by James Elliott, Ryan Fowler, and Timothy M. O...

_Harnessing Hibernate_ is an ideal introduction to the popular framework that lets Java developers work with information from a relational database easily and efficiently. Databases are a very different world than Java objects, and they often involve people with different skil...

(2008)

3108 Reads

eBook €27.00

The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

by Toby Segaran and Jeff Hammerb...

In this insightful book, you'll learn from the best data practitioners in the field just how wide-ranging -- and beautiful -- working with data can be. Join 39 contributors as they explain how they developed simple and elegant solutions on projects ranging from the Mars lander...

(2009)

2495 Reads

eBook €27.19

by Steven Roman

_Access Database Design & Programming_ takes you behind the details of the Access interface, focusing on the general knowledge necessary for Access power users or developers to create effective database applications. When using software products with graphical interfaces, we f...

(2007)

1474 Reads

eBook €23.00

by Pete Warden

To help you navigate the large number of new data tools available, this guide describes 60 of the most recent innovations, from NoSQL databases and MapReduce approaches to machine learning and visualization tools. Descriptions are based on first-hand experience with these tool...

(2011)

844 Reads

eBook €11.33

by Donald Miner and Adam Shook

Until now, design patterns for the MapReduce framework have been scattered among various research papers, blogs, and books. This handy guide brings together a unique collection of valuable MapReduce patterns that will save you time and effort regardless of the domain, language...

(2012)

771 Reads

eBook €32.00

Tools for Data Analysts

by Bradley Holt

If you want to use CouchDB to support real-world applications, you'll need to create MapReduce views that let you query this document-oriented database for meaningful data. With this short and concise ebook, you'll learn how to create a variety of MapReduce views to help you q...

(2011)

747 Reads

eBook €13.07

Representing Informational Relationships

by Julie Steele and Noah Iliinsky

Data visualization is an efficient and effective medium for communicating large amounts of information, but the design process can often seem like an unexplainable creative endeavor. This concise book aims to demystify the design process by showing you how to use a linear deci...

(2011)

619 Reads

eBook €9.81

Sustainable Network

by Sarah Sorensen

"Companies with a stake in the technology industry or that have staked on the Internet (ala Google or Amazon or any of the thousands of small ecommerce companies around the world) are likely to pluck multiple nuggets of wisdom from her book." > -- Heather Clancy, business jou...

(2009)

548 Reads

eBook €18.46

Excerpts from the R Cookbook

by Paul Teetor

R is a powerful tool for statistics and graphics, but getting started with this language can be frustrating. This short, concise book provides beginners with a selection of how-to recipes to solve simple problems with R. Each solution gives you just what you need to know to us...

(2011)

591 Reads

eBook €11.53

by Bob DuCharme

Get hands-on experience with SPARQL, the RDF query language that's become a key component of the semantic web. With this concise book, you will learn how to use the latest version of this W3C standard to retrieve and manipulate the increasing amount of public and private data ...

(2011)

457 Reads

eBook €11.53

by Rick Copeland

Whether you're building a social media site or an internal-use enterprise application, this hands-on guide shows you the connection between MongoDB and the business problems it's designed to solve. You'll learn how to apply MongoDB design patterns to several challenging domain...

(2013)

386 Reads

eBook €24.53

A Guide to Public Data

by Pete Warden

If you're a developer looking to supplement your own data tools and services, this concise ebook covers the most useful sources of public data available today. You'll find useful information on APIs that offer broad coverage, tie their data to the outside world, and are either...

(2011)

381 Reads

eBook €11.33

by MC Brown

CouchDB is a new breed of database for the Internet, geared to meet the needs of today’s dynamic web applications. With this concise introduction, you’ll learn how CouchDB’s simple model for storing, processing, and accessing data makes it ideal for the type ...

(2012)

356 Reads

eBook €13.00

Distilling Rich Information from Messy Data

by Matthew A. R...

Millions of public Twitter streams harbor a wealth of data, and once you mine them, you can gain some valuable insights. This short and concise book offers a collection of recipes to help you extract nuggets of Twitter information using easy-to-learn Python tools. Each recipe ...

(2011)

317 Reads

eBook €13.07

The Definitive Guide

by Lars George

If you're looking for a scalable storage solution to accommodate a virtually endless amount of data, this book shows you how Apache HBase can fulfill your needs. As the open source implementation of Google's BigTable architecture, HBase scales to billions of rows and millions ...

(2011)

311 Reads

eBook €24.61

by Scott Murray

Create and publish your own interactive data visualization projects on the Web --even if you have little or no experience with data visualization or web development. It's easy and fun with this practical, hands-on introduction. Author Scott Murray teaches you the fundamental c...

(2013)

285 Reads

eBook €18.39

by Bradley Holt

This practical guide offers a short course on scaling CouchDB to meet the capacity needs of your distributed application. Through a series of scenario- based examples, this book lets you explore several methods for creating a system that can accommodate growth and meet expecte...

(2011)

230 Reads

eBook €7.69

by Jeremy Leipzig and Xiao Yi Li

How do you use R to import, manage, visualize, and analyze real-world data? With this short, hands-on tutorial, you learn how to collect online data, massage it into a reasonable form, and work with it using R facilities to interact with web servers, parse HTML and XML, and mo...

(2011)

216 Reads

eBook €9.81

Sharding, Cluster Setup, and Administration

by Kristina Cho...

Create a MongoDB cluster that will grow to meet the needs of your application. With this short and concise book, you'll get guidelines for setting up and using clusters to store a large volume of data, and learn how to access the data efficiently. In the process, you'll unders...

(2011)

140 Reads

eBook €13.07

by Allen B. Downey

If you know how to program, you have the skills to turn data into knowledge using the tools of probability and statistics. This concise introduction shows you how to perform statistical analysis computationally, rather than mathematically, with programs written in Python. You...

(2011)

92 Reads

eBook €13.07