Azure OpenAI Essentials. A practical guide to unlocking generative AI-powered innovation with Azure OpenAI

Amit Mukherjee, Adithya Saladi, Marco Casalaina

Find out what makes Azure OpenAI a robust platform for building AI-driven solutions that can transform how businesses operate. Written by seasoned experts from Microsoft, this book will guide you in understanding Azure OpenAI from fundamentals through to advanced concepts and best practices.The book begins with an introduction to large language models (LLMs) and the Azure OpenAI Service, detailing how to access, use, and optimize its models. You'll learn how to design and implement AI-driven solutions, such as question-answering systems, contact center analytics, and GPT-powered search applications. Additionally, the chapters walk you through advanced concepts, including embeddings, fine-tuning models, prompt engineering, and building custom AI applications using LangChain and Semantic Kernel. You'll explore real-world use cases such as QnA systems, document summarizers, and SQLGPT for database querying, as well as gain insights into securing and operationalizing these solutions in enterprises.By the end of this book, you'll be ready to design, develop, and deploy scalable AI solutions, ensuring business success through intelligent automation and data-driven insights.

FL Studio Cookbook. The lofi, retrowave, and horror music chef's guide to FL Studio music production

Chris Rena

Whether it's overcoming creative blocks, troubleshooting technical issues, or refining your workflow, every budding producer faces challenges. The FL Studio Cookbook is here to provide practical solutions to common problems, empowering you to navigate any obstacle with ease by exploring one of the most renowned, industry-standard DAWs.The recipe-based approach of this book means that you’ll unlock the secrets of crafting captivating melodies and learn the art of composition with practical, step-by-step instructions, discovering how to construct melodies that evoke emotion and leave a lasting impression. From chord progressions to counterpoint, you’ll get actionable insights to help you compose music that resonates with your audience. You’ll also master the intricacies of mixing and mastering, by familiarizing yourself with the entire process from balancing levels and sculpting sounds to applying effects. You’ll also explore the endless possibilities of sculpting sound from scratch, whether you're crafting custom synths, designing unique textures, or layering effects to create otherworldly sounds.By the end of this book, you'll have acquired the skills to confidently craft professional-quality lofi, retrowave, and horror music tracks, gaining the expertise to express your musical vision and take your music production to new heights.

Time Series Analysis with Spark. A practical guide to processing, modeling, and forecasting time series with Apache Spark

Yoni Ramaswami, Dael Williamson, Jan Govaere

Written by Databricks Senior Solutions Architect Yoni Ramaswami, whose expertise in Data and AI has shaped innovative digital transformations across industries, this comprehensive guide bridges foundational concepts of time series analysis with the Spark framework and Databricks, preparing you to tackle real-world challenges with confidence.From preparing and processing large-scale time series datasets to building reliable models, this book offers practical techniques that scale effortlessly for big data environments. You’ll explore advanced topics such as scaling your analyses, deploying time series models into production, Generative AI, and leveraging Spark's latest features for cutting-edge applications across industries. Packed with hands-on examples and industry-relevant use cases, this guide is perfect for data engineers, ML engineers, data scientists, and analysts looking to enhance their expertise in handling large-scale time series data.By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered the skills to design and deploy robust, scalable time series models tailored to your unique project needs—qualifying you to excel in the rapidly evolving world of big data analytics.

Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python. Unleash the power of Python 3 with practical techniques for learning GIS and remote sensing - Fourth Edition

Joel Lawhead

Geospatial analysis is used in almost every domain you can think of, including defense, farming, and even medicine. In this special 10th anniversary edition, you'll embark on an exhilarating geospatial analysis adventure using Python.This fourth edition starts with the fundamental concepts, enhancing your expertise in geospatial analysis processes with the help of illustrations, basic formulas, and pseudocode for real-world applications. As you progress, you’ll explore the vast and intricate geospatial technology ecosystem, featuring thousands of software libraries and packages, each offering unique capabilities and insights. This book also explores practical Python GIS geospatial applications, remote sensing data, elevation data, and the dynamic world of geospatial modeling. It emphasizes the predictive and decision-making potential of geospatial technology, allowing you to visualize complex natural world concepts, such as environmental conservation, urban planning, and disaster management to make informed choices. You’ll also learn how to leverage Python to process real-time data and create valuable information products.By the end of this book, you'll have acquired the knowledge and techniques needed to build a complete geospatial application that can generate a report and can be further customized for different purposes.

The Chief AI Officer's Handbook. Master AI leadership with strategies to innovate, overcome challenges, and drive business growth

Jarrod Anderson, Jeff Winter

Chief Artificial Intelligence Officers (CAIOs) are now imperative for businesses, enabling organizations to achieve strategic goals and unlock transformative opportunities through the power of AI. By building intelligent systems, training models to drive impactful decisions, and creating innovative applications, they empower organizations to thrive in an AI-driven world. Written by Jarrod Anderson, Chief AI Officer at SYRV.AI, this book bridges the gap between visionary leadership and practical execution.This handbook reimagines AI leadership for today’s fast-paced environment, leveraging predictive, deterministic, generative, and agentic AI to address complex challenges and foster innovation. It provides CAIOs with the strategies to develop transformative AI initiatives, build and lead elite teams, and adopt AI responsibly while maintaining compliance. From shaping impactful solutions to achieving measurable business outcomes, this guide offers a roadmap for making AI your organization’s competitive edge.By the end of this book, you’ll have the knowledge and tools to excel as a Chief AI Officer, driving innovation, strategic growth, and lasting success for your organization.

Developing Kaggle Notebooks. Pave your way to becoming a Kaggle Notebooks Grandmaster

Gabriel Preda, D. Sculley, Anthony Goldbloom

Developing Kaggle Notebooks introduces you to data analysis, with a focus on using Kaggle Notebooks to simultaneously achieve mastery in this fi eld and rise to the top of the Kaggle Notebooks tier. The book is structured as a sevenstep data analysis journey, exploring the features available in Kaggle Notebooks alongside various data analysis techniques.For each topic, we provide one or more notebooks, developing reusable analysis components through Kaggle's Utility Scripts feature, introduced progressively, initially as part of a notebook, and later extracted for use across future notebooks to enhance code reusability on Kaggle. It aims to make the notebooks' code more structured, easy to maintain, and readable.Although the focus of this book is on data analytics, some examples will guide you in preparing a complete machine learning pipeline using Kaggle Notebooks. Starting from initial data ingestion and data quality assessment, you'll move on to preliminary data analysis, advanced data exploration, feature qualifi cation to build a model baseline, and feature engineering. You'll also delve into hyperparameter tuning to iteratively refi ne your model and prepare for submission in Kaggle competitions. Additionally, the book touches on developing notebooks that leverage the power of generative AI using Kaggle Models.

Hands-On Industrial Internet of Things. Build robust industrial IoT infrastructure by using the cloud and artificial intelligence - Second Edition

Giacomo Veneri, Antonio Capasso

In today's automation-driven era, precision is crucial, and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) has made a remarkable impact. This updated second edition explores the technologies fueling the IIoT revolution and shares essential knowledge to enable you to establish remote-access networks.Written by IIoT and AI experts, as well as renowned authors, this book helps you enhance your skills in emerging technologies by introducing new techniques from Azure and AWS and keeping you up to date with the latest advancements. You'll find out how Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) and MLOps apply to IIoT and learn how to handle complex projects confidently. The book covers identifying and connecting industrial data sources from various sensors, advancing from foundational concepts to professional skills. You'll discover how to connect these sensors to cloud networks such as AWS IoT, Azure IoT, and open source IoT platforms, and extract data from the cloud to your devices. Through hands-on experience with tools such as Node-RED, OPC UA, MQTT, NoSQL, defense in depth, and Python, you'll develop streaming and batch-based AI algorithms.By the end of this book, you'll have achieved a professional level of expertise in the cloud, IoT, and AI, and be able to build more robust, efficient, and reliable IoT infrastructure for your industry.

The Kubernetes Book. The fastest way to get your head around Kubernetes

Nigel Poulton, Pushkar Joglekar

Kubernetes is the leading orchestrator of cloud-native apps. With knowledge of how to work with Kubernetes, you can easily deploy and manage applications on the cloud or in your on-premises data center. The book begins by introducing you to Kubernetes and showing you how to install it. You’ll learn how to use Kubernetes Services and bring stable and reliable networking to apps that are deployed on Kubernetes. You'll delve deep into the powerful storage subsystem of Kubernetes and learn how to leverage the variety of external storage backends in your applications. As the book progresses, it shows you how to use features such as DaemonSets, Helm, and RBAC to enhance your Kubernetes applications. You'll explore the six categories of identifying vulnerabilities and look at a few ways to prevent and mitigate them. You'll also look at ways to secure the software delivery pipeline by discussing some image-related best practices. The book ends by sharing with you some resources that’ll help take your Kubernetes knowledge to the next level.By the end of the book, you’ll have the confidence and skills to leverage all the features of Kubernetes to develop scalable applications.