<p><div> <div> <div> <p>Use popular data mining techniques in Microsoft Excel to better understand machine learning methods.</p> <p>Software tools and programming language packages take data input and deliver data mining results directly, presenting no insight on working mechanics and creating a chasm between input and output. This is where Excel can help.<br /></p> <p>Excel allows you to work with data in a transparent manner. When you open an Excel file, data is visible immediately and you can work with it directly. Intermediate results can be examined while you are conducting your mining task, offering a deeper understanding of how data is manipulated and results are obtained. These are critical aspects of the model construction process that are hidden in software tools and programming language packages.<br /></p> <p>This book teaches you data mining through Excel. You will learn how Excel has an advantage in data mining when the data sets are not too large. It can give you a visual representation of data mining, building confidence in your results. You will go through every step manually, which offers not only an active learning experience, but teaches you how the mining process works and how to find the internal hidden patterns inside the data.<br /></p> <p><br /></p> <p><b>What You Will Learn</b><br /></p> </div> <div> <ul> <li>Comprehend data mining using a visual step-by-step approach</li> <li>Build on a theoretical introduction of a data mining method, followed by an Excel implementation</li> <li>Unveil the mystery behind machine learning algorithms, making a complex topic accessible to everyone</li> <li>Become skilled in creative uses of Excel formulas and functions</li> <li>Obtain hands-on experience with data mining and Excel</li> </ul> </div> <div><br /></div> </div> </div> <div><br /></div> <div><b>Who This Book Is For</b></div> <div><br /></div> <div>Anyone who is interested in learning data mining or machine learning, especially data science visual learners and people skilled in Excel, who would like to explore data science topics and/or expand their Excel skills. A basic or beginner level understanding of Excel is recommended.&nbsp;</div> <div><br /></div> <div><br /></div></p>

Learn Data Mining Through Excel: A Step-by-Step Approach for Understanding Machine Learning Methods

Computers & Technology

ZHOU, Hong

Computer Science

Apress

<p>From the Back Cover\nMaster Excel in less than two weeks with this unique project-based book! Let’s face it, we all master skills in our own way, but building a soup-to-nuts project is one of the best ways to make learning stick and get up to speed quickly. Whether you are just getting started with Excel or are an experienced user, this book will elevate your knowledge and skills. For a beginner, the micro examples in each chapter will warm you up before you dive into the projects. For experienced users, the projects, especially those with table setup considerations, will help you become more creative in your interactions with Excel.<br />
Readers will benefit from building eight unique projects, each covering a different topic, including a word game, a food nutrition ranking, a payroll (tax withholding) calculation, an encryption, a two-way table, a Kaplan-Meier analysis, a data analysis via a pivot table and the K-means Clustering data mining method. Through these projects, you will experience firsthand how Excel skills are organized together to accomplish tasks that sound complex and daunting when first described.Get started with a word game which asks users to find English words that amount to exactly 100 points, with each letter of the alphabet assigned a point 1, 2, 3, … 26, respectively. You will disassemble a word into letters and then sum up their points, and then take it one step further, contemplating how to make the completed Excel worksheet more user friendly and completely automated. Increasingly challenging tasks like this example build on what you have learned and increase your confidence along the way, ensuring your mastery of Excel.<br />
What You Will Learn\nGain confidence to tackle a challenging Excel-related mission, even those that seem impossible Become skilled in the creative uses of Excel formulas and functions and other built-in features Appreciate the art of refining worksheets to maximize automation Understand the value of treating each worksheet as a unique product\nThis book is for people who are interested in learning Excel as quickly and efficiently as possible. While Excel beginners and intermediate users are the primary audience, experienced Excel users might also discover new skills and ways of working with Excel.<br />
Hong Zhou is a professor of computer science and mathematics at the University of Saint Joseph in Connecticut. Before returning to school for his doctoral degree, Dr. Zhou worked as a Java developer in Silicon Valley. Since 2004, Dr. Zhou has been teaching various courses in computer science, data science, mathematics, statistics, and informatics. His major research interests include data mining, bioinformatics, software agents, and blockchain. Dr. Zhou became interested in Excel through teaching computer skills and using them for research purposes; for example, applying Excel in teaching data mining, encryption, and health informatics. He also enjoys applying his Excel skills to help colleagues in their research projects.\nBeginning-Intermediate user level</p>

Mastering Excel Through Projects: A Learn-by-Doing Approach from Payroll to Crypto to Data Analysis

Programming

<p><p>Use popular data mining techniques in Microsoft Excel to better understand machine learning methods. Most software tools and programming language packages take data input and deliver data mining results directly, presenting no insight on working mechanics and creating a chasm between input and output. This is where Excel can help, and this book will show you exactly how.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>This updated edition demonstrates how to work with data in a transparent manner using Excel. When you open an Excel file, data is visible immediately and you can work with it directly. You'll see how to examine intermediate results even as you are still conducting your mining task, offering a deeper understanding of how data is manipulated, and results are obtained. These are critical aspects of the model construction process that are often hidden in software tools and programming language packages.</p> &nbsp; <p>Over the course of <i>Learn Data Mining Through Excel</i>, you will learn the data mining advantages the application offers when the data sets are not too large. You'll see how to use Excel's built-in features to create visual representations of your data, enabling you to present your findings in an accessible format. Author Hong Zhou walks you through each step, offering not only an active learning experience, but teaching you how the mining process works and how to find hidden patterns within the data.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Upon completing this book, you will have a thorough understanding of how to use an application you very likely already have to mine and analyze data, and how to present results in various formats.</p> &nbsp; <p><b>What You Will Learn</b></p> <ul> <li>Comprehend data mining using a visual step-by-step approach</li> <li>Gain an introduction to the fundamentals of data mining</li> <li>Implement data mining methods in Excel</li> <li>Understand machine learning algorithms</li> <li>Leverage Excel formulas and functions creatively</li> <li>Obtain hands-on experience with data mining and Excel</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><b>Who This Book Is For</b></p> <p>Anyone who is interested in learning data mining or machine learning, especially data science visual learners and people skilled in Excel who would like to explore data science topics and/or expand their Excel skills. A basic or beginner level understanding of Excel is recommended.</p></p>

<p>This is the second edition which also presents demonstration of three simple Peer-to-Peer network models. This book is for anyone who is interested in learning or understanding blockchain technology through step-by-step programming. The ideal readers would be those with basic Java programming knowledge (either beginners or intermediate) as this book shows how to develop a preliminary blockchain system in Java. You may have wondered what blockchain is and how it works, and you may have heard of mining and wallet. There are quite a few books available out there talking about them. When you read those books, you may develop pieces of understanding here and there. Well, we know that learning by doing is the best education approach, which is what this book offers. In this book, each chapter begins with an explanation of blockchain concepts before moving on to discuss relevant Java programs that implement those concepts. You will accumulate knowledge via hands-on experience in code-writing and learn several versions of blockchain systems. The book includes all required source codes, which are also available online. After reading and practicing along with the book, you are ready to go as a blockchain developer.One advantage of this book is that no third-party software packages are required to follow along with the tutorials - everything explained in this book can be accomplished with OpenJDK, and the sample codes are written entirely in Java. The book is divided into multiple chapters with succeeding chapters building upon the concepts reviewed in previous chapters. However, each chapter covers inherently different material and so they can also be taken independently. The last chapter discusses the importance of secure coding and concludes the book with case studies of several malicious attacks that had occurred in the cryptocurrency world.</p>

Learning Blockchain in Java A step-by-step approach with P2P demonstration

Independently published

<p>Foreign aid has connected China and the international community through many channels, and created new types of strong partnerships throughout the world. As a recipient country, China and donors have engaged in an unprecedentedly deep level of cooperation on development-related issues. China’s development experience has resulted in key changes to the relationships and partnerships between China and donors, from receiving foreign aid to entering into development cooperation. China has provided valuable experiences for other developing countries, experiences that are all the more relevant because they have revealed key factors at work in developing recipient countries. This has also led China to form closer cooperative relationships with other developing countries with regard to development issues. In short, foreign aid has changed China.</p>

Foreign Aid in China

Business & Money

Zhang, Jun

Zhang, Min

Economics

Springer

Foreign aid has connected China and the international community through many channels, and created new types of strong partnerships throughout the world. As a recipient country, China and donors have engaged in an unprecedentedly deep level of cooperation on development-related issues. China’s development experience has resulted in key changes to the relationships and partnerships between China and donors, from receiving foreign aid to entering into development cooperation. China has provided valuable experiences for other developing countries, experiences that are all the more relevant because they have revealed key factors at work in developing recipient countries. This has also led China to form closer cooperative relationships with other developing countries with regard to development issues. In short, foreign aid has changed China.

This series of books is aimed to provide a convenient way of learning Chinese Gongbi paintings for the Gongbi lovers. The flowers, birds, fishes and insects are the depicting objects, and the manuscripts by Gongbi painters or professors are accompanied by treated Xuan paper to facilitate the learners.

Peony of Fine Brushwork-The Friend of the Beginners (Chinese Edition)

JIANG DONG LIAN

Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House

BUSINESS CHINESE WRITING (volume II) (Chinese Edition)

Academia Press

<p><div>This book systematically reviews the development of social policy since the establishment of the People's Republic of&nbsp;China. As such, it begins by investigating the establishment of the Insurance System in the early period, then moves on&nbsp;to the planned economy period, the Cultural Revolution period, and the Reform and Opening Up period, characterized by&nbsp;efforts to adapt to a market economy. For each period, the book examines the effect of the economic system, the mode of&nbsp;production and forms of employment for social policy design, so as to clarify the developing context of Chinese social&nbsp;policy, and to help readers grasp the legal aspects of social policy development and the main problems China faces in&nbsp;its present economic developmental stage.</div></p>

Towards a Society with Social Protection for All: A Concise History of Social Security Transformation in Modern China (China Insights)

<p><p>This book provides insight on processing mechanics during ship and offshore structure, and researchers, scientists, and engineers in the field of manufacturing process mechanics can benefit from the book. This book is written by subject experts based on the recent research results in FE computation on accuracy fabrication of ship and offshore structures based on processing mechanics. In order to deal with actual engineering problems during construction of ship and offshore structure, it proposes advanced computational approaches such as thermal elastic-plastic and elastic FE computations and employed to examine physical behavior and clarifies generation mechanism of mechanical response. As such, this book provides valuable knowledge, useful methods, and practical algorithms that can be considered in manufacturing process mechanics.</p></p>

FE Computation on Accuracy Fabrication of Ship and Offshore Structure Based on Processing Mechanics

WANG, Jiangchao

Graphics & Design

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Learn Data Mining Through Excel: A Step-by-Step Approach for Understanding Machine Learning Methods

Mastering Excel Through Projects: A Learn-by-Doing Approach from Payroll to Crypto to Data Analysis

Learn Data Mining Through Excel: A Step-by-Step Approach for Understanding Machine Learning Methods

Learning Blockchain in Java A step-by-step approach with P2P demonstration

Foreign Aid in China

Foreign Aid in China

Peony of Fine Brushwork-The Friend of the Beginners (Chinese Edition)

BUSINESS CHINESE WRITING (volume II) (Chinese Edition)

Towards a Society with Social Protection for All: A Concise History of Social Security Transformation in Modern China (China Insights)

FE Computation on Accuracy Fabrication of Ship and Offshore Structure Based on Processing Mechanics