The big data-driven business : how to use big data to win customers, beat competitors, and boost profits by Glass, Russell, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 9: Implementing a Big Data Plan (Sometimes by Thinking Small)Eleven Principles to Follow When Bringing Big Data into Your Business; Focus on the Customer to Determine What Questions You Want Your Data to Answer; It's Big Data, but Start Small; Don't Bet Everything on Technology; Hire the Right People; Maintain Some Control of the Technology Piece; Measure, Measure, and Measure Some More; Stay on Top of Your Data and the Processes Around That Data; Conduct a Data Audit and Strive to Integrate Data Silos; Cooperate with IT, Sales, Human Resources, and Other Stakeholders.…”
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1,001 grammar practice questions for dummies by Woods, Geraldine

Table of Contents: “…At a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; What You'll Find; How This Workbook Is Organized; Beyond the Book; Where to Go for Additional Help; Part I: The Questions; Chapter 1: Time Travel: Identifying the Verb and Choosing the Correct Tense; The Questions You'll Answer; What to Watch Out For; Locating the Verb; Choosing Simple and Perfect Tense Verb Forms; Consistently Choosing the Right Verb Tense; Chapter 2: Taking a Look at Irregular, Helping, and Descriptive Verb Forms; The Questions You'll Work On; What to Watch Out For; Handling Irregular Verbs.…”
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VMware vRealize operations performance and capacity management : a hands-on guide to mastering performacne and capacity management in a virtual data center by Rahabok, Iwan 'e1'

Table of Contents: “…Network counters at the Distributed Switch levelNetwork counters at higher levels; Summary; Chapter 7: Storage Counters; The multilayer storage; Storage counters at the VM level; Putting it all together; VM storage key counters; Storage counters at the ESXi level; Storage counters at the cluster level; Storage counters at the datastore level; Storage counters at the datastore cluster level; Storage counters at the higher level; Storage contention guidance; Summary; Chapter 8: Dashboard Examples and Ideas; Planning for your dashboards; Using the right counters…”
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Mastering Unity 2D Game Development : Become an expert in Unity3D's new 2D system, and then join in the adventure to build an RPG game framework! by Jackson, Simon

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 2: Building a CharacterGetting your project started -- the right way; Structure; Object naming; Understanding components; Accessing components using a shortcut; A better way to use components -- referencing; An even better way; Creating the project; Classes; The object-orientated design; The game structure; The common game object; More later; Planning behaviors; Behaviors for the common game object; Behaviors for the player''s character; Introducing the Unity sprite system; Importing sprites; Texture type -- sprite; Sprite Mode -- single/multiple; Packing tag; Pixels to units.…”
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The detective as historian : history and art in historical crime fiction

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Beginning HTML and CSS by Larsen, Rob

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 4: Images, Audio, and Video; Adding Images Using the Element; Using Images as Links; Choosing the Right Image Format; Adding Flash, Video, and Audio to Your Web Pages; Summary; Chapter 5: Tables; Introducing Tables; Basic Table Elements and Attributes; Adding a Caption to a Table; Grouping Sections of a Table; Nested Tables; Accessible Tables; Summary; Chapter 6: Forms; Introducing Forms; Creating a Form with the Element; Form Controls; Creating a Contact Form; Creating Labels for Controls and the ElementStructuring Your Forms with and Elements; Focus; Disabled and Read-Only Controls; Sending Form Data to the Server; Creating More Usable Form Fields; Summary.…”
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Reinforcement Learning with TensorFlow : a beginner's guide to designing self-learning systems with TensorFlow and OpenAI Gym. by DUTTA, SAYON

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright and Credits; Packt Upsell; Contributors; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Deep Learning -- Architectures and Frameworks; Deep learning; Activation functions for deep learning; The sigmoid function; The tanh function; The softmax function; The rectified linear unit function; How to choose the right activation function; Logistic regression as a neural network; Notation; Objective; The cost function; The gradient descent algorithm; The computational graph; Steps to solve logistic regression using gradient descent; What is xavier initialization?…”
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Cybersecurity Strategies and Best Practices A Comprehensive Guide to Mastering Enterprise Cyber Defense Tactics and Techniques by Aslaner, Milad

Table of Contents: “…The components of a comprehensive security posture -- Evaluating security technologies -- Understanding the role of security processes -- The human factor in a security posture -- Effective metrics for security programs and teams -- Understanding the importance of security metrics -- Selecting the right metrics -- Implementing and tracking security metrics -- Asset inventory management and its role in security posture -- Understanding asset inventory in cybersecurity -- Building a comprehensive asset inventory -- Maintaining and updating asset inventory…”
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Encyclopedic Liberty : Political Articles in the Dictionary of Diderot and D'Alembert. by Diderot, Denis

Table of Contents: “…Volume 2 (1752), p. 21Brownists (Brownistes), p. 23; Celibacy (Célibat), p. 26; Volume 3 (1753), p. 45; Masterpiece (Chef-d'Œuvre), p. 47; Citizen (Citoyen), p. 49; Trading Company (Compagnie de Commerce), p. 55; Competition (Concurrence), p. 65; Conquest (Conquête), p. 68; Volume 4 (1754), p. 75; Public Corruption (Corruption Publique), p. 77; Democracy (Démocratie), p. 78; Despotism (Despotisme), p. 86; Volume 5 (1755), p. 95; Natural Right (Droit Naturel), p. 97; Natural Law (Droit de la Nature), p. 103; Public Law (Droit Public), p. 113; Natural Equality (Egalité Naturelle), p. 119.…”
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Mastering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central : discover extension development best practices, build advanced ERP integrations, and use DevOps tools by Demiliani, Stefano, Tacconi, Duilio

Table of Contents: “…Installing navcontainerhelper and keeping it updated -- Your first container -- Pulling new image versions -- Using more environment parameters, a volume, and port mapping -- Connecting to an existing SQL Server -- Handling your running containers with NavContainerHelper -- Centrally available on-premise environments -- Containers hosted on Azure VMs -- Choosing the right image -- Modifying scripts inside standard images -- Creating your own images -- Summary -- Section 2: Developing Extensions for Dynamics 365 Business Central -- Chapter 4: Extension Development Fundamentals…”
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C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0 High Performance : Build highly performant, multi-threaded, and concurrent applications using C# 7 and .NET Core 2.0. by Mehboob Ahmed Khan, Ovais

Table of Contents: “…; Understanding the use of Big O notation to measure the performance and complexity of an algorithm; Logarithms; Choosing the right data structure for performance optimization; Arrays; Lists; Stacks; Queue; Linked lists; Singly linked lists; Doubly linked lists; Circular linked lists; Dictionaries, hashtables, and hashsets; Generic lists.…”
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Social media and young people

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VMware vSphere 5.x Datacenter Design Cookbook : Over 70 Recipes to Design a Virtual Datacenter for Performance, Availability, Manageability, and Recoverability with VMware vSphere... by Cartwright, Hersey

Table of Contents: “…Using the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)Understanding the physical storage design; Understanding the physical network design; Creating the physical compute design; Creating a custom ESXi image; Best practices for ESXi host BIOS settings; Chapter 9:The Virtual Machine Design; Introduction; Right-sizing virtual machines; Enabling CPU Hot Add and Memory Hot Plug; Creating virtual machine templates; Using vApps to organize virtualized applications; Using VM affinity and anti-affinity rules; Converting physical servers with vCenter Converter Standalone.…”
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CompTIA Network+ study guide, exam N10-007 by Lammle, Todd

Table of Contents: “…; Physical Network Topologies; Bus Topology; Star Topology; Ring Topology; Mesh Topology; Point-to-Point Topology; Point-to-Multipoint Topology; Hybrid Topology; Topology Selection, Backbones, and Segments; Selecting the Right Topology.…”
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The role of federal military forces in domestic disorders, 1945-1992 by Scheips, Paul J.

Table of Contents: “…Society and law ; The Army's role reconsidered ; Command and control ; Intelligence ; National Guard standards ; What was right with the Army ; Rebuilding the Guard ; Recommendations from the Hill ; The Army's own conclusions ; The Army's CIvil Disturbance Plan ; Intelligence planning and collection -- The march on the Pentagon. …”
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Practical guide to applied conformal prediction in Python : learn and apply the best uncertainty frameworks to your industry applications by Manokhin, Valery

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 5: Types of Conformal Predictors -- Understanding classical predictors -- Applying TCP for classification problems -- Applying TCP for regression problems -- Advantages -- Understanding inductive conformal predictors -- Choosing the right conformal predictor -- Transductive conformal predictors -- Inductive conformal predictors -- Summary -- Part 3: Applications of Conformal Prediction -- Chapter 6: Conformal Prediction for Classification -- Classifier calibration -- Understanding the concepts of classifier calibration -- Evaluating calibration performance…”
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Linux essentials by Smith, Roderick W.

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Climate change geoengineering : philosophical perspectives, legal issues, and governance frameworks

Table of Contents: “…Geoengineering: Fifteen Years Later; 2.1 Nomenclature: Let Us Get Rid of "Geoengineering"; 2.2 What Has Not Changed, or: 500 Wrongs Do Make a Right; 2.3 What Has Changed; 2.3.1 Geoengineering Comes of Age; 3. …”
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Pro SQL Server on Microsoft Azure by Mazumdar, Pranab, Agarwal, Sourabh, Banerjee, Amit

Table of Contents: “…File StorageDesign Decisions; Azure Storage Architecture Internals; Replication Engine; Layers Within a Storage Stamp; Maintaining Availability/Consistency for Read Requests; Load Balancing of Partition Layer; Load Balancing of the DFS Layer; Load Balancing of DFS Capacity; Durability Offerings with Azure Storage; Azure Premium Storage; Creating an Azure VM Machine Using Premium Storage and PowerShell; Inside Premium Storage; Azure Storage Best Practices; Performance Enhancement Using Blobs; Copy/Move Blobs; AzCopy; Choosing the Right Kind of Blob; Performance Enhancement Using Tables.…”
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Solving Engineering Mechanics Problems with MATLAB by Dukkipati, Rao V.

Table of Contents: “…2.9.3 Matrix2.9.4 Addressing Arrays; 2.9.4.1 Colon for a vector; 2.9.4.2 Colon for a matrix; 2.9.5 Adding Elements to a Vector or a Matrix; 2.9.6 Deleting Elements; 2.9.7 Built-in Functions; 2.10 Operations with Arrays; 2.10.1 Addition and Subtraction of Matrices; 2.10.2 Dot Product; 2.10.3 Array Multiplication; 2.10.4 Array Division; 2.10.5 Identity Matrix; 2.10.6 Inverse of a Matrix; 2.10.7 Transpose; 2.10.8 Determinant; 2.10.9 Array Division; 2.10.10 Left Division; 2.10.11 Right Division; 2.10.12 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors; 2.11 Element-By-Element Operations…”
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