Data Labeling in Machine Learning with Python. Explore modern ways to prepare labeled data for training and fine-tuning ML and generative AI models

Vijaya Kumar Suda

Data labeling is the invisible hand that guides the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning. In today’s data-driven world, mastering data labeling is not just an advantage, it’s a necessity. Data Labeling in Machine Learning with Python empowers you to unearth value from raw data, create intelligent systems, and influence the course of technological evolution.With this book, you'll discover the art of employing summary statistics, weak supervision, programmatic rules, and heuristics to assign labels to unlabeled training data programmatically. As you progress, you'll be able to enhance your datasets by mastering the intricacies of semi-supervised learning and data augmentation. Venturing further into the data landscape, you'll immerse yourself in the annotation of image, video, and audio data, harnessing the power of Python libraries such as seaborn, matplotlib, cv2, librosa, openai, and langchain. With hands-on guidance and practical examples, you'll gain proficiency in annotating diverse data types effectively.By the end of this book, you’ll have the practical expertise to programmatically label diverse data types and enhance datasets, unlocking the full potential of your data.

Unity 6 Game Development with C# Scripting. Leverage C# scripting in Unity to create immersive games and VR experiences

Lem Apperson, Jonathan Weinberger

As developers tackle the growing complexity of creating immersive, high-performance games, the need for robust and efficient scripting continues to increase. Written by a game developer and Unity/C# expert known for his Apple App Store titles and extensive certifications, this book will help both new and seasoned developers overcome this challenge by helping you build a solid foundation in C# scripting within Unity and navigate the increasing demands of real-time game development.You’ll explore Unity-specific strategies for creating engaging user interfaces, vital in today's dynamic gaming landscape. The chapters walk you through Unity-specific classes and methods, empowering you to create diverse gaming experiences in both 3D and 2D environments. You’ll also manage complex developmental aspects, including AI, multiplayer setups, and VR integration, which are becoming increasingly relevant in the evolving gaming industry. The book serves as an invaluable resource for troubleshooting, offering techniques for debugging C# scripts and optimizing game performance—essential for crafting smooth and immersive gaming experiences.By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create both simple and complex games in Unity, opening doors to careers in game development and interactive media design.

Modern Time Series Forecasting with Python. Industry-ready machine learning and deep learning time series analysis with PyTorch and pandas - Second Edition

Manu Joseph, Jeffrey Tackes, Christoph Bergmeir

Predicting the future, whether it's market trends, energy demand, or website traffic, has never been more crucial. This practical, hands-on guide empowers you to build and deploy powerful time series forecasting models. Whether you’re working with traditional statistical methods or cutting-edge deep learning architectures, this book provides structured learning and best practices for both.Starting with the basics, this data science book introduces fundamental time series concepts, such as ARIMA and exponential smoothing, before gradually progressing to advanced topics, such as machine learning for time series, deep neural networks, and transformers. As part of your fundamentals training, you’ll learn preprocessing, feature engineering, and model evaluation. As you progress, you’ll also explore global forecasting models, ensemble methods, and probabilistic forecasting techniques.This new edition goes deeper into transformer architectures and probabilistic forecasting, including new content on the latest time series models, conformal prediction, and hierarchical forecasting. Whether you seek advanced deep learning insights or specialized architecture implementations, this edition provides practical strategies and new content to elevate your forecasting skills.

Microsoft Certified Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) Exam Guide. Build a solid foundation in Azure data services and pass the DP-900 exam on your first try

Steve Miles

Microsoft's Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) certification exam validates your expertise in core data concepts and Azure’s powerful data services capabilities. This comprehensive guide written by Steve Miles—a Microsoft Azure MVP and certified trainer with over 25 years of experience in cloud data services and 30+ certifications across major platforms—serves as your gateway to a future shaped by data and AI, regardless of your technical background.With the help of examples, you'll learn fundamental data concepts, including data representation, data storage options, and common workloads and gain clarity on the roles and responsibilities of key data professionals such as data administrators, engineers, and analysts. This guide covers all crucial exam domains, from data services capabilities of the Azure cloud platform to considerations for relational, non-relational, and analytics workloads, encompassing both Microsoft and open-source technologies.To supplement your exam prep, this book gives you access to a suite of online resources designed to boost your confidence, including mock tests, interactive flashcards, and invaluable exam tipsBy the end of this book, you’ll be fully prepared not only to pass the DP-900 exam but also to confidently tackle data solutions in Azure, setting a strong foundation for your data-driven career

101 UX Principles. Actionable Solutions for Product Design Success - Second Edition

Will Grant

Design is everywhere. Take a look around you right now and consider the products and services we use every day. You'll notice that our computer and phone operating systems, our web browsers, and the apps we use to work, order food, socialize and even date have been designed by UX specialists to offer you the best experiences when using their products and services.Of course, not all online experiences are designed with our best interests in mind. That's exactly why UX design is such an exciting and rewarding field?by learning the logic behind what people engage with and implementing it in your UX work, you can craft intuitive, accessible, and highly functional designs for your digital products.The 2nd edition of 101 UX Principles is the perfect companion when working on digital projects and making the right decisions for your users. From landing pages and checkout basket UIs to startup launch products and enterprise software solutions, a rich user experience design will maximize the success of your product.The audiobook includes an exclusive invitation to join an online UX designers' community, where you can read the book alongside peers and other UX designers, and participate in various challenges and discussions with the author. See you there!

Practical Hardware Pentesting. Learn attack and defense techniques for embedded systems in IoT and other devices - Second Edition

Jean-Georges Valle

Practical Hardware Pentesting, Second Edition, is an example-driven guide that will help you plan attacks, hack your embedded devices, and secure the hardware infrastructure.Throughout the book, you’ll explore the functional and security aspects of a device and learn how a system senses and communicates with the outside world. You’ll set up a lab from scratch and gradually work towards an advanced hardware lab.The first part of this book will get you attacking the software of an embedded device. This will get you thinking from an attacker point of view; you’ll understand how devices are attacked, compromised, and how you can harden a device against the most common hardware attack vectors. As you progress, you’ll get to grips with the global architecture of an embedded system and sniff on-board traffic, learn how to identify and formalize threats to the embedded system, and understand its relationship with its ecosystem. This 2nd Edition covers real-world examples featuring various devices like smart TVs, baby monitors, or pacemakers, you’ll discover how to analyze hardware and locate its possible vulnerabilities before going on to explore firmware dumping, analysis, and exploitation.By the end of this book, you’ll and understand how to implement best practices to secure your hardware.

LangChain in your Pocket. LangChain Essentials: From Basic Concepts to Advanced Applications

Mehul Gupta

LangChain in your Pocket offers a detailed exploration into the LangChain framework, designed to enhance your skills in developing sophisticated language understanding models and applications. This book begins with the basics, introducing you to the fundamental concepts of LangChain through a simple Hello World example. As you progress, you'll delve into various LangChain modules, learning how to create agents, manage memory, and utilize output parsers effectively.The journey continues as you explore the RAG Framework, vector databases, and their applications in natural language processing, providing you with the tools to tackle common NLP problems efficiently. The book also addresses critical aspects of working with large language models (LLMs), such as prompt engineering, handling hallucinations, and evaluating model outputs. Advanced topics like autonomous AI agents and the integration of LangSmith and LangServe are covered, giving you a holistic view of what you can achieve with LangChain.By the end of this book, you will not only understand the technical aspects of LangChain but also how to apply these principles in real-world scenarios, making it an essential resource for anyone looking to advance their capabilities in AI and language processing.

AWS Certified Machine Learning - Specialty (MLS-C01) Certification Guide. The ultimate guide to passing the MLS-C01 exam on your first attempt - Second Edition

Somanath Nanda, Weslley Moura

The AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty (MLS-C01) exam evaluates your ability to execute machine learning tasks on AWS infrastructure. This comprehensive book aligns with the latest exam syllabus, offering practical examples to support your real-world machine learning projects on AWS. Additionally, you'll get lifetime access to supplementary online resources, including mock exams with exam-like timers, detailed solutions, interactive flashcards, and invaluable exam tips, all accessible across various devices—PCs, tablets, and smartphones.Throughout the book, you’ll learn data preparation techniques for machine learning, covering diverse methods for data manipulation and transformation across different variable types. Addressing challenges such as missing data and outliers, the book guides you through an array of machine learning tasks including classification, regression, clustering, forecasting, anomaly detection, text mining, and image processing, accompanied by requisite machine learning algorithms essential for exam success. The book helps you master the deployment of models in production environments and their subsequent monitoring.Equipped with insights from this book and the accompanying mock exams, you'll be fully prepared to achieve the AWS MLS-C01 certification.

Creative Motion Mastery with Adobe After Effects. Learn the ins and outs of motion graphics, post-production, rotoscoping, and VFX

Vishu Aggarwal

Visual effects and motion graphics are everywhere, shaping the film, TV, games, websites, and application landscape. Navigating a field this complex and ever-expanding demands more than mere familiarity with tools; you need to stand out to get ahead. Creative Motion Mastery with Adobe After Effects is the definitive guide that not only equips you with the essential skills to distinguish yourself, but also takes you through real projects that you can add to your portfolio.Guided by a hands-on learning approach, you'll master the UI, workflow, and diverse projects such as text animation, shape layers, and rotoscoping. With this newfound knowledge, you’ll take your graphic design and post-production skills to the next level using chroma keying, particle simulations, and 2D and 3D tracking. You’ll progress faster than someone taking a formal course in Adobe After Effects! And it’s not all about creating; you’ll import graphics from Illustrator and Photoshop and apply post-production effects to give them a new life. Finally, you’ll discover how seamlessly you can export and manage your projects, ensuring end-to-end coverage of all you need.By the end of the book, you’ll have a thorough understanding of Adobe After Effects, equipped with the skills and practice you need to propel your career in graphic design.

Strategic Leadership in Responsive Web Design. A tech leader's guide to achieving business excellence by adopting responsive web design

Harley Ferguson

Strategic Leadership in Responsive Web Design is an essential guide that will equip you with the knowledge and foresight needed to navigate the ever-evolving digital landscape.You’ll start by learning about the strategic importance of responsive web design (RWD) before delving into its intricacies. As you progress, you’ll not only discover the technical aspects of adaptive design, but also learn how to seamlessly integrate these principles within your organization’s business objectives. You’ll develop the skills required to integrate RWD principles into broader business goals. Next, you’ll learn how to navigate SEO in modern times while ensuring platforms are consistent in design across devices. Later, this book shows you how to measure the ROI when making RWD decisions, and how to ensure you’re making the right one.By the end of this book, you’ll have understood the role that RWD plays in achieving broad business objectives.

Python Feature Engineering Cookbook. A complete guide to crafting powerful features for your machine learning models - Third Edition

Soledad Galli, Christoph Molnar

Streamline data preprocessing and feature engineering in your machine learning project with this third edition of the Python Feature Engineering Cookbook to make your data preparation more efficient.This guide addresses common challenges, such as imputing missing values and encoding categorical variables using practical solutions and open source Python libraries. You’ll learn advanced techniques for transforming numerical variables, discretizing variables, and dealing with outliers. Each chapter offers step-by-step instructions and real-world examples, helping you understand when and how to apply various transformations for well-prepared data.The book explores feature extraction from complex data types such as dates, times, and text. You’ll see how to create new features through mathematical operations and decision trees and use advanced tools like Featuretools and tsfresh to extract features from relational data and time series.By the end, you’ll be ready to build reproducible feature engineering pipelines that can be easily deployed into production, optimizing data preprocessing workflows and enhancing machine learning model performance.

React Anti-Patterns. Build efficient and maintainable React applications with test-driven development and refactoring

Juntao Qiu

Take your React development skills to the next level by examining common anti-patterns with expert insights and practical solutions, to refine your codebases into sophisticated and scalable creations. Through this easy-to-follow guide, React Anti-Patterns serves as a roadmap to elevating the efficiency and maintainability of your React projects.You’ll begin by familiarizing yourself with the essential aspects of React before exploring strategies for structuring React applications and creating well-organized, modular, and easy-to-maintain codebases. From identifying and addressing common anti-patterns using refactoring techniques to harnessing the power of test-driven development (TDD), you’ll learn about the tools and techniques necessary to create reliable and robust tests. As you advance, you’ll get to grips with business logic and design patterns that offer solutions to prevalent challenges faced in React development. The book also offers insights into using composition patterns, such as code splitting and multiple entry points, to enhance the flexibility and modularity of your React applications, guiding you through end-to-end project implementation.By the end of this React book, you’ll be able to overcome common challenges and pitfalls to transform your React projects into elegant, efficient, and maintainable codebases.

Mastering QuickBooks 2024. Bookkeeping with US QuickBooks Online for small businesses - Fifth Edition

Crystalynn Shelton

In today's competitive business landscape, efficient financial management is crucial for success. QuickBooks Online has emerged as the go-to accounting software for small businesses, offering a user-friendly platform to manage finances, track expenses, and gain valuable insights. This new edition will help you use QuickBooks Online from scratch and customize it to suit your small business needs. Written by accounting expert Crystalynn Shelton, it takes you on an in-depth journey, from setting up your account to mastering advanced features and customizations.This book empowers you to conquer the latest features of QuickBooks Online 2024,;overcome challenges encountered during migration from desktop to online; plan cash flow, profits, revenue with precision; and streamline billing, expense tracking, and financial reporting. As you progress, you’ll learn to manage sales tax, including how to set up, collect, track, pay, and report sales tax payments. You’ll explore how to export reports to Google Sheets, use the custom chart builder, import budgets, and perform smart reporting with with using data sync with Excel.. You'll learn how to tailor QuickBooks Online to your specific business needs. By the end of the book, you’ll master the art of QuickBooks Online and take control of your business finances

Security Automation with Python. Practical Python solutions for automating and scaling security operations

Corey Charles Sr., Frank McMahon

Designed to address the most common pain point for security teams—scalability—Security Automation with Python leverages the author’s years of experience in vulnerability management to provide you with actionable guidance on automating security workflows to streamline your operations and improve your organization’s overall security posture.What makes this book stand out is its hands-on approach. You won’t just learn theoretical concepts—you’ll apply Python-based automation techniques directly to real-world scenarios. Whether you're automating vulnerability scans, managing firewall rules, or responding to security incidents, this book provides clear examples and use cases, breaking down complex topics into easily digestible steps. With libraries like Paramiko, Requests, and PyAutoGUI, you’ll automate everything from network scanning and threat intelligence gathering to system patching and alert management. Plus, this book focuses heavily on practical tips for error handling, scaling automation workflows, and integrating Python scripts into larger security infrastructures.By the end of this book, you'll have developed a set of highly valuable skills, from creating custom automation scripts to deploying them in production environments, and completed projects that can be immediately put to use in your organization.

The Modern Vulkan Cookbook. A practical guide to 3D graphics and advanced real-time rendering techniques in Vulkan

Preetish Kakkar, Mauricio Maurer

Vulkan is a graphics API that gives the program total control of the GPU, allowing the GPU to be used to its full potential. This cookbook will uncover useful techniques for emerging new technologies, such as hybrid rendering, extended reality – mixed reality (MR), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) – and GPU-driven rendering, and even features a dedicated chapter to help you debug and profile your graphics applications with tips and tricks tested in real-world scenarios.The book starts by explaining basic Vulkan concepts while guiding you through the implementation of a basic graphics engine. The building blocks presented in the first few chapters will then help you implement more advanced techniques and algorithms, while getting you acquainted with the inner workings of Vulkan. Gradually, you’ll discover how Vulkan can be used to build hybrid renderers as well as leveraged for the future of graphics with AR/VR/MR. Moreover, you’ll gain an understanding of how it can be debugged or measured for performance.By the end of this book, you’ll be well versed in how to use Vulkan to write graphics applications and how graphics algorithms are implemented using Vulkan.

Web Development with Blazor. A practical guide to building interactive UIs with C# 12 and .NET 8 - Third Edition

Jimmy Engström, Steve Sanderson

Web Development with Blazor is your essential guide to building and deploying interactive web applications in C# – without relying on JavaScript.Written by an early Blazor adopter and updated for .NET 8, this book takes you through the end-to-end development of an example app, helping you to overcome common challenges along the way. You’ll pick up both Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly and discover cutting-edge tools to enrich your development experience.Responding to evolving needs, this edition introduces flexible hosting models, allowing you to mix and match hosting approaches to create flexible and scalable Blazor applications. It also presents the new Blazor templates, which provide ready-made solutions to simplify and expedite development. You'll learn about the game-changing server-side rendering (SSR), a hybrid hosting model blending the strengths of Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly, as well as streaming rendering, a new technique that boosts the performance and user experience of Blazor apps.By the end of this book, you'll have the confidence you need to create and deploy production-ready Blazor applications using best practices, along with a big-picture view of the Blazor landscape.