Category: Books

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. Data science libraries, frameworks, modules, and toolkits are great for doing data science, but they’re also a good way to dive into the discipline without actually understanding data science. With this updated second edition, you’ll learn how many of the most fundamental data science tools and algorithms work by implementing them from scratch. If you have an aptitude for mathematics and some programming skills, author Joel Grus will help you get comfortable with the math and statistics at the core of data science, and with hacking skills you need to ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. Learn how and why to write strategically for UX, using practical tools to build the foundational pieces for UX voice and UI text strategy. In this practical book, you’ll learn how to use frameworks and patterns for content, methods to measure the content’s effectiveness, and processes to create the collaboration necessary for success. Each section begins with a purpose grounded in return on investment (ROI) and empathy. This book concludes with advice about prioritization and encouragement. You’ll learn how to: Inform UI text decisions by creating voice and research methods ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. With Early Release ebooks, you get books in their earliest form—the author's raw and unedited content as he or she writes—so you can take advantage of these technologies long before the official release of these titles. You’ll also receive updates when significant changes are made, new chapters are available, and the final ebook bundle is released. If you understand the basics of HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript and want to make quick sense of the extensive but often overwhelming reference documentation on D3.js, this short book is for you. Philipp K ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. Effective visualization is the best way to communicate information from the increasingly large and complex datasets in the natural and social sciences. But with the increasing power of visualization software today, scientists, engineers, and business analysts often have to navigate a bewildering array of visualization choices and options. This practical book takes you through many commonly encountered visualization problems, and it provides guidelines on how to turn large datasets into clear and compelling figures. What visualization type is best for the story you want to tell? How do you make ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. Despite popular forays into augmented and virtual reality in recent years, spatial computing still sits on the cusp of mainstream use. Developers, artists, and designers looking to enter this field today have few places to turn for expert guidance. In this book, Erin Pangilinan, Steve Lukas, and Vasanth Mohan examine the AR and VR development pipeline and provide hands-on practice to help you hone your skills. Through step-by-step tutorials, you’ll learn how to build practical applications and experiences grounded in theory and backed by industry use cases. In each section ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. Find out how to use the Unity Game Engine to its fullest for both 3D and 2D game development—from the basics to the hottest new tricks in virtual reality. With this unique cookbook, you’ll get started in two ways: First, you’ll learn about the Unity game engine by following very brief exercises that teach specific features of the software Second, this tutorial-oriented guide provides a collection of snippets that solve common gameplay problems, like determining if a player has completed a lap in a race Using our cookbook format, we ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. Many industry experts consider unsupervised learning the next frontier in artificial intelligence, one that may hold the key to general artificial intelligence. Since the majority of the world's data is unlabeled, conventional supervised learning cannot be applied. Unsupervised learning, on the other hand, can be applied to unlabeled datasets to discover meaningful patterns buried deep in the data, patterns that may be near impossible for humans to uncover. Author Ankur Patel shows you how to apply unsupervised learning using two simple production-ready Python frameworks: scikit-learn and TensorFlow using Keras. With ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. Enterprises are experimenting with using Hadoop to build Big Data Lakes, but many projects are stalling or failing because the approaches that worked at Internet companies have to be adopted for the enterprise. This practical handbook guides managers and IT professionals from the initial research and decision-making process through planning, choosing products, and implementing, maintaining, and governing the modern data lake. You'll explore various approaches to starting and growing a Data Lake, including Data Warehouse off-loading, analytical sandboxes, and "Data Puddles." Author Alex Gorelik shows you methods for setting up ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. Dive into Bitcoin technology with this hands-on guide from one of the leading teachers on Bitcoin and Bitcoin programming. Author Jimmy Song shows Python programmers and developers how to program a Bitcoin library from scratch. You’ll learn how to work with the basics, including the math, blocks, network, and transactions behind this popular cryptocurrency and its blockchain payment system. By the end of the book, you'll understand how this cryptocurrency works under the hood by coding all the components necessary for a Bitcoin library. Learn how to create transactions, get ... Read More

Feed: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Upcoming Titles. Author: O'Reilly Media, Inc.. With much success already attributed to deep learning, this discipline has started making waves throughout science broadly and the life sciences in particular. With this practical book, developers and scientists will learn how deep learning is used for genomics, chemistry, biophysics, microscopy, medical analysis, drug discovery, and other fields. As a running case study, the authors focus on the problem of designing new therapeutics, one of science’s greatest challenges because this practice ties together physics, chemistry, biology and medicine. Using TensorFlow and the DeepChem library, this book introduces deep network ... Read More