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Python and SQL Bible. From Beginner to World Expert: Unleash the true potential of data analysis and manipulation

Cuantum Technologies LLC

Embark on a transformative journey with this course designed to equip you with robust Python and SQL skills. Starting with an introduction to Python, you'll delve into fundamental building blocks, control flow, functions, and object-oriented programming. As you progress, you'll master data structures, file I/O, exception handling, and the Python Standard Library, ensuring a solid foundation in Python.The course then transitions to SQL, beginning with an introduction and covering basics, and proceeding to advanced querying techniques. You'll learn about database administration and how Python integrates seamlessly with SQL, enhancing your data manipulation capabilities. By combining Python with SQLAlchemy, you'll perform advanced database operations and execute complex data analysis tasks, preparing you for real-world challenges.By the end of this course, you will have developed the expertise to utilize Python and SQL for scientific computing, data analysis, and database management. This comprehensive learning path ensures you can tackle diverse projects, from basic scripting to sophisticated data operations, making you a valuable asset in the tech industry. You'll also gain hands-on experience with real-world datasets, enhancing your problem-solving skills and boosting your confidence.

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R Machine Learning By Example. Understand the fundamentals of machine learning with R and build your own dynamic algorithms to tackle complicated real-world problems successfully

Dipanjan Sarkar, Raghav Bali

Data science and machine learning are some of the top buzzwords in the technical world today. From retail stores to Fortune 500 companies, everyone is working hard to making machine learning give them data-driven insights to grow their business. With powerful data manipulation features, machine learning packages, and an active developer community, R empowers users to build sophisticated machine learning systems to solve real-world data problems.This book takes you on a data-driven journey that starts with the very basics of R and machine learning and gradually builds upon the concepts to work on projects that tackle real-world problems.You’ll begin by getting an understanding of the core concepts and definitions required to appreciate machine learning algorithms and concepts. Building upon the basics, you will then work on three different projects to apply the concepts of machine learning, following current trends and cover major algorithms as well as popular R packages in detail. These projects have been neatly divided into six different chapters covering the worlds of e-commerce, finance, and social-media, which are at the very core of this data-driven revolution. Each of the projects will help you to understand, explore, visualize, and derive insights depending upon the domain and algorithms.Through this book, you will learn to apply the concepts of machine learning to deal with data-related problems and solve them using the powerful yet simple language, R.

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Architecting Solutions with SAP Business Technology Platform. An architectural guide to integrating, extending, and innovating enterprise solutions using SAP BTP

Serdar Simsekler, Eric Du

SAP BTP is the foundation of SAP’s intelligent and sustainable enterprise vision for its customers. It’s efficient, agile, and an enabler of innovation. It’s technically robust, yet its superpower is its business centricity.If you’re involved in building IT and business strategies, it’s essential to familiarize yourself with SAP BTP to see the big picture for digitalization with SAP solutions. Similarly, if you have design responsibilities for enterprise solutions, learning SAP BTP is crucial to produce effective and complete architecture designs.This book teaches you about SAP BTP in five parts. First, you’ll see how SAP BTP is positioned in the intelligent enterprise. In the second part, you’ll learn the foundational elements of SAP BTP and find out how it operates. The next part covers integration architecture guidelines, integration strategy considerations, and integration styles with SAP’s integration technologies. Later, you’ll learn how to use application development capabilities to extend enterprise solutions for innovation and agility. This part also includes digital experience and process automation capabilities. The last part covers how SAP BTP can facilitate data-to-value use cases to produce actionable business insights.By the end of this SAP book, you’ll be able to architect solutions using SAP BTP to deliver high business value.

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Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 Patterns. Create effective scalable solutions with BizTalk Server 2010 using this e-book

Dan Rosanova

Patterns and practices make or break any middleware or integration solution and are especially important with BizTalk Server 2010. Learning the best patterns to use in the appropriate context greatly increases the chances of success for any solution.Microsoft Biztalk server 2010 patterns will provide a thorough introduction to BizTalk Server 2010 as a platform and guide the reader through real world lessons and examples building an advanced unified solution that can be used as a reference architecture.This book will guide you beyond the basics of BizTalk Server 2010 development and give you the relevant background, theory, and techniques necessary to create successful solutions. You will learn how the BizTalk Server 2010 platform works internally and how to plan for the necessary infrastructure for an installation. You will learn how to build messaging-based solutions including content-based routing that are easy to manage and change. You will learn how to solve common integration and middleware challenges by leveraging the strengths of BizTalk Server 2010. This book addresses using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2010 and associated tools to create middleware and integration solutions with established patterns and practices that increase the effectiveness and impact of your solutions.

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Getting Started with Beautiful Soup. Learn how to extract information from websites using Beautiful Soup and the Python urllib2 module. This practical, hands-on guide covers everything you need to know to get a head start in website scraping

Vineeth G. Nair, Vineeth G Nair

Beautiful Soup is a Python library designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping. Beautiful Soup provides a few simple methods and Pythonic idioms for navigating, searching, and modifying a parse tree: a toolkit for dissecting a document and extracting what you need without writing excess code for an application. It doesn't take much code to write an application using Beautiful Soup.Getting Started with Beautiful Soup is a practical guide to Beautiful Soup using Python. The book starts by walking you through the installation of each and every feature of Beautiful Soup using simple examples which include sample Python codes as well as diagrams and screenshots wherever required for better understanding. The book discusses the problems of how exactly you can get data out of a website and provides an easy solution with the help of a real website and sample code.Getting Started with Beautiful Soup goes over the different methods to install Beautiful Soup in both Linux and Windows systems. You will then learn about searching, navigating, content modification, encoding support, and output formatting with the help of examples and sample Python codes for each example so that you can try them out to get a better understanding. This book is a practical guide for scraping information from any website. If you want to learn how to efficiently scrape pages from websites, then this book is for you.