Practical SQL is an approachable and fast-paced guide to SQL (Structured Query Language), the standard programming language for defining, organizing, and exploring data in relational databases. The book focuses on using SQL to find the story your data tells, with the popular open-source database PostgreSQL and the pgAdmin interface as...

• Create multi-utility apps for mobiles using ArcGIS Server quickly and easily
• Start with the basics and move through to creating advanced mobile ArcGIS apps
• Plenty of...

Big Data Analytics Using Splunk is a hands-on book showing how to process and derive business value from big data in real time. Examples in the book draw from social media sources such as Twitter (tweets) and Foursquare (check-ins). You also learn to draw from machine data, enabling you to analyze, say, web server log files and...

In Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, Peter Ludlow extends the approach he used so successfully in High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, offering a collection of writings that reflects the eclectic nature of the online world, as well as its tremendous energy and creativity. This time the subject is the emergence...

• Construct applications for GIS development by exploiting Python
• This focuses on built-in Python modules and libraries compatible with the Python Packaging Index distribution...

This book introduces the OSM project, its aims and objectives, and its history, then guides you through the process of gathering, editing, and using OpenStreetMap data using a series of real-world examples. This book is the perfect aid for geographic-information professionals interested in using OpenStreetMap in their work and web designers...

“It is rare to discover a book on digital photography that is not technically dated by the rapid changes in the digital technology… From cover to cover this book is filled with priceless information on how to get the great photos, and how to make sure...