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Author Rukmani Gopalan, a product management leader and data enthusiast, guides data architects and engineers through the major aspects of working with a cloud data lake, from design considerations and best practices to data format optimizations, performance optimization, cost management, and governance.

Most intermediate-level machine learning books focus on how to optimize models by increasing accuracy or decreasing prediction error. But this approach often overlooks the importance of understanding why and how your ML model makes the predictions that it does.Explainability methods provide an essential toolkit for better understanding model behavior, and this practical guide brings together best-in-class techniques for model explainability. Experienced machine learning engineers and data scientists will learn hands-on how these techniques work so that you'll be able to apply these tools more easily in your daily workflow.This essential book provides:A detailed look at some of the most useful and commonly used explainability techniques, highlighting pros and cons to help you choose the best tool for your needsTips and best practices for implementing these techniquesA guide to interacting with explainability and how to avoid common pitfallsThe knowledge you need to incorporate explainability in your ML workflow to help build more robust ML systemsAdvice about explainable AI techniques, including how to apply techniques to models that consume tabular, image, or text dataExample implementation code in Python using well-known explainability libraries for models built in Keras and TensorFlow 2.0, PyTorch, and HuggingFace

Microsoft Power BI is a data analytics and visualization tool powerful enough for the most demanding data scientists, but accessible enough for everyday use for anyone who needs to get more from data. The market has many books designed to train and equip professional data analysts to use Power BI, but few of them make this tool accessible to anyone who wants to get up to speed on their own.This streamlined intro to Power BI covers all the foundational aspects and features you need to go from "e;zero to hero"e; with data and visualizations. Whether you work with large, complex datasets or work in Microsoft Excel, author Jeremey Arnold shows you how to teach yourself Power BI and use it confidently as a regular data analysis and reporting tool.You'll learn how to:Import, manipulate, visualize, and investigate data in Power BIApproach solutions for both self-service and enterprise BIUse Power BI in your organization's business intelligence strategyProduce effective reports and dashboardsCreate environments for sharing reports and managing data access with your teamDetermine the right solution for using Power BI offerings based on size, security, and computational needs

Why is Google Analytics 4 the most modern data model available for digital marketing analytics? Because rather than simply report what has happened, GA4's new cloud integrations enable more data activationlinking online and offline data across all your streams to provide end-to-end marketing data. This practical book prepares you for the future of digital marketing by demonstrating how GA4 supports these additional cloud integrations.Author Mark Edmondson, Google Developer Expert for Google Analytics and Google Cloud, provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of GA4 and its cloud integrations. Data, business, and marketing analysts will learn major facets of GA4's powerful new analytics model, with topics including data architecture and strategy, and data ingestion, storage, and modeling. You'll explore common data activation use cases and get guidance on how to implement them.You'll learn:How Google Cloud integrates with GA4The potential use cases that GA4 integrations can enableSkills and resources needed to create GA4 integrationsHow much GA4 data capture is necessary to enable use casesThe process of designing dataflows from strategy though data storage, modeling, and activation

Companies are scrambling to integrate AI into their systems and operations. But to build truly successful solutions, you need a firm grasp of the underlying mathematics. This accessible guide walks you through the math necessary to thrive in the AI field such as focusing on real-world applications rather than dense academic theory. Engineers, data scientists, and students alike will examine mathematical topics critical for AI--including regression, neural networks, optimization, backpropagation, convolution, Markov chains, and more--through popular applications such as computer vision, natural language processing, and automated systems. And supplementary Jupyter notebooks shed light on examples with Python code and visualizations. Whether you're just beginning your career or have years of experience, this book gives you the foundation necessary to dive deeper in the field. Understand the underlying mathematics powering AI systems, including generative adversarial networks, random graphs, large random matrices, mathematical logic, optimal control, and more Learn how to adapt mathematical methods to different applications from completely different fields Gain the mathematical fluency to interpret and explain how AI systems arrive at their decisions.

If you're interested in applying FP concepts to your Java code, this book is for you. You'll learn how, when, and why to use FP concepts such as immutability and pure functions to write more concise, reasonable, and future-proof code.

"This practical book demonstrates why C++ is still one of the dominant production-quality languages for financial applications and systems. Many programmers believe that C++ is too difficult to learn. Author Daniel Hanson demonstrates that this is no longer the case, thanks to modern features added to the C++ Standard beginning in 2011. Financial programmers will discover how to leverage C++ abstractions that enable safe implementation of financial models. You'll also explore how popular open source libraries provide additional weapons for attacking mathematical problems. C++ programmers unfamiliar with financial applications also benefit from this handy guide."--

With technological advancements, fast markets, and higher complexity of systems, software engineers tend to skip the uncomfortable topic of software efficiency. However, tactical, observability-driven performance optimizations are vital for every product to save money and ensure business success.With this book, any engineer can learn how to approach software efficiency effectively, professionally, and without stress. Author Bartomiej Potka provides the tools and knowledge required to make your systems faster and less resource-hungry. Efficient Go guides you in achieving better day-to-day efficiency using Go. In addition, most content is language-agnostic, allowing you to bring small but effective habits to your programming or product management cycles.This book shows you how to: Clarify and negotiate efficiency goalsOptimize efficiency on various levelsUse common resources like CPU and memory effectivelyAssess efficiency using observability signals like metrics, logging, tracing, and (continuous) profiling via open source projects like Prometheus, Jaeger, and ParcaApply tools like go test, pprof, benchstat, and k6 to create reliable micro and macro benchmarksEfficiently use Go and its features like slices, generics, goroutines, allocation semantics, garbage collection, and more!

The cloud promises cost savings, agility, and more. But the increasing complexity of modern IT systems often prevents businesses from realizing the outcomes they sought by moving to the cloud in the first place. At the core of this complexity is technical debt. Ad hoc decisions, traditional approaches, and "e;quick and dirty"e; solutions add up to fragile, more complex systems (and organizations)--reducing the pace of change, driving up costs, and degrading security. To succeed in the cloud, you first have to manage the problems IT complexity creates. This practical guide will help.If you're tasked with designing, delivering, or approving IT systems that support business growth, this book will teach you the principles and strategies you need to break out of silos, reassess traditional thinking, provide the business a better competitive position, and achieve cloud success across the company.You'll learn:How to assess your current IT environment to identify complexity-centered risksHow to structure cross-functional teams to reduce friction pointsHow to create a framework for IT investments that's aligned with your business goalsHow to measure your outcomes for continued success

Many organizations today have begun to modernize their Windows workloads to take full advantage of cloud economics. If you're a C# developer at one of these companies, you need options for rehosting, replatforming, and refactoring your existing .NET Framework applications. This practical book guides you through the process of converting your monolithic application to microservices on AWS.Authors Noah Gift, founder of Pragmatic AI Labs, and James Charlesworth, engineering manager at Pendo, take you through the depth and breadth of .NET tools on AWS. You'll examine modernization techniques and pathways for incorporating Linux and Windows containers and serverless architecture to build, maintain, and scale modern .NET apps on AWS. With this book, you'll learn how to make your applications more modern, resilient, and cost-effective.Get started building solutions with C# on AWSLearn DevOps best practices for AWSExplore the development tools and services that AWS providesSuccessfully migrate a legacy .NET application to AWSDevelop serverless .NET microservices on AWSContainerize your .NET applications and move into the cloudMonitor and test your AWS .NET applicationsBuild cloud native solutions that combine the best of the .NET platform and AWS

Over the past 10 years, data analytics and data visualization have become essential components of an enterprise information strategy. And yet, the adoption of data analytics has remained remarkably static, reaching no more than 30% of potential users. This book explores the most important techniques for taking that adoption further: embedding analytics into the workflow of our everyday operations. Authors Donald Farmer and Jim Horbury show business users how to improve decision making without becoming analytics specialists. You'll explore different techniques for exchanging data, insights, and events between analytics platforms and hosting applications. You'll also examine issues including data governance and regulatory compliance and learn best practices for deploying and managing embedded analytics at scale. Learn how data analytics improves business decision making and performance Explore advantages and disadvantages of different embedded analytics platforms Develop a strategy for embedded analytics in an organization or product Define the architecture of an embedded solution Select vendors, platforms, and tools to implement your architecture Hire or train developers and architects to build the embedded solutions you need Understand how embedded analytics interacts with traditional analytics

If you want to work in any computational or technical field, you need to understand linear algebra. As the study of matrices and operations acting upon them, linear algebra is the mathematical basis of nearly all algorithms and analyses implemented in computers. But the way it's presented in decades-old textbooks is much different from how professionals use linear algebra today to solve real-world modern applications.This practical guide from Mike X Cohen teaches the core concepts of linear algebra as implemented in Python, including how they're used in data science, machine learning, deep learning, computational simulations, and biomedical data processing applications. Armed with knowledge from this book, you'll be able to understand, implement, and adapt myriad modern analysis methods and algorithms.Ideal for practitioners and students using computer technology and algorithms, this book introduces you to:The interpretations and applications of vectors and matricesMatrix arithmetic (various multiplications and transformations)Independence, rank, and inversesImportant decompositions used in applied linear algebra (including LU and QR)Eigendecomposition and singular value decompositionApplications including least-squares model fitting and principal components analysis

With the increasing use of AI in high-stakes domains such as medicine, law, and defense, organizations spend a lot of time and money to make ML models trustworthy. Many books on the subject offer deep dives into theories and concepts. This guide provides a practical starting point to help development teams produce models that are secure, more robust, less biased, and more explainable. Authors Yada Pruksachatkun, Matthew McAteer, and Subhabrata Majumdar translate best practices in the academic literature for curating datasets and building models into a blueprint for building industry-grade trusted ML systems. With this book, engineers and data scientists will gain a much-needed foundation for releasing trustworthy ML applications into a noisy, messy, and often hostile world. You'll learn: Methods to explain ML models and their outputs to stakeholders How to recognize and fix fairness concerns and privacy leaks in an ML pipeline How to develop ML systems that are robust and secure against malicious attacks Important systemic considerations, like how to manage trust debt and which ML obstacles require human intervention

The Rust programming language is extremely well suited for concurrency, and its ecosystem has many libraries that include lots of concurrent data structures, locks, and more. But implementing those structures correctly can be very difficult. Even in the most well-used libraries, memory ordering bugs are not uncommon.In this practical book, Mara Bos, leader of the Rust library team, helps Rust programmers of all levels gain a clear understanding of low-level concurrency. You'll learn everything about atomics and memory ordering and how they're combined with basic operating system APIs to build common primitives like mutexes and condition variables. Once you're done, you'll have a firm grasp of how Rust's memory model, the processor, and the role of the operating system all fit together.With this guide, you'll learn:How Rust's type system works exceptionally well for programming concurrency correctlyAll about mutexes, condition variables, atomics, and memory orderingWhat happens in practice with atomic operations on Intel and ARM processorsHow locks are implemented with support from the operating systemHow to write correct code that includes concurrency, atomics, and locksHow to build your own locking and synchronization primitives correctly

As more and more organizations migrate their applications to the cloud, cloud native computing has become the dominant way to approach software development and execution. Protecting modern, cloud native applications from threats requires the ability to defend them at runtime, when they're most vulnerable to attacks.This practical guide introduces you to Falco, the open source standard for continuous risk and threat detection across Kubernetes, containers, and the cloud. Falco creator Loris Degioanni and core maintainer Leonardo Grasso bring you up to speed on threat detection and show you how to get Falco up and running, plus advanced topics such as deploying Falco in production and writing your own security rules.You'll learn how to:Leverage runtime security in cloud native environmentsDetect configuration changes and unexpected behavior in the cloudProtect containers, Kubernetes, and cloud applications using FalcoRun, deploy, and customize FalcoDeploy, configure, and maintain Falco in a production environmentImprove your compliance

Take advantage of your C# skills to build UI components and client-side experiences with .NET. With this practical guide, you'll learn how to use Blazor WebAssembly to develop next-generation web experiences. Built on top of ASP.NET Core, Blazor represents the future of .NET single-page application investments.Author David Pine, who focuses on .NET and Azure content development at Microsoft, explains how WebAssembly enables many non-JavaScript-based programming languages to run on the client browser. In this book, you'll learn about real-time web functionality with ASP.NET Core SignalR and discover strategies for bidirectional JavaScript interop. David also covers component data binding, hierarchical event-driven communications, in-memory state management, and local storage.This book shows you how to: Create a beautiful, feature-rich Blazor appDevelop and localize an enterprise-scale app using GitHub Actions and Azure Cognitive Services TranslatorCreate advanced validation scenarios for input-based components with formsAutomatically deploy and host to Azure Static Web Apps, and rely on HTTP servicesUse a geolocation service and speech synthesis and recognition native to the browserAuthor a custom modal verification mechanism for validating a user

Good software design is essential for the success of your project, but designing software is hard to do. You need to have a deep understanding of the consequences of design decisions and a good overview of available design alternatives. With this book, experienced C++ developers will get a thorough, practical, and unparalleled overview of software design with this modern language.C++ trainer and consultant Klaus Iglberger explains how you can manage dependencies and abstractions, improve changeability and extensibility of software entities, and apply and implement modern design patterns to help you take advantage of today's possibilities. Software design is the most essential aspect of a software project because it impacts the software's most important properties: maintainability, changeability, and extensibility.Learn how to evaluate your code with respect to software designUnderstand what software design is, including design goals such as changeability and extensibilityExplore the advantages and disadvantages of each design approachLearn how design patterns help solve problems and express intentChoose the right form of a design pattern to get the most out of its advantages

The quantum computing market is predicted to grow by nearly $1.3 billion over the next five years. Why? Given their quantum mechanical nature, quantum computers are expected to solve difficult problems in chemistry, optimization, finance, and machine learning that classical computers find impossible to unravel. This pocket guide provides software developers with a quick reference to Qiskit, an open source SDK for working with quantum computers. Packed with helpful programming examples, tables, figures, and lists, this handy book helps you find the information you need to develop and debug quantum programs. Whether you're focused on business, engineering, or scientific applications, you'll learn how to choose and apply appropriate Qiskit classes, methods, and functions. Learn how to create quantum circuits, define quantum gates, and leverage the transpiler Explore modules for implementing quantum information concepts and quantum algorithms Survey features of Qiskit that abstract and facilitate working with various quantum computers and simulators Learn how to use the latest version of the Open Quantum Assembly Language.

The ability to administer and monitor a Kubernetes cluster is in high demand today. To meet this need, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation developed a certification exam to establish an administrator's credibility and value in the job market to confidently work in a Kubernetes environment.The Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification exam is different from the typical multiple-choice format of other professional certifications. Instead, the CKA is a performance-based exam that requires deep knowledge of the tasks under immense time pressure.This study guide walks you through all the topics covered to fully prepare you for the exam. Author Benjamin Muschko also shares his personal experience with preparing for all aspects of the exam.Learn when and how to apply Kubernetes concepts to administer and troubleshoot a production-grade clusterUnderstand the objectives, abilities, and tips and tricks needed to pass the CKA examExplore the ins and outs of the kubectl command-line toolDemonstrate competency to perform the responsibilities of a Kubernetes administratorSolve real-world Kubernetes problems in a hands-on command-line environmentEffectively navigate and solve questions during the CKA exam

Kubernetes has gained significant popularity over the past few years, with OpenShift as one of its most mature and prominent distributions. But while OpenShift provides several layers of abstraction over vanilla Kubernetes, this software can quickly become overwhelming because of its rich feature set and functionality. This practical book helps you understand and manage OpenShift clusters from minimal deployment to large multicluster installations.Principal site reliability engineers Rick Rackow and Manuel Dewald, who worked together on Red Hat's managed OpenShift offering for years, provide valuable advice to help your teams operate OpenShift clusters efficiently. Designed for SREs, system administrators, DevOps engineers, and cloud architects, Operating OpenShift encourages consistent and easy container orchestration and helps reduce the effort of deploying a Kubernetes platform. You'll learn why OpenShift has become highly attractive to enterprises large and small.Learn OpenShift core concepts and deployment strategiesExplore multicluster OpenShift Container Platform deploymentsAdminister OpenShift clusters following best practicesLearn best practices for deploying workloads to OpenShiftMonitor OpenShift clusters through state-of-the-art concepts

Your training data has as much to do with the success of your data project as the algorithms themselves--most failures in deep learning systems relate to training data. But while training data is the foundation for successful machine learning, there are few comprehensive resources to help you ace the process. This hands-on guide explains how to work with and scale training data. Data science professionals and machine learning engineers will gain a solid understanding of the concepts, tools, and processes needed to: Design, deploy, and ship training data for production-grade deep learning applications Integrate with a growing ecosystem of tools Recognize and correct new training data-based failure modes Improve existing system performance and avoid development risks Confidently use automation and acceleration approaches to more effectively create training data Avoid data loss by structuring metadata around created datasets Clearly explain training data concepts to subject matter experts and other shareholders Successfully maintain, operate, and improve your system

This book, designed for anyone interested in building knowledge graphs, equips you with everything you need to start building your own knowledge graphs. You'll learn about common patterns for knowledge graphs, with hands-on examples to work through.

In this insightful and entertaining book, Michael Lopp recalls his own make-or-break moments with Silicon Valley giants such as Apple, Slack, Pinterest, Palantir, Netscape, and Symantec to help you make better, more mindful career decisions.

Many organizations today orchestrate and maintain apps that rely on other people's services. Software designers, developers, and architects in those companies often work to coordinate and maintain apps based on existing microservices, including third-party services that run outside their ecosystem. This cookbook provides proven recipes to help you get those many disparate parts to work together in your network.Author Mike Amundsen provides step-by-step solutions for finding, connecting, and maintaining applications designed and built by people outside the organization. Whether you're working on human-centric mobile apps or creating high-powered machine-to-machine solutions, this guide shows you the rules, routines, commands, and protocols--the glue--that integrates individual microservices so they can function together in a safe, scalable, and reliable way.Design and build individual microservices that can successfully interact on the open webIncrease interoperability by designing services that share a common understandingBuild client applications that can adapt to evolving services without breakingCreate resilient and reliable microservices that support peer-to-peer interactions on the webUse web-based service registries to support runtime "e;find-and-bind"e; operations that manage external dependencies in real timeImplement stable workflows to accomplish complex, multiservice tasks consistently

Use business intelligence to power corporate growth, increase efficiency, and improve corporate decision making. With this practical book with hands-on examples in Power BI, you'll explore the most relevant AI use cases for BI, including improved forecasting, automated classification, and AI-powered recommendations. And you'll learn how to draw insights from unstructured data sources like text, document, images files.Author Tobias Zwingmann helps BI professionals, business analysts, and data analytics understand high-impact areas of artificial intelligence. You'll learn how to leverage popular AI-as-a-service and AutoML platforms to ship enterprise-grade proofs of concept without the help of software engineers or data scientists.Learn how AI can generate business impact in BI environmentsUse AutoML for automated classification and improved forecastingImplement recommendation services to support decision-makingDraw insights from text data at scale with NLP servicesExtract information from documents and images with computer vision servicesBuild interactive user frontends for AI-powered dashboard prototypesImplement an end-to-end case study for building an AI-powered customer analytics dashboard

In spatial data science, things in closer proximity to one another likely have more in common than things that are farther apart. With this practical book, geospatial professionals, data scientists, business analysts, geographers, geologists, and others familiar with data analysis and visualization will learn the fundamentals of spatial data analysis to gain a deeper understanding of their data questions.Author Bonny P. McClain demonstrates why detecting and quantifying patterns in geospatial data is vital. Both proprietary and open source platforms allow you to process and visualize spatial information. This book is for people familiar with data analysis or visualization who are eager to explore geospatial integration with Python.This book helps you:Understand the importance of applying spatial relationships in data scienceSelect and apply data layering of both raster and vector graphicsApply location data to leverage spatial analyticsDesign informative and accurate mapsAutomate geographic data with Python scriptsExplore Python packages for additional functionalityWork with atypical data types such as polygons, shape files, and projectionsUnderstand the graphical syntax of spatial data science to stimulate curiosity

If you're a new or experienced designer of conversational voice first experiences, this handy reference provides actionable answers to key aspects of eyes-busy, hands-busy, voice-only user interfaces. Designed as a companion to books about conversational voice design, this guide includes important details regarding eyes-free, hands-free, voice-only interfaces delivered by Amazon Echo, Google Nest, and a variety of in-car experiences. Authors Ahmed Bouzid and Weiye Ma provide far-field voice best practices and recommendations in a manner similar to The Elements of Style, the popular American English writing style guide. Like that book, The Elements of Voice First Style provides direct, succinct explanations that focus on the essence of each topic. You'll find answers quickly without having to spend time searching through other sources. With this guide, you'll be able to: Craft just the right language to enable your voicebot to effectively communicate with humans Create conversational voice interfaces that are robust enough to handle errors and failures Design highly usable conversational voice interfaces by paying attention to small details that can make or break the experience Build a design for a voice-only smart speaker that doesn't require customers to use their eyes or hands

TypeScript has conquered the world of JavaScript. Identified in developer surveys as one of the world's fastest growing and most popular languages, TypeScript is widely used in consumer and business companies across the world and is frequently credited for helping massive web applications scale. But what exactly is TypeScript? How and why does it work, and how can we use it?This practical book takes beginner and advanced JavaScript programmers alike from knowing nothing about "e;types"e; or "e;type systems"e; to full mastery of TypeScript fundamentals.You'll learn:Benefits of TypeScript and general characteristics of its type systemWhy and how TypeScript is useful on top of "e;vanilla"e; JavaScriptHow to inform your type system by using development-only type annotationsHow TypeScript analyzes and understands code to help you augment your existing development patternsHow TypeScript helps you work with arrays, classes, functions, objects, and other important built-in JavaScript constructsHow to effectively use the plethora of TypeScript configuration options to tailor the TypeScript compiler to your teams and projectsA variety of IDE integrations such as automated refactors and intelligent code searches provided by TypeScript to help you develop quickly with fewer bugs