Getting Started with DuckDB. A practical guide for accelerating your data science, data analytics, and data engineering workflows

Simon Aubury, Ned Letcher, Kris Jenkins

DuckDB is a fast in-process analytical database. Getting Started with DuckDB offers a practical overview of its usage. You'll learn to load, transform, and query various data formats, including CSV, JSON, and Parquet. The book covers DuckDB's optimizations, SQL enhancements, and extensions for specialized applications. Working with examples in SQL, Python, and R, you'll explore analyzing public datasets and discover tools enhancing DuckDB workflows. This guide suits both experienced and new data practitioners, quickly equipping you to apply DuckDB's capabilities in analytical projects. You'll gain proficiency in using DuckDB for diverse tasks, enabling effective integration into your data workflows.

Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development. Using this tutorial will take you deeper into Dynamics NAV from a developer's viewpoint, and allow you to unlock its full potential. The book covers developing an application from start to finish in logical, illuminating steps

Alex Chow

So, your company has made the wise decision to use Dynamics NAV as its main business software for all its enterprise resource planning. Dive in and learn the ins and outs of the software from a development standpoint and unlock the software's full potential.The book will walk you through creating an application from start to finish. Once you know how to create a working application that users can access, you will have the knowledge and the resources needed to create other applications based on the tutorials covered in this guide.You will start by obtaining a free trial version of Dynamics NAV and then be introduced to the world of analyzing and deriving user problems into a requirements list. Finally, you will be shown how to use the software to knock out these requirements.You will learn everything you need in order to begin creating your own applications, from translating the user's requirements to creating and modifying your system applications. Use Dynamics NAV's capability to create an application and address the user's needs, while also learning best practices and simple solutions.Getting Started with Dynamics NAV 2013 Application Development will help you on your way to becoming a great developer!

Getting Started with Elastic Stack 8.0. Run powerful and scalable data platforms to search, observe, and secure your organization

Asjad Athick, Shay Banon

The Elastic Stack helps you work with massive volumes of data to power use cases in the search, observability, and security solution areas.This three-part book starts with an introduction to the Elastic Stack with high-level commentary on the solutions the stack can be leveraged for. The second section focuses on each core component, giving you a detailed understanding of the component and the role it plays. You’ll start by working with Elasticsearch to ingest, search, analyze, and store data for your use cases. Next, you’ll look at Logstash, Beats, and Elastic Agent as components that can collect, transform, and load data. Later chapters help you use Kibana as an interface to consume Elastic solutions and interact with data on Elasticsearch. The last section explores the three main use cases offered on top of the Elastic Stack. You’ll start with a full-text search and look at real-world outcomes powered by search capabilities. Furthermore, you’ll learn how the stack can be used to monitor and observe large and complex IT environments. Finally, you’ll understand how to detect, prevent, and respond to security threats across your environment. The book ends by highlighting architecture best practices for successful Elastic Stack deployments.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to implement the Elastic Stack and derive value from it.

Getting Started with Electronic Projects. Build thrilling and intricate electronic projects using LM555, ZigBee, and BeagleBone

William Pretty, Kevin Dunglas

Getting Started with Flurry Analytics. In today's mobile app market you need to track your applications and analyze user data to give yourself the competitive edge. Flurry Analytics will do all that and more, and this book is the perfect developer's guide

Bhanu Birani

Analytics help you to understand the way your users are interacting with your mobile application. Flurry provides you with a strong analytics tool to keep track of your application and to analyze your application data without much hassle. It provides an SDK for almost all platforms to gather data from all platforms of mobile and web applications. The enormous amount of data Flurry handles directly translates into unique, powerful insights into your applications.Getting Started with Flurry Analytics is a practical, hands-on guide to instantly getting started with Flurry analytics using step-by-step exercises. You will take advantage of the real power of Flurry analytics and provides you with an example-based learning approach to help you master it quickly and efficiently.This book starts by discussing how to set up and integrate Flurry analytics and ends by making you aware of how to track your application using Parse. You will also learn about tracking your application data using Flurry analytics to strengthen your strategies and to improve the application monetization process. You will also learn about configuration and implementation of Flurry analytics and how to make the application track all the necessary details to empower management decisions.

Getting Started with Forex Trading Using Python. Beginner’s guide to the currency market and development of trading algorithms

Alex Krishtop

Algorithm-based trading is a popular choice for Python programmers due to its apparent simplicity. However, very few traders get the results they want, partly because they aren’t able to capture the complexity of the factors that influence the market. Getting Started with Forex Trading Using Python helps you understand the market and build an application that reaps desirable results.The book is a comprehensive guide to everything that is market-related: data, orders, trading venues, and risk. From the programming side, you’ll learn the general architecture of trading applications, systemic risk management, de-facto industry standards such as FIX protocol, and practical examples of using simple Python codes. You’ll gain an understanding of how to connect to data sources and brokers, implement trading logic, and perform realistic tests. Throughout the book, you’ll be encouraged to further study the intricacies of algo trading with the help of code snippets.By the end of this book, you’ll have a deep understanding of the fx market from the perspective of a professional trader. You’ll learn to retrieve market data, clean it, filter it, compress it into various formats, apply trading logic, emulate the execution of orders, and test the trading app before trading live.

Getting Started with FortiGate. This book will take you from complete novice to expert user in simple, progressive steps. It covers all the concepts you need to administer a FortiGate unit with lots of examples and clear explanations

Fabrizio Volpe, Rosato Fabbri

FortiGate from Fortinet is a highly successful family of appliances enabled to manage routing and security on different layers, supporting dynamic protocols, IPSEC and VPN with SSL, application and user control, web contents and mail scanning, endpoint checks, and more, all in a single platform. The heart of the appliance is the FortiOS (FortiOS 5 is the latest release) which is able to unify a friendly web interface with a powerful command line to deliver high performance. FortiGate is able to give users the results they usually achieve at a fraction of the cost of what they would have to invest with other vendors.This practical, hands-on guide addresses all the tasks required to configure and manage a FortiGate unit in a logical order. The book starts with topics related to VLAN and routing (static and advanced) and then discusses in full the UTM features integrated in the appliance. The text explains SSL VPN and IPSEC VPN with all the required steps you need to deploy the aforementioned solutions. High availability and troubleshooting techniques are also explained in the last two chapters of the book.This concise, example-oriented book explores all the concepts you need to administer a FortiGate unit. You will begin by covering the basic tools required to administer a FortiGate unit, including NAT, routing, and VLANs. You will then be guided through the concepts of firewalling, UTM inside the appliance, tunnelling using SSL, and IPSEC and dial-up configurations. Next, you will get acquainted with important topics like high availability and Vdoms. Finally, you will end the book with an overview of troubleshooting tools and techniques.

Getting Started with Ghost. Reach out to the world and publish great content with the power of Ghost

Andrew J Boutte, David Balderston, Kezz Bracey

Getting Started with Google BERT. Build and train state-of-the-art natural language processing models using BERT

Sudharsan Ravichandiran

BERT (bidirectional encoder representations from transformer) has revolutionized the world of natural language processing (NLP) with promising results. This book is an introductory guide that will help you get to grips with Google's BERT architecture. With a detailed explanation of the transformer architecture, this book will help you understand how the transformer’s encoder and decoder work.You’ll explore the BERT architecture by learning how the BERT model is pre-trained and how to use pre-trained BERT for downstream tasks by fine-tuning it for NLP tasks such as sentiment analysis and text summarization with the Hugging Face transformers library. As you advance, you’ll learn about different variants of BERT such as ALBERT, RoBERTa, and ELECTRA, and look at SpanBERT, which is used for NLP tasks like question answering. You'll also cover simpler and faster BERT variants based on knowledge distillation such as DistilBERT and TinyBERT. The book takes you through MBERT, XLM, and XLM-R in detail and then introduces you to sentence-BERT, which is used for obtaining sentence representation. Finally, you'll discover domain-specific BERT models such as BioBERT and ClinicalBERT, and discover an interesting variant called VideoBERT.By the end of this BERT book, you’ll be well-versed with using BERT and its variants for performing practical NLP tasks.

Getting Started with Greenplum for Big Data Analytics. A hands-on guide on how to execute an analytics project from conceptualization to operationalization using Greenplum

Sunila Gollapudi

Organizations are leveraging the use of data and analytics to gain a competitive advantage over their opposition. Therefore, organizations are quickly becoming more and more data driven. With the advent of Big Data, existing Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence solutions are becoming obsolete, and a requisite for new agile platforms consisting of all the aspects of Big Data has become inevitable. From loading/integrating data to presenting analytical visualizations and reports, the new Big Data platforms like Greenplum do it all. It is now the mindset of the user that requires a tuning to put the solutions to work.Getting Started with Greenplum for Big Data Analytics is a practical, hands-on guide to learning and implementing Big Data Analytics using the Greenplum Integrated Analytics Platform. From processing structured and unstructured data to presenting the results/insights to key business stakeholders, this book explains it all.Getting Started with Greenplum for Big Data Analytics discusses the key characteristics of Big Data and its impact on current Data Warehousing platforms. It will take you through the standard Data Science project lifecycle and will lay down the key requirements for an integrated analytics platform. It then explores the various software and appliance components of Greenplum and discusses the relevance of each component at every level in the Data Science lifecycle.You will also learn Big Data architectural patterns and recap some key advanced analytics techniques in detail. The book will also take a look at programming with R and integration with Greenplum for implementing analytics. Additionally, you will explore MADlib and advanced SQL techniques in Greenplum for analytics. This book also elaborates on the physical architecture aspects of Greenplum with guidance on handling high-availability, back-up, and recovery.

Getting Started with Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner. If you know JavaScript you ought to know Grunt – the Task Runner for managing sophisticated web applications. From a basic understanding to constructing your own advanced Grunt tasks, this tutorial has it all covered

Jaime Pillora

Getting Started with Gulp. Automating web development workflows - Second Edition

Travis Maynard

This book is a hands-on guide to get you up to speed with gulp. You will quickly learn how to install, configure, and run your own build system. It will instill you with the ability to automate several common development tasks to vastly improve your development workflow. This book first demonstrates various Gulp use cases before running through the steps of configuring, running, and customizing Gulp, providing you with core concepts of gulp, node.js, and npm. Diving a bit deeper into the gulp ecosystem, we will discuss when and why to use a node module instead of a gulp plugin. We will also go over a few issues that we can run into while using gulp and learn about ways to work around them to improve your gulp experience.By the end of this book, you will be able to create your very own gulp build from scratch, create and maintain tasks and project builds, and automate your workflow with plugins and custom tasks.

Getting Started with hapi.js. Click here to enter text

John Brett, Dave Stevens

This book will introduce hapi.js and walk you through the creation of your first working application using the out-of-the-box features hapi.js provides. Packed withreal-world problems and examples, this book introduces some of the basic concepts of hapi.js and Node.js and takes you through the typical journey you'll face whendeveloping an application. Starting with easier concepts such as routing requests, building APIs serving JSON, using templates to build websites and applications, andconnecting databases, we then move on to more complexproblems such as authentication, model validation, caching, and techniques for structuring your codebase to scale gracefully. You will also develop skills to ensure yourapplication's reliability through testing, code coverage, and logging.By the end of this book, you'll be equipped with all the skills you need to build your first fully featured application. This book will be invaluable if you are investigating Node.js frameworks or planning on using hapi.js in your next project.

Getting Started with Haskell Data Analysis. Put your data analysis techniques to work and generate publication-ready visualizations

James Church

Every business and organization that collects data is capable of tapping into its own data to gain insights how to improve. Haskell is a purely functional and lazy programming language, well-suited to handling large data analysis problems. This book will take you through the more difficult problems of data analysis in a hands-on manner.This book will help you get up-to-speed with the basics of data analysis and approaches in the Haskell language. You'll learn about statistical computing, file formats (CSV and SQLite3), descriptive statistics, charts, and progress to more advanced concepts such as understanding the importance of normal distribution. While mathematics is a big part of data analysis, we've tried to keep this course simple and approachable so that you can apply what you learn to the real world.By the end of this book, you will have a thorough understanding of data analysis, and the different ways of analyzing data. You will have a mastery of all the tools and techniques in Haskell for effective data analysis.

Getting Started with Hazelcast. Get acquainted with the highly scalable data grid, Hazelcast, and learn how to bring its powerful in-memory features into your application

Matthew Johns, Mat Johns

Getting Started with Hazelcast. Learn how to write rich, interactive web applications using HTML5 and CSS3 through real-world examples. In a world of proliferating platforms and devices, being able to create your own “go-anywhere” applications gives you a significant advantage

Mat Johns, Matthew Johns