“…The problem is that the Internet offers IT pros wading into big data many versions of the truth and some outright falsehoods born of ignorance. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…To-Do's: Focus on the Biggest Issue in Big BusinessDrive Trust to Build Genuine Engagement; Learn from Others' Mistakes, but Be Willing to Make Your Own; Your Role: Trusted Colleague; Part III: How: Using the Failure Value Cycle to Advance Your Organization; Chapter 9: The Failure Value Cycle: Seven Stages Where You Can Leverage or Flunk Failure; Chapter 10: Stage One-Respect: Acknowledge the Gravity of Failure; Back to the Darkroom: Kodak Loses Focus; The ""Aretha Challenge"": Can Your Organization Spell R-E-S-P-E-C-T?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Electricity Versus Electronics -- THE PAINFUL TRUTH -- Cell Phone -- Computers -- Robots -- 2 - Electronic Concepts: More Interesting Than You Think: Some Basic Stuff You Really Need to Know -- INTRODUCTION -- ELECTRICITY AND ELECTRONICS -- Atoms and Electrons -- Charge, Voltage, and Current -- Dynamic Electricity and Current Flow -- Direction of Current Flow -- Conductors, Insulators, and Semiconductors -- MAGNETISM -- Magnetic Fields -- Electromagnetism -- Electromagnetic Induction -- VOLTAGE SOURCES -- Direct Current Voltages -- Alternating Current Voltages -- PRACTICAL DIRECT CURRENT AND ALTERNATING CURRENT VOLTAGE SOURCES -- Direct Current Voltage Sources -- Fuel Cell -- Alternating Current Voltage Sources -- Analog and Digital Signals -- Fourier Theory and the Frequency Domain -- 3 - The Systems Versus Components View of Electronics: A Fresh New Way to Learn About Electronics -- A Fresh New Way to Learn About Electronics -- INTRODUCTION -- WHY SYSTEMS AND NOT CIRCUITS? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Diving deep into the Redshift ML CREATE MODEL syntax -- Creating your first machine learning model -- Evaluating model performance -- Checking the Redshift ML objectives -- Running predictions -- Comparing ground truth to predictions -- Feature importance -- Model performance -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Building Classification Models -- Technical requirements -- An introduction to classification algorithms -- Diving into the Redshift CREATE MODEL syntax -- Training a binary classification model using the XGBoost algorithm -- Establishing the business problem -- Uploading and analyzing the data -- Using XGBoost to train a binary classification model -- Running predictions -- Prediction probabilities -- Training a multi-class classification model using the Linear Learner model type -- Using Linear Learner to predict the customer segment -- Evaluating the model quality -- Running prediction queries -- Exploring other CREATE MODEL options -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Building Regression Models -- Technical requirements -- Introducing regression algorithms -- Redshift's CREATE MODEL with user guidance -- Creating a simple linear regression model using XGBoost -- Uploading and analyzing the data -- Splitting data into training and validation sets -- Creating a simple linear regression model -- Running predictions -- Creating multi-input regression models -- Linear Learner algorithm -- Understanding model evaluation -- Prediction query -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Building Unsupervised Models with K-Means Clustering -- Technical requirements -- Grouping data through cluster analysis -- Determining the optimal number of clusters -- Creating a K-means ML model -- Creating a model syntax overview for K-means clustering -- Uploading and analyzing the data -- Creating the K-means model -- Evaluating the results of the K-means clustering -- Summary…”

“…With the sophistication of search technologies like Google, business people expect to be able to get their questions answered about the business just like you can do an internet search. The truth is, knowledge management is primitive today, and it is due to the fact that we have poor business metadata management. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part 2: The investment spectrum -- Chapter 5: Pooled investments -- Unit trusts -- Open-ended investment companies (OEICs) -- Exchange traded funds (ETFs) -- Investment trusts (investment companies) -- Investment platforms/supermarkets -- With-profits policies -- Insurance company bonds -- Stock-market-linked bonds -- Money markets -- Hedge funds -- Bringing home the significance of high fees -- Chapter 6: Bonds -- Gilts -- Corporate bonds -- Credit rating -- High-yield (junk) bonds -- Convertible bonds -- Foreign bonds -- Eurobonds -- Chapter 7: Unusual share investments -- Business angels (informal venture capitalists) -- Venture capital and other private equity -- Private equity categories -- Overseas shares -- Preference shares -- Chapter 8: Options -- What is a derivative? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Voting classifier -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Clustering Fundamentals -- Clustering basics -- k-NN -- Gaussian mixture -- Finding the optimal number of components -- K-means -- Finding the optimal number of clusters -- Optimizing the inertia -- Silhouette score -- Calinski-Harabasz index -- Cluster instability -- Evaluation methods based on the ground truth -- Homogeneity -- Completeness -- Adjusted Rand Index -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Advanced Clustering -- DBSCAN -- Spectral Clustering -- Online Clustering -- Mini-batch K-means -- BIRCH -- Biclustering -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Hierarchical Clustering -- Hierarchical strategies -- Agglomerative Clustering -- Dendrograms -- Agglomerative Clustering in scikit-learn -- Connectivity constraints -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Introducing Recommendation Systems -- Naive user-based systems -- Implementing a user-based system with scikit-learn -- Content-based systems -- Model-free (or memory-based) collaborative filtering -- Model-based collaborative filtering -- Singular value decomposition strategy -- Alternating least squares strategy -- ALS with Apache Spark MLlib -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Introducing Natural Language Processing -- NLTK and built-in corpora -- Corpora examples -- The Bag-of-Words strategy -- Tokenizing -- Sentence tokenizing -- Word tokenizing -- Stopword removal -- Language detection -- Stemming -- Vectorizing -- Count vectorizing -- N-grams -- TF-IDF vectorizing -- Part-of-Speech -- Named Entity Recognition -- A sample text classifier based on the Reuters corpus -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis in NLP -- Topic modeling -- Latent Semantic Analysis -- Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis -- Latent Dirichlet Allocation -- Introducing Word2vec with Gensim -- Sentiment analysis -- VADER sentiment analysis with NLTK -- Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Chapter 8 When Is Your Brand Truly Relevant? Turn Your Editorial Calendar into a Relevance Calendar; Be Aware: Don't Do It When Everyone Else Does; Aim Right and Hit Your Mark; Chapter 9 Brand Patience: Why You Need It; Controversy Can Mean Constructive; One Size Does Not Fit All; Apology Trifecta and Video Addresses; To Respond or Not to Respond: Key Questions to Ask Yourself; Chapter 10 SPIKE Spotting…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…5 Positive after-effects of illuminative experience -- 6 Negative after-effects of illuminative experience -- 7 The struggle for intellectual integrity -- 8 Discernment at the cognitive level -- 9 Spiritual doubt -- 10 Resistance to spiritual truth -- Concluding Part 3 -- Part 4: Relational Aspects of Spirituality -- Introducing Part 4 -- 17 The Analysis of Spiritual Relationships -- 1 Spiritual and therapeutic relationships -- 2 Learning receptivity -- 3 Learning inwardness -- 4 Learning trust -- 5 Convergence between therapeutic and spiritual change -- 6 Divergence between therapeutic and spiritual change -- 7 The need for discernment -- 8 Finding balance in therapy and spirituality -- 18 Spirituality as a Negative Therapeutic Factor -- 1 Conflict between therapeutic and spirutual change -- 2 Who is afriad of theology? …”

“…The volume is the result of a conference that took place on the occasion of the exhibition Babylon - Truth and Myth in Berlin. For the contemporary cultures of the Ancient World, Babylon was the epitome of learned scholarship. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introducing the Creators of Intelligence -- Chapter 2: Cortnie Abercrombie Wants the Truth -- Getting into the business -- Discussing diversity and leadership -- Implementing an ethical approach to data -- Establishing a strong data culture -- Designing data strategies -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Edward Santow vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Other Notable Formal Methods for Requirements Engineering -- Requirements Validation -- Consistency Checking Using Truth Tables -- Consistency Checking by Inspection -- Consistency Checking Limitations -- Theorem Proving -- Program Correctness -- Hoare Logic -- Model Checking -- Integrated Tools -- Which Formal Approach to Use? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Emptying Your Mind Isn't Easy -- Silencing the Monkey Mind -- The Opposite of Mushin -- A Better Way to Make Decisions -- Chapter 6: 入り Irimi: To Enter -- Centripetal Force-You Have to Get Close -- Not Confronting a Problem Can Be Disastrous -- The Real Cost of Avoiding a Problem -- Procrastinators, Take Notice! -- How to Tell the True Problem from a Distracting Tangent -- Confronting the Smartphone Problem -- Starting Small Is Still Starting -- The Power of Irimi -- Chapter 7: 呼吸Kokyu: Breath-Power -- Kokyu-Ho: Knocking Someone Over with Only a Breath -- Time to Get Uncomfortable -- One Way to Get Past Your Anxiety -- Breathing While You Work -- How to Take Control of Your Day -- Risking Failure to Succeed -- Real Risk, Real Rewards -- Creating Emotional Exhale Moments -- Try It Yourself-Today -- Chapter 8: 合気Aiki: Unity -- What I Should Have Known -- Harmony in Action -- Using Aiki in Daily Life -- Try It Yourself -- Use What You Have -- The Road Less Traveled -- Start with Self-Awareness -- Embrace Your Weaknesses -- Adapt, Improvise, and Overcome -- Do Your Own Self-Assessment -- Finding a Way -- Chapter 9: 残心Zanshin: Calm Awareness -- Real-Life Daredevils -- The Skill That Gives Spies Their Edge -- An Exercise in Zanshin -- Moments of Calm Awareness -- Prepared for the Unexpected -- Developing Zanshin -- A Moment of Truth -- The Power of Zanshin -- Chapter 10: 和Wa: Harmony -- Why the Finns Are Different -- Fighting for Peace -- Harmonious Hiring -- The New Polaroid: Winning through Cooperation -- Harmonious Progress -- Understanding How Progress Really Works -- The Honorable No -- The Honorable No That Saved My Company-and My Sanity -- Conclusion 澄み切りSumi-Kiri: Clarity of Mind and Body -- Clarity of Mind and Body -- The Road to Acceptance -- Listening to the Inner Voice -- Clearing the Way for Action -- My Teacher -- Duty and Obligation…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part III Portals to Use Your Interpersonal Power for the Good of All -- Chapter 9 Persuasion: From Unheard to Undeniable -- Persuasion Pitfall #1: Asking, Not Aligning -- Appeal to Both Their Business and Personal Interests -- Persuasion Pitfall #2: From Single Conversation to Stakeholder Campaign -- Persuasion Pitfall #3: Not Clearly Providing a Framework -- Persuasion Pitfall #4 Focusing on Past Achievements to the Exclusion of Future Ones -- Persuasion Pitfall #5: Not Making It Easy for Your Decision Maker to Implement Your Idea -- Chapter 10 Partnership: From My Problem to Our Solution -- You Want to Transfer the Ownership of the Problem -- Make Them an Active Part of the Process -- See Yourself as the Steward of the Whole Scenario -- Infuse the Situation with Light -- Chapter 11 Protection: From Silent Suffering to Sovereignty -- Boundaries to Protect Your Time, Attention, and Energy -- Proactive Boundaries to Prevent Overwhelm at Work -- Set Boundaries to Carve Out Time you Need -- Use Active Questions to Take Back Control over Intrusive People -- Reactive Boundaries -- Protection beyond Boundaries: Putting Up Barriers -- The Special Problem of Narcissists -- The Special Case of Harassment -- Chapter 12 Powerful Truth: From Angry to Authentic -- Reclaim the Definition of Words so They Don't Hurt You -- Chapter 13 People: From Alone to Amplified -- We Are Wired to Co-Regulate -- People Hold Up a Mirror for Us -- The Power of the Posse -- People Can Give You Feedback to See Your Blind Spots -- Seek People Who Can Catalyze Your Power -- Seek Out Mentors, Sponsors, and Allies -- Chapter 14 Position: From Overlooking Your Power to Owning It -- Bring Consciousness into the Use of Power in Your Position -- Focus on Your Why -- Be Successful at Using Your Power -- Use the Leverage You Already Have but May Be Overlooking -- Leverage Your Power…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Creating a Unit Test Target -- Adding a Test Case Class -- Assert Methods -- Assert Method Types -- Truthfulness Asserts -- Equality Asserts -- Nullability Asserts -- Comparison Asserts -- Errors Asserts -- Expectations -- Expectation Types -- Test Ordering -- Randomized Ordering -- Code Coverage -- Exercise -- Summary -- Chapter 3: UI Tests -- Your First Test -- XCUITest Components -- Our Chapter Goal -- First Test Case -- Launching the App -- Querying the UI -- Relationships -- Interacting with the UI -- UI Events -- Assertions -- Value Assertion -- Accessibility -- Accessibility Tips -- Putting It All Together -- Improve UI Tests -- Exercise -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Testing Pyramid -- Our App -- UI Tests -- Integration Tests -- Unit Tests -- Summary -- Chapter 5: TDD Deep Dive -- CoffeePot -- Eye on the Big Picture -- Requirements -- Testing Pyramid -- First Story -- Architecture -- MVP -- First Integration Test -- Unit Tests -- CoffeeDrinksDataSource -- CoffeeDrinksModelTests -- CoffeeDrinksPresenterTests -- Test Health Check -- Second Story -- Architecture -- Exercise -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Modularization for the Win -- Why Bother with Modularization? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Wright -- Persuasive public speaking : considerations for a post-truth era / Josh Fitzgerald, Kevin R. Meyer, and Stephen K. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Notes -- References -- Disagreement, self-agreement, and self-deception -- 1. Subjectivity and truth -- 2. Self-agreement and disagreement…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Resumen -- Problemas -- Lecturas Recomendadas -- Ampliaciones Conceptos de demanda y la evaluación de índices de precios -- Capítulo 6 RELACIONES DE DEMANDA ENTRE BIENES -- El caso de dos bienes -- Un tratamiento matemático -- Sustitutos y complementos -- Sustitutos y complementos brutos -- DEFINICIÓN Sustitutos y complementos brutos. -- Asimetría de las definiciones de bruto -- Sustitutos y complementos netos -- DEFINICIÓN Sustitutos y complementos netos.1 -- Sustitución con muchos bienes -- Bienes agregados -- El teorema de la agregación de bienes…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The harassment coming from the minor's circle-bullying- and the «Principle of Data Quality»VI Los tres pilares de la censura de contenidos no aptos para menores fruto del consenso implícito en la autorregulación: la información para bloqueos parentales, el etiquetado de contenidos y la prohibición de contaminación de publicidad a través del sistema europeo «opt-in»…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…ÉSTA, NUESTRA ÚNICA TIERRA: INTRODUCCIÓN A LA ECOLOGÍA Y EL MEDIO AMBIENTE ; PÁGINA LEGAL; ÍNDICE GENERAL; PRÓLOGO; 1 LA ECOLOGÍA APARECE CUANDO LA CIENCIA PROVOCA DESASTRES; Los científicos ante la bomba atómica; Una represa que cambió mucho más que un río; Otra forma de hacer ciencia; De qué trata este libro; 2. ¿QUIÉNES CAMBIAN LOS ECOSISTEMAS?…”