Big data
Micheal Lanham
With the increased presence of AI in the gaming industry, developers are challenged to create highly responsive and adaptive games by integrating artificial intelligence into their projects. This book is your guide to learning how various reinforcement learning techniques and algorithms play an important role in game development with Python.Starting with the basics, this book will help you build a strong foundation in reinforcement learning for game development. Each chapter will assist you in implementing different reinforcement learning techniques, such as Markov decision processes (MDPs), Q-learning, actor-critic methods, SARSA, and deterministic policy gradient algorithms, to build logical self-learning agents. Learning these techniques will enhance your game development skills and add a variety of features to improve your game agent’s productivity. As you advance, you’ll understand how deep reinforcement learning (DRL) techniques can be used to devise strategies to help agents learn from their actions and build engaging games.By the end of this book, you’ll be ready to apply reinforcement learning techniques to build a variety of projects and contribute to open source applications.
Sudharsan Ravichandiran
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is the trending and most promising branch of artificial intelligence. Hands-On Reinforcement learning with Python will help you master not only the basic reinforcement learning algorithms but also the advanced deep reinforcement learning algorithms.The book starts with an introduction to Reinforcement Learning followed by OpenAI Gym, and TensorFlow. You will then explore various RL algorithms and concepts, such as Markov Decision Process, Monte Carlo methods, and dynamic programming, including value and policy iteration. This example-rich guide will introduce you to deep reinforcement learning algorithms, such as Dueling DQN, DRQN, A3C, PPO, and TRPO. You will also learn about imagination-augmented agents, learning from human preference, DQfD, HER, and many more of the recent advancements in reinforcement learning.By the end of the book, you will have all the knowledge and experience needed to implement reinforcement learning and deep reinforcement learning in your projects, and you will be all set to enter the world of artificial intelligence.
Harish Gulati
SAS is one of the leading enterprise tools in the world today when it comes to data management and analysis. It enables the fast and easy processing of data and helps you gain valuable business insights for effective decision-making. This book will serve as a comprehensive guide that will prepare you for the SAS certification exam.After a quick overview of the SAS architecture and components, the book will take you through the different approaches to importing and reading data from different sources using SAS. You will then cover SAS Base and 4GL, understanding data management and analysis, along with exploring SAS functions for data manipulation and transformation. Next, you'll discover SQL procedures and get up to speed on creating and validating queries. In the concluding chapters, you'll learn all about data visualization, right from creating bar charts and sample geographic maps through to assigning patterns and formats. In addition to this, the book will focus on macro programming and its advanced aspects.By the end of this book, you will be well versed in SAS programming and have the skills you need to easily handle and manage your data-related problems in SAS.
Giuseppe Ciaburro
Simulation modeling helps you to create digital prototypes of physical models to analyze how they work and predict their performance in the real world. With this comprehensive guide, you'll understand various computational statistical simulations using Python.Starting with the fundamentals of simulation modeling, you'll understand concepts such as randomness and explore data generating processes, resampling methods, and bootstrapping techniques. You'll then cover key algorithms such as Monte Carlo simulations and Markov decision processes, which are used to develop numerical simulation models, and discover how they can be used to solve real-world problems. As you advance, you'll develop simulation models to help you get accurate results and enhance decision-making processes. Using optimization techniques, you'll learn to modify the performance of a model to improve results and make optimal use of resources. The book will guide you in creating a digital prototype using practical use cases for financial engineering, prototyping project management to improve planning, and simulating physical phenomena using neural networks.By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to construct and deploy simulation models of your own to overcome real-world challenges.
Hands-On Time Series Analysis with R. Perform time series analysis and forecasting using R
Rami Krispin
Time-series analysis is the art of extracting meaningful insights from, and revealing patterns in, time-series data using statistical and data visualization approaches. These insights and patterns can then be utilized to explore past events and forecast future values in the series.This book explores the basics of time-series analysis with R and lays the foundation you need to build forecasting models. You will learn how to preprocess raw time-series data and clean and manipulate data with packages such as stats, lubridate, xts, and zoo. You will analyze data using both descriptive statistics and rich data visualization tools in R including the TSstudio, plotly, and ggplot2 packages. The book then delves into traditional forecasting models such as time-series linear regression, exponential smoothing (Holt, Holt-Winter, and more) and Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) models with the stats and forecast packages. You'll also work on advanced time-series regression models with machine learning algorithms such as random forest and Gradient Boosting Machine using the h2o package.By the end of this book, you will have developed the skills necessary for exploring your data, identifying patterns, and building a forecasting model using various traditional and machine learning methods.
Dipanjan Sarkar, Raghav Bali, Tamoghna Ghosh
Transfer learning is a machine learning (ML) technique where knowledge gained during training a set of problems can be used to solve other similar problems. The purpose of this book is two-fold; firstly, we focus on detailed coverage of deep learning (DL) and transfer learning, comparing and contrasting the two with easy-to-follow concepts and examples. The second area of focus is real-world examples and research problems using TensorFlow, Keras, and the Python ecosystem with hands-on examples. The book starts with the key essential concepts of ML and DL, followed by depiction and coverage of important DL architectures such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), deep neural networks (DNNs), recurrent neural networks (RNNs), long short-term memory (LSTM), and capsule networks. Our focus then shifts to transfer learning concepts, such as model freezing, fine-tuning, pre-trained models including VGG, inception, ResNet, and how these systems perform better than DL models with practical examples. In the concluding chapters, we will focus on a multitude of real-world case studies and problems associated with areas such as computer vision, audio analysis and natural language processing (NLP).By the end of this book, you will be able to implement both DL and transfer learning principles in your own systems.
Giuseppe Bonaccorso
Unsupervised learning is about making use of raw, untagged data and applying learning algorithms to it to help a machine predict its outcome. With this book, you will explore the concept of unsupervised learning to cluster large sets of data and analyze them repeatedly until the desired outcome is found using Python.This book starts with the key differences between supervised, unsupervised, and semi-supervised learning. You will be introduced to the best-used libraries and frameworks from the Python ecosystem and address unsupervised learning in both the machine learning and deep learning domains. You will explore various algorithms, techniques that are used to implement unsupervised learning in real-world use cases. You will learn a variety of unsupervised learning approaches, including randomized optimization, clustering, feature selection and transformation, and information theory. You will get hands-on experience with how neural networks can be employed in unsupervised scenarios. You will also explore the steps involved in building and training a GAN in order to process images.By the end of this book, you will have learned the art of unsupervised learning for different real-world challenges.
Anish Chapagain
Web scraping is an essential technique used in many organizations to gather valuable data from web pages. This book will enable you to delve into web scraping techniques and methodologies.The book will introduce you to the fundamental concepts of web scraping techniques and how they can be applied to multiple sets of web pages. You'll use powerful libraries from the Python ecosystem such as Scrapy, lxml, pyquery, and bs4 to carry out web scraping operations. You will then get up to speed with simple to intermediate scraping operations such as identifying information from web pages and using patterns or attributes to retrieve information. This book adopts a practical approach to web scraping concepts and tools, guiding you through a series of use cases and showing you how to use the best tools and techniques to efficiently scrape web pages. You'll even cover the use of other popular web scraping tools, such as Selenium, Regex, and web-based APIs.By the end of this book, you will have learned how to efficiently scrape the web using different techniques with Python and other popular tools.
Nishant Shukla
Step-by-step recipes filled with practical code samples and engaging examples demonstrate Haskell in practice, and then the concepts behind the code.This book shows functional developers and analysts how to leverage their existing knowledge of Haskell specifically for high-quality data analysis. A good understanding of data sets and functional programming is assumed.
Rajesh Nadipalli
If you want to discover one of the latest tools designed to produce stunning Big Data insights, this book features everything you need to get to grips with your data. Whether you are a data architect, developer, or a business strategist, HDInsight adds value in everything from development, administration, and reporting.
Vikas (Vik) Kumar, Shameer Khader
In recent years, machine learning technologies and analytics have been widely utilized across the healthcare sector. Healthcare Analytics Made Simple bridges the gap between practising doctors and data scientists. It equips the data scientists’ work with healthcare data and allows them to gain better insight from this data in order to improve healthcare outcomes.This book is a complete overview of machine learning for healthcare analytics, briefly describing the current healthcare landscape, machine learning algorithms, and Python and SQL programming languages. The step-by-step instructions teach you how to obtain real healthcare data and perform descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics using popular Python packages such as pandas and scikit-learn. The latest research results in disease detection and healthcare image analysis are reviewed.By the end of this book, you will understand how to use Python for healthcare data analysis, how to import, collect, clean, and refine data from electronic health record (EHR) surveys, and how to make predictive models with this data through real-world algorithms and code examples.
Bilal Shahid
If you are a web developer with a basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and want to quickly get started with this web charting technology, this is the book for you. This book will also serve as an essential guide to those who have probably used a similar library and are now looking at migrating to Highcharts.
Hurtownie danych. Od przetwarzania analitycznego do raportowania
Adam Pelikant
Spec od hurtowni danych? Zawsze będzie pilnie potrzebny! Jak stworzyć strukturę hurtowni danych i dokonać ich integracji? Jak przeprowadzić analizę danych z wykorzystaniem rozszerzenia MDX SQL? Do czego potrzebne jest raportowanie? Idea hurtowni danych ściśle wiąże się z ich kolosalnymi ilościami, gromadzonymi podczas tysięcy różnych sytuacji — przy dowolnej transakcji, w urzędzie, na lotnisku, w internecie… Nawet nasze połączenia telefoniczne są przechowywane przez operatora. Te wszystkie dane trzeba gdzieś pomieścić, sensownie posegregować i zapewnić sobie możliwość sięgnięcia do wybranego ich zakresu bez długotrwałych poszukiwań. Taką możliwość dają właśnie hurtownie danych — przemyślane, bardzo pojemne bazy, oferujące zarówno integrację wprowadzanych danych, jak i znakomite mechanizmy ich przeszukiwania. Jeśli chcesz poszerzyć swoją wiedzę na temat tworzenia i przeglądania zawartości hurtowni danych, trafiłeś pod właściwy adres! Książka "Hurtownie danych. Od przetwarzania analitycznego do raportowania" zawiera materiał przeznaczony nie tylko dla studentów wydziałów informatycznych, ale także dla pasjonatów tej tematyki oraz specjalistów zainteresowanych poszerzeniem wiedzy. W możliwie najprostszy, praktyczny sposób opisano w niej składnię i postać zapytań analitycznych, strukturę hurtowni danych oraz kwestię ich integracji i wizualnego tworzenia elementów hurtowni. Znajdziesz tu także omówienie analizy danych z wykorzystaniem rozszerzenia MDX SQL oraz zastosowań raportowania. Zapoznanie się z tymi informacjami oraz prześledzenie zgromadzonych tu przykładów pozwoli Ci zrozumieć problemy powstające przy budowie hurtowni danych i wykorzystać tę wiedzę we własnych projektach. Zapytania analityczne Struktura hurtowni danych Integracja danych Wizualne tworzenie elementów hurtowni danych Analiza danych z wykorzystaniem rozszerzenia MDX SQL Raportowanie Od bazy do hurtowni danych… Skocz na głęboką wodę!
Hurtownie danych. Od przetwarzania analitycznego do raportowania. Wydanie II
Adam Pelikant
Idea hurtowni danych ściśle wiąże się z ich kolosalnymi ilościami, gromadzonymi podczas tysięcy różnych sytuacji - przy dowolnej transakcji, w urzędzie, na lotnisku, w internecie... Nawet nasze połączenia telefoniczne są przechowywane przez operatora. Te wszystkie dane trzeba gdzieś pomieścić, sensownie posegregować i zapewnić sobie możliwość sięgnięcia do wybranego ich zakresu bez długotrwałych poszukiwań. Taką możliwość dają właśnie hurtownie danych - przemyślane, bardzo pojemne bazy, oferujące zarówno integrację wprowadzanych danych, jak i znakomite mechanizmy ich przeszukiwania. Jeśli chcesz poszerzyć swoją wiedzę na temat tworzenia i przeglądania zawartości hurtowni danych, trafiłeś pod właściwy adres! Książka Hurtownie danych. Od przetwarzania analitycznego do raportowania zawiera materiał przeznaczony nie tylko dla studentów wydziałów informatycznych, ale także dla pasjonatów tej tematyki oraz specjalistów zainteresowanych poszerzeniem wiedzy. W możliwie najprostszy, praktyczny sposób opisano w niej składnię i postać zapytań analitycznych, strukturę hurtowni danych oraz kwestię ich integracji i wizualnego tworzenia elementów hurtowni. Znajdziesz tu także omówienie analizy danych z wykorzystaniem rozszerzenia MDX SQL oraz zastosowań raportowania. Zapoznanie się z tymi informacjami oraz prześledzenie zgromadzonych tu przykładów pozwoli Ci zrozumieć problemy powstające przy budowie hurtowni danych i wykorzystać tę wiedzę we własnych projektach. Zapytania analityczne Struktura hurtowni danych Integracja danych Wizualne tworzenie elementów hurtowni danych Analiza danych z wykorzystaniem rozszerzenia MDX SQL Raportowanie
IBM Cloud Pak for Data. An enterprise platform to operationalize data, analytics, and AI
Hemanth Manda, Sriram Srinivasan, Deepak Rangarao
Cloud Pak for Data is IBM's modern data and AI platform that includes strategic offerings from its data and AI portfolio delivered in a cloud-native fashion with the flexibility of deployment on any cloud. The platform offers a unique approach to addressing modern challenges with an integrated mix of proprietary, open-source, and third-party services.You'll begin by getting to grips with key concepts in modern data management and artificial intelligence (AI), reviewing real-life use cases, and developing an appreciation of the AI Ladder principle. Once you've gotten to grips with the basics, you will explore how Cloud Pak for Data helps in the elegant implementation of the AI Ladder practice to collect, organize, analyze, and infuse data and trustworthy AI across your business. As you advance, you'll discover the capabilities of the platform and extension services, including how they are packaged and priced. With the help of examples present throughout the book, you will gain a deep understanding of the platform, from its rich capabilities and technical architecture to its ecosystem and key go-to-market aspects.By the end of this IBM book, you'll be able to apply IBM Cloud Pak for Data's prescriptive practices and leverage its capabilities to build a trusted data foundation and accelerate AI adoption in your enterprise.
Keith McCormick, Jesus Salcedo
IBM SPSS Modeler allows users to quickly and efficiently use predictive analytics and gain insights from your data. With almost 25 years of history, Modeler is the most established and comprehensive Data Mining workbench available. Since it is popular in corporate settings, widely available in university settings, and highly compatible with all the latest technologies, it is the perfect way to start your Data Science and Machine Learning journey. This book takes a detailed, step-by-step approach to introducing data mining using the de facto standard process, CRISP-DM, and Modeler’s easy to learn “visual programming” style. You will learn how to read data into Modeler, assess data quality, prepare your data for modeling, find interesting patterns and relationships within your data, and export your predictions. Using a single case study throughout, this intentionally short and focused book sticks to the essentials. The authors have drawn upon their decades of teaching thousands of new users, to choose those aspects of Modeler that you should learn first, so that you get off to a good start using proven best practices. This book provides an overview of various popular data modeling techniques and presents a detailed case study of how to use CHAID, a decision tree model. Assessing a model’s performance is as important as building it; this book will also show you how to do that. Finally, you will see how you can score new data and export your predictions. By the end of this book, you will have a firm understanding of the basics of data mining and how to effectively use Modeler to build predictive models.