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Practical Machine Learning on Databricks. Seamlessly transition ML models and MLOps on Databricks

Debu Sinha

Unleash the potential of databricks for end-to-end machine learning with this comprehensive guide, tailored for experienced data scientists and developers transitioning from DIY or other cloud platforms. Building on a strong foundation in Python, Practical Machine Learning on Databricks serves as your roadmap from development to production, covering all intermediary steps using the databricks platform. You’ll start with an overview of machine learning applications, databricks platform features, and MLflow. Next, you’ll dive into data preparation, model selection, and training essentials and discover the power of databricks feature store for precomputing feature tables. You’ll also learn to kickstart your projects using databricks AutoML and automate retraining and deployment through databricks workflows. By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered MLflow for experiment tracking, collaboration, and advanced use cases like model interpretability and governance. The book is enriched with hands-on example code at every step. While primarily focused on generally available features, the book equips you to easily adapt to future innovations in machine learning, databricks, and MLflow.

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Supercharging Node.js Applications with Sequelize. Create high-quality Node.js apps effortlessly while interacting with your SQL database

Daniel Durante, Sascha Depold

Continuous changes in business requirements can make it difficult for programmers to organize business logic into database models, which turns out to be an expensive operation as changes to the database may result in errors and incongruity within applications. Supercharging Node.js Applications with Sequelize helps you get to grips with Sequelize, a reliable ORM that enables you to alleviate these issues in your database and applications.With Sequelize, you'll no longer need to store information in flat files or memory. This book takes a hands-on approach to implementation and associated methodologies for your database that will have you up and running in no time. You'll learn how to configure Sequelize for your Node.js application properly, develop a better sense of understanding of how this ORM works, and find out how to manage your database from Node.js using Sequelize. Finally, you'll be able to use Sequelize as the database driver for building your application from scratch.By the end of this Node.js book, you'll be able to configure, build, store, retrieve, validate, and associate your data from a database to a Node.js application.

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Ember.js Cookbook. Arm yourself with over 65 hands-on recipes to master the skills of building scalable web applications with Ember.js

Erik Hanchett

Ember.js is an open source JavaScript framework that will make you more productive. It uses common idioms and practices, making it simple to create amazing single-page applications. It also lets you create code in a modular way using the latest JavaScript features. Not only that, it has a great set of APIs to get any task done. The Ember.js community is welcoming newcomers and is ready to help you when needed.This book provides in-depth explanations on how to use the Ember.js framework to take you from beginner to expert. You’ll start with some basic topics and by the end of the book, you’ll know everything you need to know to build a fully operational Ember application. We’ll begin by explaining key points on how to use the Ember.js framework and the associated tools. You’ll learn how to effectively use Ember CLI and how to create and deploy your application. We’ll take a close look at the Ember object model and templates by examining bindings and observers. We’ll then move onto Ember components, models, and Ember Data. We’ll show you examples on how to connect to RESTful databases. Next we’ll get to grips with testing with integration and acceptance tests using QUnit. We will conclude by covering authentication, services, and Ember add-ons. We’ll explore advanced topics such as services and initializers, and how to use them together to build real-time applications.

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Unleashing the Power of UX Analytics. Proven techniques and strategies for uncovering user insights to deliver a delightful user experience

Jeff Hendrickson, Travis Wissink

UX analytics is a field that recognizes the significance of understanding human behavior and emotions in designing user experiences. It goes beyond mere metrics and embraces a people-centric approach. With the help of this comprehensive guide, you’ll acquire essential skills, knowledge, and techniques to establish a top-notch UX analytics practice.Unleashing the Power of UX Analytics will equip you with the strategies and tactics necessary to effectively collect, analyze, and interpret data, empowering you to make informed decisions that enhance the overall user experience. It emphasizes the importance of empathy in comprehending user needs and desires, enabling you to create meaningful and impactful design solutions. As you advance, this book walks you through the entire UX analytics process, from setting goals and defining key performance indicators (KPIs) to implementing various research methods and tools. You'll gain insights into user interview best practices, usability testing, and techniques for gathering qualitative and quantitative data.Armed with the knowledge of data analysis and interpretation, you'll be able to uncover patterns, trends, and user preferences to make data-driven decisions.

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Node.js Design Patterns. Master a series of patterns and techniques to create modular, scalable, and efficient applications

Mario Casciaro

Node.js is a massively popular software platform that lets you use JavaScript to easily create scalable server-side applications. It allows you to create efficient code, enabling a more sustainable way of writing software made of only one language across the full stack, along with extreme levels of reusability, pragmatism, simplicity, and collaboration. Node.js is revolutionizing the web and the way people and companies create their software.In this book, we will take you on a journey across various ideas and components, and the challenges you would commonly encounter while designing and developing software using the Node.js platform. You will also discover the Node.js way of dealing with design and coding decisions.The book kicks off by exploring the fundamental principles and components that define the platform. It then shows you how to master asynchronous programming and how to design elegant and reusable components using well-known patterns and techniques. The book rounds off by teaching you the various approaches to scale, distribute, and integrate your Node.js application.