Microsoft Power BI Cookbook. Convert raw data into business insights with updated techniques, use cases, and best practices - Third Edition

Greg Deckler, Brett Powell

Since its first edition the Power BI Cookbook has been a best-selling resource for BI developers and data analysts to produce impactful, quality BI solutions. This new and updated edition retains the rigorous details and concepts readers of prior editions have enjoyed while also demonstrating powerful new capabilities and updated guidance aligned to the current state of the platform.In this book, with step-by-step instructions, you will learn to navigate the complexities of data integration and visualization in Power BI. From creating robust data models to implementing sophisticated reporting techniques, this Power BI book empowers you to make informed decisions based on actionable insights. It also introduces you to new capabilities such as Hybrid tables and scorecards, enhancing your ability to communicate and analyze business performance. It also expands and improvises on the core of the previous edition like parameterizing Power BI solutions, authoring reports, data intelligence, and integrating advanced analytics.This edition not only updates you on the latest features but also prepares you for future innovations with a preview of upcoming AI enhancements in Power BI. Whether you're refining your skills or aspiring to become an expert, this book is an invaluable resource for leveraging Power BI to its fullest potential

Essential Guide to LLMOps. Implementing effective strategies for Large Language Models in deployment and continuous improvement

Ryan Doan

The rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs) bring significant challenges in deployment, maintenance, and scalability. This Essential Guide to LLMOps provides practical solutions and strategies to overcome these challenges, ensuring seamless integration and the optimization of LLMs in real-world applications.This book takes you through the historical background, core concepts, and essential tools for data analysis, model development, deployment, maintenance, and governance. You’ll learn how to streamline workflows, enhance efficiency in LLMOps processes, employ LLMOps tools for precise model fine-tuning, and address the critical aspects of model review and governance. You’ll also get to grips with the practices and performance considerations that are necessary for the responsible development and deployment of LLMs. The book equips you with insights into model inference, scalability, and continuous improvement, and shows you how to implement these in real-world applications.By the end of this book, you’ll have learned the nuances of LLMOps, including effective deployment strategies, scalability solutions, and continuous improvement techniques, equipping you to stay ahead in the dynamic world of AI.

Puppet Reporting and Monitoring. Create insightful reports for your server infrastructure using Puppet

Michael Duffy

World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide. The comprehensive guide to making gold in World of Warcraft, packed with the latest tips and strategies, designed to make you millions

Eric Gilmour, Eric Dekker

World of Warcraft provides an immersive gaming experience with an exciting new world to explore. In this world (of Warcraft), players use gold to improve their characters and buy exciting items such as armor, vanity items, pets, mounts, and so much more. WoW gold not only helps with levelling up, but also helps the player gain respect in the WoW community.World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide will show you the most effective ways to make gold in World of Warcraft. It includes detailed examples and instructions that will set you up to efficiently make plentiful amounts of gold both now and in future expansions.World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide will arm you with all the latest strategies to become a World of Warcraft gold tycoon.Start by setting up your accounts for optimal gold making and progress through to advanced market techniques. You will learn to maintain thousands of auctions per day, master add-ons to reduce time spent making gold and increase time spent playing, and set yourself up to obtain anything you want in game.The World of Warcraft Gold Strategy Guide teaches readers how to go from rags to riches.

PhoneGap: Beginner's Guide. Create, develop, debug, and deploy your very own mobile applications with PhoneGap

Andrew Lunny, Giorgio Natili, Purusothaman Ramanujam, Johnathan Iannotti

Zabbix Performance Tuning. Tune and optimize Zabbix to maximize performance

Luciano Alves, Luciano de C Alves

Hands-On Dashboard Development with Shiny. A practical guide to building effective web applications and dashboards

Chris Beeley

Although vanilla Shiny applications look attractive with some layout flexibility, you may still want to have more control over how the interface is laid out to produce a dashboard. Hands-On Dashboard Development with Shiny helps you incorporate this in your applications.The book starts by guiding you in producing an application based on the diamonds dataset included in the ggplot2 package. You’ll create a single application, but the interface will be reskinned and rebuilt throughout using different methods to illustrate their uses and functions using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You will also learn to develop an application that creates documents and reports using R Markdown. Furthermore, the book demonstrates the use of HTML templates and the Bootstrap framework. Moving along, you will learn how to produce dashboards using the Shiny command and dashboard package. Finally, you will learn how to lay out applications using a wide range of built-in functions.By the end of the book, you will have an understanding of the principles that underpin layout in Shiny applications, including sections of HTML added to a vanilla Shiny application, HTML interfaces written from scratch, dashboards, navigation bars, and interfaces.

Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On. Apply modern RL methods, with deep Q-networks, value iteration, policy gradients, TRPO, AlphaGo Zero and more

Maxim Lapan

Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On is a comprehensive guide to the very latest DL tools and their limitations. You will evaluate methods including Cross-entropy and policy gradients, before applying them to real-world environments. Take on both the Atari set of virtual games and family favorites such as Connect4.The book provides an introduction to the basics of RL, giving you the know-how to code intelligent learning agents to take on a formidable array of practical tasks. Discover how to implement Q-learning on 'grid world' environments, teach your agent to buy and trade stocks, and find out how natural language models are driving the boom in chatbots.