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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.*Email sign-up and proof of purchase required
Modern Tools for Fraud Detection: Insights from the V4 and Ukraine
red. Iryna Chuy, Vilmos Lakatos, Piotr Luty
This book highlights the lessons learned from the V4 countries and Ukraine, offering a comparative perspective on regulatory frameworks, enforcement mechanisms, and technological advancements in fraud detection. Each chapter examines a specific aspect of fraud detection, offering theoretical insights, empirical research and case studies that illustrate both the challenges and best practices in combating fraudulent activities. Chapter 1 explores the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in tax fraud detection. Chapter 2 investigates tax security and its vulnerabilities. In Chapter 3 the author focuses on occupational fraud, a major issue affecting both private and public sectors. Chapter 4 scrutinizes creative accounting practices, a deceitful technique used by businesses to manipulate financial statements. Chapter 5 studies Ukraine's regulatory framework, the war's effects on financial reporting, and the barriers to achieving accounting transparency. In Chapter 6 the author addresses the controversial issue of bank account blocking by tax authorities. Chapters 7 and 8 explore VAT fraud, particularly carousel fraud, one of the most damaging types of tax fraud in the EU. Chapter 9 shifts the focus to corporate anti-corruption efforts through non-financial reporting. Chapter 10 provides recommendations for fighting corruption, CIT fraud, PIT fraud, VAT fraud, money laundering and using AI and modern tools for preventing fraud. By bringing together academic research, policy analysis, and real-world case studies, this book aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice in fraud detection.
Laurence Lars Svekis
Modern Web Design in 30 Days introduces the core technologies behind modern websites through a structured and approachable learning journey. Designed for beginners, the book guides readers through the tools used to build web pages while encouraging a practical, hands-on learning process.The journey begins with the foundations of how the web works, explaining how browsers interpret HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to display and control pages. Readers learn to structure content with semantic HTML, apply visual styling with CSS, and add interactivity using JavaScript.As the chapters progress, the book explores layout techniques such as Flexbox and CSS Grid, responsive design for different screen sizes, and principles that improve usability and visual clarity. Readers gain insight into how websites organize content, structure layouts, and guide user interaction.Each chapter encourages experimentation, allowing readers to modify code, test ideas, and observe results. The book also introduces AI-assisted prompts that help reinforce understanding and support deeper exploration of key concepts.By the end of the 30-day journey, readers will understand how modern websites are structured, styled, and enhanced with interactive features, providing a solid foundation for further study in web development.
Ricardo Peres
ASP.NET has been the preferred choice of web developers for a long time. With ASP.NET Core 3, Microsoft has made internal changes to the framework along with introducing new additions that will change the way you approach web development. This second edition has been thoroughly updated to help you make the most of the latest features in the framework, right from gRPC and conventions to Blazor, which has a new chapter dedicated to it.You’ll begin with an overview of the essential topics, exploring the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, various platforms, dependencies, and frameworks. Next, you’ll learn how to set up and configure the MVC environment, before delving into advanced routing options. As you advance, you’ll get to grips with controllers and actions to process requests, and later understand how to create HTML inputs for models. Moving on, you'll discover the essential aspects of syntax and processes when working with Razor. You'll also get up to speed with client-side development and explore the testing, logging, scalability, and security aspects of ASP.NET Core. Finally, you'll learn how to deploy ASP.NET Core to several environments, such as Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Docker.By the end of the book, you’ll be well versed in development in ASP.NET Core and will have a deep understanding of how to interact with the framework and work cross-platform.
Dmytro Shpakovskyi
TestCafe is an open source end-to-end testing framework that combines unmatched ease of use with advanced automation and robust built-in stability mechanisms. This book is a comprehensive, project-based introduction to TestCafe that will show you how to use the TestCafe framework and enable you to write fast and reliable tests; plus you’ll have a proof of concept ready to demonstrate the practical potential of TestCafe.You’ll begin by learning how to write end-to-end web tests using the TestCafe syntax and features of the TestCafe framework. You’ll then go from setting up the environment all the way through to writing production-ready tests. You’ll also find out how to build a sample set of tests in a step-by-step manner and use TestCafe to log in to the website, verify the elements present on different pages, create/delete entities, and run custom JavaScript code. As you advance, you’ll delve into several stages of refactoring that will take you through the showcase setup/teardown and PageObject patterns. While this test suite is relatively simple to build, it showcases some of the most prominent features of TestCafe. Finally, this TestCafe book will show you how the tests can be run on a free and simple-to-use website, without requiring you to build and deploy your own servers or backend services.By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to write and enhance end-to-end tests with TestCafe to solve real-world problems and deliver results.
Hans Dominik
Moderne Piraten ist ein 1929 veröffentlichter Thriller des Autors Hans Dominik. Dominik ist einer der bedeutendsten Pioniere der Zukunftsliteratur in Deutschland. Seine Science-Fiction-Erzählungen erfreuen sich seit Anfang des vorigen Jahrhunderts bis in die Gegenwart großer Beliebtheit. Mit dem Roman Moderne Piraten verfasste Hans Dominik, ansonsten eher bekannt für seine Science-Fiction-Romane, in den 30er-Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts eine tempogeladenen Geschichte, die sich mit dem internationalen Drogenhandel beschäftigt. Durch Zufall kommt ein junger Deutscher einer Bande Rauschgifthändler auf die Spur. Ein spannender Roman, in dem eine Kriminalangelegenheit im Mittelpunkt steht, der aber auch technische Probleme behandelt. Der Roman spielt an stets wechselnden Orten und erinnert an die rasanten Verfolgungsjagden, die zum Beispiel bei James Bond-Filmen beliebt sind.
MODERNIZACJA I ROZBUDOWA MARYNARKI WOJENNEJ. WYBRANE PROBLEMY
Tomasz Szubrycht
Niniejsza publikacja jest głosem w toczącej się dyskusji nad kierunkami i zakresem modernizacji Marynarki Wojennej RP. Celem analiz i rozważań zawartych w niniejszej publikacji nie było udzielenie odpowiedzi m.in. na pytania, ile i jakich typów lub klas potrzebują polskie morskie siły zbrojne. Skupiono się w niej na pokazaniu, jakie zdolności powinny - w opinii autora - posiadać nasza marynarka wojenna [Ze Wstępu].
Laurent Leturgez, Cary Moore
Enterprise and cloud data warehouses alike are hitting their limits. Whatever the data warehouse solutions, rising costs, rigid and complex architectures, and the inability to support AI and real-time workloads are holding your organization back. This book provides a structured, risk-aware path to modernization on the Databricks platform.You'll start by understanding why modern analytics demands have outgrown the warehouse paradigm, then explore the lakehouse architecture and the Databricks platform in depth. From there, you'll learn how to choose the right migration strategy, move data, code, and BI layers safely, and embed governance and security from the start using Unity Catalog.Beyond migration, you'll discover how to manage costs with FinOps practices, integrate streaming and event-driven analytics, enable AI and ML workloads, and adopt data product thinking with domain ownership. Real-world patterns, common failure modes, and success metrics ensure you can apply every concept immediately.By the end, you'll have the knowledge to lead a modernization initiative from assessment through execution, delivering a governed, AI-ready analytics platform that scales with your business.