• Optimize your MapReduce job performance
• ...

• Learn to use the facilities provided by D3.js to create data-driven visualizations
• Explore the concepts of D3.js through examples that enable you to quickly create visualizations including charts, network diagrams, and maps
• Get practical examples of visualizations using...

Is it possible to guide the process of self-organisation towards specific patterns and outcomes? Wouldn’t this be self-contradictory? After all, a self-organising process assumes a transition into a more organised form, or towards a more structured functionality, in the absence of centralised control. Then...

• Develop a machine learning system with Spark's MLlib and scalable algorithms
• Deploy Spark jobs to various clusters such as Mesos, EC2, Chef, YARN, EMR, and so on
• This is a...

• More than 150 A–Z entries on the content and context of each festival, tracing its historical development and geographic variations, from...

Joe Celko's Complete Guide to NoSQL provides a complete overview of non-relational technologies so that you can become more nimble to meet the needs of your organization. As data continues to explode and grow more complex, SQL is becoming less useful for querying data and extracting meaning. In this new world of bigger and faster...

• Draw and rig cartoon assets using a set of robust tools
• Breathe life into your animated productions with in-depth sets and props
• Learn tips and tricks to add appealing effects to your animated...

The demand for SQL information and training continues to grow with the need for a database behind every website capable of offering web-based information queries. SQL is the de facto standard for database retrieval, and if you need to access, update, or utilize data in a modern database management system, you will need SQL to do it. The...

This book proposes systemic design methodologies applied to electrical energy systems, in particular analysis and system management, modeling and sizing tools.
It includes 8 chapters: after an introduction to the systemic approach (history, basics & fundamental issues, index terms) for designing energy systems, this book presents...

• Install a development environment on your own desktop/laptop
• A...

Beginning HTML5 Media, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to HTML5 video and audio. The HTML5 video standard enables browsers to support audio and video elements natively. This makes it very easy for web developers to publish audio and video, integrating both within the general presentation of web pages. For example,...

• Empower your agent with decision making capabilities using advanced minimaxing and Negamaxing techniques
• Discover how AI can be applied to a wide range of games to make them more interactive.
• Instigate vision and hearing abilities in your agent through collider based and graph...