The Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications is a comprehensive professional reference book that guides business analysts, scientists, engineers and researchers (both academic and industrial) through all stages of data analysis, model building and implementation. The Handbook helps one discern the technical and business problem, understand the strengths and weaknesses of modern data mining algorithms, and employ the right statistical methods for practical application. Use this book to address massive and complex datasets with novel statistical approaches and be able to objectively evaluate analyses and solutions. It has clear, intuitive explanations of the principles and tools for solving problems using modern analytic techniques, and discusses their application to real problems, in ways accessible and beneficial to practitioners across industries - from science and engineering, to medicine, academia and commerce. This handbook brings together, in a single resource, all the information a beginner will need to understand the tools and issues in data mining to build successful data mining solutions.
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<li>Written "By Practitioners for Practitioners" </li>
 <li>Non-technical explanations build understanding without jargon and equations </li>
 <li>Tutorials in numerous fields of study provide step-by-step instruction on how to use supplied tools to build models using Statistica, SAS and SPSS software</li>
 <li>Practical advice from successful real-world implementations </li>
 <li>Includes extensive case studies, examples, MS PowerPoint slides and datasets </li>
 <li>CD-DVD with valuable fully-working 90-day software included: "Complete Data Miner - QC-Miner - Text Miner" bound with book</li>
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Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications

Computers & Technology

NISBET, ROBERT

Elder, John

Miner, Gary D.

Software

Academic Press

Blending theoretical knowledge with practical experience, each aspect of compiler design is related to the practical study of a working computer. A computer that impelements a language is developed for this purpose in the text, and many of the end-of-chapter exercises involve the programming of modifications to, or extensions of, the compiler. The compiler itself is written in modula-2. The text features an accessible discussion on the principles and techniques involved in compiler design and construction using the recursive descent syntax analysis. It also provides an opportunity to study a large-scale program in some detail, and to observe the standards of structuring and documentation used therein. A complete compiler which can easily be extended and modified is presented. The book is intended for 2nd or 3rd year undergraduates taking compilers or compiling technique courses who have an understanding of programming and data structures.

Compiler Construction: A Recursive Descent Model (Prentice-hall International Series in Computer Science)

Programming Languages

PRENTICE/HALL

Introduction to Modula-2 (Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science)

Welsh, Jim

Introduction to Pascal (Prentice-hall International Series in Computer Science)

Programming

Sequential Program Structures

Bustard, David

1976 222 pages. Hard bound, previous owners book stamp, minor signs of use and age, very good condition

The bowels of the earth

Oxford University Press

The Bowels of the Earth

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

A landmark work in the burgeoning field of literary ecology, Imagining the Earth explores the ways in which our attitudes toward nature are mirrored in and influenced by poetry. In the work of some of our most widely read poets, says John Elder, one can discern a resurgent vision of humanity in harmony with the rest of the natural order.
To show us the power of poetry to identify, interpret, and celebrate a wide range of issues related to nature and our place in it, Elder uses numerous examples of works by Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, A. R. Ammons, Denise Levertov, and William Everson. Elder places these poets within a cultural tradition flowing from William Wordsworth through Alfred North Whitehead, T. S. Eliot, and Robinson Jeffers, and uses their poems to illuminate the relationships between culture and wilderness, imagination and landscape, and science and poetry. Elder's commentaries are interlinked with two remarkable essays in which he describes his own moments of recognition with nature--moments engendered by, and in turn engendering, meditations on literature.
This new edition, which marks the first appearance of Imagining the Earth in paperback, includes a revised introduction and an additional concluding chapter that focuses on the poetry of Mary Oliver and bridges the decade since the book was first published in 1985.

Imagining the Earth: POETRY AND THE VISION OF NATURE

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

University of Illinois Press

Small farms once occupied the heights that John Elder calls home, but now only a few cellar holes and tumbled stone walls remain among the dense stands of maple, beech, and hemlocks on these Vermont hills. Reading the Mountains of Homeis a journey into these verdant reaches where in the last century humans tried their hand and where bear and moose now find shelter. As John Elder is our guide, so Robert Frost is Elder's companion, his great poem "Directive" seeing us through a landscape in which nature and literature, loss and recovery, are inextricably joined. 
 Over the course of a year, Elder takes us on his hikes through the forested uplands between South Mountain and North Mountain, reflecting on the forces of nature, from the descent of the glaciers to the rush of the New Haven River, that shaped a plateau for his village of Bristol; and on the human will that denuded and farmed and abandoned the mountains so many years ago. His forays wind through the flinty relics of nineteenth-century homesteads and Abenaki settlements, leading to meditations on both human failure and the possibility for deeper communion with the land and others. 
 An exploration of the body and soul of a place, an interpretive map of its natural and literary life, Reading the Mountains of Home strikes a moving balance between the pressures of civilization and the attraction of wilderness. It is a beautiful work of nature writing in which human nature finds its place, where the reader is invited to follow the last line of Frost's "Directive," to "Drink and be whole again beyond confusion."

Reading the Mountains of Home

History

Americas

Harvard University Press

Learning Ruby on Rails has never been this fast and easy, or fun! Veteran Codemy.com programmer John Elder walks you step by step through the ins and outs of Rails for Web Development. Written for the absolute beginner, you don't need any programming experience to dive in and get started with this book. Follow along as John builds a Pinterest-style website from start to finish that allows people to sign up, log in and out, edit their profile, upload images to the database and style those images on the screen. By the end, you'll be well on your way to becoming a professional Ruby on Rails coder! *AUTHOR UPDTE: C9, the development environment we used in the book, was purchased by Amazon and is no longer accepting new users unless you sign up through my education account at Codemy.com/c9

Learn Ruby On Rails For Web Development: Learn Rails The Fast And Easy Way!

Codemy.com

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