Add a touch of data analytics to your healthcare systems and get insightful outcomesKey FeaturesPerform healthcare analytics with Python and SQLBuild predictive models on real healthcare data with pandas and scikit-learnUse analytics to improve healthcare performanceBook DescriptionIn recent years, machine learning technologies and analytics have been widely utilized across the healthcare sector. Healthcare Analytics Made Sim...

Despite its wide availability and usage, few developers and DBAs have mastered the true power of Oracle SQLPlus. This bestselling book--now updated for Oracle 10g--is the only in-depth guide to this interactive query tool for writing SQL scripts. It's an essential resource for any Oracle user.The new second edition of Oracle SQLPlus: The Definitive Guide clearly describes how to perform, step-by-step, all of the tasks that Oracle developers and DBAs want to perform with SQLPlu...

In this compact book, Steven Feuerstein, widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on the Oracle PL/SQL language, distills his many years of programming, teaching, and writing about PL/SQL into a set of best practices-recommendations for developing successful applications. Covering the latest Oracle release, Oracle Database 11gR2, Feuerstein has rewritten this new edition in the style of his bestselling Oracle PL/SQL Programming. The text is organized in a problem/so...

If your organization is about to enter the world of big data, you not only need to decide whether Apache Hadoop is the right platform to use, but also which of its many components are best suited to your task. This field guide makes the exercise manageable by breaking down the Hadoop ecosystem into short, digestible sections. You’ll quickly understand how Hadoop’s projects, subprojects, and related technologies work together.Each chapter introduces a different topic—such as core te...

This book will allow users to quickly master Microsoft Excel Form Controls: combo box, check box, spin button, list box, and option button.  The option button is also known as the radio button.  Form controls are designed to work with Microsoft formulas and/or VBA; however, this book is strictly about form controls working with Microsoft formulas; there will be no VBA codes or macros discussed in this book.  In order to simplify the user’s learning experience, pictorial exam...

Until recently, many people thought big data was a passing fad. "Data science" was an enigmatic term. Today, big data is taken seriously, and data science is considered downright sexy. With this anthology of reports from award-winning journalist Mike Barlow, you’ll appreciate how data science is fundamentally altering our world, for better and for worse.Barlow paints a picture of the emerging data space in broad strokes. From new techniques and tools to the use of data for social g...

Leverage the power of Python to clean, scrape, analyze, and visualize your dataAbout This BookClean, format, and explore your data using the popular Python libraries and get valuable insights from itAnalyze big data sets; create attractive visualizations; manipulate and process various data types using NumPy, SciPy, and matplotlib; and morePacked with easy-to-follow examples to develop advanced computational skills for the analys...

Take tiny steps to enter the big world of data science through this interesting guideKey Features\[\*\] Learn the fundamentals of machine learning and build your own intelligent applications\[\*\] Master the art of building your own machine learning systems with this example-based practical guide\[\*\] Work with important classification and regression algorithms and other machine learning techniquesBook DescriptionData scienc...

This synthesis lecture provides a survey of work on privacy in online social networks (OSNs). This work encompasses concerns of users as well as service providers and third parties. Our goal is to approach such concerns from a computer-science perspective, and building upon existing work on privacy, security, statistical modeling and databases to provide an overview of the technical and algorithmic issues related to privacy in OSNs. We start our survey by introducing a simple OSN data mode...

Beginning Apache Cassandra Development introduces you to one of the most robust and best-performing NoSQL database platforms on the planet. Apache Cassandra is a document database following the JSON document model. It is specifically designed to manage large amounts of data across many commodity servers without there being any single point of failure. This design approach makes Apache Cassandra a robust and easy-to-implement platform when high availability is needed.Apache...

This book covers the fundamentals of machine learning with Python in a concise and dynamic manner. It covers data mining and large-scale machine learning using Apache Spark.Key FeaturesTake your first steps in the world of data science by understanding the tools and techniques of data analysisTrain efficient Machine Learning models in Python using the supervised and unsupervised learning methodsLearn how to use Apache Spark for processing Big D...

This textbook on practical data analytics unites fundamental principles, algorithms, and data. Algorithms are the keystone of data analytics and the focal point of this textbook. Clear and intuitive explanations of the mathematical and statistical foundations make the algorithms transparent. But practical data analytics requires more than just the foundations. Problems and data are enormously variable and only the most elementary of algorithms can be used without modification. Programming ...