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Through the Grapevine: Socially Transmitted Information and Distorted Democracy (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
by Taylor N. CarlsonAn enlightening examination of what it means when Americans rely on family and friends to stay on top of politics. Accurate information is at the heart of democratic functioning. For decades, researchers interested in how information is disseminated have focused on mass media, but the reality is that many Americans today do not learn about politics from direct engagement with the news. Rather, about one-third of Americans learn chiefly from information shared by their peers in conversation or on social media. How does this socially transmitted information differ from that communicated by traditional media? What are the consequences for political attitudes and behavior? Drawing on evidence from experiments, surveys, and social media, Taylor N. Carlson finds that, as information flows first from the media then person to person, it becomes sparse, more biased, less accurate, and more mobilizing. The result is what Carlson calls distorted democracy. Although socially transmitted information does not necessarily render democracy dysfunctional, Through the Grapevine shows how it contributes to a public that is at once underinformed, polarized, and engaged.
TI-84 Plus CE Graphing Calculator For Dummies
by Jeff McCallaYou and your trusty TI-84+ can ace math, together Graphing calculators are an essential tool in many high school and college math courses. TI-84 Plus CE Graphing Calculator For Dummies teaches you how to use these handy little machines with confidence, for basic math and far, far beyond. Packed with insider tips, common mistakes to avoid, and updates on the newest products available, this is the must-have reference to get the most out of your graphing calculator. You&’ll learn how to navigate the home screen, menus, and mode settings. And we&’ll teach you how to use your calculator to, uh, do math—starting with basic arithmetic functions and stepping up through matrices, complex numbers, and beyond. You can even learn about probability and how to conduct statistical data analysis with your TI-84+. Get graphing! Grasp the basics of using your TI-84+ graphing calculator Learn how to use shortcut menus to enter fractions, matrices and logarithms (with a change of base!) Figure out how to make charts, scatter plots, and more Get started programming in Python on the new TI-84 Plus CE Python Edition If you have the older TI-84+, look for tips that point out keystroke and functionality differencesThis edition of TI-84 Plus CE Graphing Calculator For Dummies lets you do everything there is to do with the very latest TI-84+ models. Whatever kind of math you&’re doing, you&’ll get some quality screen time in, thanks to Dummies.
Ti-84 Plus Graphing Calculator For Dummies
by Mccall EdwardsGet up-to-speed on the functionality of your TI-84 Plus calculatorCompletely revised to cover the latest updates to the TI-84 Plus calculators, this bestselling guide will help you become the most savvy TI-84 Plus user in the classroom! Exploring the standard device, the updated device with USB plug and upgraded memory (the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition), and the upcoming color screen device, this book provides you with clear, understandable coverage of the TI-84's updated operating system. Details the new apps that are available for download to the calculator via the USB cable Walks you through menus and basic arithmeticAddresses graphing and analyzing functions as well as probability and statistics functionsExplains how to use the calculator for geometryReviews communicating with PCs and other calculatorsTI-84 Plus Graphic Calculator For Dummies, 2nd Edition is the perfect solution for getting comfortable with the new line of TI-84 calculators!
TIBCO Spotfire: Building enterprise-grade data analytics and visualization solutions, 2nd Edition
by Michael Phillips Andrew BerridgeCreate innovative informatics solutions with TIBCO SpotfireKey FeaturesGet to grips with a variety of TIBCO Spotfire features to create professional applicationsUse different data and visualization techniques to build interactive analyses.Simplify BI processes and understand data analysis and visualizationBook DescriptionThe need for agile business intelligence (BI) is growing daily, and TIBCO Spotfire® combines self-service features with essential enterprise governance and scaling capabilities to provide best-practice analytics solutions. Spotfire is easy and intuitive to use and is a rewarding environment for all BI users and analytics developers.Starting with data and visualization concepts, this book takes you on a journey through increasingly advanced topics to help you work toward becoming a professional analytics solution provider. Examples of analyzing real-world data are used to illustrate how to work with Spotfire. Once you've covered the AI-driven recommendations engine, you'll move on to understanding Spotfire's rich suite of visualizations and when, why and how you should use each of them. In later chapters, you'll work with location analytics, advanced analytics using TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R®, how to decide whether to use in-database or in-memory analytics, and how to work with streaming (live) data in Spotfire. You'll also explore key product integrations that significantly enhance Spotfire's capabilities.This book will enable you to exploit the advantages of the Spotfire serve topology and learn how to make practical use of scheduling and routing rules.By the end of this book, you will have learned how to build and use powerful analytics dashboards and applications, perform spatial analytics, and be able to administer your Spotfire environment efficientlyWhat you will learnWork with Spotfire on its web, Cloud, PC, Mac and mobile clientsDeploy Spotfire's suite of visualization types effectively and intelligentlyBuild user-friendly analytics frameworks and analytics applicationsExplore Spotfire's predictive analytics capabilitiesUse Spotfire's location analytics capabilities to create interactive spatial analysesWrite IronPython scripts with the Spotfire APILearn the different ways Spotfire can be deployed and administeredWho this book is forIf you are a business intelligence or data professional, this book will give you a solid grounding in the use of TIBCO Spotfire. This book requires no prior knowledge of Spotfire or any basic data and visualization concepts.
TIBCO Spotfire – A Comprehensive Primer
by Michael PhillipsIf you are a business user or data professional, this book will give you a solid grounding in the use of TIBCO Spotfire. This book assumes no prior knowledge of Spotfire or even basic data and visualization concepts.
TIBCO Spotfire for Developers
by Manuel XavierA fast-paced, step-by-step guide to creating, manipulating and deploying analytical visualizations using the TIBCO Spotfire Platform.If you are hoping to discover a fast and easy way to develop business intelligence apps with TIBCO Spotfire, this book is ideal for you. You are expected to know the basics of business intelligence, but no prior knowledge of TIBCO Spotfire is required.
Tidy First?: A Personal Exercise in Empirical Software Design
by Kent BeckTidying up messy software is a must. And that means breaking up the code to make it more readable, and using guard clauses and helping functions to make it understandable. In this practical guide, author Kent Beck, creator of Extreme Programming and pioneer of software patterns, suggests when and where you might apply tidyings in your code.Instead of trying to master tidying all at once, this book lets you try out a few examples that make sense for your problem. If you have a big function containing many lines of code, you'll learn how to logically divide it into smaller chunks. Along the way, you'll learn the theory behind software design: coupling, cohesion, discounted cash flows, and optionality.
Tidy Modeling with R: A Framework for Modeling in the Tidyverse
by Max Kuhn Julia SilgeGet going with tidymodels, a collection of R packages for modeling and machine learning. Whether you're just starting out or have years of experience with modeling, this practical introduction shows data analysts, business analysts, and data scientists how the tidymodels framework offers a consistent, flexible approach for your work.RStudio engineers Max Kuhn and Julia Silge demonstrate ways to create models by focusing on an R dialect called the tidyverse. Software that adopts tidyverse principles shares both a high-level design philosophy and low-level grammar and data structures, so learning one piece of the ecosystem makes it easier to learn the next. You'll understand why the tidymodels framework has been built to be used by a broad range of people.With this book, you will:Learn the steps necessary to build a model from beginning to endUnderstand how to use different modeling and feature engineering approaches fluentlyExamine the options for avoiding common pitfalls of modeling, such as overfittingLearn practical methods to prepare your data for modelingTune models for optimal performanceUse good statistical practices to compare, evaluate, and choose among models
The Tiger and the Rabbit: Harnessing the Power of the Metaverse, WEB3, and AI for Business Success
by Sandy CarterUnlock the potential of the world’s latest tech to solve your customers’ most pressing problems In The Tiger and The Rabbit: Harnessing the Power of the Metaverse, Web3, and AI for Business Success, A Business Fable, former Amazon Web Services VP and COO and Channel Chief at Unstoppable Domains, Sandy Carter, delivers an engaging new narrative about a brand struggling to improve their customer experience. The company’s technical and marketing teams must work together to present solutions involving Web3, the Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence, in doing so, they learn valuable lessons about digital identity, community, and data ownership. In the book, you’ll find: Strategies for combining technologies, like artificial intelligence and blockchain, to unlock previously unheard-of solutions to contemporary problems Explorations of the Metaverse’s potential for new experiences The role of community in non-fungible token technology and what it means for the future of digital identity An indispensable and exciting discussion of using the world’s newest technologies to solve some of our customers’ most intractable problems, The Tiger and The Rabbit will earn a place on the bookshelves of managers, executives, entrepreneurs, founders, board members, and other business leaders.
Tiger Rock: An AFK Book (Five Nights At Freddy's)
by Scott Cawthon Kelly Parra Andrea WaggenerFive Nights at Freddy's fans won't want to miss this collection of three chilling stories that will haunt even the bravest player...Have you ever had something stuck in your head . . . ? After a session in the VR Booth at the Mega Pizzaplex, Kai can't shake the feeling that the tiger animatronic somehow has stayed with him . . . A new attraction at the Mega Pizzaplex leaves Kane's mind full of intrusive thoughts not his own . . . And Danny's idea to get the attention of his high school crush comes with unimaginable consequences. . . In the world of Five Nights at Freddy's, truth is often scarier than fiction . . .In this seventh volume, Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon spins three sinister novella-length tales from uncharted corners of his series' canon.Readers beware: This collection of terrifying tales is enough to rattle even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy's fans.
Tika in Action
by Jukka L. Zitting Chris MattmannSummaryTika in Action is a hands-on guide to content mining with Apache Tika. The book's many examples and case studies offer real-world experience from domains ranging from search engines to digital asset management and scientific data processing.About the TechnologyTika is an Apache toolkit that has built into it everything you and your app need to know about file formats. Using Tika, your applications can discover and extract content from digital documents in almost any format, including exotic ones.About this BookTika in Action is the ultimate guide to content mining using Apache Tika. You'll learn how to pull usable information from otherwise inaccessible sources, including internet media and file archives. This example-rich book teaches you to build and extend applications based on real-world experience with search engines, digital asset management, and scientific data processing. In addition to architectural overviews, you'll find detailed chapters on features like metadata extraction, automatic language detection, and custom parser development.This book is written for developers who are new to both Scala and Lift and covers just enough Scala to get you started. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book. What's InsideCrack MS Word, PDF, HTML, and ZIPIntegrate with search engines, CMS, and other data sourcesLearn through experimentationMany examplesThis book requires no previous knowledge of Tika or text mining techniques. It assumes a working knowledge of Java.==========================================Table of ContentsPART 1 GETTING STARTEDThe case for the digital Babel fishGetting started with TikaThe information landscapePART 2 TIKA IN DETAILDocument type detectionContent extractionUnderstanding metadataLanguage detectionWhat's in a file?PART 3 INTEGRATION AND ADVANCED USEThe big pictureTika and the Lucene search stackExtending TikaPART 4 CASE STUDIESPowering NASA science data systemsContent management with Apache JackrabbitCurating cancer research data with TikaThe classic search engine example
TikTok For Dummies
by Jesse StayIt’s not too late to get on the TikTok train! You may know TikTok as the home of the latest dance crazes and cute puppy videos. But do you know how to go about harnessing the power of its massive audience for more than showing off your own dance moves? And are you too late to the TikTok game to make an impact? In TikTok For Dummies, expert digital strategist and author Jesse Stay delivers an easy-to-read and robust discussion of how you can engage with TikTok’s millions of users in a fun and productive way. He’ll walk you through the steps of creating and securing an account, finding the best content to engage with, and creating your own videos that reflect you or your business in the best possible light. You’ll discover how to: Install the app and create a profile that attracts followers and views Learn about the latest security issues and keep yourself safe on the platform Find the best content that’s most relevant to you so you can engage with the community Create your own videos that resonate with the TikTok audience and have viral potential Perfect for anyone ready to dive into the world of TikTok, either for fun or for professional reasons, TikTok For Dummies is the easiest and most reliable way to go beyond the dances and learn the ins and outs of the popular app.
TikTok-Videos selber machen für Dummies Junior (Für Dummies)
by Will Eagle Hannah Budke Claire Cohen Andrew Cooper Jordan Elijah Michael Andrew PanturescuSei kreativ und nutze dein Smartphone, um erstklassige Videos zu drehen und mit Gleichgesinnten auf TikTok zu teilen. Lerne die TikTok-App kennen, tritt der Community bei, nimm kurze Videos auf und bearbeite diese optimal nach. In diesem Buch erfährst du von TikTok-Profis, wie du noch bessere Videos erstellst, die sich deine Follower immer wieder ansehen möchten. Außerdem erfährst du, was es bedeutet, wenn ein Clip viral geht, und wie du deine eigene Sichtbarkeit und Reichweite erhöhst. So kannst du deine Ideen verwirklichen.
Tim Berners-Lee (History Heroes #6)
by Damian HarveyTim Berners Lee started off his career building computers out of old televisions. He is now one of the most prolific internet experts in the world and was responsible for founding the World Wide Web!Discover the stories of people who have helped to shape history, ranging from early explorers such as Christopher Columbus to more modern figures like Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web.These chapter books combine historical fact with engaging narrative and humourous illustration, perfect for the newly independent reader.
Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level
by Leander KahneyJournalist Leander Kahney reveals how CEO Tim Cook has led Apple to astronomical success after the death of Steve Jobs in 2011. The death of Steve Jobs left a gaping void at one of the most innovative companies of all time. Jobs wasn't merely Apple's iconic founder and CEO; he was the living embodiment of a global megabrand. It was hard to imagine that anyone could fill his shoes--especially not Tim Cook, the intensely private executive who many thought of as Apple's "operations drone."But seven years later, as journalist Leander Kahney reveals in this definitive book, things at Apple couldn't be better. Its stock has nearly tripled, making it the world's first trillion dollar company. Under Cook's principled leadership, Apple is pushing hard into renewable energy, labor and environmentally-friendly supply chains, user privacy, and highly-recyclable products. From the massive growth of the iPhone to lesser-known victories like the Apple Watch, Cook is leading Apple to a new era of success.Drawing on access with several Apple insiders, Kahney tells the inspiring story of how one man attempted to replace someone irreplacable, and--through strong, humane leadership, supply chain savvy, and a commitment to his values--succeeded more than anyone had thought possible.
Time and Causality across the Sciences
by Samantha KleinbergThis book, geared toward academic researchers and graduate students, brings together research on all facets of how time and causality relate across the sciences. Time is fundamental to how we perceive and reason about causes. It lets us immediately rule out the sound of a car crash as its cause. That a cause happens before its effect has been a core, and often unquestioned, part of how we describe causality. Research across disciplines shows that the relationship is much more complex than that. This book explores what that means for both the metaphysics and epistemology of causes - what they are and how we can find them. Across psychology, biology, and the social sciences, common themes emerge, suggesting that time plays a critical role in our understanding. The increasing availability of large time series datasets allows us to ask new questions about causality, necessitating new methods for modeling dynamic systems and incorporating mechanistic information into causal models.
TIME Cybersecurity: Hacking, the Dark Web and You
by The Editors of TIMEMysterious and dark, the many dangers of the internet lurk just below the sunny surface of social media, online shopping and cat videos. Now, in a new Special Edition from the Editors of TIME, comes Cybersecurity: Hacking, the Dark Web and You to help you understand the dangers posed by hackers, cyber criminals and other bad actors on the internet. Those potentially at risk include: individuals (your personal photography and communications, your finances and more); businesses and international relations; and our government (think interference in the November 2016 United States elections). Clear and concise, this Special Edition features up-to-the-minute information, graphics, and statistics as well as a hacking glossary to help you better understand the threats that lie in wait behind each keystroke. Cybersecurity is filled with compelling stories about hacks and hackers, the battle against revenge porn, Google's elite guard against rising digital threats, and it also includes a step-by-step guide to help you defend against scammers and viruses. For anyone who uses the internet-and that's pretty much all of us-Cybersecurity is a thorough examination of the security challenges of technology today, and how to overcome them to stay safe online.
Time-dependent Problems in Imaging and Parameter Identification
by Thomas Schuster Barbara Kaltenbacher Anne WaldInverse problems such as imaging or parameter identification deal with the recovery of unknown quantities from indirect observations, connected via a model describing the underlying context. While traditionally inverse problems are formulated and investigated in a static setting, we observe a significant increase of interest in time-dependence in a growing number of important applications over the last few years. Here, time-dependence affects a) the unknown function to be recovered and / or b) the observed data and / or c) the underlying process. Challenging applications in the field of imaging and parameter identification are techniques such as photoacoustic tomography, elastography, dynamic computerized or emission tomography, dynamic magnetic resonance imaging, super-resolution in image sequences and videos, health monitoring of elastic structures, optical flow problems or magnetic particle imaging to name only a few. Such problems demand for innovation concerning their mathematical description and analysis as well as computational approaches for their solution.
Time-Domain Finite Element Methods for Maxwell's Equations in Metamaterials
by Jichun Li Yunqing HuangThe purpose of this book is to provide an up-to-date introduction to the time-domain finite element methods for Maxwell's equations involving metamaterials. Since the first successful construction of a metamaterial with both negative permittivity and permeability in 2000, the study of metamaterials has attracted significant attention from researchers across many disciplines. Thanks to enormous efforts on the part of engineers and physicists, metamaterials present great potential applications in antenna and radar design, sub-wavelength imaging, and invisibility cloak design. Hence the efficient simulation of electromagnetic phenomena in metamaterials has become a very important issue and is the subject of this book, in which various metamaterial modeling equations are introduced and justified mathematically. The development and practical implementation of edge finite element methods for metamaterial Maxwell's equations are the main focus of the book. The book finishes with some interesting simulations such as backward wave propagation and time-domain cloaking with metamaterials.
Time Domain Representation of Speech Sounds: A Case Study In Bangla
by Asoke Kumar DattaThe book presents the history of time-domain representation and the extent of its development along with that of spectral domain representation in the cognitive and technology domains. It discusses all the cognitive experiments related to this development, along with details of technological developments related to both automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text to speech synthesis (TTS), and introduces a viable time-domain representation for both objective and subjective analysis, as an alternative to the well-known spectral representation.The book also includes a new cohort study on the use of lexical knowledge in ASR. India has numerous official dialects, and spoken-language technology development is a burgeoning area. In fact TTS and ASR taken together constitute the most important technology for empowering people. As such, the book describes time domain representation in such a way that it can be easily and seamlessly incorporated into ASR and TTS research and development. In short, it is a valuable guidebook for the development of ASR and TTS in all the Indian Standard Dialects using signal domain parameters.
Time-Domain Signature Barcodes for Chipless-RFID and Sensing Applications (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #647)
by Ferran Martín Cristian Herrojo Javier Mata-Contreras Ferran ParedesThis book presents an unconventional approach for implementing chipless radiofrequency identification (RFID) systems and related sensors. Contrary to most state-of-the-art chipless-RFID systems, the proposed approach is based on time domain and the tags are read through near field. The book discusses different aspects of these chipless-RFID systems, including tag and reader design, strategies to enhance the data density and capacity, tag programming and erasing, tag implementation in plastic and paper substrates, and synchronous tag reading, among others. A tolerance analysis and validation of the different systems, as well as prospective applications, are also included. The book also offers a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in chipless-RFID technology, including a comparative analysis, which is extended also to chip-based RFID systems. Readers are expected to be familiar with RF/microwave engineering technology. Besides master’s and postgraduate students, the book is intended for researchers in the field of radiofrequency identification (RFID) technology, and may be of interest for engineers working in the areas of wireless communications, automatic identification, security, authentication, microwave and wireless sensors, as well as those dealing with internet of things (IoT) and smart systems.
Time Expression and Named Entity Recognition (Socio-Affective Computing #10)
by Xiaoshi Zhong Erik CambriaThis book presents a synthetic analysis about the characteristics of time expressions and named entities, and some proposed methods for leveraging these characteristics to recognize time expressions and named entities from unstructured text. For modeling these two kinds of entities, the authors propose a rule-based method that introduces an abstracted layer between the specific words and the rules, and two learning-based methods that define a new type of tagging scheme based on the constituents of the entities, different from conventional position-based tagging schemes that cause the problem of inconsistent tag assignment. The authors also find that the length-frequency of entities follows a family of power-law distributions. This finding opens a door, complementary to the rank-frequency of words, to understand our communicative system in terms of language use.
Time for Learning: Top 10 Reasons Why Flipping the Classroom Can Change Education
by Ms Kathleen P. FultonThe guide school leaders need to reap the rewards of education’s most exciting new trend Flipping classrooms—using class time for hands-on learning and "off loading" the lecture portion of lessons as homework—is taking schools by storm. This book makes the case to educational leaders for the benefits of flipping. Backed by powerful data and anecdotes, topics include: Data on positive student outcomes in terms of achievement and motivation How flipping gives teachers more time to work with students one-on-one and encourage peer learning How flipping engages students in 21st century skills Ways flipping is budget and resource-friendly
Time for Learning: Top 10 Reasons Why Flipping the Classroom Can Change Education
by Ms Kathleen P. FultonThe guide school leaders need to reap the rewards of education’s most exciting new trend Flipping classrooms—using class time for hands-on learning and "off loading" the lecture portion of lessons as homework—is taking schools by storm. This book makes the case to educational leaders for the benefits of flipping. Backed by powerful data and anecdotes, topics include: Data on positive student outcomes in terms of achievement and motivation How flipping gives teachers more time to work with students one-on-one and encourage peer learning How flipping engages students in 21st century skills Ways flipping is budget and resource-friendly