Books

'Big Data' is certainly a cultural and business phenomenon. But what challenges do Data Scientists face in their day-to-day jobs. This collection of interviews with thought-leaders with experience at firms such as Etsy, Spotify, Amazon, Shopify and Stitchfix is an invaluable read to anyone working as a data scientist or managing a team. --------------------- To help support the scientific programming and data analysis community all proceeds from this book will be donated to NumFOCUS.

Textbook for two-quarter course on electronics. Designed around the lab projects, not the theory. Three main concepts: voltage dividers, complex impedance, and negative-feedback amplifiers. Includes blood-pressure, optical pulse monitor, EKG, and class-D power audio amplifier, among other projects. (Students in my class get free coupons.)

This is one of a series of character interviews from The Flame Before Us. This interview is with Hekanefer, formerly a Mitsriy scribe attached to a military unit stationed in Gedjet and part of the army responsible for defending the province. He is now living in Shalem. If you like the interview and extract, The Flame Before Us is available as a full-length novel.

This is one of a series of character interviews from The Flame Before Us. This interview is with Nikleos and Kastiandra, who travelled with their Sherden clan east across the sea and then south from Wilios. The clan has now settled peaceably outside the town of Yabesh, to the east of the River and just outside the hill country. If you like the interview and extract, The Flame Before Us is available as a full-length novel.

This is one of a series of character interviews from The Flame Before Us. This interview is with Tadugari and Anilat, who fled the destruction of the city of Ikaret and settled in Shalem, at the southern edge of the hill country and a morning's walk from Kephrath. If you like the interview and extract, The Flame Before Us is available as a full-length novel.

Let's discover the 11 behavioral design patterns from the GoF, thanks to a comic strip! A simple approach, with PHP examples and illustrated UML diagrams.Everything you need to remember the following patterns: Template method, Iterator, Command, Interpreter, Strategy, Visitor, Chain of responsibilities, Observer, Mediator, State, Memento.

The API Testing Recipes in Ruby book is a quick problem-solving guide to automated testing APIs such as SOAP and RESTful web services in Ruby language. It contains hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and ready-to-run test scripts you can use in your own projects.

No nos engañemos, tener datos no nos aporta beneficios. Porque creer que recoger datos es suficiente para ganar dinero, es como creer que con compraros una báscula, pesarnos diariamente y llevar un registro de nuestro peso será suficiente para adelgazar. --El 100% de los ingresos del autor son para Oxfam America--

Eine Einführung in die Programmiersprache Python für Mathematiker/innen. Es werden die grundlegenden Konzepte, Kontrollstrukturen, objektorientierte Programmierung, usw. erklärt. Darauf aufbauend symbolisches Rechnen, numerische Mathematik, Datenvisualisierung etc.

“Learn Object-Oriented Java the Hard Way” is a book that teaches you the object-oriented parts of Java with over 50 complete example programs that illustrate each concept step-by-step. Each concept is demonstrated with working code and explained, so that you understand what every line of code does and why it is there. After you work through this book, you should be able to understand the basic structure and function of any Java program, even large programs by professional developers. The exercises and explanations in this book are distilled from my over fifteen years of experience teaching object-oriented programming to everyday students.

A free ebook version of The PHP specification Official Documentation.