FREE EBOOK - Think Stats, 2nd Edition 
by Allen B. Downey
If you know how to program, you have the skills to turn data into knowledge, using tools of probability and statistics. This concise introduction shows you how to perform statistical analysis computationally, rather than mathematically, with programs written in Python.By working with a single case study throughout this thoroughly revised book, you'll learn the entire process of exploratory data analysi...
Price: $26.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
60 Recipes for Apache CloudStack
by Sebastien Goasguen
Planning to deploy and maintain a public, private, or hybrid cloud service? This cookbook's handy how-to recipes help you quickly learn and install Apache CloudStack, along with several API clients, API wrappers, data architectures, and configuration management technologies that work as part of CloudStack's ecosystem.You'll learn how to use Vagrant, Ansible, Chef, Fluentd, Libcloud, and sever...
Price: $21.27 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by Julia Elman, Mark Lavin
How can you take advantage of the Django framework to integrate complex client-side interactions and real-time features into your web applications? Through a series of rapid application development projects, this hands-on book shows experienced Django developers how to include REST APIs, WebSockets, and client-side MVC frameworks such as Backbone.js into new or existing projects.Learn how to make the most o...
Price: $34.23 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
Data Science at the Command Line
by Jeroen Janssens
This hands-on guide demonstrates how the flexibility of the command line can help you become a more efficient and productive data scientist. You'll learn how to combine small, yet powerful, command-line tools to quickly obtain, scrub, explore, and model your data.To get you started - whether you're on Windows, OS X, or Linux - author Jeroen Janssens introduces the Data Science Toolbox, an easy-to-...
Price: $7.67 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2014
by David Wood, Marsha Zaidman, Luke Ruth, Michael Hausenblas
The current Web is mostly a collection of linked documents useful for human consumption. The evolving Web includes data collections that may be identified and linked so that they can be consumed by automated processes. The W3C approach to this is Linked Data and it is already used by Google, Facebook, IBM, Oracle, and government agencies worldwide.Linked Data presents practical techniques for using Linked D...
Price: $15.45 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2014
by Patrick Lee
JavaScript runs (almost) everywhere but it can be quirky and awkward. Its cousin CoffeeScript is easier to comprehend and compose. An expressive language, not unlike Ruby or Python, it compiles into standard JavaScript without modification and is a great choice for complex web applications. It runs in any JavaScript-enabled environment and is easy to use with Node.js and Rails.CoffeeScript in Action teaches...
Price: $39.36 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2014
Getting Started with Beautiful Soup
by Vineeth G. Nair
Beautiful Soup is a Python library designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping. Beautiful Soup provides a few simple methods and Pythonic idioms for navigating, searching, and modifying a parse tree: a toolkit for dissecting a document and extracting what you need without writing excess code for an application. It doesn't take much code to write an application using Beautiful Soup.Getti...
Price: $20.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids
by Daniel Bates
Technology today is growing rapidly, with all sorts of cool gadgets, applications, and games made thanks to the rise of computer programming. The Raspberry Pi is a crafty device that has promoted the teaching of basic computer science in schools, catching the attention of both young and old. Although learning to program offers a unique set of skills that allows you to explore your creative side, it has its ...
Price: $14.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
by L. Felipe Martins
In data science, it is difficult to present interesting visual or technical content, as it involves scientific notations that are not easy to type in a normal document format. IPython provides a web-based UI called Notebook, which creates a working environment for interactive computing that combines code execution with computational documents. IPython Notebook makes the task simpler as it was developed for ...
Price: $34.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
Cassandra Data Modeling and Analysis
by C.Y. Kan
Starting with a quick introduction to Cassandra, this book flows through various aspects such as fundamental data modeling approaches, selection of data types, designing a data model, choosing suitable keys and indexes through to a real-world application, all the while applying the best practices covered in this book.Although the application is small, you will be involved in the full development life cycle....
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014