This research monograph is highly contextual in the present era of spatial/spatio-temporal data explosion. The overall text contains many interesting results that are worth applying in practice, while it is also a source of intriguing and motivating questions for advanced research on spatial data science.
Are you brand new to machine learning and Python?Do you want to learn good coding techniques quickly and easily?Then Python Programming is the book for you!Python is one of the best platforms for those new to programming to begin with. The book will introduce you to the basic concepts of Machine Learning, Python programming...
This investigation into the legal, political, and moral issues surrounding how the police and justice system use surveillance technology asks the question: what are citizens of a free country willing to tolerate in the name of public safety?
As we rethink the scope of police power, Jon Fasman’s chilling examination...
Spatial Microeconometrics introduces the reader to the basic concepts of spatial statistics, spatial econometrics and the spatial behavior of economic agents at the microeconomic level. Incorporating useful examples and presenting real data and datasets on real firms, the book takes the reader through the key...
This book summarizes the state of the art in tree-based methods for insurance: regression trees, random forests and boosting methods. It also exhibits the tools which make it possible to assess the predictive performance of tree-based models. Actuaries need these advanced analytical tools to turn the massive data sets now at their...
This is the Proceedings of the 20th International Congress on Project Management and Engineering, that was held at the Technical University of Cartagena, Spain, from July 13 to 15, 2016. It brings together a collection of recent works of researchers and professionals in the Project Management and Engineering fields of Civil Engineering and...
Create applications using Industry 4.0. Discover how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities can be enhanced using the Internet of things (IoT) and secured using Blockchain, so your latest app can be not just smarter but also more connected and more secure than ever before. This book covers the latest...
Build, test, and tune financial, insurance or other market trading systems using C++ algorithms and statistics. You’ve had an idea and have done some preliminary experiments, and it looks promising. Where do you go from here? Well, this book discusses and dissects this case study approach.
Utilize this practical and easy-to-follow guide to modernize traditional enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence environments with next-generation big data technologies.
Next-Generation Big Data takes a holistic approach, covering the most important aspects of modern enterprise big data. The book...
Now updated—the systematic introductory guide to modern analysis of large data sets
As data sets continue to grow in size and complexity, there has been an inevitable move towards indirect, automatic, and intelligent data analysis in which the analyst works via more complex and sophisticated software tools. This book...
Become the master player of data exploration by creating reproducible data processing pipelines, visualizations, and prediction models for your applications.
Key Features
Get up and running with the Jupyter ecosystem and some example datasets
Know how to do machine learning with Microsoft technologies. This book teaches you to do predictive, descriptive, and prescriptive analyses with Microsoft Power BI, Azure Data Lake, SQL Server, Stream Analytics, Azure Databricks, HD Insight, and more.
The ability to analyze massive amounts of real-time data and predict...
