Business applications Books

This book provides hands-on guidance for researchers and practitioners in criminal justice and criminology to perform statistical analyses and data visualization in the free and open-source software R. It offers a step-by-step guide for beginners to...

This volume contains a collection of studies in the areas of complexity theory and property testing. The 21 pieces of scientific work included were conducted at different times, mostly during the last decade. Although most of these works have been cited...

The fourth edition of this classic textbook provides major updates. This edition has completely new chapters on Big Data Platforms (distributed storage systems, MapReduce, Spark, data stream processing, graph analytics) and on NoSQL, NewSQL and polystore...

Are you ready to take your knowledge of PowerPoint past the basics? Then this is the book for you. Learn how to work with WordArt, shapes, charts, SmartArt, videos, slide transitions and more.Note that this book assumes that you already know the basics...

Leverage the Full Power of Excel FunctionsExcel 2019 Functions provides a detailed walkthrough of 70 of the most useful Excel functions, including many tips to enable you to maximize the power of Excel through the use of functions.This book provides a...

We are bold and we take our customers on a journey to utopia, a world where IT services just work. We speak about outcomes for our customers rather than technology as this is the language of 'as a service'. The best thing about Office 365 and...

MATLAB is a powerful, versatile, and interactive software for scientific and technical computations, including simulations. Specialized toolboxes provided with built-in functions are a special feature of MATLAB. This book aims...

A practical guide to implementing your enterprise data lake using Lambda Architecture as the baseKey Features:Build a full-fledged data lake for your organization with popular big data technologies using the Lambda architecture as the baseDelve into the...

Understand, design, and implement state-of-the-art mathematical and statistical applications used in finance with PythonKey Features:Explore financial models used by the industry and ways of solving them with this guideDiscover the various features that...

Explore the great features of the all-new JIRA 7 to manage projects and effectively handle bugs and software issuesKey Features:Updated for JIRA 7, this book covers all the new features introduced in JIRA 7 with a dedicated chapter on JIRA Service...

Problem management is the IT service management process that tends to return more benefits more quickly than any of the others. This book offers real-world guidance on all aspects of implementing and running an effective problem management function. It...

Are you ready to become an AI Hero and make positive transformation? In Become an AI Hero: A Journey Towards Inclusive Innovation, Award-Winning Talent Development Expert, Liza Wisner takes readers on a profound odyssey into the heart of the digital...

Researchers travel on paths of knowledge throughout life and the outcomes of rigorous scientific investigation result in contributions of new knowledge to the world. The Information Systems (IS) discipline is particularly suited for contributing to...

For SAS programmers or analysts who need to generalize their programs or improve programming efficiency, Art Carpenter thoroughly updates his successful second edition of Carpenter's Complete Guide to the SAS Macro Language with an extensive collection...

This book was written to provide resource materials for teachers to use in their introductory or intermediate statistics class. The  chapter content is ordered along the lines of many popular statistics books so it should be easy to supplement the...

Monte Carlo methods are among the most used and useful computational tools available today, providing efficient and practical algorithims to solve a wide range of scientific and engineering problems. Applications covered in this book include...

Learn how to automate your Kubernetes infrastructure using Ansible. This book will enable you to automate more tasks and save time with this human-readable platform.Containerized microservices deployed via Kubernetes allows you to save time, reduce human...

Learn, develop and hone your Linux and DevOps skills by building a lab for learning, testing and exploring the latest Linux and open-source technologies. This book helps Linux users and others to master modern DevOps practices using a wide range of...

Use this book to learn the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), a new event-driven runtime from Microsoft designed to help developers build microservices applications, using a palette of languages and frameworks that run everywhere: on-premises, in...

Write automated unit tests for the ABAP language. This book teaches programmers using simple examples and metaphors and explains the underlying concepts of writing effective automated unit tests. Many, if not most, ABAP programmers learned their...

Design an enterprise solution from scratch that allows the migration of a legacy application. Begin with the planning and design phase and be guided through all the stages of selecting the architecture framework that fits your enterprise.Join Microsoft...

MATLAB is a high-level language and environment for numerical computation, visualization, and programming. Using MATLAB, you can analyze data, develop algorithms, and create models and applications. The language, tools, and built-in math functions enable...

Python Algorithms, Second Edition explains the Python approach to algorithm analysis and design. Written by Magnus Lie Hetland, author of Beginning Python, this book is sharply focused on classical algorithms, but it also gives a solid understanding of...

This book provides practical advice on how to develop an enterprise architecture practice. The authors developed different tools and models to support organizations in implementing and professionalizing an enterprise...

How do you design personalized user experiences that delight and provide value to the customers of an eCommerce site? Personalization does not guarantee high quality user experience: a personalized user experience has the best...

In a world where technology is advancing at an astounding rate, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL) are leading the way in bringing about previously unheard-of changes to almost every aspect of our lives...

Interactive Operations Research with Maple: Methods and Models has two ob­ jectives: to provide an accelerated introduction to the computer algebra system Maple and, more importantly, to demonstrate Maple's usefulness in...

Nonlinear physics continues to be an area of dynamic modern research, with applications to physics, engineering, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, biology, medicine and economics. In this text extensive use is made of...

Differential equations is a subject of wide applicability, and knowledge of dif­ Differential equations is a subject of wide applicability, and knowledge of dif­ ferential ferential equations equations topics topics permeates...

I am not a born academic. I deliberately joined the ranks of academia at a fairly late stage as a natural progression from my professional career as an executive in what in those days was known as "decision support". My career...