Think of all the popular data visualization works out there—the ones that you always hear in lectures or read about in blogs, and the ones that popped into your head as you were reading this sentence. What do they all have in common? They all tell an interesting story. Maybe the story was to convince you of something. Maybe it was to...
If you have an abundance of data, but no idea what to do with it, this book was written for you! Packed with examples from an array of industries, Introduction to Data Mining Using SAS Enterprise Miner provides you with excellent starting points and practical guidelines to begin data mining today. Author Patricia Cerrito encourages you to...
The Only Definitive Guide to New State-of-the-Art Techniques in Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Recently, powerful innovations in intrusion detection and prevention have evolved in response to emerging threats and changing business environments....
Art or science?Which of these is the right way to think of the field of visualization?
This is not an easy question to answer, even for those who have many years of
experience in making graphical depictions of data with a view to helping people
understand them and take action. When we look at beautiful hand-drawn pictures
of...
Visual requirements models are one of the most effective ways to identify software
requirements. They help the analyst to ensure that all stakeholders—including
subject matter experts, business stakeholders, executives, and technical teams—understand
the proposed solution. Visualization keeps...
Information Visualization: Perception for Design is a comprehensive guide to what the science of human perception tells us about how we should display information.
The human brain is a super-computer for finding patterns in information. Our understanding of visual data and visual information is greatly enhanced or impeded by...
There is no single methodology for creating the perfect product—but you can increase your odds. One of the best ways is to understand users' reasons for doing things. Mental Models gives you the tools to help you grasp, and design for, those reasons. Adaptive Path co-founder Indi Young has written a roll-up-your-sleeves book for...
Project management is a rapidly growing focus discipline
within most businesses and organizations, binding the opti-
mal way of operating and managing projects is a continuous
challenge. It might involve fine-tuning work methods, clarifying
roles and simplifying project reporting, or visualizing progress
through the...
Time is an exceptional dimension.We recognize this every day: when we are waiting
for a train, time seems to run at a snail’s pace, but the hours we spend in a bar with
a good friend pass by so quickly. There are times when one can wait endlessly for
something to happen, and there are times when one is overwhelmed by events...
I started using R several years ago to analyze data I had collected for my research in
graduate school. My motivation at first was to escape from the restrictive environments
and canned analyses offered by statistical programs like SPSS. And even better, because
it’s freely available, I didn’t need to...
Graphs are among the most important abstract data types in computer science, and the algorithms that operate on them are critical to modern life. Graphs have been shown to be powerful tools for modeling complex problems because of their simplicity and generality. Graph algorithms are one of the pillars of mathematics, informing research in...
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...
