Tabla de Contenidos: “…Image Processing -- Performance -- Technology Previews -- Save to the Cloud or Computer? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Creating assets and delivering them with marketing automation -- Chapter 9 Boosting Online Business Growth with AI -- Outsmarting Your Competitors -- Analyzing competitor keywords -- Discovering traffic sources -- Monitoring ad spending -- Analyzing social media performance -- Enhancing Brand Building -- Refining visual brand identities -- Crafting strong brand messaging -- Defining brand voice and tone -- Maximizing Conversions -- Understanding the segmentation of audiences -- Personalizing content -- Scaling Paid Advertising ROI -- Selecting keywords -- Optimizing bids -- Creating ad copy -- Personalizing and testing -- Considering the pros and cons -- Tracking Key Performance Indicators with AI -- Innovating New Offers -- Trend forecasting -- Generating creative concepts -- Refining your innovation -- Chapter 10 Enhancing Customer Service with Conversational AI Chatbots -- Finding Out about Conversational AI Chatbots -- Understanding the process -- Defining the differences between conversational AI chatbots and ChatGPT -- Visualizing the differences -- Benefitting from Conversational AI Chatbots for Customer Service -- Constructing Conversational AI Chatbots -- Measuring the Return on Investment of Conversational AI Chatbots -- Improving customer service efficiency -- Reducing operational costs -- Boosting sales conversion rates -- Enhancing lead generation -- Tracking engagement metrics -- Increasing resolution rate -- Ensuring accuracy -- Integrating Conversational AI Chatbots into Existing Systems -- Personalizing Customer Interactions -- Improving the shopping experience -- Ensuring ethical personalization -- Using Chatbots with Human and AI Collaboration -- Understanding the hybrid model -- Collaborating with agents and chatbots -- Considering Best Practices -- Reviewing Options for Creating Chatbots -- Part 4 Future-Proofing Your Career…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Emergent and Adaptive Management Processes -- Instilling Drive through Purpose, Mastery, and Autonomy -- Summary -- Part II Designing An Adaptive Operating Model -- Chapter 4 The Anatomy of an Operating Model -- The Anatomy of an Operating Model -- The Themes of an Adaptable Operating Model -- A Focus on Impacts and Outcomes over Output -- Structured for Intrinsic Motivation -- A Focus on Being Agile, Not Just Doing Agile -- Manage the Flow of Work -- Lead the People -- Summary -- Chapter 5 How We Are Organized -- Organizational Structure -- Hierarchy -- Holacracy -- The Need for a Balanced Design -- Supporting an Ambidextrous Organization -- Understanding the Influence of Conway's Law and the Cognitive Load Theory on Team Performance -- Conway's Law -- Cognitive Load Theory -- Product-Centric Development Teams -- The Definition of a Product -- Comparing to Project Teams -- Defined Boundaries of Responsibility -- Clarity of Purpose -- Autonomous and Self-Sufficient -- Appropriately Sized Teams -- The Benefits of Product Teams -- Defining Product Team Boundaries -- Organizing the Product Portfolio Using a Product Taxonomy -- Portfolio Level -- Product Group Level -- Product Level -- Modeling Product Team Boundaries with Team Topology Patterns -- The Need to Constantly Evolve Teams -- An Example of a Team Topology -- Evolving to Business and IT Fusion Teams -- Managing Cross Team Dependency -- Summary -- Chapter 6 How We Work -- IT Management Frameworks -- How to Solve Problems from Discovery to Delivery -- Problem-Solving Methodologies -- Focused on Exploring: Design Thinking and the Double Diamond Model -- Focused on the Removal of Waste: Lean and PDCA -- Focused on Quality and Consistency: Six Sigma and DMAIC -- Discovery Tools for Understanding the Problem Space -- Discovery Tools to Address Customer Experience -- Jobs to Be Done…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Creating tests for a simple ETL pipeline -- Unit testing -- Validation testing -- Integration testing -- End-to-end testing -- Performance testing -- Resilience testing -- Best practices for a testing environment for ETL pipelines -- Defining testing objectives -- Establishing a testing framework -- Automating ETL tests -- Monitoring ETL pipelines -- ETL testing challenges -- Data privacy and security -- Environment parity -- Top ETL testing tools -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Best Practices for ETL Pipelines -- Technical requirements -- Data quality -- Poor scalability -- Lack of error-handling and recovery methods -- ETL logging in Python -- Debugging and issue resolution -- Auditing and compliance -- Performance monitoring -- Including contextual information -- Handling exceptions and errors -- The Goldilocks principle -- Implementing logging in Python -- Checkpoint for recovery -- Avoiding SPOFs -- Modularity and auditing -- Modularity -- Auditing -- Summary -- Chapter 15: Use Cases and Further Reading -- Technical requirements…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Ensemble synthetic data generation -- Diversity regularization -- Incorporating external knowledge -- Progressive training -- Procedural content generation with game engines -- Diversity issues in the synthetic data realm -- Balancing diversity and realism -- Privacy and confidentiality concerns -- Validation and evaluation challenges -- Summary -- Chapter 16: Photorealism in Computer Vision -- Synthetic data photorealism for computer vision -- Feature extraction -- Domain gap -- Robustness -- Benchmarking performance -- Photorealism approaches -- Physically Based Rendering (PBR) -- Neural style transfer -- Photorealism evaluation metrics -- Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM) -- Learned Perceptual Image Patch Similarity (LPIPS) -- Expert evaluation -- Challenges and limitations of photorealistic synthetic data -- Creating hyper-realistic scenes -- Resources versus photorealism trade-off -- Summary -- Chapter 17: Conclusion -- Real data and its problems -- Synthetic data as a solution -- Real-world case studies -- Challenges and limitations -- Future perspectives -- Summary -- Index -- Other Books You May Enjoy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Long-term and compressed storage -- Cross-cloud data analytics with federated access model and BigQuery Omni -- Backup and recovery -- Best practices for optimizing compute -- Analysis cost options -- Query optimization -- Query optimization cheat sheet -- Monitoring and controlling costs -- Query plan and query performance insights -- Monitoring, estimating, and optimizing costs -- Controlling costs -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 4: Hands-On and Conclusion -- Chapter 11: Hands-On Exercise - Analyzing Advertising Data -- Technical requirements -- Exercise and use case overview -- Loading CSV data files from local upload -- Data preparation -- Standardizing date formats -- Data exploration, analysis, and visualization -- Analyzing ads and sales data -- Return on ad spend -- Visualizations -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 12: Hands-On Exercise - Analyzing Transportation Data -- Technical requirements -- Exercise and use case overview -- Loading data from GCS to BigQuery -- Uploading data files to Google Cloud Storage -- Loading data into BigQuery -- Data preparation -- Data exploration and analysis -- Visualizing data with BigQuery geography functions -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 13: Hands-On Exercise - Analyzing Customer Support Data -- Technical requirements -- Exercise and use case overview -- Data loading from CSV upload -- Data preparation -- Data exploration and analysis -- Count of ticket_type across both datasets -- The most common support issues using ticket_subject data -- Average resolution time per ticket_type -- Customer demographics using customer_age and customer_gender -- Analyzing emotions with sentiment analysis -- Creating a connection -- Granting access to the external connection service account -- Creating a model -- Querying the model -- Summary -- References and further reading…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Document classification -- N-grams -- Selecting a subset of n-grams -- Using genetic algorithms to search for a fixed-size subset -- Python implementation -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 12: Explainable AI, Causality, and Counterfactuals with Genetic Algorithms -- Technical requirements -- Unlocking the black box - XAI -- Unraveling cause and effect - causality in AI -- What-if scenarios - counterfactuals -- Genetic algorithms in counterfactual analysis - navigating alternative scenarios -- The German Credit Risk dataset -- Exploring counterfactual scenarios for credit risk prediction -- The Applicant class -- The CreditRiskData class -- Counterfactuals with genetic algorithms -- The genetic algorithm solution -- More "what-if" scenarios -- Extending to other datasets -- Summary -- Further reading -- Part 4: Enhancing Performance with Concurrency and Cloud Strategies -- Chapter 13: Accelerating Genetic Algorithms - the Power of Concurrency -- Technical requirements -- Long runtimes in real-world genetic algorithms -- Parallelizing genetic algorithms -- Multithreading -- Multiprocessing -- Back to the OneMax problem -- A baseline benchmark program -- Simulating computational intensity -- Multiprocessing using the Pool class -- Increasing the number of processes -- Multiprocessing using the SCOOP library -- Distributed computing with SCOOP -- Summary -- Further reading -- Chapter 14: Beyond Local Resources - Scaling Genetic Algorithms in the Cloud -- Technical requirements -- The next level in genetic algorithm performance -embracing a client-server architecture -- Implementing a client-server model -- Using a separate environment -- Revisiting the One-Max problem, yet again -- Creating the server component -- Creating the client component -- Running the asynchronous client -- Using a production-grade app server…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- See also -- Chapter 6: Performing String Manipulations -- Technical requirements -- Filtering strings -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Converting strings into date, time, and datetime -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Extracting substrings -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Cleaning strings -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Splitting strings into lists and structs -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Concatenating and combining strings -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Chapter 7: Working with Nested Data Structures -- Technical requirements -- Creating lists -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Aggregating elements in lists -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Accessing and selecting elements in lists -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Applying logic to each element in lists -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Working with structs and JSON data -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How to do it... -- There's more... -- See also -- Chapter 8: Reshaping and Tidying Data -- Technical requirements -- Turning columns into rows -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Turning rows into columns -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Joining DataFrames -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Concatenating DataFrames -- Getting ready -- How to do it…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- About the Author -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Modern Small Business Enterprises -- Role of Small-scale Industries -- Impact of Globalisation on SSI in India -- Impact of the WTO on SSIs -- WTO: Pros and Cons -- Concepts and Definitions of SSI -- Calculation of the Value of the Plant and Machinery -- Government Policy and Development of the Small-scale Sector in India -- Industrial Policy 1991 -- Policy Initiatives Since 1999 -- Growth and Performance of Small Scale Industries in India -- Pre-and Post-liberalisation Periods -- Performance of Small-scale Industries in India -- Share of Small-scale Industrial Units in Total Exports -- Third All India Census of SSI Sector -- Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) in Other Countries -- International SME Network (lNSME)-Background -- Composition of INSME Steering Group -- Definitions of SMEs in Various Countries -- Problems for Small-scale Industries -- Prospects of the Small-scale Industries in a Free Economy -- Quality Control -- Marketing Arrangements -- Advertisement -- Recovery of Receivables -- Professionalism in Management -- Inventory Control -- Opportunities -- Summary -- Key Words -- Exercises -- References -- Annexure 1.1 -- Annexure 1.2 -- Chapter 2: Entrepreneurship -- Importance of Entrepreneurship -- Charms of Being an Entrepreneur -- Why Should You Become an Entrepreneur? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Executive summary -- Reflections on the SRC21 process -- The challenges of the present: The delivery period -- Key recommendations -- The outlook for the future: The next SRC -- Key recommendations -- Timeline -- 1 Key insights and recommendations -- Reflections on the SRC21 process -- The challenges of the present: The delivery period -- Recommendations -- The outlook for the future: The next SRC -- Recommendations -- Note -- References -- 2 Context and background -- Market structure -- Key institutions -- An evolving regulatory approach in the Scottish water sector -- The regulatory process between 2002 and 2015 -- Outcomes and limitations -- The Strategic Review of Charges 2015-2021 (SRC15) -- The regulatory approach -- Consumer engagement -- Key outcomes of an evolving regulatory process -- Institutional innovation: The Customer Forum -- Customer views at the centre of the Final Determination of Charges -- New parameters -- New approaches to innovation -- New performance measures -- The key areas of focus going into SRC21 -- Notes -- References -- 3 Overcoming key regulatory challenges -- Limitations of an adversarial approach -- The starting point: balancing efficiency against the need to address long-term challenges -- Moving ahead: SRC21 structures shift away from the adversarial approach -- The multi-lateral governance of SRC21 creates new opportunity for exchange -- Stakeholders experiment with co-creation for Scottish Water's Strategic Plan and a sector vision -- The EBR support group offers a periodic "temperature check" of the SRC21 process -- WICS re-imagines the use of its powers to further EBR -- Looking forward: the challenges of moving away from the adversarial approach -- Investing in relationships and knowledge-building…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Tejal Desai 106 Chapter 6 Solution 5: Just Say No: High Performance Should Not Trump Bad Behavior 107 Caught between a Rock and a Hard Place 108 How Long Has This Been Happening? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Modernizing Talent Management -- The Old Days of Too Young -- We Can't Afford a Training Budget -- Learning Is a Contact Sport -- Build a Learning Culture -- A Global Learning Mind-Set -- Content Curation and Knowledge Management -- Throw Out the HR Rule Book -- Performance Management Becomes the Performance Moment -- Rewrite the Training Policies -- We All Want to Learn -- Future-Proof Your Company -- Future-Proof Your Career -- Chapter 9: Workspace -- Time to Take Back the Key to the Executive Washroom -- Down with the Cubicle Farm -- It Takes More than a Ping-Pong Table -- From Water Coolers to Watering Holes -- Anytime, Anywhere -- From Corporate Campus to Community Campus -- Designing for Wellness -- Social and Environmental Responsibility -- What Can You Transform Today? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewer -- www.PacktPub.com -- Customer Feedback -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Understanding Microservices -- Origins of Service-Oriented Architecture -- The monolithic approach -- The microservice approach -- Microservice benefits -- Separation of concerns -- Smaller projects -- Scaling and deployment -- Microservices pitfalls -- Illogical splitting -- More network interactions -- Data storing and sharing -- Compatibility issues -- Testing -- Implementing microservices with Python -- The WSGI standard -- Greenlet and Gevent -- Twisted and Tornado -- asyncio -- Language performances -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Discovering Flask -- Which Python? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- You Can Be Predictive-But Not Promissory -- Be Specific Enough for Clarity-Yet General Enough to Accommodate Exceptions -- Time-Stamp Anything That's Impermanent -- Cherries Are Not for Picking-and Securities Come at a Price -- Negotiate Gray Areas with Your Legal Reviewer -- Use Caution When Navigating Word Subtleties -- Avoid Redundant Qualifications -- Unless You're Permitted, Do Not Dispense Investment Advice -- Social (Media) Butterflies Are Not Exempt from Regulatory Requirements -- Consult a Legal Specialist When Writing about Investment Performance -- Seek Ways to Streamline the Legal Review -- Diversify Your Language -- On Legalities, Creativity, and Integrity -- Notes -- Epilogue: Where Investment Writing Is Headed in the Twenty-First Century -- Index -- EULA…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Optimization evaluation -- 6.3.4. Performance comparison -- 6.4. Discussion and conclusion -- 7. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Principle 4: Monitoring -- Principle 5: Automation -- Principle 6: Release Engineering -- Principle 7: Simplicity -- AIOps Enabling Visibility in SRE and DevOps -- Culture -- Automation of Processes -- Measurement of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) -- Sharing -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Fundamentals of Machine Learning and AI -- What Is Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Tools of implementation -- Gender impact assessment as a core tool of gender budgeting -- Gender budget tagging to link budget measures to the National Strategy to Achieve Gender Equality -- Use the strategic briefings provided to the ERC to highlight the gender impacts of new policy proposals and support budget decision making -- Further develop the Women's Budget Statement as a tool of accountability and transparency in relation to gender budgeting -- Integrate a gender dimension to a strengthened evaluation process -- Integrate a gender dimension to planning, performance setting and reporting -- The Australian National Audit Office could incorporate a gender dimension to performance audits…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; 1.2.1 The Ability to Perform as Intended; 1.2.2 For a Specified Time; 1.2.3 Life-Cycle Conditions; 1.2.4 Reliability as a Relative Measure; 1.3 Quality, Customer Satisfaction, and System Effectiveness; 1.4 Performance, Quality, and Reliability; 1.5 Reliability and the System Life Cycle; 1.6 Consequences of Failure; 1.6.1 Financial Loss; 1.6.2 Breach of Public Trust; 1.6.3 Legal Liability; 1.6.4 Intangible Losses…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; About the Authors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Characterization of Wireless Transmitter Distortions; 1.1 Introduction; 1.1.1 RF Power Amplifier Nonlinearity; 1.1.2 Inter-Modulation Distortion and Spectrum Regrowth; 1.2 Impact of Distortions on Transmitter Performances; 1.3 Output Power versus Input Power Characteristic; 1.4 AM/AM and AM/PM Characteristics; 1.5 1 dB Compression Point; 1.6 Third and Fifth Order Intercept Points; 1.7 Carrier to Inter-Modulation Distortion Ratio; 1.8 Adjacent Channel Leakage Ratio; 1.9 Error Vector Magnitude…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Trimming the sprite sheet -- Adding the trimmed sheet -- Colliding with an obstacle -- A bounding box for a stone -- A bounding box for RedHatBoy -- Crashing on the collision -- Jumping onto a platform -- Adding a platform -- Collision from below -- Transparency in bounding boxes -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Creating an Endless Runner -- Technical requirements -- Scrolling the background -- Fixing RHB in x -- An infinite background -- Refactoring for endless running -- f32 versus i16 -- A more useful Rect -- Obstacle traits -- Removing obstacles as they go off screen -- Sharing a sprite sheet -- Many different platforms -- Creating a dynamic level -- Creating one segment -- Adding a timeline -- Creating segments -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Sound Effects and Music -- Technical requirements -- Adding the Web Audio API to the engine -- Playing a sound in Rust -- Loading the sound -- Adding audio to the engine -- Playing sound effects -- Refactoring RedHatBoyContext and RedHatBoy -- Adding a sound effect -- Playing long music -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Adding a UI -- Technical requirements -- Design a new game button -- Preparing a UI -- Showing the button with Rust -- Show the button on game over -- A state machine review -- Redesigning to a state machine -- Start a new Game -- Pre-loading -- Summary -- Part 3: Testing and Advanced Tricks -- Chapter 9: Testing, Debugging, and Performance -- Technical requirements -- Creating automated tests -- Test-driven development -- Getting started -- Pure functions -- Hiding the Browser module -- Browser tests -- Async tests -- Debugging the game -- Log versus error versus panic -- Linting and Clippy -- Measuring performance with a browser -- Frame rate counter -- Browser debugger -- Checking memory -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Continuous Deployment -- Technical requirements -- Creating a CI/CD pipeline -- GitHub Actions…”