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 Jeff Sheltren, Narayan Newton, Nathaniel Catchpole
How can you help your Drupal website continue to perform at the highest level as it grows to meet demand? This comprehensive guide provides best practices, examples, and in-depth explanations for solving several performance and scalability issues. You'll learn how to apply coding and infrastructure techniques to Drupal internals, application performance, databases, web servers, and performance analysis...
Price: $19.27 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2013
Quantum Walks and Search Algorithms
by Renato Portugal
This book addresses an interesting area of quantum computation called quantum walks, which play an important role in building quantum algorithms, in particular search algorithms. Quantum walks are the quantum analogue of classical random walks.It is known that quantum computers have great power for searching unsorted databases. This power extends to many kinds of searches, particularly to the problem of fin...
Price: $54.99 | Publisher: Springer | Release: 2013
by Michael S. Mikowski, Josh C. Powell
If your website is a jumpy collection of linked pages, you are behind. Single page web applications are your next step: pushing UI rendering and business logic to the browser and communicating with the server only to synchronize data, they provide a smooth user experience, much like a native application. But, SPAs can be hard to develop, manage, and test.Single Page Web Applications shows how your team can ...
Price: $16.29 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2013
by Josiah L. Carlson
Redis in Action introduces Redis and the key-value model. You'll quickly dive into real use cases including simple caching, distributed ad targeting, and more. You'll learn how to scale Redis from small jobs to massive datasets and discover how to integrate with traditional RDBMS or other NoSQL stores. Experienced developers will appreciate the in-depth chapters on clustering and internal scriptin...
Price: $7.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2013
The Art of Unit Testing, 2nd Edition 
by Roy Osherove
You know you should be unit testing, so why aren't you doing it? If you're new to unit testing, if you find unit testing tedious, or if you're just not getting enough payoff for the effort you put into it, keep reading.The Art of Unit Testing, Second Edition guides you step by step from writing your first simple unit tests to building complete test sets that are maintainable, readable, and tr...
Price: $8.44 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2013
by Dan McCreary, Ann Kelly
If you want to understand and perhaps start using the new data storage and analysis technologies that go beyond the SQL database model, this book is for you. Written in plain language suitable for technical managers and developers, and using many examples, use cases, and illustrations, this book explains the concepts, features, benefits, potential, and limitations of NoSQL.Making Sense of NoSQL starts by co...
Price: $7.03 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2013
by John Arundel
Everyone's talking about Puppet, the open-source DevOps technology that lets you automate your server setups and manage websites, databases, and desktops. Puppet can build new servers in seconds, keep your systems constantly up to date, and automate daily maintenance tasks.Puppet 3 Beginner's Guide gets you up and running with Puppet straight away, with complete real world examples. Each chapter b...
Price: $8.40 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
by Donato Teutonico
R is a versatile cross-platform environment with the power of a programming language and the flexibility of a scripting language. It is extremely powerful in manipulating and visualizing complex databases, performing statistical computations and producing any kind of plot with a very high graphical quality.Instant R Starter is a practical introduction to the R language and will show you how to use the main ...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
Java Persistence with MyBatis 3 
by K. Siva Prasad Reddy
Storing and retrieving data to and from relational databases is a very common requirement, and is a crucial part of many applications. Even though Java provides a JDBC API for database access, it is not very effective and involves writing the boilerplate code again and again. Getting data out of a database, populating into Java objects, and persisting data from Java objects into a database using JDBC involv...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013