With Microsoft HDInsight, business professionals and data analysts can rapidly leverage the power of Hadoop on a flexible, scalable cloud-based platform, using Microsoft's accessible business intelligence, visualization, and productivity tools. Now, in just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you can learn all the skills and...

If you're a Windows Server 2008 system administrator, this is a reference you?ll want to keep on hand. Written by a Microsoft MVP who has multiple MCITP certifications and bestselling author, this book gives you...

If you're preparing for your Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician (CCENT) certification, CCENT: Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician Study Guide, Second Edition is the book you need. Cisco working authority Todd Lammle...

This book is an introduction to numerical methods for students in engineering. It covers the usual topics found in an engineering course: solution of equations, interpolation and data fitting, solution of differential equations, eigenvalue problems, and optimization. The algorithms are implemented in Python 3, a high-level programming...

Fully updated for Windows Server 2012 R2! Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-410 - and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of implementing and configuring core services in Windows Server 2012 R2. Designed for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision making acumen...

Part of a series of specialized guides on System Center - this book provides focused guidance for deploying and customizing Service Manager, an integrated platform for automating and adapting an organization’s IT service management best practices. Led by series editor Mitch Tulloch, a team of System Center experts step you through key...

Big data is big news! Every company, industry, not-for-profit,and government agency wants and needs to analyze and leveragedatasets that can quickly become ponderously large. Datavisualization software enables...

Solving complex optimization problems with parallelmetaheuristics

Parallel Metaheuristics brings together an international group ofexperts in parallelism and metaheuristics to provide a much-neededsynthesis of these two fields. Readers discover how metaheuristictechniques can provide useful and practical solutions for a...

With its ever-expanding installed base, C continues to be one of the most popular programming languages on the market. This fact, along with the Teach Yourself series' reputation as the most popular way to learn programming languages, guarantee that Teach Yourself C in 21 Days, Fourth Edition is clearly headed for the bestseller...

1001 Calculus Practice Problems For Dummies takes youbeyond the instruction and guidance offered in Calculus ForDummies, giving you 1001 opportunities to practice solvingproblems from the major topics in your calculus course. Plus,...

In the previous unit we described how data such as that from a file could be communicated to a Java program. However, there is also a need to handle data that is communicated in more diverse fashions and, in particular, directly from a human. Such data is often taken into a system via a graphical user interface (GUI). GUI design is a major...