Explore the latest Python tools and techniques to help you tackle the world of data acquisition and analysis. You'll review scientific computing with NumPy, visualization with matplotlib, and machine learning with scikit-learn.
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Animation as both an art form and popular entertainment has existed for
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more for their novelty than for the quality of their craft. That even holds
true today: animated movies often make it through the studio process not
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PHP has changed the world: no other language has influenced and spurred web development
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This book addresses the fundamentals of communications systems and networks, providing
models and analytical methods for evaluating their performance. It is divided into ten chapters,
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While books and journals of high quality have proliferated in discrete and compu-
tational geometry during recent years, there has been to date no single reference
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the major aspects of both fields. The Handbook of Discrete and Computational
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This is an unconventional book for an unconventional reader. It is intended
for those professionals who, in addition to their specialized knowledge,
would like to get a handle on life so they may put their special text into its
proper context. It speaks to those thinkers and practitioners who have
come to realize that learning to be...
From its inception in the 1930s, the rich and vigorous field of computer science
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carry out a computation. A number of fundamental theorems were discovered
that resorted to a worst-case analysis. The central question was whether a given
algorithm could be...
This earliest recorded attempt to regulate the engineering profession reminds
us, in the bluntest way possible, that the paramount purpose of engineering and
engineering design is to serve the user. One would assume that the engineer’s
responsibility to users is so self evident that it goes without saying. Various
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You may know When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth as a goofy humans-coexisting-withdinosaurs
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