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Author
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller, These Truths. The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has...
Publisher
Toronto Academic Press
Publication Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
This book seeks to familiarize students with the fundamental concepts and techniques used in the field of data mining. The content spans a wide range of topics including data preprocessing, classification, clustering, association analysis, and anomaly detection. By combining theoretical insights with practical examples, the book aims to equip students with the skills necessary to extract meaningful patterns and knowledge from large datasets, thus...
Author
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Publication Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Mine the rich data tucked away in popular social websites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and GitHub. With the third edition of this popular guide, data scientists, analysts,and programmers will learn how to glean insights from social media--who's connecting with whom, what they're talking about, and where they're located--using Python code examples, Jupyter notebooks, or Docker containers."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Arcler Press
Publication Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Applications of data mining in engineering, management and medicine has been broadlydivided into four sections. According to some industry specialists, 'Data is the newgold' and has numerous applications in each and every field of industry, be it the engineering,medicine or management. The need of data mining in engineering, managementand medicine is due to the fact that, these industries generate data in largequantities and data mining has made the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Publication Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
IT professionals around the globe are now being challenged to manage, organize and analyze these vast data sets strategically; to identify new business trends, conduct highly-advanced product research and even predict threats to enterprise security. This report will introduce and explore the world of "Big Data" and offer advice and best practices that will help professionals understand and make the most of this incredible organizational resource....
Author
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"THE EYE TEST is a necessary course correction, a call for a more balanced, personal approach to problem solving. Award-winning journalist Chris Jones makes the case for the human element-for what smart, practiced, devoted people can bring to situations that have proved resistant to analytics. Jones shares what he's learned from an army of extraordinary talents, including some of the best doctors, executives, athletes, meteorologists, magicians, designers,...
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Series
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Over half of all businesses are using data science to generate insights and value from big data. How are they doing it? Data Science Strategy For Dummies answers all your questions about how to build a data science capability from scratch, starting with the "what" and the "why" of data science and covering what it takes to lead and nurture a top-notch team of data scientists."--Amazon.
16) Data-ism: the revolution transforming decision making, consumer behavior, and almost everything else
Author
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A technology reporter for the "New York Times" traces the rise of Big Data and explains how individuals and institutions will need to exploit, protect, and manage their data to stay competitive in the coming years.
17) The bell ringers
Author
Publication Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The death of a former British head of intelligence triggers an all-out resistance movement led by the Bell Ringers against an out-of-control, security-obsessed state.
Author
Publication Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Monetize your company's data and data science expertise without spending a fortune on hiring independent strategy consultants to help. What if there was one simple, clear process for ensuring that all your company's data science projects achieve a high a return on investment? What if you could validate your ideas for future data science projects, and select the one idea that's most prime for achieving profitability while also moving your company closer...
Author
Publication Date
2022
Language
English
Description
You know less than you think you do - about what makes you healthy, what makes you rich, who you should date, where you should live. You know less than you think you do about how to raise your children, or, for that matter, whether you should have children in the first place. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz showed how big data is revolutionising the social sciences. He shows how big data can help us find answers to some of the most important questions we...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The bizarre and captivating story of the most important person you've never heard of. The world we live in today, where everything is tracked by corporations and governments, originates with one manic, elusive, utterly unique man--as prone to bullying as he was to fits of surpassing generosity and surprising genius. His name was Hank Asher, and his life was a strange and spectacular show that changed the course of the future. In The Hank Show, critically...