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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Description
"Data describe and represent the world. However, no matter how big they may be, data sets don't - indeed cannot - capture everything. Data are measurements - and, as such, they represent only what has been measured. They don't necessarily capture all the information that is relevant to the questions we may want to ask. If we do not take into account what may be missing/unknown in the data we have, we may find ourselves unwittingly asking questions...
4) Google BigQuery: the definitive guide : data warehousing, analytics, and machine learning at Scale
Author
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Derive insights from petabyte-scale datasets while building a collaborative, agile workplace in the process. This practical book is the canonical reference to Google BigQuery whose storage system lets you consolidate data from across your enterprise, and whose query engine enables you to condust interactive analysis and machine learning on large datasets. BigQuery enables enterprises to efficiently store, query, ingest, and learn from data in one...
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Language
English
Description
An irreverent, provocative, and visually fascinating look at what our online lives reveal about who we really are--and how this deluge of data will transform the science of human behavior. Big Data is used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us things we don't need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder puts this flood of information to an entirely different use: understanding human nature. Drawing on terabytes of data from Twitter, Facebook, Reddit,...
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Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Developing a successful workforce requires more than instinct. Data helps guide decisions on how to hire quality employees and keep them satisfied. This book shows how to build a people analytics strategy and apply your findings toward creating a more engaged workforce. If your organization wants to understand why you miss headcount targets, why high performers leave, or why one department has more production issues than another, this book is for...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
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Description
Looks at the state of knowledge in the American public, and demonstrates how many areas of knowledge correlate with quality of life, politics, and behavior, arguing that being knowledgeable has significant value even when facts can be looked up with little effort.
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
How deep learning-from Google Translate to driverless cars to personal cognitive assistants-is changing our lives and transforming every sector of the economy. The deep learning revolution has brought us driverless cars, the greatly improved Google Translate, fluent conversations with Siri and Alexa, and enormous profits from automated trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Deep learning networks can play poker better than professional poker players...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When the term "big data" first came on the scene, author Tom Davenport thought it was just another example of technology hype. But his research in the years that followed changed his mind. Now, in clear, conversational language, Davenport explains what big data means--and why everyone in business needs to know about it. Big Data at Work covers all the bases: what big data means from a technical, consumer, and management perspective; what its opportunities...
Author
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Authors Javier Luraschi, Kevin Kuo, and Edgar Ruiz show you how to combine R with Spark to analyze data at scale. This book covers relevant data science topics, cluster computing, and issues that will interest even the most advanced users."-- Back cover.
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
The threats to privacy are well known: the National Security Agency tracks our phone calls; Google records where we go online and how we set our thermostats; Facebook changes our privacy settings when it wishes; Target gets hacked and loses control of our credit card information; our medical records are available for sale to strangers; our children are fingerprinted and their every test score saved for posterity; and small robots patrol our schoolyards...
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Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
" "One of the most exciting developments from the world of ideas in decades, presented with panache by two frighteningly brilliant, endearingly unpretentious, and endlessly creative young scientists." - Steven Pinker, author of The Better Angels of Our Nature Our society has gone from writing snippets of information by hand to generating a vast flood of 1s and 0s that record almost every aspect of our lives: who we know, what we do, where we go, what...
18) Shifting the balance: how top organizations beat the competition by combining intuition with data
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Digital transformation expert Mark Schrutt reveals how the world's top companies are using vast amounts of data to inform their decisions, disrupt industries, and get closer to their customers. Businesses that continue to rely only on intuition do so at their peril. What if you had the data you always wanted and could tell what was truly an emerging trend that would forever change your industry? Shifting the Balance analyzes the turn towards data-driven...
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