Toronto homicide detectives Pratt and Ellis are brought in to investigate a series of hit-and-runs. Someone seems to be trying to kill random people using stolen cars. The detectives try to find any c
Big data is ubiquitous but heterogeneous. Big data can be used to tally clicks and traffic on web pages, find patterns in stock trades, track consumer preferences, identi
Big data is ubiquitous but heterogeneous. Big data can be used to tally clicks and traffic on web pages, find patterns in stock trades, track consumer preferences, identi
This book introduces the fundamental design concepts of Eurocode 3 for steel structures in building construction, and their practical application. Following a discussion of the basis of design, above
This monograph deals with mathematical constructions that are foundational in such an important area of data mining as pattern recognition. By using combinatorial and graph theoretic techniques, a clo
The fourth edition of this popular steel structures book contains references to both Eurocodes and British Standards. New and revised examples are included, and sections on the meaning, purpose, and l
Brilliant, quirky twenty-three-year-old China Mack is totally satisfied with her carefully ordered, data-driven life. A computer prodigy who landed a coveted programming job at the cutting-edge tech c
Equal parts mail art, data visualization, and affectionate correspondence, Dear Data celebrates "the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details of life," in the words of Maria
The statics and mechanics of structures form a core aspect of civil engineering. This book provides an introduction to the subject, starting from classic hand-calculation types of analysis and gradual
The book is both a continuation of "Widespread Idioms in Europe and Beyond" (2012) and differs from it by new insights into the similarities of the European languages. Using comprehensive data from 77
Many people may be unsure of what 'structured data' means, but everyone will recognise it: data that resides within a fixed field in a record. At the same time, the web, mobile and social networks, an
Introduce the concept of teacher voice much like I did with student voice providing a grounded theoretical model (using my previous work as a base), infused with data from the National Teacher Voice R
Selected and edited from a conference held in Siena, Italy, 47 papers discuss advanced types of structures based on new design concepts, emphasizing intelligent structures and materials. The topics
This volume examines the economic, social, and psychological consequences of manufacturing plant closure at the individual level. Using an original data set of over 1,200 workers from Switzerland who
Data mining is an increasingly valuable tool within the institution of higher education. Educational Data Mining (EDM) has emerged as a field in its own right, focusing on data mining techniques
This book introduces fundamentals and trade-offs of data de-duplication techniques. It describes novel emerging de-duplication techniques that remove duplicate data both in storage and network in an e
Generating data is the defining aspect of empirical work. Data in this respect is understood as information-capacitated material that must be discovered, mined, unearthed - or a near limitless range o
This book offers a range of views on spolia and appropriation in art and architecture from fourth-century Rome to the late twentieth century. Using case studies from different historical moments and c
This ground-breaking book takes an interdisciplinary approach to language, religion and media using an audience-response study. In this book, the author investigates how the three Abrahamic faiths - C
This book discusses data privacy in banking and financial services, anonymization principles and practice, test data management, and synthetic data generation. From a practice standpoint, it provides
The Data and Analytics Playbook: Proven Methods for Governed Data and Analytic Quality explores the way in which data continues to dominate budgets, along with the varying efforts made across a variet
Master how to use the Julia language to solve business critical data science challenges. After covering the importance of Julia to the data science community and several essential data science princip
What exactly is data science? With this book, you’ll gain a clear understanding of this discipline for discovering natural laws in the structure of data. Along the way, you’ll learn how to use the ver
This book is a course to help beginning data scientists become productive members of data science and analytics teams, and to help engineers, analysts, and data scientists work with big data in an agi
Core Data is intricate, powerful, and necessary. Discover the powerful capabilities integrated into Core Data, and how to use Core Data in your iOS and OS X projects. All examples are current for OS X
A systematic introduction to the theory, development and latest research results of radar data processing technology• Presents both classical theory and development methods of radar data processing• P
Designed for senior-level and graduate courses in Dynamics of Structures and Earthquake Engineering. Dynamics of Structures includes many topics encompassing the theory of structural dynamics and
Based on common, everyday phenomena, the principles governing the balance of forces on machines and structures are extremely straightforward. Their expression in mathematical form, however, obscures t
This book presents cutting edge research on the newethical challenges posed by biomedical Big Data technologies and practices.‘Biomedical Big Data’ refers to the analysis of aggregated, very large dat
This textbook approaches optimization from a multi-aspect, multi-criteria perspective. By using a Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) approach, it avoids the limits and oversimplifications that c
This report provides an overview of policy strategies on early childhood education settings (from birth to primary schooling) in eight countries. Data were collected using a policy questionnaire addre
This book carefully examines the effects of changes in the corporate governance structure on corporate behavior or company performance, using micro-data from listed companies in Japan. The author foun
This book focuses on basic and advanced concepts of wave propagation in diverse material systems and structures. Topics are organized in increasing order of complexity for better appreciation of the s
Big Data and Big Analytics are a big deal today. Big Data is playing a pivotal role in many companies' strategic decision-making. Companies are striving to acquire a 'data advantage' over rivals. Dat
Build a voice-controlled virtual assistant using speech-to-text engines, text-to-speech engines, and conversation modules. This book shows you how to program the virtual assistant to gather data from
Biclustering is a data-mining technique that allows simultaneous clustering of rows and columns within a matrix. This book focuses on biclustering as an unsupervised learning method for high-dimension
The tool for visualization is Microsoft Visual C++. This popular software has the standard C++ combined with the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) libraries for Windows visualization.
Get smart - learn to convert the promise of Big Data into real-world results.There is so much buzz around big data. We all need to know what it is and how it works. But what will set you apart from th
Data uncertainty widely exists in many applications, and an uncertain data stream is a series of uncertain tuples that arrive rapidly. However, traditional techniques for deterministic data streams ca
This book covers evolutionary studies using molecular data – sequences, structure, etc. – which are now routine and have become a central part of the life sciences curriculum. The new edition has been
