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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Activity 4.01: Analyzing Sales Data Using Aggregate Functions -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Window Functions for Data Analysis -- Introduction -- Window Functions -- The Basics of Window Functions -- Exercise 5.01: Analyzing Customer Data Fill Rates over Time -- The WINDOW Keyword -- Statistics with Window Functions -- Exercise 5.02: Rank Order of Hiring -- Window Frame -- Exercise 5.03: Team Lunch Motivation -- Activity 5.01: Analyzing Sales Using Window Frames and Window Functions -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Importing and Exporting Data -- Introduction -- The COPY Command -- Running the psql Command -- The COPY Statement -- \COPY with psql -- Creating Temporary Views -- Configuring COPY and \COPY -- Using COPY and \COPY to Bulk Upload Data to Your Database -- Exercise 6.01: Exporting Data to a File for Further Processing in Excel -- Using Python with your Database -- Getting Started with Python -- Improving PostgreSQL Access in Python with SQLAlchemy and pandas -- What is SQLAlchemy? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Planning -- Organization -- Critical Thinking/Strategy -- Collaboration/Communication -- What Tools Should I Learn? -- Excel/Google Sheets -- SQL -- Tableau/Power BI -- Python -- Which Entry-Level Tech Job Is Right for Me? …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Engineering Problems -- 1.2 Numerical Methods -- 1.3 A Brief History of the Finite Element Method and Ansys -- 1.4 Basic Steps in the Finite Element Method -- 1.5 Direct Formulation -- 1.6 Minimum Total Potential Energy Formulation -- 1.7 Weighted Residual Formulations -- 1.8 Verification of Results -- 1.9 Understanding the Problem -- Summary -- References -- Problems -- 2 Matrix Algebra -- 2.1 Basic Definitions -- 2.2 Matrix Addition or Subtraction -- 2.3 Matrix Multiplication -- 2.4 Partitioning of a Matrix -- 2.5 Transpose of a Matrix -- 2.6 Determinant of a Matrix -- 2.7 Solutions of Simultaneous Linear Equations -- 2.8 Inverse of a Matrix -- 2.9 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors -- 2.10 Using Matlab to Manipulate Matrices -- 2.11 Using Excel to Manipulate Matrices -- Summary -- References -- Problems -- 3 Trusses -- 3.1 Definition of a Truss -- 3.2 Finite Element Formulation -- 3.3 Space Trusses -- 3.4 Overview of the Ansys Program -- 3.5 Examples Using Ansys -- 3.6 Verification of Results -- Summary -- References -- Problems -- 4 Axial Members, Beams, and Frames -- 4.1 Members Under Axial Loading -- 4.2 Beams -- 4.3 Finite Element Formulation of Beams -- 4.4 Finite Element Formulation of Frames -- 4.5 Three-Dimensional Beam Element -- 4.6 An Example Using Ansys -- 4.7 Verification of Results -- Summary -- References -- Problems -- 5 One-Dimensional Elements -- 5.1 Linear Elements -- 5.2 Quadratic Elements -- 5.3 Cubic Elements -- 5.4 Global, Local, and Natural Coordinates -- 5.5 Isoparametric Elements -- 5.6 Numerical Integration: Gauss-Legendre Quadrature -- 5.7 Examples of One-Dimensional Elements in Ansys -- Summary -- References -- Problems -- 6 Analysis of One-Dimensional Problems -- 6.1 Heat Transfer Problems -- 6.2 A Fluid Mechanics Problem…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Retaining Your People -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Operational Excellence Strategy -- Practice Makes Perfect . . . or Does It? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title page -- Copyright and credits -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 1: Building on Lean-Agile Foundations: Mastering the Basics -- Chapter 1: Navigating Lean-Agile Transformations -- Charting the digital frontier -- Understanding the digital economy's landscape -- Embracing Lean-Agile and VSM in the digital economy -- Exploring the hallmarks of Lean Thinking -- Foundational principles -- Streamlining flows -- Customer value -- Optimized flows -- Prioritizing Lean methodologies - redefining operational excellence -- Embracing Agile methodologies -- Understanding the origins of Agile -- Expanding Agile - beyond software development -- Iterating to deliver incremental value -- Harnessing the power of small, collaborative teams -- Combining Lean with Agile -- Establishing a strong foundation -- Supporting pillars in our Lean-Agile house -- Finding shelter in our Lean-Agile goals -- Synthesizing modern management principles -- Integrated practices for enhanced effectiveness -- Introducing the BLAST and BASE frameworks for Lean-Agile transformation -- Avoiding local optimization with Value Stream Management (VSM) -- Creating a cadence of continuous value delivery -- Unlocking value with Value Stream Management (VSM) -- The evolving nature of VSM -- Describing the VSM methodology -- Unveiling the versatility of VSM -- Enhancing professional expertise with VSM -- Leveraging IT for Lean-Agile transformation -- Investing in IT value stream improvements -- Evaluating information requirements and flows -- Summary -- Questions -- Answers -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2: Solving Complex Business Problems with Agility -- Technical requirements -- Embodying organizational agility -- Understanding the foundations of business agility -- Applying Agile principles -- Responding with agility…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Job to Be Done -- Developing an Enterprise Mindset -- Enterprise Leaders Create an Enterprise Vision -- Enterprise Leaders Enable Sustained Profitability -- Enterprise Leaders Maintain Execution Excellence -- Enterprise Leaders Build Social Architecture -- Enterprise Leaders Lead Globally -- The Transition to the Role -- Work Values -- Time Application -- Skills -- Typical Transition Issues -- Failing to Connect with How the Enterprise Operates -- Focusing on External Activities -- Avoiding the Soft Side of the Enterprise -- Failing to Sufficiently Answer Board Members' Questions -- Refusing to Consider Other Business Models -- Leading the Business Instead of Leading the Business Leaders -- Part III Application -- 8 Strategies for Implementing the Leadership Pipeline Model -- Designing Leadership Portraits -- Choosing the Implementation Degree -- Situating the Leadership Pipeline Framework -- How Does the Framework Fit with Our Corporate Title Structure? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Data Governance = Data Excellence -- Where is our data? Again... -- Summary and key takeaways -- Takeaway #1 - digital transformation is the ultimate driver of change -- Takeaway #2 - Data Excellence that everybody loves -- Takeaway #3 - if you don't have Data Governance, these three Fs will help -- Chapter 11: Data Assets or Data Products? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “….); 4.8.1 GRÁFICOS; 4.8.2 FUNCIÓN SI; 4.8.3 ASISTENTE DE FUNCIONES; 4.8.4 TABLAS Y GRÁFICOS DINÁMICOS; 4.8.5 MACROS EN EXCEL; 4.9 CONFIGURACIÓN DE LA IMPRESIÓN; 4.10 PLANTILLAS Y ASISTENTES; 4.11 SEGURIDAD Y CONFIGURACIÓN; 4.12 UTILIZACIÓN DE LA AYUDA; RESUMEN DEL CAPÍTULO; EJERCICIOS PROPUESTOS; TEST DE CONOCIMIENTOS; CAPÍTULO 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Valuing Agile The Financial Management of Agile Projects -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- About this guide -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction to Agile -- 1.1 The Agile approach -- 1.2 Agile software development -- 1.3 Agile techniques and practices -- Table 1.1 Some common Agile techniques -- Table 1.2 Some common Agile practices -- 1.4 Product development -- Figure 1.1 The Scrum process model -- 1.5 Project management -- Figure 1.2 The DSDM process model -- 1.6 Related disciplines -- 1.7 Financial challenges -- Table 1.3 Five levels of Agile planning -- 1.8 Concluding remarks -- 2 Requirements, estimation and contracting -- 2.1 Overview -- Figure 2.1 The relationship between requirements, estimation, transaction costs and governance -- 2.2 Requirements -- Figure 2.2 User story map -- 2.3 Estimation -- Figure 2.3 The cone of uncertainty -- Figure 2.4 Planning Poker cards -- 2.4 Team velocity -- 2.5 Prioritized incremental delivery -- 2.6 Types of contracts -- 2.7 Agile contracting -- Figure 2.5 Project variables (traditional versus DSDM) -- 2.8 Government contracts -- 2.9 Concluding remarks -- 3 Strategy, budgeting andexpenditure -- 3.1 Strategy, portfolios and projects -- 3.2 Agile budgeting -- Figure 3.1 Agile cycle of planning, appraisal, funding and validation -- 3.3 Financial statements -- 3.4 Capital and operational expenditure -- Figure 3.2 DSDM partition of capital and operational expenditure -- 3.5 Concluding remarks -- 4 Profitability and Agile financial performance -- 4.1 Understanding profit -- Table 4.1 Project direct and indirect costs (i.e. overheads -- Table 4.2 Comparison on basis of apportionment -- 4.2 The significance of timing -- Table 4.3 Discounted cash flows and net present value -- Figure 4.1 Computation of NPV using Microsoft Excel -- 4.3 Agile impact on ROI…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Agile Revolution -- Innovative Product Development -- Reliable Innovation -- Continuous Innovation -- Product Adaptability -- Reduced Delivery Schedules -- People and Process Adaptability -- Reliable Results -- Core Agile Values -- Responding to Change -- Working Products -- Customer Collaboration -- Individuals and Interactions -- Agile Project Management -- Agility Defined -- The APM Framework -- Thriving in a Chaordic World -- Our Journey -- Chapter 2: Guiding Principles: Customers and Products -- Herman and Maya -- The Guiding Principles of Agile Project Management -- Deliver Customer Value -- Innovation and Adaptability -- Planning and Control to Execution -- Delivery versus Compliance -- Employ Iterative, Feature-Based Delivery -- Creating a Better Product -- Producing Earlier Benefits -- Progressive Risk Reduction -- Champion Technical Excellence -- Customers and Products -- Chapter 3: Guiding Principles: Leadership-Collaboration Management -- Management Style -- The Business of APM -- Reliable, Not Repeatable -- Progress Reporting -- Leadership-Collaboration Management -- Encourage Exploration -- Shared Space -- Encouragement Isn't Enough -- Build Adaptive (Self-Organizing, Self-Disciplined) Teams -- Getting the Right People -- Articulating the Product Vision -- Encouraging Interaction -- Participatory Decision Making -- Insisting on Accountability -- Steering, Not Controlling -- Self-Discipline -- Simplify -- Generative Rules -- Barely Sufficient Methodology -- Principles to Practices -- Chapter 4: An Agile Project Management Model -- Principles and Practices -- An Agile Process Framework -- Phase: Envision -- Phase: Speculate -- Phase: Explore -- Phase: Adapt -- Phase: Close -- Judgment Required -- Project Size -- Agile Practices -- Chapter 5: The Envision Phase…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Specification Mismatch -- Data Type Validation -- Data Manipulation Techniques -- Recoding Data -- Derived Variables -- Data Merge -- Data Blending -- Concatenation -- Data Append -- Imputation -- Reduction -- Aggregation -- Transposition -- Normalization -- Parsing/String Manipulation -- Managing Data Quality -- Circumstances to Check for Quality -- Automated Validation -- Data Quality Dimensions -- Data Quality Rules and Metrics -- Methods to Validate Quality -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Review Questions -- Chapter 5 Data Analysis and Statistics -- Fundamentals of Statistics -- Common Symbols in Statistics -- Descriptive Statistics -- Measures of Frequency -- Measures of Central Tendency -- Measures of Dispersion -- Measures of Position -- Inferential Statistics -- Confidence Intervals -- Hypothesis Testing -- Simple Linear Regression -- Analysis Techniques -- Determine Type of Analysis -- Types of Analysis -- Exploratory Data Analysis -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Review Questions -- Chapter 6 Data Analytics Tools -- Spreadsheets -- Microsoft Excel -- Programming Languages -- R -- Python -- Structured Query Language (SQL) -- Statistics Packages -- IBM SPSS -- SAS -- Stata -- Minitab -- Machine Learning -- IBM SPSS Modeler -- RapidMiner -- Analytics Suites -- IBM Cognos -- Power BI -- MicroStrategy -- Domo -- Datorama -- AWS QuickSight -- Tableau -- Qlik -- BusinessObjects -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Review Questions -- Chapter 7 Data Visualization with Reports and Dashboards -- Understanding Business Requirements -- Understanding Report Design Elements -- Report Cover Page -- Executive Summary -- Design Elements -- Documentation Elements -- Understanding Dashboard Development Methods -- Consumer Types -- Data Source Considerations -- Data Type Considerations -- Development Process -- Delivery Considerations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…." -- 1.3 The Birth of FM and IFMA -- 1.4 The Birth of Facility Management and IFMA -- 1.5 Beginnings -- 1.6 FM in the Beginning -- 1.7 The Beginning of Facility Management (FM) in Germany: From My Very Personal Point of View -- 1.8 FM Down Under -- 2 Contributors: Realization -- 2.1 My Facility Management Journey: Lessons Learned -- 2.2 The Institution Bauakademie in the Course of Time and Its Current Potential for Change -- 2.3 Structured Growth of Facilities Management in China (1992-2022) -- 2.4 40 Years of Facility Management -- 2.5 Missional Journey Toward Raising the Recognition of Facilities Management as a Business Advantage to Organizations in Singap -- 2.6 The Austrian Success Model of Excellent Facility Management Education and Proactive Work by Professional Associations -- 2.7 A Perspective on Facilities Management (FM) -- 2.8 My 40-Year Odyssey in Facilities Management -- 2.9 How to Make Good Facility Decisions -- 2.10 FM Maturity: Research, Standards, and Influence -- 2.11 FM Transformation in High-Tech Industries and Global FM Update -- 2.12 The Development of Facility Management in Hong Kong: A Personal Reflection -- 2.13 Forty Years of FM - From a German Perspective -- 2.14 *ATTA GIRL*One Woman's Portfolio Life in the Built Environment -- 2.15 Facility Management Education: Personal Journeys of Facility Management Educators and Researchers -- 2.16 The Acceptance of FM and IFMA -- 2.17 Academic Career Paths in Real Estate and Facility Management - a Personal Experience Report -- 2.18 Review of FM in LatAm…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Review Questions -- Discussion Questions -- Hands-On MIS Projects -- Management Decision Problems -- Improving Decision Making: Use a Spreadsheet to Select Suppliers -- Achieving Operational Excellence: Using Internet Software to Plan Efficient Transportation Routes -- Collaboration and Teamwork Project -- Business Problem-Solving Case Can a Rugby Union Teach Businesses How to Turn Customers into Supporters? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Modifying the getOrAddCustodian() function -- Improving the ingestDirectory() function -- A closer look at the formatTimestamp() function -- Converting the writeOutput() function -- Simplifying the writeCSV() function -- Condensing the writeHTML() function -- Running our new and improved script -- Challenge -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Extracting Artifacts from Binary Files -- UserAssist -- Understanding the ROT-13 substitution cipher - rot13.py -- Evaluating code with timeit -- Working with the Registry module -- Introducing the Struct module -- Creating spreadsheets with the xlsxwriter module -- Adding data to a spreadsheet -- Building a table -- Creating charts with Python -- The UserAssist framework -- Developing our UserAssist logic processor - userassist.py -- Evaluating the main() function -- Defining the createDictionary() function -- Extracting data with the parseValues() function -- Processing strings with the getName() function -- Writing Excel spreadsheets - xlsx_writer.py -- Controlling output with the excelWriter() function -- Summarizing data with the dashboardWriter() function -- Writing artifacts in the userassistWriter() function -- Defining the fileTime() function -- Processing integers with the sortByCount() function -- Processing DateTime objects with the sortByDate() function -- Writing generic spreadsheets - csv_writer.py -- Understanding the csvWriter() function -- Running the UserAssist framework -- Additional challenges -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Fuzzy Hashing -- Background on hashing -- Hashing files in Python -- Deep dive into rolling hashes -- Implementing rolling hashes - hashing_example.py -- Limitations of rolling hashes -- Exploring fuzzy hashing - fuzzy_hasher.py -- Starting with the main function -- Working with files in the fileController() function -- Working with directories in the directoryController() function…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Structuring the data strategy -- Establishing a Data-Driven Culture and Mindset -- Chapter 9: Evolving from Data-driven to Machine-driven -- Digitizing the Data -- Applying a Data-driven Approach -- Automating Workflows -- Introducing AI/ML capabilities -- Part 3: Building a Successful Data Science Organization -- Chapter 10: Building Successful Data Science Teams -- Starting with the Data Science Team Leader -- Adopting different leadership approaches -- Approaching data science leadership -- Finding the right data science leader or manager -- Defining the Prerequisites for a Successful Team -- Developing a team structure -- Establishing an infrastructure -- Ensuring data availability -- Insisting on interesting projects -- Promoting continuous learning -- Encouraging research studies -- Building the Team -- Developing smart hiring processes -- Letting your teams evolve organically -- Connecting the Team to the Business Purpose -- Chapter 11: Approaching a Data Science Organizational Setup -- Finding the Right Organizational Design -- Designing the data science function -- Evaluating the benefits of a center of excellence for data science -- Identifying success factors for a data science center of excellence -- Applying a Common Data Science Function -- Selecting a location -- Approaching ways of working -- Managing expectations -- Selecting an execution approach -- Chapter 12: Positioning the Role of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) -- Scoping the Role of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) -- Explaining Why a Chief Data Officer Is Needed -- Establishing the CDO Role -- The Future of the CDO Role -- Chapter 13: Acquiring Resources and Competencies -- Identifying the Roles in a Data Science Team -- Data scientist -- Data engineer -- Machine learning engineer -- Data architect -- Business analyst -- Software engineer -- Domain expert…”