and constraint logic programming. The workshop is a forum where researchers fromthese different domains may present and discuss...
Stochastic Modelling of Big Data in Finance (Chapman and Hall/CRC Financial Mathematics)
by Anatoliy Swishchuk
Stochastic Modelling of Big Data in Finance provides a rigorous overview and exploration of stochastic modelling of big data in finance (BDF). The book describes various stochastic models, including multivariate models, to deal with big data in finance. This includes data in high-frequency and algorithmic trading, specifically in limit order books (LOB), and shows how those models can be applied to different datasets to describe the dynamics of LOB, and to figure out which model is the best with...
Power Programming in HP OpenView
by Raymond P. Caruso, Mark Kean, Power Play Technologies, and Hewlett-Packard Professional Books
44301-0 Leverage HP OpenView's extraordinary power in telecommunications network management. HP OpenView is an extremely powerful network management platform, but many network management applications fail to leverage its full power. This book will help you develop robust telecommunications network management applications that leverage all of OpenView's capabilities, especially its support for CMIP and CMISE. Power Programming in HP OpenView first presents an overview of current network managemen...
As one of the most widely used desktop applications ever created, Excel is familiar to just about everyone with a computer and a keyboard. Yet most of us don't know the full extent of what Excel can do, mostly because of its recent growth in power, versatility, and complexity. The truth is that there are many ways Excel can help make your job easier-beyond calculating sums and averages in a standard spreadsheet. "Analyzing Business Data with Excel" shows you how to solve real-world business prob...
Diese in der Neuauflage zweibandige Einfuhrung behandelt die fundamentalen Modelle, Formalismen und sprachlichen Konstruktionen sowie die wichtigsten Anwendungsgebiete und technischen Konzeptionen der Informatik. Die Darstellung zeichnet sich durch saubere formale Fundierung und begriffliche Klarheit aus. Der vorliegende Band 2 fasst die in der 1. Auflage getrennt erschienenen Teile III und IV zusammen. Teil III behandelt Grundbegriffe und Beschreibungstechniken fur verteilte informationsverarbe...
Structural Information and Communication Complexity (Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, #8179)
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 20th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2013, held in Ischia, Italy, in July 2013. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. SIROCCO is devoted to the study of communication and knowledge in distributed systems. Special emphasis is given to innovative approaches and fundamental understanding, in addition to eff...
Portfolio Assessment of the Department of State Internet Freedom Program
by Ryan Henry, Stacie L. Pettyjohn, and Erin York
Using Open Source Platforms for Business Intelligence (The Morgan Kaufmann Series on Business Intelligence)
by Lyndsay Wise
Open Source BI solutions have many advantages over traditional proprietary software, from offering lower initial costs to more flexible support and integration options; but, until now, there has been no comprehensive guide to the complete offerings of the OS BI market. Writing for IT managers and business analysts without bias toward any BI suite, industry insider Lyndsay Wise covers the benefits and challenges of all available open source BI systems and tools, enabling readers to identify the s...
Learn how to perform data analysis with the R language and software environment, even if you have little or no programming experience. With the tutorials in this hands-on guide, you'll learn how to use the essential R tools you need to know to analyze data, including data types and programming concepts. The second half of Learning R shows you real data analysis in action by covering everything from importing data to publishing your results. Each chapter in the book includes a quiz on what you've...
Java 8 in Action
by Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Mario Fusco, and Alan Mycroft
Optimization of Sustainable Enzymes Production
This book is designed as a reference book and presents a systematic approach to analyze evolutionary and nature-inspired population-based search algorithms. Beginning with an introduction to optimization methods and algorithms and various enzymes, the book then moves on to provide a unified framework of process optimization for enzymes with various algorithms. The book presents current research on various applications of machine learning and discusses optimization techniques to solve real-life p...
Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including NoSQL datastores, stream or batch processors, and message brokers. What are the right choices for your application? How do you make sense of all these buzzwords? In this practical and comprehensive guide, author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate t...
Computational Science and its Applications
Computational science is a rapidly growing multidisciplinary field concerned with the design, implementation, and use of mathematical models to analyze and solve real-world problems. It is an area of science that spans many disciplines and which involves the development of models and allows the use of computers to perform simulations or numerical analysis to understand problems that are computational and theoretical. Computational Science and its Applications provides an opportunity for readers...
Engineering the Complex SOC The first unified hardware/software guide to processor-centric SOC design Processor-centric approaches enable SOC designers to complete far larger projects in far less time. Engineering the Complex SOCis a comprehensive, example-driven guide to creating designs with configurable, extensible processors. Drawing upon Tensilica's Xtensa architecture and TIE language, Dr. Chris Rowen systematically illuminates the issues, opportunities, and challenges of processor-centric...
If you're like most R users, you have deep knowledge and love for statistics. But as your organization continues to collect huge amounts of data, adding tools such as Apache Spark makes a lot of sense. With this practical book, data scientists and professionals working with large-scale data applications will learn how to use Spark from R to tackle big data and big compute problems. Authors Javier Luraschi, Kevin Kuo, and Edgar Ruiz show you how to use R with Spark to solve different data analys...
Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems: An Optimal and Robust Perspective reports and encourages technology transfer in the field of cooperative control of multi-agent systems. The book deals with UGVs, UAVs, UUVs and spacecraft, and more. It presents an extended exposition of the authors' recent work on all aspects of multi-agent technology. Modelling and cooperative control of multi-agent systems are topics of great interest, across both academia (research and education) and industry (for...
As an experienced JavaScript developer moving to server-side programming, you need to implement classic data structures and algorithms associated with conventional object-oriented languages like C# and Java. This practical guide shows you how to work hands-on with a variety of storage mechanisms - including linked lists, stacks, queues, and graphs - within the constraints of the JavaScript environment. Determine which data structures and algorithms are most appropriate for the problems you're tr...