Jumat, 07 Februari 2014

Wow! eBook: Joe Celko’s Complete Guide to NoSQL - 5 new eBooks


Wow! eBook: Joe Celko’s Complete Guide to NoSQL - 5 new eBooks

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Joe Celko’s Complete Guide to NoSQL

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 08:15 AM PST

Book Description

Joe Celko’s Complete Guide to NoSQL provides a complete overview of non-relational technologies so that you can become more nimble to meet the needs of your organization. As data continues to explode and grow more complex, SQL is becoming less useful for querying data and extracting meaning. In this new world of bigger and faster data, you will need to leverage non-relational technologies to get the most out of the information you have. Learn where, when, and why the benefits of NoSQL outweigh those of SQL with Joe Celko’s Complete Guide to NoSQL.

This book covers three areas that make today’s new data different from the data of the past: velocity, volume and variety. When information is changing faster than you can collect and query it, it simply cannot be treated the same as static data. Celko will help you understand velocity, to equip you with the tools to drink from a fire hose. Old storage and access models do not work for big data. Celko will help you understand volume, as well as different ways to store and access data such as petabytes and exabytes. Not all data can fit into a relational model, including genetic data, semantic data, and data generated by social networks. Celko will help you understand variety, as well as the alternative storage, query, and management frameworks needed by certain kinds of data.

  • Gain a complete understanding of the situations in which SQL has more drawbacks than benefits so that you can better determine when to utilize NoSQL technologies for maximum benefit
  • Recognize the pros and cons of columnar, streaming, and graph databases
  • Make the transition to NoSQL with the expert guidance of best-selling SQL expert Joe Celko

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. NoSQL and Transaction Processing
Chapter 2. Columnar Databases
Chapter 3. Graph Databases
Chapter 4. The MapReduce Model
Chapter 5. Streaming Databases and Complex Events
Chapter 6. Key-Value Stores
Chapter 7. Textbases
Chapter 8.Geographical Data (GIS)
Chapter 9. NoSQL Taxonomy? Steven Yen’s Model with examples

Book Details

  • Paperback: 244 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (October 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0124071929
  • ISBN-13: 978-0124071926
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CUDA Fortran for Scientists and Engineers

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 08:12 AM PST

Book Description

CUDA Fortran for Scientists and Engineers shows how high-performance application developers can leverage the power of GPUs using Fortran, the familiar language of scientific computing and supercomputer performance benchmarking. The authors presume no prior parallel computing experience, and cover the basics along with best practices for efficient GPU computing using CUDA Fortran.

To help you add CUDA Fortran to existing Fortran codes, the book explains how to understand the target GPU architecture, identify computationally intensive parts of the code, and modify the code to manage the data and parallelism and optimize performance. All of this is done in Fortran, without having to rewrite in another language. Each concept is illustrated with actual examples so you can immediately evaluate the performance of your code in comparison.

  • Leverage the power of GPU computing with PGI’s CUDA Fortran compiler
  • Gain insights from members of the CUDA Fortran language development team
  • Includes multi-GPU programming in CUDA Fortran, covering both peer-to-peer and message passing interface (MPI) approaches
  • Includes full source code for all the examples and several case studies
  • Download source code and slides from the book’s companion website

Table of Contents
Part I: CUDA Fortran Programming
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Performance Measurement and Metrics
Chapter 3. Optimization
Chapter 4. Multi-GPU Programming

Part II: Case Studies
Chapter 5. Monte Carlo Method
Chapter 6. Finite Difference Method
Chapter 7. Applications of Fast Fourier Transform

Part III: Appendices
Appendix A. Tesla Specifications
Appendix B. System and Environment Management
Appendix C. Calling CUDA C from CUDA Fortran
Appendix D. Source Code

Book Details

  • Paperback: 338 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (September 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0124169708
  • ISBN-13: 978-0124169708
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Total Information Risk Management

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 08:04 AM PST

Book Description

Many talk about the unlimited opportunities of data and information assets. But, bad data and information can also severely hurt your business and create considerable risk. Managing risk is a new angle to selling data quality projects to upper managers who do not want to take the time to learn about the value of data quality.

Total Information Risk Management provides you with a step by step process to identify, quantify and mitigate the risks arising from poor data and information assets. It is based on novel research from the Distributed Information and Automation Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and has been proven to be successful across many different industries.

In particular, this book shows data managers and IT professionals how to:

  • Complete a convincing business case for any data quality, data governance, Big Data, EIM, business intelligence, business analytics and IT projects
  • Develop a clear link between data quality and your organization’s business objectives
  • Identify data quality “pain points” that have the highest impact on your organization’s success
  • Get stronger “buy-in” from senior executives for data quality improvement
  • Manage data and information assets for business value in your organization

This book provides you with all the fundamental concepts, guidelines and tools to ensure core business information is identified, protected and used effectively, and written in a language that is clear and easy to understand for non-technical managers.

  • Shows how to manage information risk using a holistic approach by examining data and information assets from all sources
  • Offers varied perspectives of an author team that brings together academics, practitioners and researchers (both technical and managerial) to provide a comprehensive guide
  • Provides real-life case studies with practical insight into the management of information risk and offers a basis for broader discussion among managers and practitioners

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Preface and Introduction
Chapter 2. Information Risk – A management challenge in the 21st century
Chapter 3. The Total Information Risk Management (TIRM) process
Chapter 4. Application Examples in the Industry
Chapter 5. Additional risk management techniques that can be used within the TIRM process
Chapter 6. Software tools
Chapter 7. A pathway to a better managed future

Book Details

  • Paperback: 316 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (September 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0124055478
  • ISBN-13: 978-0124055476
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Data Stewardship

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 08:01 AM PST

Book Description

Data stewards in business and IT are the backbone of a successful data governance implementation because they do the work to make a company’s data trusted, dependable, and high quality. Data Stewardship explains everything you need to know to successfully implement the stewardship portion of data governance, including how to organize, train, and work with data stewards, get high-quality business definitions and other metadata, and perform the day-to-day tasks using a minimum of the steward’s time and effort. David Plotkin has loaded this book with practical advice on stewardship so you can get right to work, have early successes, and measure and communicate those successes, gaining more support for this critical effort.

  • Provides clear and concise practical advice on implementing and running data stewardship, including guidelines on how to organize based on company structure, business functions, and data ownership
  • Shows how to gain support for your stewardship effort, maintain that support over the long-term, and measure the success of the data stewardship effort and report back to management
  • Includes detailed lists of responsibilities for each type of data steward and strategies to help the Data Governance Program Office work effectively with the data stewards

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Data Stewardship and Data Governance: How They Fit Together
Chapter 2. Understanding the Types of Data Stewardship
Chapter 3. Stewardship Roles and Responsibilities
Chapter 4. Implementing Data Stewardship
Chapter 5. Training the Business Data Stewards
Chapter 6. Practical Data Stewardship
Chapter 7. The Important Roles of Data Stewards
Chapter 8. Measuring Data Stewardship Progress: The Metrics
Chapter 9. Rating Your Data Stewardship Maturity
Chapter 10. Summing it all up

Appendix A. Example Definition and Derivation
Appendix B. Sample Training Plan Outline

Book Details

  • Paperback: 248 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (September 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0124103898
  • ISBN-13: 978-0124103894
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UI is Communication

Posted: 07 Feb 2014 07:57 AM PST

Book Description

User interface design is a challenging, multi-disciplinary activity that requires understanding a wide range of concepts and techniques that are often subjective and even conflicting. Imagine how much it would help if there were a single perspective that you could use to simplify these complex issues down to a small set of objective principles. In UI is Communication, Everett McKay explains how to design intuitive user interfaces by focusing on effective human communication. A user interface is ultimately a conversation between users and technology. Well-designed user interfaces use the language of UI to communicate to users efficiently and naturally. They also recognize that there is an emotional human being at the other end of the interaction, so good user interfaces strive to make an emotional connection. Applying what you learn from UI is Communication will remove much of the mystic, subjectiveness, and complexity from user interface design, and help you make better design decisions with confidence. It’s the perfect introduction to user interface design.

  • Approachable, practical communication-based guide to interaction and visual design that you can immediately apply to projects to make solid design decisions quickly and confidently
  • Includes design makeovers so you can see the concepts in practice with real examples
  • Communication-based design process ties everything from interaction to visual design together

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Communication Design Principles
Chapter 2. Interaction Design
Chapter 3. Visual Design
Chapter 4. Communicating to People
Chapter 5. A Communication-driven Design Process
Chapter 6. UI Design Case Studies

Book Details

  • Paperback: 378 pages
  • Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann (June 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0123969808
  • ISBN-13: 978-0123969804
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