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Smacking some numbers onto a pie chart is old news and simply doesn't work anymore. Keeping your audience inspired and on the edge of their seats through an engaging data story is what we as business professionals should be striving to do. How to Win with Your Data Visualizations uncovers the fundamentals of what makes a winning data presentation and has laid them out in five easy-to-understand parts you can immediately apply to your next chart and presentation to see a winning data story unfold.

A revolution is under way across the globe, yet very few people understand it. Basic Blockchain explains everything you need to know to understand the technology that will soon disrupt and revolutionise everything from financial and health services to the property market and how we vote.

This is a collection of two comprehensive books about data analytics and data mining.

List the hottest buzzwords in business today and "analytics" is bound to come out near the top. But to most people, analytics implies complex tools and technical experts manipulating massive amounts and varieties of information (i.e.,"Big Data"). But complex Big Data analytics isn't the only game in town. And many people don't realize that a business doesn't need data scientists and complex tools to derive useful information and valuable benefits from any amount of raw data.

Big data systems distribute datasets across clusters of machines, making it a challenge to efficiently query, stream, and interpret them. Spark can help. It is a processing system designed specifically for distributed data. It provides easy-to-use interfaces, along with the performance you need for production-quality analytics and machine learning. Spark 2 also adds improved programming APIs, better performance, and countless other upgrades.

While the world is transfixed by bitcoin mania, your competitors are tuning out the noise and making strategic bets on blockchain. Your rivals are effortlessly tracking every last link in their supply chains. They're making bureaucratic paper trails obsolete while keeping their customers' data safer and discovering new ways to use this next foundational technology to sustain their competitive advantage.

Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation - to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union fell apart. Meanwhile, ARPANET, the American precursor to the Internet, went online in 1969. Why did the Soviet network, with top-level scientists and patriotic incentives, fail while the American network succeeded? Find out.

Do you want to master machine learning? This guide explains everything you need to know to finally fully understand machine learning and how you can use it to revolutionize your business and give your marketing plan a boost in the right direction. Each section is chockful of information about this branch of artificial intelligence that’s based on the idea that systems can identify patterns, learn from data, and make decisions with minimal human intervention.

This audiobook has lots of valuable, eye-opening information about data analytics, which will help you understand the concept of data mining, data collection, big data analytics for business, and business intelligence concepts. With this audiobook, not only will you understand all the internal nitty-gritties about data analytics, you will also understand why data analytics is changing the business arena. You’ll realize that the high-performance analytics will enable you to do stuff that you never thought about before.

Phishing Dark Waters addresses the growing and continuing scourge of phishing emails, and provides actionable defensive techniques and tools to help you steer clear of malicious emails. Phishing is analyzed from the viewpoint of human decision-making and the impact of deliberate influence and manipulation on the recipient. With expert guidance, this book provides insight into the financial, corporate espionage, nation state, and identity theft goals of the attackers, and teaches you how to spot a spoofed e-mail or cloned website.

Big Data teaches you to build big data systems using an architecture designed specifically to capture and analyze web-scale data. This book presents the Lambda Architecture, a scalable, easy-to-understand approach that can be built and run by a small team. You'll explore the theory of big data systems and how to implement them in practice. In addition to discovering a general framework for processing big data, you'll learn specific technologies like Hadoop, Storm, and NoSQL databases.

Do you need to learn how to use SQL in order to properly manage a database? Do you want to learn SQL programming without complicated explanations? SQL for Beginners: A Step by Step Guide to Learn SQL Programming and Database Management Systems is an easy to digest and fast-paced guide to learning Structured Query Language (SQL), which is the industry standard programming language for defining and analyzing data in databases. The audiobook will focus on how to use SQL in order to process your data and find out what it means.

In this book, Michael Smith and Rahul Telang, experts on entertainment analytics, show how the success of House of Cards upended the film and TV industries - and how companies like Amazon and Apple are changing the rules in other entertainment industries, notably publishing and music. We're living through a period of unprecedented technological disruption in the entertainment industries.

We are living in the age of information and there’s no denying it—those who are best at organizing, understanding, and then using data to their advantage will be the ones on top. The skills themselves are simple and easy to learn and will give you a tremendous advantage in the highly competitive marketplace of today’s workforce. The only thing left is for you to give a little commitment and launch yourself into a whole new reality of success.

SQL: Beginner Level SQL from the Ground Up is the first entry in a series of books designed to make SQL accessible to the fledgling user. This series will break up the material into bite-sized chunks to take listeners from uninitiated novice to expert scripter, with layman explanations and query examples. The Internet has arrived. The information age is upon us. Data is one of the most important tools in the arsenal of any business. Upgrade your skill set and make yourself more valuable in the wide open space of data management.

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Journalists today are inundated with data about which stories attract the most clicks, likes, comments, and shares. These metrics influence what stories are written, how news is promoted, and even which journalists get hired and fired. Do metrics make journalists more accountable to the public? Or are these data tools the contemporary equivalent of a stopwatch wielded by a factory boss, worsening newsroom working conditions and journalism quality?

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If you need to learn Spring, look no further than this widely beloved and comprehensive guide! Fully revised for Spring 5.3, and packed with interesting real-world examples to get your hands dirty with Spring. Over the years, Spring in Action has helped tens of thousands of developers get a major productivity boost from Spring. This new edition of the classic best seller covers all of the new features of Spring 5.3 and Spring Boot 2.4 along with examples of reactive programming, Spring Security for REST Services, and bringing reactivity to your databases.