Advanced Analytics with Transact-SQL 
by Dejan Sarka
Learn about business intelligence (BI) features in T-SQL and how they can help you with data science and analytics efforts without the need to bring in other languages such as R and Python. This book shows you how to compute statistical measures using your existing skills in T-SQL. You will learn how to calculate descriptive statistics, including centers, spreads, skewness, and kurtosis of distributions. Yo...
Price: $32.55 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2021
by Ann Jackson, Luke Stanke
If you want to increase Tableau's value to your organization, this practical book has your back. Authors Ann Jackson and Luke Stanke guide data analysts through strategies for solving real-world analytics problems using Tableau. Starting with the basics and building toward advanced topics such as multidimensional analysis and user experience, you'll explore pragmatic and creative examples that you can apply...
Price: $46.95 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2021
Data Pipelines Pocket Reference 
by James Densmore
Data pipelines are the foundation for success in data analytics. Moving data from numerous diverse sources and transforming it to provide context is the difference between having data and actually gaining value from it. This pocket reference defines data pipelines and explains how they work in today's modern data stack.You'll learn common considerations and key decision points when implementing pipelines, s...
Price: $21.34 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2021
by George Mount
Data analytics may seem daunting, but if you're an experienced Excel user, you have a unique head start. With this hands-on guide, intermediate Excel users will gain a solid understanding of analytics and the data stack. By the time you complete this book, you'll be able to conduct exploratory data analysis and hypothesis testing using a programming language.Exploring and testing relationships are core to a...
Price: $45.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2021
by Matt Fuller, Manfred Moser, Martin Traverso
Perform fast interactive analytics against different data sources using the Trino high-performance distributed SQL query engine. With this practical guide, you'll learn how to conduct analytics on data where it lives, whether it's Hive, Cassandra, a relational database, or a proprietary data store. Analysts, software engineers, and production engineers will learn how to manage, use, and even develop with Tr...
Price: $55.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2021
Tableau Desktop Pocket Reference
by Ryan Sleeper
In a crowded field of data visualization and analytics tools, Tableau Desktop has emerged as the clear leader. This is partly due to its ease of use, but once you dive into Tableau's extensive feature set, you'll understand just how powerful and flexible this software can be for your business or organization.With this handy pocket reference, author Ryan Sleeper (Innovative Tableau) shows you how to translat...
Price: $18.65 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2021
Designing Cloud Data Platforms
by Danil Zburivsky, Lynda Partner
Centralized data warehouses, the long-time defacto standard for housing data for analytics, are rapidly giving way to multi-faceted cloud data platforms. Companies that embrace modern cloud data platforms benefit from an integrated view of their business using all of their data and can take advantage of advanced analytic practices to drive predictions and as yet unimagined data services. Designing Cloud Dat...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2021
Transfer Learning for Natural Language Processing
by Paul Azunre
Training deep learning NLP models from scratch is costly, time-consuming, and requires massive amounts of data. In Transfer Learning for Natural Language Processing, DARPA researcher Paul Azunre reveals cutting-edge transfer learning techniques that apply customizable pretrained models to your own NLP architectures. You'll learn how to use transfer learning to deliver state-of-the-art results for language c...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2021
by Vlad Riscutia
Data Engineering on Azure reveals the data management patterns and techniques that support Microsoft's own massive data infrastructure. Author Vlad Riscutia, a data engineer at Microsoft, teaches you to bring an engineering rigor to your data platform and ensure that your data prototypes function just as well under the pressures of production. You'll implement common data modeling patterns, stand up cloud-n...
Price: $24.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2021
Mastering Tableau 2021, 3rd Edition
by Marleen Meier, David Baldwin
Tableau is one of the leading business intelligence (BI) tools used to solve data analysis challenges. With this book, you will master Tableau's features and offerings in various paradigms of the BI domain.Updated with fresh topics including Quick Level of Detail expressions, the newest Tableau Server features, Einstein Discovery, and more, this book covers essential Tableau concepts and advanced functional...
Price: $30.39 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2021