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Wow! eBook: Managing Data in Motion - 5 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Managing Data in Motion - 5 new eBooks

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Managing Data in Motion

Posted: 27 May 2013 07:15 AM PDT

Book Description

Managing Data in Motion describes techniques that have been developed for significantly reducing the complexity of managing system interfaces and enabling scalable architectures. Author April Reeve brings over two decades of experience to present a vendor-neutral approach to moving data between computing environments and systems. Readers will learn the techniques, technologies, and best practices for managing the passage of data between computer systems and integrating disparate data together in an enterprise environment.

The average enterprise’s computing environment is comprised of hundreds to thousands computer systems that have been built, purchased, and acquired over time. The data from these various systems needs to be integrated for reporting and analysis, shared for business transaction processing, and converted from one format to another when old systems are replaced and new systems are acquired.

The management of the “data in motion” in organizations is rapidly becoming one of the biggest concerns for business and IT management. Data warehousing and conversion, real-time data integration, and cloud and “big data” applications are just a few of the challenges facing organizations and businesses today. Managing Data in Motion tackles these and other topics in a style easily understood by business and IT managers as well as programmers and architects.

  • Presents a vendor-neutral overview of the different technologies and techniques for moving data between computer systems including the emerging solutions for unstructured as well as structured data types
  • Explains, in non-technical terms, the architecture and components required to perform data integration
  • Describes how to reduce the complexity of managing system interfaces and enable a scalable data architecture that can handle the dimensions of “Big Data”

Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction to Data Integration
Chapter 1. The Importance of Data Integration
Chapter 2. What Is Data Integration?
Chapter 3. Types and Complexity of Data Integration
Chapter 4. The Process of Data Integration Development

Part 2: Batch Data Integration
Chapter 5. Introduction to Batch Data Integration
Chapter 6. Extract, Transform, and Load
Chapter 7. Data Warehousing
Chapter 8. Data Conversion
Chapter 9. Data Archiving
Chapter 10. Batch Data Integration Architecture and Metadata

Part 3: Real Time Data Integration
Chapter 11. Introduction to Real-Time Data Integration
Chapter 12. Data Integration Patterns
Chapter 13. Core Real-Time Data Integration Technologies
Chapter 14. Data Integration Modeling
Chapter 15. Master Data Management
Chapter 16. Data Warehousing with Real-Time Updates
Chapter 17. Real-Time Data Integration Architecture and Metadata

Part 4: Big, Cloud, Virtual Data
Chapter 18. Introduction to Big Data Integration
Chapter 19. Cloud Architecture and Data Integration
Chapter 20. Data Virtualization
Chapter 21. Big Data Integration
Chapter 22. Conclusion to Managing Data in Motion

Book Details

  • Paperback: 204 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (March 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0123971675
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123971678
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Analyzing the Social Web

Posted: 27 May 2013 07:11 AM PDT

Book Description

Analyzing the Social Web provides a framework for the analysis of public data currently available and being generated by social networks and social media, like Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare. Access and analysis of this public data about people and their connections to one another allows for new applications of traditional social network analysis techniques that let us identify things like who are the most important or influential people in a network, how things will spread through the network, and the nature of peoples’ relationships. Analyzing the Social Web introduces you to these techniques, shows you their application to many different types of social media, and discusses how social media can be used as a tool for interacting with the online public.

  • Presents interactive social applications on the web, and the types of analysis that are currently conducted in the study of social media.
  • Covers the basics of network structures for beginners, including measuring methods for describing nodes, edges, and parts of the network.
  • Discusses the major categories of social media applications or phenomena and shows how the techniques presented can be applied to analyze and understand the underlying data.
  • Provides an introduction to information visualization, particularly network visualization techniques, and methods for using them to identify interesting features in a network, generate hypotheses for analysis, and recognize patterns of behavior.
  • Includes a supporting website with lecture slides, exercises, and downloadable social network data sets that can be used can be used to apply the techniques presented in the book.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Nodes, Edges, and Network Measures
Chapter 3. Network Structure and Measures
Chapter 4. Network Visualization
Chapter 5. Tie Strength
Chapter 6. Trust
Chapter 7. Understanding Structure Through User Attributes and Behavior
Chapter 9. Entity Resolution and Link Prediction
Chapter 10. Propagation in Networks
Chapter 11. Community-Maintained Resources
Chapter 12. Location-Based Social Interaction
Chapter 13. Social Information Filtering
Chapter 14. Social Media in the Public Sector
Chapter 15. Business Use of Social Media
Chapter 16. Privacy
Chapter 17. Case Study: Social Network Strategies for Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse

Book Details

  • Paperback: 290 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (March 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0124055311
  • ISBN-13: 978-0124055315
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Computation and Storage in the Cloud

Posted: 27 May 2013 07:07 AM PDT

Book Description

Computation and Storage in the Cloud is the first comprehensive and systematic work investigating the issue of computation and storage trade-off in the cloud in order to reduce the overall application cost. Scientific applications are usually computation and data intensive, where complex computation tasks take a long time for execution and the generated datasets are often terabytes or petabytes in size. Storing valuable generated application datasets can save their regeneration cost when they are reused, not to mention the waiting time caused by regeneration. However, the large size of the scientific datasets is a big challenge for their storage. By proposing innovative concepts, theorems and algorithms, this book will help bring the cost down dramatically for both cloud users and service providers to run computation and data intensive scientific applications in the cloud.

  • Covers cost models and benchmarking that explain the necessary tradeoffs for both cloud providers and users
  • Describes several novel strategies for storing application datasets in the cloud
  • Includes real-world case studies of scientific research applications

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Literature Review
Chapter 3. Motivating Example and Research Issues
Chapter 4. Cost Model of Data Set Storage in the Cloud
Chapter 5. Minimum Cost Benchmarking Approaches
Chapter 6. Cost-Effective Data Set Storage Strategies
Chapter 7. Experiments and Evaluations
Chapter 8. Conclusions and Contributions

Appendix A. Notation Index
Appendix B. Proofs of Theorems, Lemmas and Corollaries
Appendix C. Method of Calculating λ Based on Users' Extra Budget

Book Details

  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Elsevier (February 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0124077676
  • ISBN-13: 978-0124077676
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Brainstorming and Beyond

Posted: 27 May 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Book Description

Brainstorming and Beyond describes the techniques for generating ideas verbally, in writing, or through sketches. The first chapter focuses on brainstorming, the foundation method for ideation, which is a complex social process building off of social psychology principles, motivational constructs, and corporate culture. Brainstorming is commonly portrayed as an easy way to generate ideas, but in reality, it is a complex social process that is often flawed in ways that are not self-evident. Chapter 2 discusses Brainwriting, which is a variation on brainstorming in which each person writes ideas down on paper and then passes the paper to a new person who reads the first set of ideas and adds new ones. Since there is no group shouting out of ideas, strong facilitation skills are not required, and more often than not, Brainwriting results greatly exceed those of group brainstorming in a shorter time because ideas are generated in a parallel, rather than serial, fashion. Brainwriting is useful when time is limited, groups are hostile, or you are dealing with a culture where shouting out wild or divergent ideas might be difficult. Finally, in Chapter 3, readers learn about Braindrawing, a method of visual brainstorming that helps practitioners generate ideas for icons, other graphics, user interface layouts, or Web page designs. Each of these methods provides readers with ways to generate, present, and evaluate ideas so they can begin building a strong foundation for product success.

  • Learn the proper techniques for generating ideas with  limited time, hostile audiences, and limited facilitation support.
  • Explores efficient processes for analyzing the value of ideas.
  • Examines ways to generate visual, as well as textual ideas.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Brainstorming
Chapter 2. Brainwriting
Chapter 3. Braindrawing

Book Details

  • Paperback: 84 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (February 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0124071570
  • ISBN-13: 978-0124071575
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Measuring Data Quality for Ongoing Improvement

Posted: 27 May 2013 06:57 AM PDT

Book Description

The Data Quality Assessment Framework shows you how to measure and monitor data quality, ensuring quality over time. You’ll start with general concepts of measurement and work your way through a detailed framework of more than three dozen measurement types related to five objective dimensions of quality: completeness, timeliness, consistency, validity, and integrity. Ongoing measurement, rather than one time activities will help your organization reach a new level of data quality. This plain-language approach to measuring data can be understood by both business and IT and provides practical guidance on how to apply the DQAF within any organization enabling you to prioritize measurements and effectively report on results. Strategies for using data measurement to govern and improve the quality of data and guidelines for applying the framework within a data asset are included. You’ll come away able to prioritize which measurement types to implement, knowing where to place them in a data flow and how frequently to measure. Common conceptual models for defining and storing of data quality results for purposes of trend analysis are also included as well as generic business requirements for ongoing measuring and monitoring including calculations and comparisons that make the measurements meaningful and help understand trends and detect anomalies.

  • Demonstrates how to leverage a technology independent data quality measurement framework for your specific business priorities and data quality challenges
  • Enables discussions between business and IT with a non-technical vocabulary for data quality measurement
  • Describes how to measure data quality on an ongoing basis with generic measurement types that can be applied to any situation

Table of Contents
Section One: Concepts and Definitions
Chapter 1. Data
Chapter 2. Data, People, and Systems
Chapter 3. Data Management, Models, and Metadata
Chapter 4. Data Quality and Measurement

Section Two: DQAF Concepts and Measurement Types
Chapter 5. DQAF Concepts
Chapter 6. DQAF Measurement Types

Section Three: Data Assessment Scenarios
Chapter 7. Initial Data Assessment
Chapter 8 Assessment in Data Quality Improvement Projects
Chapter 9. Ongoing Measurement

Section Four: Applying the DQAF to Data Requirements
Chapter 10. Requirements, Risk, Criticality
Chapter 11. Asking Questions

Section Five: A Strategic Approach to Data Quality
Chapter 12. Data Quality Strategy
Chapter 13. Quality Improvement and Data Quality
Chapter 14. Directives for Data Quality Strategy

Section Six: The DQAF in Depth
Chapter 15. Functions of Measurement. Collection, Calculation, Comparison
Chapter 16. Features of the DQAF Measurement Logical
Chapter 17. Facets of the DQAF Measurement Types

Appendix A. Measuring the Value of Data
Appendix B. Data Quality Dimensions
Appendix C. Completeness, Consistency, and Integrity of the Data Model
Appendix D. Prediction, Error, and Shewhart's lost disciple, Kristo Ivanov

Book Details

  • Paperback: 376 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (January 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0123970334
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123970336
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