“…Bridge the gap between business and data science by learning how to interpret machine learning and AI models, manage data teams, and achieve impactful results Key Features Master the concepts of statistics and ML to interpret models and guide decisions Identify valuable AI use cases and manage data science projects from start to finish Empower top data science teams to solve complex problems and build AI products Purchase of the print Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book Description As data science and artificial intelligence (AI) become prevalent across industries, executives without formal education in statistics and machine learning, as well as data scientists moving into leadership roles, must learn how to make informed decisions about complex models and manage data teams. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- See also -- Aggregating values across multiple columns -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Computing with window functions -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Applying UDFs -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- See also -- Using SQL for data transformations -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Chapter 5: Handling Missing Data -- Technical requirements -- Identifying missing data -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- See also -- Deleting rows and columns containing missing data -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more…”

“…Get to grips with cybersecurity and privacy laws to protect your company's data and comply with international privacy standards Key Features Comply with cybersecurity standards and protect your data from hackers Find the gaps in your company's security posture with gap analysis and business impact analysis Understand what you need to do with security and privacy without needing to pay consultants Book Description Cybercriminals are incessantly coming up with new ways to compromise online systems and wreak havoc, creating an ever-growing need for cybersecurity practitioners in every organization across the globe who understand international security standards, such as the ISO27k family of standards. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 6: Evaluating the Security Posture and Recommending Technical Strategies to Manage Risk -- Evaluating the security posture by using benchmarks -- Evaluating the security posture by using Microsoft Defender for Cloud -- Evaluating the security posture by using Secure Scores -- Evaluating the security posture of cloud workloads -- Designing security for an Azure Landing Zone -- Interpreting technical threat intelligence and recommending risk mitigations -- Recommending security capabilities or controls to mitigate identified risks -- Case study - evaluating the security posture -- Summary -- Part 4: Designing Security for Infrastructure -- Chapter 7: Designing a Strategy for Securing Server and Client Endpoints -- Planning and implementing a security strategy across teams -- Specifying security baselines for server and client endpoints -- Specifying security requirements for servers, including multiple platforms and operating systems -- Specifying security requirements for mobile devices and clients, including endpoint protection, hardening, and configuration -- Specifying requirements to secure AD DS -- Designing a strategy to manage secrets, keys, and certificates -- Designing a strategy for secure remote access -- Understanding security operations frameworks, processes, and procedures -- Case study - designing a secure architecture for endpoints -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Designing a Strategy for Securing SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS -- Specifying security baselines for SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services -- Security baselines for SaaS -- Security baselines for IaaS -- Security baselines for PaaS -- Specifying security requirements for IoT workloads -- Specifying security requirements for data workloads, including SQL, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse, and Azure Cosmos DB -- Specifying security requirements for storage workloads, including Azure Storage…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Milestone 2 - Incorporating the Common Voice 11 dataset -- Expanding language coverage -- Improving translation capabilities -- Milestone 3 - Setting up Whisper pipeline components -- Loading WhisperTokenizer -- Milestone 4 - Transforming raw speech data into Mel spectrogram features -- Combining to create a WhisperProcessor class -- Milestone 5 - Defining training parameters and hardware configurations -- Setting up the data collator -- Milestone 6 - Establishing standardized test sets and metrics for performance benchmarking -- Loading a pre-trained model checkpoint -- Defining training arguments -- Milestone 7 - Executing the training loops -- Milestone 8 - Evaluating performance across datasets -- Mitigating demographic biases -- Optimizing for content domains -- Managing user expectations -- Milestone 9 - Building applications that demonstrate customized speech recognition -- Summary -- Part 3: Real-world Applications and Use Cases -- Chapter 5: Applying Whisper in Various Contexts -- Technical requirements -- Exploring transcription services -- Understanding the role of Whisper in transcription services -- Setting up Whisper for transcription tasks -- Transcribing audio files with Whisper efficiently -- Integrating Whisper into voice assistants and chatbots -- Recognizing the potential of Whisper in voice assistants and chatbots -- Integrating Whisper into chatbot architectures -- Quantizing Whisper for chatbot efficiency and user experience -- Enhancing accessibility features with Whisper -- Identifying the need for Whisper in accessibility tools -- Building an interactive image-to-text application with Whisper -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Expanding Applications with Whisper -- Technical requirements -- Transcribing with precision -- Leveraging Whisper for multilingual transcription -- Indexing content for enhanced discoverability…”

“…This is the amount of data being generated every single day across the globe. As this number continues to grow, understanding and managing data becomes more complex. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…PCI -- Recommendations for SSDs -- Storage Arrays -- RAID Levels -- The RAID 5 Write Penalty -- Non-volatile Caches in RAID 5 Devices -- Do It Yourself Arrays -- Hardware Storage Arrays -- Cloud Storage -- Disk Devices in MongoDB Atlas -- MongoDB IO -- Temporary File IO -- The Journal -- Moving the Journal to a Dedicated Device -- Datafile IO -- Datafile Writes -- Splitting Up Datafiles Across Multiple Devices -- Detecting and Solving IO Problems -- Increasing IO Subsystem Bandwidth -- Dedicated Server with Dedicated Disks -- Storage Arrays -- Cloud Storage -- MongoDB Atlas…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 1) PE is all about value creation and EBITDA, a great fit with Procurement -- 2) PE "gets" the Procurement opportunity and creates a platform to deliver the potential -- 3) PE helps with speed and rigor of execution -- 4) Joint ownership creates the right incentives and behaviors -- 5) PE elevates Procurement to Executive Committee level, which facilitates cross‐functionality -- 6) Leading PE funds drive Procurement as a structured program across their portfolios -- What Can Non‐PE Learn from PE? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Supplementary tables -- Notes -- 3 Lifelong learning trajectories: The transition from compulsory schooling to young adulthood -- Introduction -- Lifelong learning and transitions -- Country differences in achievement growth between ages 15 and 27 -- Socio-economic disparities in achievement growth between ages 15 and 27 -- Differences in achievement growth across the performance distribution -- Smoother transitions: Factors promoting growth in achievement -- Formal, informal and non-formal learning opportunities -- Educational and career orientation -- The role of expectations -- References -- Annex 3.A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Subnational capacity building: An international perspective of the Asia Pacific region -- Introduction -- Current socio-economic and territorial organisation trends in Asia Pacific -- Fast urbanisation and diverse levels of development -- Economic development and impact of COVID-19 crisis -- Trends in decentralisation and territorial organisation -- Levels of government -- Number and size of municipalities -- Subnational government finance in Asia Pacific -- Subnational spending and revenue -- Subnational spending responsibilities -- Public investment at national and subnational levels -- Real degree of autonomy more limited than what fiscal indicators indicate -- Typical challenges in subnational capacities -- Broader enabling environment: Institutional quality -- Size and scale -- Challenges linked to fiscal decentralisation -- Challenges linked to administrative decentralisation -- Challenges linked to political decentralisation -- Enabling conditions to foster subnational capacity building -- Clarify the responsibilities assigned to different government levels, and ensure that all responsibilities are sufficiently funded -- Strengthen subnational fiscal autonomy to enhance accountability -- Support subnational capacity building -- Build adequate co-ordination mechanisms across levels of government -- Reaching the right scale by merging and/or cooperating…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Mastering the pandemic: Challenges and opportunities for non-urban mobility after Covid-19 -- How Covid-19 has changed travel behaviour -- The impact of Covid-19 on the decarbonisation of non-urban passenger transport -- Recover, Reshape, Reshape+: Three possible futures for non-urban passenger transport -- Non-urban passenger transport in the Recover scenario -- Paradigm change: Non-urban transport in the Reshape scenario -- Reshape+: Reinforcing Reshape -- Demand for non-urban passenger transport: Quick recovery and continued growth -- Air travel will dominate intercity trips -- Global transport activity is shifting to Asia -- CO2 emissions from non-urban passenger transport: Decoupling emissions from demand -- Well-to-tank emissions become more important -- OECD countries have the greatest potential to decarbonise -- Fair decarbonisation: Reducing non-urban passenger emissions in equitable ways -- Environmental equity of transport decisions -- Carbon taxes must not harm the less well-off -- Quantifying the equitability of non-urban transport -- Policy recommendations -- Increase the price of high-carbon non-urban transport to encourage clean alternatives -- Create Covid-19 recovery packages that boost sustainable non-urban transport -- Align decarbonisation policies across the transport and energy sectors to reflect the reliance of zero-carbon transport on clean energy -- Mandate the use of alternative fuels in aviation to encourage long-term innovation -- Incentivise the transition to low-emission non-urban road transport by making it more affordable and through measures that increase consumer confidence in cleaner options -- Invest proactively in technological developments beyond the transport sector to ensure wide-scale availability of new technologies for a comprehensive decarbonisation roll out -- References -- Note…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Ascent of Neuroscience -- The Domino Effect -- Bell Curve of Gender Tendencies -- The Ability to Peer More Deeply -- Sex Differences in Brain Structure and Function -- Prefrontal Cortex -- Corpus Callosum -- Anterior Cortex -- Insula -- Hippocampus -- Amygdala -- Cerebellum -- Sex Differences in Hormonal Composition -- Testosterone -- Oxytocin -- Cortisol -- The Breakthrough That Knowledge Brings -- Endnotes -- Chapter 4: Ascent of Women -- The First Long Step -- Women Joining Business Clubs -- Cultures Clinging to Tradition -- The Ascent of Women -- Education Across the Globe -- Under My Very Nose! -- Positive Global Signals -- An Economic Necessity Versus a Choice -- Areas Where Glass Ceilings Still Exist -- Women in Medicine -- Women in Law…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Data Transmission (EDI and XML) -- Databases and Business Analytics -- Application Systems -- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) -- Procurement Systems -- Advanced Planning and Scheduling -- Transportation Planning Systems -- Demand Planning -- Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Sales Force Automation (SFA) -- Supply Chain Management (SCM) -- Inventory Management Systems -- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES ) -- Transportation Scheduling Systems -- Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) -- New Supply Chain Technology -- Industrial Robots -- Drones and Driverless Vehicles -- Artificial Intelligence (AI) -- Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data -- Real-Time Product Information -- 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing -- Simulation Modeling -- Impact on Supply Chain Operations -- Assessing Technology and System Needs -- E-Business and Supply Chain Integration -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 5: Metrics for Measuring Supply Chain Performance -- Useful Model of Markets and Their Supply Chains -- Market Performance Categories -- Customer Service -- Internal Efficiency -- Demand Flexibility -- Product Development -- A Framework for Performance Measurement -- Customer Service Metrics -- Build to Stock -- Build to Order -- Internal Efficiency Metrics -- Inventory Value -- Inventory Turns -- Return on Sales -- Cash-to-Cash Cycle Time -- Demand Flexibility Metrics -- Upside Flexibility -- Outside Flexibility -- Product Development Metrics -- Operations that Enable Supply Chain Performance -- Collecting and Displaying Performance Data -- Three Levels of Detail -- The Data Warehouse -- Spotlighting Problems and Finding Opportunities -- Markets Migrate from One Quadrant to Another -- Sharing Data Across the Supply Chain -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 6: Supply Chain Coordination -- The Bullwhip Effect -- Coordination in the Supply Chain -- Demand Forecasting…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 7: SAS® Software Engineers the Processing Environment for You -- Architecture -- The SAS platform -- Service-Oriented Architecture and microservices -- Differences between SOA and microservices -- SAS server versus a SAS grid -- In-database processing -- In-database procedures -- Additonal in-database processing SAS offerings -- SAS Scoring Accelerator -- SAS Code Accelerator -- In-memory processing -- SAS High-Performance Analytics Server -- SAS LASR Analytics Server -- SAS Cloud Analytics Server -- Dedicated hardware for in-memory processing -- Open platform and open source -- Running SAS from an iPython Jupyter Notebook -- SAS running in a cloud -- A public cloud -- A private cloud -- A hybrid cloud -- Running SAS processing outside the SAS platform -- The SAS Embedded Process -- The SAS Event Stream Processing engine -- SAS Viya the newest part of the SAS platform -- SAS Viya programming -- SAS Viya-based solutions -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Why SAS Programmers Love SAS -- Why SAS programmers love SAS -- Examples of why SAS programmers love SAS -- Additional coding examples -- The COMPARE procedure -- The OPTIONS procedure -- Analytics is a great career -- Analytics Center of Excellence -- The executive sponsor -- The data scientist -- The data manager -- The business analyst -- The ACE leader -- Where should an ACE be located? -- Analytics across industries -- Analytics improving healthcare -- Analytics improving government services -- Analytics in financial services -- Analytics in energy -- Analytics in manufacturing -- Analytics are great for society -- Project Data Sphere® -- SAS and Data4Good -- GatherIQTM - get involved in crowdsourcing to solve social issues -- References -- Summary -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Bending wave transmission across plate intersections -- 3.4.2. Vibration reduction index -- 3.4.3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Comparing Strategies Across Project-Based Organizations -- Table 2.4. Different Types of Projects -- Table 2.5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Table of Contents -- Getting Started -- Advanced Editing -- Lesson 1 Professional Editing Technique -- How the Pros Do It -- Three-Point Editing -- Insert Editing -- Audio-Only and Video-Only Editing -- Dragging to the Timeline -- Handling Target Track Settings -- Lesson Review -- Cameo: Tapeless Groove-Steve Purcell -- Lesson 2 Accelerating Your Workflow -- Going Beyond the Double-Click -- Using the Recent Clips Pop-Up Menu -- Using Match Frame -- Matching Subclip Frames -- Viewing Master Clips in the Browser -- Matching to the Source File -- Using the Replace Edit -- Replacing One Shot with Another -- Replacing Using In and Out Points -- Replacing a Shot with Itself -- Ganging the Playheads -- Lesson Review -- Lesson 3 Trimming Concepts -- The Dynamic Art -- Understanding Basic Trimming -- Trimming in Practice -- Trimming from the Keyboard -- Using Numerical Trimming -- Extending Edits -- Splitting Edits -- Using Slip and Slide -- Slipping Clips -- Sliding Clips -- Slipping and Sliding from the Keyboard -- Lesson Review -- Lesson 4 Advanced Trimming Techniques -- Using the Trim Edit Window -- Trimming Dynamically -- Trimming Across Multiple Tracks -- Trimming Asymmetrically -- Additional Practice -- Lesson Review -- Lesson 5 Audio Sweetening -- Mastering Audio Levels -- Matching Audio Levels -- Removing Normalization -- Adjusting Levels Dynamically -- Adding Fades -- Fading Using Keyframes -- Making Uniform Changes -- Bussing in Final Cut Pro -- Filtering Audio -- Applying Audio Filters -- The Final Mix -- Using the Audio Mixer Window -- Recording Live Keyframes -- Lesson Review -- Lesson 6 Multicamera Editing -- Editing Multicamera Footage -- Using the Multiclip -- Creating a Multiclip -- Editing with a Multiclip -- Trimming a Multiclip Sequence -- Collapsing a Multiclip -- Working with Many Angles -- Setting Angle Order…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Communication and Stakeholder Management -- Measuring and Tracking Progress -- Adjusting the Roadmap as Needed -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Integrating Quantum Computing into an Existing System -- Introduction to Integrating Quantum Computing -- Analyzing Existing Systems -- Data Preparation for Quantum Computing -- Quantum Computing Software Development -- Integration Strategies -- Choosing the Right Quantum Computing Provider -- Debugging and Error Correction in Quantum Computing -- Testing and Validating Quantum Computing Systems -- Maintenance and Upkeep of Quantum Computing Systems -- Security Considerations for Quantum Computing Integration -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Releasing Quantum Computing Products -- How to Monetize the Product -- Working on Activation -- Understanding Your Acquisition Channels -- Positioning the Product -- Preparing for Market Release and Launch Strategies -- Managing Customer Expectations -- Post-Launch Monitoring and Feedback -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Challenges and Risks in Productizing Quantum Computing -- Identifying Challenges in Productizing Quantum Computing -- Hardware Limitations -- Cold Environments: The Quantum Refrigerator -- Software Challenges: Speaking the Quantum Language -- Quantum-to-Classical Transition -- Mitigating Technical Risks -- Researching and Investing in Error Correction Methods -- Continuous R&amp -- D on More Stable Qubits -- Hybrid Systems: Bridging Quantum and Classical -- Collaboration with Experts and Institutions at the Forefront of Quantum Research -- Managing Business Risks -- Conduct Thorough Market Analysis to Identify Genuine Use Cases -- Educate Stakeholders About Quantum's Realistic Potential -- Diversify Quantum Applications Across Sectors -- Continuously Monitor Technological Advancements to Pivot If Necessary -- Addressing Ethical and Social Implications…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Syntax -- Simple Example -- Types of Triggers in PostgreSQL -- Row-Level Triggers -- Creating Row-Level Triggers -- Example 1: Enforce Data Constraint -- Example 2: Creating Multiple Triggers on the Same Table -- Example 3: Prevent Nested Invocations -- Example 4: Replicating Data Across Tables -- INSTEAD OF Triggers -- Statement-Level Triggers -- Creating Statement-Level Triggers -- Example: Logging Changes to a Table -- Event Triggers -- Creating Event Triggers -- Example: Log DDL Changes -- Advantages of Triggers -- Disadvantages of Triggers -- DROP Triggers -- Summary -- What's Next -- Chapter 16: Transaction Management -- Nested Transactions -- Exception Handling -- Summary -- What's Next -- Chapter 17: Aggregates -- Custom Aggregate -- Simple Example -- State Transition Function -- Final Function -- Creating Custom Aggregate -- Create Type -- Create State Transition Function -- Create Aggregate -- Final Function -- Summary -- What's Next -- Chapter 18: Listen and Notify -- Simple Example -- Build Polling in psql -- TCN Extension -- Summary -- What's Next…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…...and subnational governments' strategies should include an investment promotion angle -- Setting the "right" subnational level for an investment promotion strategy can help overcome fragmented planning -- Craft place-sensitive policies to attract FDI for balanced regional development -- Investment promotion efforts to attract FDI for regional development can be improved -- Attracting FDI for regional development goes beyond typical investment promotion efforts -- The multi-level institutional framework for investment and regional development -- Several national and subnational bodies share the mandate to promote investment -- Subnational investment promotion evolved with the absorption of the IPA into a Ministry -- Subnational agencies promoting investment are crucial but highly fragmented players -- There is a plethora of subnational development agencies but their impact on FDI is unclear -- Croatia should clarify subnational bodies' engagement on investment promotion -- There is a large discretion in how local government authorities attract investment -- Coordination mechanisms could be improved across tiers of government -- Coordination can hardly take place when mandates are not well defined in the first place -- Coordination could be particularly reinforced over some strategic investment matters -- Croatia has several options to strengthen coordination on subnational investment -- References -- 5 Towards more effective investment tax incentives -- Summary and policy recommendations -- The tax system is only one of many factors for investment decisions -- Landscape of investment tax and non-tax incentives -- Incentives are governed by EU State aid rules -- The Investment Promotion Act grants tax and financial incentives to spur new investment, job creation and regional development…”