Tabla de Contenidos: “…The energy inside -- When opposites collide -- It's not about taking advantage -- A respect for the origin of ideas -- The huge fallacy of not listening -- The optimist's answer to everything -- Leadership : becoming the master of dichotomies -- Communication : from conflict to innovation -- The power of personality opposites -- The power of cultural opposites -- The power of ideological opposites -- Getting what you need by helping others succeed -- Conclusion: When sparks fly, they light up the sky…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Querying Big Data Clusters through T-SQL -- 6. Working with Spark in Big Data Clusters -- 7. Machine Learning on Big Data Clusters -- 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Aspirational Democratic Populism: Enacting Popular Power at the Horizons of Democracy -- Chapter Two: 'Fanning the Spark of Hope': Populism's Rebellious Commonwealth -- Chapter Three: America's Populist Imaginary: Brought to You by Chevrolet and Leonard Cohen -- Chapter Four: Populist Resonances in the Twenty-first Century: The Tea Party and Occupy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- -- Supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods -- Classification and clustering algorithms -- Machine learning methods with R -- Big Data machine learning tools -- GLM example with Spark and R on the HDInsight cluster -- Preparing the Spark cluster and reading the data from HDFS -- Logistic regression in Spark with R -- Naive Bayes with H2O on Hadoop with R -- Running an H2O instance on Hadoop with R.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…From a standalone machine to a bunch of nodes -- Making sense of why we need a distributed framework -- The Hadoop ecosystem -- Hadoop architecture -- Hadoop Distributed File System -- MapReduce -- Introducing Apache Spark -- PySpark -- Starting with PySpark -- Setting up your local Spark instance -- Experimenting with Resilient Distributed Datasets -- Sharing variables across cluster nodes -- Read-only broadcast variables -- Write-only accumulator variables -- Broadcast and accumulator variables together-an example -- Data preprocessing in Spark -- CSV files and Spark DataFrames -- Dealing with missing data -- Grouping and creating tables in-memory -- Writing the preprocessed DataFrame or RDD to disk -- Working with Spark DataFrames -- Machine learning with Spark -- Spark on the KDD99 dataset -- Reading the dataset -- Feature engineering -- Training a learner -- Evaluating a learner's performance -- The power of the machine learning pipeline -- Manual tuning -- Cross-validation -- Final cleanup -- Summary -- Appendix: Strengthen Your Python Foundations -- Your learning list -- Lists -- Dictionaries -- Defining functions -- Classes, objects, and object-oriented programming -- Exceptions -- Iterators and generators -- Conditionals -- Comprehensions for lists and dictionaries -- Learn by watching, reading, and doing -- Massive open online courses (MOOCs) -- PyCon and PyData -- Interactive Jupyter -- Don't be shy, take a real challenge -- Other Books You May Enjoy -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Scaling Text Analytics with Multiprocessing and Spark -- 12. Deep Learning and Beyond -- Glossary -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 1: Data Science in the Modern Enterprise -- Chapter 2: Statistical Techniques and Concepts in Data Science -- Chapter 3: Data Preparation and Data Engineering Basics -- Chapter 4: Introduction to Azure Machine Learning -- Chapter 5: Hands on with Azure Machine Learning -- Chapter 6: Apache Spark, Big Data, and Azure Databricks -- Chapter 7: Hands-on with Azure Databricks -- Chapter 8: Machine Learning Operations…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Anti-Americanism as a European lingua franca -- European anti-Americanism : a brief historical overview -- The perceived "Americanization" of all aspects of West European lives : a discourse of irritation and condescension -- The massive waning of America's image in the eyes of the world and in Western Europe's -- Twin brothers : European anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism -- Anti-Americanism : a necessary and welcomed spark to jump-start a European identity?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…4.5.1 Industries Shifting to AI-Enabled Big Data Analytics -- 4.5.2 Industries Shifting to AI-Powered IoT Devices -- 4.5.3 Statistical Data of These Shifts -- 4.6 Conclusion -- References -- 5 IoT's Data Processing Using Spark -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Introduction to Apache Spark -- 5.2.1 Advantages of Apache Spark -- 5.2.2 Apache Spark's Components -- 5.3 Apache Hadoop MapReduce -- 5.3.1 Limitations of MapReduce -- 5.4 Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD) -- 5.4.1 Features and Limitations of RDDs -- 5.5 DataFrames -- 5.6 Datasets -- 5.7 Introduction to Spark SQL -- 5.7.1 Spark SQL Architecture…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Managing Fabric capacities -- Managing Spark job configurations -- Starter pools -- Custom Spark pools -- Spark runtime -- High concurrency -- Automatically tracking machine learning experiments and models -- Spark properties/configuration -- Library management -- Auto-tune -- Spark utility (MSSparkUtils) -- Summary -- Part 4: Security and Developer Experience -- Chapter 9: Security and Governance Overview -- Securing the Microsoft Fabric platform -- Guest users -- Conditional access -- Securing Microsoft Fabric workspaces and items -- Workspace-level permissions -- Item-level permissions -- Understanding governance and compliance in Microsoft Fabric -- Domains -- Microsoft Purview -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) -- Technical requirements -- Understanding the end-to-end flow -- Connecting to a Git repo with Azure DevOps -- Working on a new feature or release -- Creating and executing a deployment pipeline -- Managing database code for a Fabric data warehouse -- Managing database code with the SQL Database Projects extension -- Summary -- Part 5: AI Assistance with Copilot Integration -- Chapter 11: Overview of AI Assistance and Copilot Integration -- Technical requirements -- What is Copilot in Fabric? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Somerset Maugham; One of the virtues, Stan Barstow; The man of the house, Frank O'Connor; A shocking accident, Graham Greene; You should have seen the mess, Muriel Spark; Lamb to the slaughter, Roald Dahl; The catbird seat, James Thurber; How soon can I leave?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Querying Big Data Clusters through T-SQL -- 6. Working with Spark in Big Data Clusters -- 7. Machine Learning on Big Data Clusters -- 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction Part 1: The Spark, 1825-1916 1. The Regime 2. The Revolutionaries 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…About the Special Issue Editor -- Preface to "Materials Processing and Crystal Growth for Thermoelectrics" -- Simultaneous Enhancement of Electrical Conductivity and Seebeck Coefficient of [6,6]-Phenyl-C71 Butyric Acid Methyl Ester (PC70BM) by Adding Co-Solvents -- Solvent-Dependent Thermoelectric Properties of PTB7 and Effect of 1,8-Diiodooctane Additive -- Microstructure Evolution of Ag-Alloyed PbTe-Based Compounds and Implications for Thermoelectric Performance -- Spark Plasma Sintering of Tungsten Oxides WOx (2.50 ≤ x ≤ 3): Phase Analysis and Thermoelectric Properties -- Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance of Te-Doped Bi2Se3-xTex Bulks by Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis -- High Temperature Transport Properties of Yb and In Double-Filled p-Type Skutterudites -- Microstructure Analysis and Thermoelectric Properties of Melt-Spun Bi-Sb-Te Compounds -- Structural and Electrical Properties Characterization of Sb1.52Bi0.48Te3.0 Melt-Spun Ribbons -- Synthesis and Thermoelectric Properties of Copper Sulfides via Solution Phase Methods and Spark Plasma Sintering -- Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties of Graphene/Cu2SnSe3 Composites…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Uh, nothing": The French new wave, politics, and history -- Peter Watkins, live from history : the films, style and method of cinema's special correspondent -- The theory of sparks : a history in images, according to Jean-Luc Godard -- Demodern aesthetics: filming the end of communism -- America unraveled: master fictions in contemporary Hollywood cinema…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Series preface --Acknowledgements --Dates, names, prices and wages --Maps --Introduction --part I: The Spark, 1825-1916 --1. The Regime -- 2. The Revolutionaries --3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Style of the book -- The leadership edge -- Habit 1: sharing vision -- Habit 1: sharing vision, continued -- Habit 2: sparking engagement -- Habit 3: skilfully executing -- Habit 3: skilfully executing continued -- Habit 4: sustaining progress -- Postscript -- Appendix: the stretch toolbox -- Free tools to help you transform your leadership -- Stretch leadership model -- The path of possibility -- Positive balance -- Leadership brand pyramid -- The stretch zone -- Passion : performance grid -- Glossary of terms -- About the authors…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Table of Contents Introduction to Data Ingestion Principals of Data Access – Accessing your Data Data Discovery – Understanding Our Data Before Ingesting It Reading CSV and JSON Files and Solving Problems Ingesting Data from Structured and Unstructured Databases Using PySpark with Defined and Non-Defined Schemas Ingesting Analytical Data Designing Monitored Data Workflows Putting Everything Together with Airflow Logging and Monitoring Your Data Ingest in Airflow Automating Your Data Ingestion Pipelines Using Data Observability for Debugging, Error Handling, and Preventing Downtime…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Contents; Introduction; RULE #1: Insight Comes Before Inspiration; RULE #2: Don't Repurpose, Reimagine; RULE #3: Don't Just Join the Conversation-Spark It; RULE #4: There's No Business Without Show Business; RULE #5: Want Control? …”