This book is about data analysis and the programming language called R. This is rapidly becoming the de facto standard among professionals, and is used in every conceivable discipline from science and medicine to business and engineering.
R is more than just a computer program; it is a statistical programming environment and...
SINCE ITS INTRODUCTION IN THE FALL of 2008, Android has grown and matured to the point
where it is currently the number one smartphone platform in terms of shipments worldwide. Along
with that growth is an interest in writing applications that run natively on the device and that take
advantage of the device’s features, such...
RECENT YEARS HAVE SEEN DRAMATIC EXPANSION in the use of mobile computing and social media
on the Internet. Organizations show increasing interest in web analytics, and will soon comprehend
the importance of engagement and experience management and monitoring. With the increasing
value of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and the...
Reporting Services is a report design and enterprise-class information delivery tool that has aged and matured for more than nine years now. And this book has grown along with the product. We fi rst started writing Professional Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services before the product was released, back in 2003. After four new versions of...
WELCOME TO BEGINNING CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design, Third Edition.
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are the tool that web designers and developers use alongside markup
languages such as HTML and XHTML to build websites. CSS provides web browsers with the
information they need to control the visual aspect of a web...
This book is intended for developers interested in learning more about how to develop against the set of Microsoft cloud services: Windows Azure and Office 365. In some cases, you can combine the two technologies to build your solution, but in other cases you will use only one of the cloud solutions, so understanding what each has to offer...
OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS JAVASCRIPT has undergone a remarkable transformation. Where
once it was a “toy” language relegated to secondary status it’s now one of the most important
programming languages in the world. With the ongoing importance of Ajax-based development and
the rise of full-featured JavaScript...
THE MOST IMPORTANT BUSINESS intelligence tool in the Microsoft Swiss Army knife of tools is SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). This is because the other tools would be nothing without the cleansing and movement of data into a presentable format. The product can extract, transform, and load (ETL) data astonishingly fast. A 2010 benchmark...
I FIRST STARTED PLAYING WITH THE ANDROID SDK before it was offi cially released as version 1.0.
Back then, the tools were unpolished, the APIs in the SDK were unstable, and the documentation
was sparse. Fast-forward three and a half years, Android is now a formidable mobile operating
system, with a following no less impressive than...
SQL SERVER 2012 REPRESENTS A SIZABLE jump forward in scalability, performance, and usability for the DBA, developer, and business intelligence (BI) developer. It is no longer unheard of to have 40-terabyte databases running on a SQL Server. SQL Server administration used to just be the job of a database administrator (DBA), but as SQL Server...
MICROSOFT COLLABORATION and companion development technologies have really come a long
way over the past 20 years. Over this time, many different technologies have come and gone in
the blink of an eye. Others have built up momentum, improving with each new version, providing
valuable new features to meet the ever-increasing digital...
Hands-on solutions for common SharePoint 2010 challenges
Aimed at the more than 100 million licensed SharePoint 2010 users, this indispensable field guide addresses an abundance of common SharePoint 2010 problems and offers proven solutions. A team of authors encourages you to customize SharePoint beyond the out-of-the-box...
