Practical Synthetic Data Generation 
by Khaled El Emam, Lucy Mosquera, Richard Hoptroff
Building and testing machine learning models requires access to large and diverse data. But where can you find usable datasets without running into privacy issues? This practical book introduces techniques for generating synthetic data - fake data generated from real data - so you can perform secondary analysis to do research, understand customer behaviors, develop new products, or generate new revenue.Data...
Price: $59.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
Practical Statistics for Data Scientists, 2nd Edition
by Peter Bruce, Andrew Bruce, Peter Gedeck
Statistical methods are a key part of data science, yet few data scientists have formal statistical training. Courses and books on basic statistics rarely cover the topic from a data science perspective. The second edition of this popular guide adds comprehensive examples in Python, provides practical guidance on applying statistical methods to data science, tells you how to avoid their misuse, and gives yo...
Price: $31.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know
by Gunther Verheyen
Improve your understanding of Scrum through the proven experience and collected wisdom of experts around the world. Based on real-life experiences, the 97 essays in this unique book provide a wealth of knowledge and expertise from established practitioners who have dealt with specific problems and challenges with Scrum. You'll find out more about the rules and roles of this framework, as well as tactic...
Price: $34.62 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
by Jonathan Schneider
In a microservices architecture, the whole is indeed greater than the sum of its parts. But in practice, individual microservices can inadvertently impact others and alter the end user experience. Effective microservices architectures require standardization on an organizational level with the help of a platform engineering team.This practical book provides a series of progressive steps that platform engine...
Price: $44.44 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
by Sandeep Uttamchandani
Data-driven insights are a key competitive advantage for any industry today, but deriving insights from raw data can still take days or weeks. Most organizations can't scale data science teams fast enough to keep up with the growing amounts of data to transform. What's the answer? Self-service data.With this practical book, data engineers, data scientists, and team managers will learn how to build...
Price: $48.49 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
by Caleb Hattingh
If you're among the Python developers put off by asyncio's complexity, it's time to take another look. Asyncio is complicated because it aims to solve problems in concurrent network programming for both framework and end-user developers. The features you need to consider are a small subset of the whole asyncio API, but picking out the right features is the tricky part. That's where this ...
Price: $16.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
by Maude Lemaire
Making significant changes to large, complex codebases is a daunting task-one that's nearly impossible to do successfully unless you have the right team, tools, and mindset. If your application is in need of a substantial overhaul and you're unsure how to go about implementing those changes in a sustainable way, then this book is for you.Software engineer Maude Lemaire walks you through the entire...
Price: $36.90 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
by Ryan Sleeper
Level up with Tableau to build eye-catching, easy-to-interpret data visualizations. In this follow-up guide to Practical Tableau, author Ryan Sleeper takes you through a collection of unique tips and tutorials for using this popular software. Beginning to advanced Tableau users will learn how to go beyond Show Me to make better charts and learn dozens of tricks to improve both the author and user experience...
Price: $51.21 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
Practical AI on the Google Cloud Platform
by Micheal Lanham
Working with AI is complicated and expensive for many developers. That's why cloud providers have stepped in to make it easier, offering free (or affordable) state-of-the-art models and training tools to get you started. With this book, you'll learn how to use Google's AI-powered cloud services to do everything from creating a chatbot to analyzing text, images, and video.Author Micheal Lanham...
Price: $44.26 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020
Implementing Service Level Objectives
by Alex Hidalgo
Although service-level objectives (SLOs) continue to grow in importance, there's a distinct lack of information about how to implement them. Practical advice that does exist usually assumes that your team already has the infrastructure, tooling, and culture in place. In this book, recognized SLO expert Alex Hidalgo explains how to build an SLO culture from the ground up.Ideal as a primer and daily refe...
Price: $26.60 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2020