Data Mining and Business Analytics with R 
by Johannes Ledolter
Collecting, analyzing, and extracting valuable information from a large amount of data requires easily accessible, robust, computational and analytical tools. Data Mining and Business Analytics with R utilizes the open source software R for the analysis, exploration, and simplification of large high-dimensional data sets. As a result, readers are provided with the needed guidance to model and interpret comp...
Price: $77.16 | Publisher: Wiley | Release: 2013
Big Data Analytics Using Splunk
by Peter Zadrozny, Raghu Kodali
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 patterns of user access in real time, as the access is occurring. Gone are the d...
Price: $39.49 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
by Magy Seif El-Nasr, Anders Drachen, Alessandro Canossa
Developing a successful game in today's market is a challenging endeavor. Thousands of titles are published yearly, all competing for players' time and attention. Game analytics has emerged in the past few years as one of the main resources for ensuring game quality, maximizing success, understanding player behavior and enhancing the quality of the player experience. It has led to a paradigm shift...
Price: $84.99 | Publisher: Springer | Release: 2013
by Russell Jurney
Mining big data requires a deep investment in people and time. How can you be sure you're building the right models? With this hands-on book, you'll learn a flexible toolset and methodology for building effective analytics applications with Hadoop.Using lightweight tools such as Python, Apache Pig, and the D3.js library, your team will create an agile environment for exploring data, starting with ...
Price: $7.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Mike Barlow
Five or six years ago, analysts working with big datasets made queries and got the results back overnight. The data world was revolutionized a few years ago when Hadoop and other tools made it possible to get the results from queries in minutes. But the revolution continues. Analysts now demand sub-second, near real-time query results. Fortunately, we have the tools to deliver them. This report examines too...
Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Soumendra Mohanty, Madhu Jagadeesh, Harsha Srivatsa
Big Data Imperatives, focuses on resolving the key questions on everyone's mind: Which data matters? Do you have enough data volume to justify the usage? How you want to process this amount of data? How long do you really need to keep it active for your analysis, marketing, and BI applications?Big data is emerging from the realm of one-off projects to mainstream business adoption; however, the real val...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
Big Data Application Architecture Q&A
by Nitin Sawant, Himanshu Shah
Big Data Application Architecture Pattern Recipes provides an insight into heterogeneous infrastructures, databases, and visualization and analytics tools used for realizing the architectures of big data solutions. Its problem-solution approach helps in selecting the right architecture to solve the problem at hand. In the process of reading through these problems, you will learn harness the power of new bi...
Price: $40.66 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2013
by Khaled El Emam, Luk Arbuckle
With this practical book, you will learn proven methods for anonymizing health data to help your organization share meaningful datasets, without exposing patient identity. Leading experts Khaled El Emam and Luk Arbuckle walk you through a risk-based methodology, using case studies from their efforts to de-identify hundreds of datasets.Clinical data is valuable for research and other types of analytics, but ...
Price: $25.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by Harlan Harris, Sean Murphy, Marck Vaisman
There has been intense excitement in recent years around activities labeled "data science," "big data," and "analytics." However, the lack of clarity around these terms and, particularly, around the skill sets and capabilities of their practitioners has led to inefficient communication between "data scientists" and the organizations req...
Price: $9.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
by William D. Back, Nicholas Goodman, Julian Hyde
Mondrian is an open source, lightning-fast data analysis engine designed to help you explore your business data and perform speed-of-thought analysis. Mondrian can be integrated into a wide variety of business analysis applications and learning it requires no specialized technical knowledge.Mondrian in Action teaches you to use Mondrian for strategic business analysis. In it, you'll learn how to organi...
Price: $26.85 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2013