by Joseph Howse
OpenCV is a grand collection of image processing functions and computer vision algorithms. It is open source, it supports many programming languages and platforms, and it is fast enough for many real-time applications. What a lot of gadgets we can build with such a handy library!Taking inspiration from the world of James Bond, this book adds a spark of adventure and computer vision to your daily routine. Pr...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Dharmesh Kakadia
Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that provides efficient resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications, or frameworks. It allows developers to concurrently run the likes of Hadoop, Spark, Storm, and other applications on a dynamically shared pool of nodes. With Mesos, you have the power to manage a wide range of resources in a multi-tenant environment.Starting with the basics, this book wi...
Price: $39.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Chandramani Tiwary
In the past few years the generation of data and our capability to store and process it has grown exponentially. There is a need for scalable analytics frameworks and people with the right skills to get the information needed from this Big Data. Apache Mahout is one of the first and most prominent Big Data machine learning platforms. It implements machine learning algorithms on top of distributed processing...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
by Arun Manivannan
This book will introduce you to the most popular Scala tools, libraries, and frameworks through practical recipes around loading, manipulating, and preparing your data. It will also help you explore and make sense of your data using stunning and insightfulvisualizations, and machine learning toolkits.Starting with introductory recipes on utilizing the Breeze and Spark libraries, get to grips withhow to impo...
Price: $44.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2015
Physics for JavaScript Games, Animation, and Simulations 
by Dev Ramtal, Adrian Dobre
Have you ever wanted to include believable physical behaviors in your games and projects to give them that extra edge? Physics for JavaScript Games, Animation, and Simulations teaches you how to incorporate real physics, such as gravity, friction, and buoyancy, into your HTML5 games, animations, and simulations. It also includes more advanced topics, such as particle systems, which are essential for creatin...
Price: $49.99 | Publisher: Apress | Release: 2014
Hadoop in Practice, 2nd Edition
by Alex Holmes
Hadoop in Practice, Second Edition provides over 100 tested, instantly useful techniques that will help you conquer big data, using Hadoop. This revised new edition covers changes and new features in the Hadoop core architecture, including MapReduce 2. Brand new chapters cover YARN and integrating Kafka, Impala, and Spark SQL with Hadoop. You'll also get new and updated techniques for Flume, Sqoop, and...
Price: $30.77 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2014
by Patrick R. Nicolas
The discovery of information through data clustering and classification is becoming a key differentiator for competitive organizations. Machine learning applications are everywhere, from self-driving cars, engineering designs, biometrics, and trading strategies, to detection of genetic anomalies.The book begins with an introduction to the functional capabilities of the Scala programming language that are cr...
Price: $59.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2014
Fast Data Processing with Spark
by Holden Karau
Spark is a framework for writing fast, distributed programs. Spark solves similar problems as Hadoop MapReduce does but with a fast in-memory approach and a clean functional style API. With its ability to integrate with Hadoop and inbuilt tools for interactive query analysis (Shark), large-scale graph processing and analysis (Bagel), and real-time analysis (Spark Streaming), it can be interactively used to ...
Price: $22.99 | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release: 2013
by Tariq Ahmed, Dan Orlando, John C. Bland II, Joel Hooks
Flex has grown from just a way to build Flash apps into a rich ecosystem, and Flex 4 introduces new UI components, better performance monitoring, and speed enhancements to the compiler.Flex 4 in Action is a comprehensive tutorial that introduces Flex to web designers and developers. It starts with the basics-forms and data - and moves through core concepts like navigation, drag-and-drop, and events. Even if...
Price: $29.99 | Publisher: Manning | Release: 2010