Advanced Analytics in Power BI with R and Python 
by Ryan Wade
This easy-to-follow guide provides R and Python recipes to help you learn and apply the top languages in the field of data analytics to your work in Microsoft Power BI. Data analytics expert and author Ryan Wade shows you how to use R and Python to perform tasks that are extremely hard, if not impossible, to do using native Power BI tools. For example, you will learn to score Power BI data using custom data...
Price: $29.88 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2020
by Benjamin Weissman, Enrico van de Laar
Use this guide to one of SQL Server 2019's most impactful features - Big Data Clusters. You will learn about data virtualization and data lakes for this complete artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) platform within the SQL Server database engine. You will know how to use Big Data Clusters to combine large volumes of streaming data for analysis along with data stored in a traditional d...
Price: $33.67 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2020
SQL Server 2019 AlwaysOn, 3rd Edition
by Peter A. Carter
Get a fast start to using AlwaysOn, the SQL Server solution to high-availability and disaster recovery. This third edition is newly-updated to cover the 2019 editions of both SQL Server and Windows Server and includes strong coverage of implementing AlwaysOn Availability Groups on both Windows and Linux operating systems. The book provides a solid and accurate understanding of how to implement systems requi...
Price: $35.58 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2020
Pro Microsoft Power BI Administration
by Asgeir Gunnarsson, Michael Johnson
Manage Power BI within organizations. This book helps you systematize administration as Microsoft shifts Power BI from a self-service tool to an enterprise tool. You will learn best practices for many Power BI administrator tasks. And you will know how to manage artifacts such as reports, users, work spaces, apps, and gateways. The book also provides experience-based guidance on governance, licensing, and m...
Price: $40.44 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2020
Getting Structured Data from the Internet
by Jay M. Patel
Utilize web scraping at scale to quickly get unlimited amounts of free data available on the web into a structured format. This book teaches you to use Python scripts to crawl through websites at scale and scrape data from HTML and JavaScript-enabled pages and convert it into structured data formats such as CSV, Excel, JSON, or load it into a SQL database of your choice.This book goes beyond the basics of w...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2020
by Casey Rosenthal, Nora Jones
As more companies move toward microservices and other distributed technologies, the complexity of these systems increases. You can't remove the complexity, but through Chaos Engineering you can discover vulnerabilities and prevent outages before they impact your customers. This practical guide shows engineers how to navigate complex systems while optimizing to meet business goals.Two of the field'...
Price: $29.17 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
Building an Anonymization Pipeline 
by Luk Arbuckle, Khaled El Emam
How can you use data in a way that protects individual privacy but still provides useful and meaningful analytics? With this practical book, data architects and engineers will learn how to establish and integrate secure, repeatable anonymization processes into their data flows and analytics in a sustainable manner.Luk Arbuckle and Khaled El Emam from Privacy Analytics explore end-to-end solutions for anonym...
Price: $36.65 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
by Panos Alexopoulos
What value does semantic data modeling offer? As an information architect or data science professional, let's say you have an abundance of the right data and the technology to extract business gold - but you still fail. The reason? Bad data semantics.In this practical and comprehensive field guide, author Panos Alexopoulos takes you on an eye-opening journey through semantic data modeling as applied in...
Price: $56.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
The Customer-Driven Culture: A Microsoft Story
by Travis Lowdermilk, Monty Hammontree
If you're striving to make products and services that your customers will love, then you'll need a customer-driven organization. As companies transform their businesses to meet the demands of the digital age, they find themselves grappling with uniquely human challenges. Organizational knowledge becomes siloed, employees move to safeguard their expertise, and customer data creates polarization and...
Price: $32.47 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
Analytical Skills for AI and Data Science
by Daniel Vaughan
While several market-leading companies have successfully transformed their business models by following data- and AI-driven paths, the vast majority have yet to reap the benefits. How can your business and analytics units gain a competitive advantage by capturing the full potential of this predictive revolution? This practical guide presents a battle-tested end-to-end method to help you translate business d...
Price: $51.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020