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Learning React Native: Building Native Mobile Apps with JavaScript
by Bonnie EisenmanGet a practical introduction to React Native, the JavaScript framework for writing and deploying fully featured mobile apps that render natively. The second edition of this hands-on guide shows you how to build applications that target iOS, Android, and other mobile platforms instead of browsers—apps that can access platform features such as the camera, user location, and local storage.Through code examples and step-by-step instructions, web developers and frontend engineers familiar with React will learn how to build and style interfaces, use mobile components, and debug and deploy apps. You’ll learn how to extend React Native using third-party libraries or your own Java and Objective-C libraries.Understand how React Native works under the hood with native UI componentsExamine how React Native’s mobile-based components compare to basic HTML elementsCreate and style your own React Native components and applicationsTake advantage of platform-specific APIs, as well as modules from the framework’s communityIncorporate platform-specific components into cross-platform appsLearn common pitfalls of React Native development, and tools for dealing with themCombine a large application’s many screens into a cohesive UXHandle state management in a large app with the Redux library
Football Analytics with Python & R: Learning Data Science Through the Lens of Sports
by Eric A. Eager Richard A. EricksonBaseball is not the only sport to use "moneyball." American football fans, teams, and gamblers are increasingly using data to gain an edge against the competition. Professional and college teams use data to help select players and identify team needs. Fans use data to guide fantasy team picks and strategies. Sports bettors and fantasy football players are using data to help inform decision making. This concise book provides a clear introduction to using statistical models to analyze football data.Whether your goal is to produce a winning team, dominate your fantasy football league, qualify for an entry-level football analyst position, or simply learn R and Python using fun example cases, this book is your starting place. You'll learn how to:Apply basic statistical concepts to football datasetsDescribe football data with quantitative methodsCreate efficient workflows that offer reproducible resultsUse data science skills such as web scraping, manipulating data, and plotting dataImplement statistical models for football dataLink data summaries and model outputs to create reports or presentations using tools such as R Markdown and R ShinyAnd more
Mastering API Architecture: Design, Operate, and Evolve API-Based Systems
by James Gough Daniel Bryant Matthew AuburnMost organizations with a web presence build and operate APIs; the doorway for customers to interact with the company's services. Designing, building, and managing these critical programs affect everyone in the organization, from engineers and product owners to C-suite executives. But the real challenge for developers and solution architects is creating an API platform from the ground up.With this practical book, you'll learn strategies for building and testing REST APIs that use API gateways to combine offerings at the microservice level. Authors James Gough, Daniel Bryant, and Matthew Auburn demonstrate how simple additions to this infrastructure can help engineers and organizations migrate to the cloud; and open the opportunity to connect internal services using technologies like a service mesh.Learn API fundamentals and architectural patterns for building an API platformUse practical examples to understand how to design, build, and test API-based systemsDeploy, operate, and configure key components of an API platformUse API gateways and service meshes appropriately, based on case studiesUnderstand core security and common vulnerabilities in API architectureSecure data and APIs using threat modeling and technologies like OAuth2 and TLSLearn how to evolve existing systems toward API- and cloud-based architectures
Concurrency in C# Cookbook: Asynchronous, Parallel, and Multithreaded Programming
by Stephen ClearyIf you’re one of many developers still uncertain about concurrent and multithreaded development, this practical cookbook will change your mind. With more than 85 code-rich recipes in this updated second edition, author Stephen Cleary demonstrates parallel processing and asynchronous programming techniques using libraries and language features in .NET and C# 8.0.Concurrency is now more common in responsive and scalable application development, but it’s still extremely difficult to code. The detailed solutions in this cookbook show you how modern tools raise the level of abstraction, making concurrency much easier than before. Complete with ready-to-use code and discussions about how and why solutions work, these recipes help you:Get up to speed on concurrency and async and parallel programmingUse async and await for asynchronous operationsEnhance your code with asynchronous streamsExplore parallel programming with .NET’s Task Parallel LibraryCreate dataflow pipelines with .NET’s TPL Dataflow libraryUnderstand the capabilities that System.Reactive builds on top of LINQUtilize threadsafe and immutable collectionsLearn how to conduct unit testing with concurrent codeMake the thread pool work for youEnable clean, cooperative cancellationExamine scenarios for combining concurrent approachesDive into asynchronous-friendly object-oriented programmingRecognize and write adapters for code using older asynchronous styles
Learning GitHub Actions: Automation and Integration of CI/CD with GitHub
by Brent LasterAutomate your software development processes with GitHub Actions, the continuous integration and continuous delivery platform that integrates seamlessly with GitHub. With this practical book, open source author, trainer, and DevOps director Brent Laster explains everything you need to know about using and getting value from GitHub Actions. You'll learn what actions and workflows are and how they can be used, created, and incorporated into your processes to simplify, standardize, and automate your work in GitHub.This book explains the platform, components, use cases, implementation, and integration points of actions, so you can leverage them to provide the functionality and features needed in today's complex pipelines and software development processes. You'll learn how to design and implement automated workflows that respond to common events like pushes, pull requests, and review updates. You'll understand how to use the components of the GitHub Actions platform to gain maximum automation and benefit.With this book, you will:Learn what GitHub Actions are, the various use cases for them, and how to incorporate them into your processesUnderstand GitHub Actions' structure, syntax, and semanticsAutomate processes and implement functionalityCreate your own custom actions with Docker, JavaScript, or shell approachesTroubleshoot and debug workflows that use actionsCombine actions with GitHub APIs and other integration optionsIdentify ways to securely implement workflows with GitHub ActionsUnderstand how GitHub Actions compares to other options
Learning Test-Driven Development: A Polyglot Guide to Writing Uncluttered Code
by Saleem SiddiquiYour code is a testament to your skills as a developer. No matter what language you use, code should be clean, elegant, and uncluttered. By using test-driven development (TDD), you'll write code that's easy to understand, retains its elegance, and works for months, even years, to come. With this indispensable guide, you'll learn how to use TDD with three different languages: Go, JavaScript, and Python.Author Saleem Siddiqui shows you how to tackle domain complexity using a unit test-driven approach. TDD partitions requirements into small, implementable features, enabling you to solve problems irrespective of the languages and frameworks you use. With Learning Test-Driven Development at your side, you'll learn how to incorporate TDD into your regular coding practice.This book helps you:Use TDD's divide-and-conquer approach to tame domain complexityUnderstand how TDD works across languages, testing frameworks, and domain conceptsLearn how TDD enables continuous integrationSupport refactoring and redesign with TDDLearn how to write a simple and effective unit test harness in JavaScriptSet up a continuous integration environment with the unit tests produced during TDDWrite clean, uncluttered code using TDD in Go, JavaScript, and Python
Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications
by Chip HuyenMachine learning systems are both complex and unique. Complex because they consist of many different components and involve many different stakeholders. Unique because they're data dependent, with data varying wildly from one use case to the next. In this book, you'll learn a holistic approach to designing ML systems that are reliable, scalable, maintainable, and adaptive to changing environments and business requirements.Author Chip Huyen, co-founder of Claypot AI, considers each design decision--such as how to process and create training data, which features to use, how often to retrain models, and what to monitor--in the context of how it can help your system as a whole achieve its objectives. The iterative framework in this book uses actual case studies backed by ample references.This book will help you tackle scenarios such as:Engineering data and choosing the right metrics to solve a business problemAutomating the process for continually developing, evaluating, deploying, and updating modelsDeveloping a monitoring system to quickly detect and address issues your models might encounter in productionArchitecting an ML platform that serves across use casesDeveloping responsible ML systems
Azure Cookbook: Recipes to Create and Maintain Cloud Solutions in Azure
by Reza SalehiHow do you deal with the problems you face when using Azure? This practical guide provides over 75 recipes to help you to work with common Azure issues in everyday scenarios. That includes key tasks like setting up permissions for a storage account, working with Cosmos DB APIs, managing Azure role-based access control, governing your Azure subscriptions using Azure Policy, and much more.Author Reza Salehi has assembled real-world recipes that enable you to grasp key Azure services and concepts quickly. Each recipe includes CLI scripts that you can execute in your own Azure account. Recipes also explain the approach and provide meaningful context. The solutions in this cookbook will take you beyond theory and help you understand Azure services in practice.You'll find recipes that let you:Store data in an Azure storage account or in a data lakeWork with relational and nonrelational databases in AzureManage role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure resourcesSafeguard secrets in Azure Key VaultGovern your Azure subscription using Azure PolicyUse CLI code to construct your application or fix a particular problem
Natural Language Processing with Spark NLP: Learning to Understand Text at Scale
by Alex ThomasIf you want to build an enterprise-quality application that uses natural language text but aren’t sure where to begin or what tools to use, this practical guide will help get you started. Alex Thomas, principal data scientist at Wisecube, shows software engineers and data scientists how to build scalable natural language processing (NLP) applications using deep learning and the Apache Spark NLP library.Through concrete examples, practical and theoretical explanations, and hands-on exercises for using NLP on the Spark processing framework, this book teaches you everything from basic linguistics and writing systems to sentiment analysis and search engines. You’ll also explore special concerns for developing text-based applications, such as performance.In four sections, you’ll learn NLP basics and building blocks before diving into application and system building:Basics: Understand the fundamentals of natural language processing, NLP on Apache Stark, and deep learningBuilding blocks: Learn techniques for building NLP applications—including tokenization, sentence segmentation, and named-entity recognition—and discover how and why they workApplications: Explore the design, development, and experimentation process for building your own NLP applicationsBuilding NLP systems: Consider options for productionizing and deploying NLP models, including which human languages to support
Managing Cloud Native Data on Kubernetes: Architecting Cloud Native Data Services Using Open Source Technology
by Jeff Carpenter Patrick McFadinIs Kubernetes ready for stateful workloads? This open source system has become the primary platform for deploying and managing cloud native applications. But because it was originally designed for stateless workloads, working with data on Kubernetes has been challenging. If you want to avoid the inefficiencies and duplicative costs of having separate infrastructure for applications and data, this practical guide can help.Using Kubernetes as your platform, you'll learn open source technologies that are designed and built for the cloud. Authors Jeff Carpenter and Patrick McFadin provide case studies to help you explore new use cases and avoid the pitfalls others have faced. You’ll get an insider's view of what's coming from innovators who are creating next-generation architectures and infrastructure.With this book, you will:Learn how to use basic Kubernetes resources to compose data infrastructureAutomate the deployment and operations of data infrastructure on Kubernetes using tools like Helm and operatorsEvaluate and select data infrastructure technologies for use in your applicationsIntegrate data infrastructure technologies into your overall stackExplore emerging technologies that will enhance your Kubernetes-based applications in the future
Conversations with Diego Rivera: The Monster in His Labyrinth
by Alfredo Cardona PeñaA year of weekly interviews (1949-1950) with artist Diego Rivera by poet Alfredo Cardona-Peña disclose Rivera’s iconoclastic views of life and the art world of that time. These intimate Sunday dialogues with what is surely the most influential Mexican artist of the twentieth century show us the free-flowing mind of a man who was a legend in his own time; an artist who escaped being lynched on more than one occasion, a painter so controversial that his public murals inspired movements, or, like the work commissioned by John D. Rockefeller, were ordered torn down. Here in his San Angelín studio, we hear Rivera’s feelings about the elitist aspect of paintings in museums, his motivations to create public art for the people, and his memorable, unedited expositions on the art, culture, and politics of Mexico. The book has seven chapters that loosely follow the range of the author’s questions and Rivera’s answers. They begin with childlike, yet vast questions on the nature of art, run through Rivera’s early memories and aesthetics, his views on popular art, his profound understanding of Mexican art and artists, the economics of art, random expositions on history or dreaming, and elegant analysis of art criticisms and critics. The work is all the more remarkable to have been captured between Rivera’s inhumanly long working stints of six hours or even days without stop. In his rich introduction, author Cardona-Peña describes the difficulty of gaining entrance to Rivera’s inner sanctum, how government funtionaries and academics often waited hours to be seen, and his delicious victory. At eight p. m. the night of August 12, a slow, heavy-set, parsimonious Diego came in to where I was, speaking his Guanajuato version of English and kissing women’s hands. I was able to explain my idea to him and he was immediately interested. He invited me into his studio, and while taking off his jacket, said, “Ask me...” And I asked one, two, twenty... I don't know how many questions ‘til the small hours of the night, with him answering from memory, with an incredible accuracy, without pausing, without worrying much about what he might be saying, all of it spilling out in an unconscious and magical manner. A series of Alfredo Cardona-Peña’s weekly interviews with Rivera were published in 1949 and 1950 in the Mexican newspaper, El Nacional, for which Alfredo was a journalist. His book of compiled interviews with introduction and preface, El Monstruo en su Laberinto, was published in Spanish in 1965. Finally, this extraordinary and rare exchange has been translated for the first time into English by Alfredo’s half-brother Alvaro Cardona Hine, also a poet. According to the translator’s wife, Barbara Cardona-Hine, bringing the work into English was a labor of love for Alvaro, the fulfillment of a promise made to his brother in 1971 that he did not get to until the year before his own death in 2016.
Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement
by Wendy L. RouseHonorable Mention for the 2023 Francis Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize2023 Judy Grahn Award-Publishing Triangle FinalistRestores queer suffragists to their rightful place in the history of the struggle for women’s right to voteThe women’s suffrage movement, much like many other civil rights movements, has an important and often unrecognized queer history. In Public Faces, Secret Lives Wendy L. Rouse reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the suffrage movement included a variety of individuals who represented a range of genders and sexualities. However, owing to the constant pressure to present a “respectable” public image, suffrage leaders publicly conformed to gendered views of ideal womanhood in order to make women’s suffrage more palatable to the public.Rouse argues that queer suffragists did take meaningful action to assert their identities and legacies by challenging traditional concepts of domesticity, family, space, and death in both subtly subversive and radically transformative ways. Queer suffragists also built lasting alliances and developed innovative strategies in order to protect their most intimate relationships, ones that were ultimately crucial to the success of the suffrage movement. Public Faces, Secret Lives is the first work to truly recenter queer figures in the women’s suffrage movement, highlighting their immense contributions as well as their numerous sacrifices.
The Expeditions: An Early Biography of Muḥammad (Library of Arabic Literature #20)
by Maʿmar ibn RāshidOne of the earliest surviving biographies of Prophet Muḥammad, translated into readable, modern English for the first timeThe Expeditions is one of the oldest biographies of the Prophet Muḥammad to survive into the modern era. Its primary author, Maʿmar ibn Rāshid (96-153/714-770), was a prominent scholar from Basra in southern Iraq who was revered for his learning in prophetic traditions, Islamic law, and the interpretation of the Qurʾan. This fascinating foundational seminal work contains stories handed down by Maʿmar to his most prominent pupil, ʿAbd al-Razzāq of Sanaa, relating Muḥammad’s early life and prophetic career as well as the adventures and tribulations of his earliest followers during their conquest of the Near East.This new translation, which renders the original text into readable, modern English for the first time, is accompanied by numerous annotations elucidating the cultural, religious, and historical contexts of the events and individuals described within its pages.The Expeditions represents an important testimony to the earliest Muslims’ memory of the lives of Muḥammad and his companions, and is an indispensable text for gaining insight into the historical biography of both the Prophet and the rise of the Islamic empire.An English-only edition.
The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers (Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice #3)
by Cati CoeFinalist, 2020 Elliott P. Skinner Award, given by the Association of Africanist AnthropologyExamines why African care workers feel politically excluded from the United States Care for America’s growing elderly population is increasingly provided by migrants, and the demand for health care labor is only expected to grow. Because of this health care crunch and the low barriers to entry, new African immigrants have adopted elder care as a niche employment sector, funneling their friends and relatives into this occupation. However, elder care puts care workers into racialized, gendered, and age hierarchies, making it difficult for them to achieve social and economic mobility. In The New American Servitude, Coe demonstrates how these workers often struggle to find a sense of political and social belonging. They are regularly subjected to racial insults and demonstrations of power—and effectively turned into servants—at the hands of other members of the care worker network, including clients and their relatives, agency staff, and even other care workers. Low pay, a lack of benefits, and a lack of stable employment, combined with a lack of appreciation for their efforts, often alienate them, so that many come to believe that they cannot lead valuable lives in the United States. While jobs are a means of acculturating new immigrants, African care workers don’t tend to become involved or politically active. Many plan to leave rather than putting down roots in the US. Offering revealing insights into the dark side of a burgeoning economy, The New American Servitude carries serious implications for the future of labor and justice in the care work industry.
Preventive Force: Drones, Targeted Killing, and the Transformation of Contemporary Warfare
by Jennifer M. Ramos Kerstin FiskExamines the recent rise in the United States' use of preventive forceMore so than in the past, the US is now embracing the logic of preventive force: using military force to counter potential threats around the globe before they have fully materialized. While popular with individuals who seek to avoid too many “boots on the ground,” preventive force is controversial because of its potential for unnecessary collateral damage. Who decides what threats are ‘imminent’? Is there an international legal basis to kill or harm individuals who have a connection to that threat? Do the benefits of preventive force justify the costs? And, perhaps most importantly, is the US setting a dangerous international precedent? In Preventive Force, editors Kerstin Fisk and Jennifer Ramos bring together legal scholars, political scientists, international relations scholars, and prominent defense specialists to examine these questions, whether in the context of full-scale preventive war or preventive drone strikes. In particular, the volume highlights preventive drones strikes, as they mark a complete transformation of how the US understands international norms regarding the use of force, and could potentially lead to a ‘slippery slope’ for the US and other nations in terms of engaging in preventive warfare as a matter of course. A comprehensive resource that speaks to the contours of preventive force as a security strategy as well as to the practical, legal, and ethical considerations of its implementation, Preventive Force is a useful guide for political scientists, international relations scholars, and policymakers who seek a thorough and current overview of this essential topic.
Racism After Apartheid: Challenges for Marxism and Anti-Racism
by Vishwas SatgarRacism after Apartheid, volume four of the Democratic Marxism series, brings together leading scholars and activists from around the world studying and challenging racism. In eleven thematically rich and conceptually informed chapters, the contributors interrogate the complex nexus of questions surrounding race and relations of oppression as they are played out in the global South and global North. Their work challenges Marxism and anti-racism to take these lived realities seriously and consistently struggle to build human solidarities.
Fundamentals of Human Embryology: Student Manual (second edition)
by John Allan Beverley KramerThe Fundamentals of Human Embryology covers embryonic development, with a unique focus on adult anatomy. Its goal is to impart to students a comprehensive overview of how the human embryo forms, not only as a basis for the student of human anatomy, but also as a link to abnormalities they may encounter in their clinical careers. Extensively illustrated with labeled line drawings, now enlarged for better visibility, this concise manual will meet the needs of both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Human Sciences.Special features include:• Separate chapters on the neural crest, the skull and osteogenesis• In-depth coverage of head and neck embryology, including the development of the tooth, for students of dentistry, and speech and audiologyIn this Second Edition of the manual at the request of students and teachers, the authors have made the following changes:• Increased the size of the diagrams• Revised the text to comply with the Federative International Committee on Anatomical Terminology changes to the Terminologia Embryologica• Altered the sequencing of some topics to allow the development to flow more logically• Included an appendix of coloured photographs of congenital abnormalities to help students form a more realistic idea of developmental abnormalities.
Living Off the Government?: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Welfare
by Anne M. WhitesellExplores the ways welfare recipients lack adequate political representationWho deserves public assistance from the government? This age-old question has been revived by policymakers, pundits, and activists following the massive economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Anne Whitesell takes up this timely debate, showing us how our welfare system, in its current state, fails the people it is designed to serve. From debates over stimulus check eligibility to the uncertain future of unemployment benefits, Living Off the Government? tackles it all.Examining welfare rules across eight different states, as well as 19,000 state and local interest groups, Whitesell shows how we determine who is—and who isn't—deserving of government assistance. She explores racial and gender stereotypes surrounding welfare recipients, particularly Black women and mothers; how different groups take advantage of these harmful stereotypes to push their own political agendas; and how the interests and needs of welfare recipients are inadequately represented as a result.Living Off the Government? highlights how harmful stereotypes about the race, gender, and class of welfare recipients filter into our highly polarized political arena to shape public policy. Whitesell calls out a system that she believes serves special interests and not the interests of low-income Americans.
The Dilemma of Context
by Ben-Ami ScharfsteinIn The Dilemma of Context, Scharfstein contends that the problems encountered with context are insoluble. He explains why this problem lays an intellectual burden on us that, while remaining inescapable,can become so heavy it destroys the understandingit was created to further.
Learning JavaScript Design Patterns: A JavaScript and React Developer's Guide
by Addy OsmaniDo you want to write beautiful, structured, and maintainable JavaScript by applying modern design patterns to the language? Do you want clean, efficient, manageable code? Want to stay up-to-date with the latest best practices? If so, the updated second edition of Learning JavaScript Design Patterns is the ideal place to start. Author Addy Osmani shows you how to apply modern design patterns to JavaScript and React—including modules, mixins, observers, and mediators. You'll learn about performance and rendering patterns such as server-side rendering and Islands architecture. You'll also learn how architectural patterns like MVC, MVP, and MVVM are useful from the perspective of a modern web application developer. This book explores:Architectural patterns for structuring your components and appsMore than 20 design patterns in JavaScript and React, applicable for developers at any levelDifferent pattern categories including creational, structural, and behavioralEssential performance patterns including dynamic imports and code-splittingRendering patterns such as server-side rendering, hydration, Islands architecture, and moreAdditionally, you'll explore modern JavaScript syntax like JavaScript modules, React patterns like Hooks, higher-order components (HOCs), and more, to stay ahead in the ever-evolving world of web development.
Modern Business Analytics: Increasing the Value of Your Data with Python and R
by Deanne LarsonDeriving business value from analytics is a challenging process. Turning data into information requires a business analyst who is adept at multiple technologies including databases, programming tools, and commercial analytics tools. This practical guide shows programmers who understand analysis concepts how to build the skills necessary to achieve business value.Author Deanne Larson, data science practitioner and academic, helps you bridge the technical and business worlds to meet these requirements. You'll focus on developing these skills with R and Python using real-world examples. You'll also learn how to leverage methodologies for successful delivery. Learning methodology combined with open source tools is key to delivering successful business analytics and value.This book shows you how to:Apply business analytics methodologies to achieve successful resultsCleanse and transform data using R and PythonUse R and Python to complete exploratory data analysisCreate predictive models to solve business problems in R and PythonUse Python, R, and business analytics tools to handle large volumes of dataCommit code to GitHub to collaborate with data engineers and data scientistsMeasure success in business analytics
React Cookbook: Recipes for Mastering the React Framework
by Dawn Griffiths David GriffithsReact helps you create and work on an app in just a few minutes. But learning how to put all the pieces together is hard. How do you validate a form? Or implement a complex multistep user action without writing messy code? How do you test your code? Make it reusable? Wire it to a backend? Keep it easy to understand? The React Cookbook delivers answers fast.Many books teach you how to get started, understand the framework, or use a component library with React, but very few provide examples to help you solve particular problems. This easy-to-use cookbook includes the example code developers need to unravel the most common problems when using React, categorized by topic area and problem.You'll learn how to:Build a single-page application in React using a rich UICreate progressive web applications that users can install and work with offlineIntegrate with backend services such as REST and GraphQLAutomatically test for accessibility problems in your applicationSecure applications with fingerprints and security tokens using WebAuthnDeal with bugs and avoid common functional and performance problems
UX Strategy: How To Devise Innovative Digital Products That People Want
by Jaime LevyUser experience (UX) strategy lies at the intersection of UX design and business strategy, but until now, there hasn't been an easy-to-apply framework for executing it. This hands-on guide introduces lightweight product strategy tools and techniques to help you and your team devise innovative digital solutions that people want.Author Jaime Levy shows UX/UI designers, product managers, entrepreneurs, and aspiring strategists simple to advanced methods that can be applied right away. You'll gain valuable perspective through business cases and historical context. This second edition includes new real-world examples, updated techniques, and a chapter on conducting qualitative online user research.Define value propositions and validate target users through provisional personas and customer discovery techniquesExplore marketplace opportunities by conducting competitive research and analysisDesign experiments using rapid prototypes that are focused on the business modelConduct online user research to gain valuable insights quickly on any budgetTest business ideas and validate marketing channels by running online advertising and landing page campaigns
Mastering Shiny
by Hadley WickhamMaster the Shiny web framework—and take your R skills to a whole new level. By letting you move beyond static reports, Shiny helps you create fully interactive web apps for data analyses. Users will be able to jump between datasets, explore different subsets or facets of the data, run models with parameter values of their choosing, customize visualizations, and much more.Hadley Wickham from RStudio shows data scientists, data analysts, statisticians, and scientific researchers with no knowledge of HTML, CSS, or JavaScript how to create rich web apps from R. This in-depth guide provides a learning path that you can follow with confidence, as you go from a Shiny beginner to an expert developer who can write large, complex apps that are maintainable and performant.Get started: Discover how the major pieces of a Shiny app fit togetherPut Shiny in action: Explore Shiny functionality with a focus on code samples, example apps, and useful techniquesMaster reactivity: Go deep into the theory and practice of reactive programming and examine reactive graph componentsApply best practices: Examine useful techniques for making your Shiny apps work well in production
Essential Math for AI: Next-Level Mathematics for Efficient and Successful AI Systems
by Hala NelsonCompanies are scrambling to integrate AI into their systems and operations. But to build truly successful solutions, you need a firm grasp of the underlying mathematics. This accessible guide walks you through the math necessary to thrive in the AI field such as focusing on real-world applications rather than dense academic theory.Engineers, data scientists, and students alike will examine mathematical topics critical for AI--including regression, neural networks, optimization, backpropagation, convolution, Markov chains, and more--through popular applications such as computer vision, natural language processing, and automated systems. And supplementary Jupyter notebooks shed light on examples with Python code and visualizations. Whether you're just beginning your career or have years of experience, this book gives you the foundation necessary to dive deeper in the field.Understand the underlying mathematics powering AI systems, including generative adversarial networks, random graphs, large random matrices, mathematical logic, optimal control, and moreLearn how to adapt mathematical methods to different applications from completely different fieldsGain the mathematical fluency to interpret and explain how AI systems arrive at their decisions