Data Pipelines With Apache Airflow Bas P. Harenslak , Julian Rutger de Ruiter
Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow teaches you how to build and maintain effective data pipelines.
SummaryA successful pipeline moves data efficiently, minimizing pauses and blockages between tasks, keeping every process along the way operational. ...
Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction Kieran Healy
An accessible primer on how to create effective graphics from data This book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail...
Data-Driven Marketing: The 15 Metrics Everyone in Marketing Should Know Mark Jeffery
NAMED BEST MARKETING BOOK OF 2011 BY THE AMERICAN MARKETING ASSOCIATION How organizations can deliver significant performance gains through strategic investment in marketing In the new era of tight marketing budgets, no organization can continue to ...
De Oratore Marcus Tullius Cicero
Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BCE), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era which saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. ...
The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs
Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is...
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories Leo Tolstoy
'no one pitied him as he would have liked to be pitied' As Ivan Ilyich lies dying he begins to re-evaluate his life, searching for meaning that will make sense of his sufferings. In 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' and the other works in this volume, Tols...
The Decision Checklist: A Practical Guide to Avoiding Problems Sam Kyle
Some are big. Some are small. But nothing determines our happiness and success in life more than the decisions we make. If you don’t like where you are in life, that can be a hard pill to swallow. The good news is, that no matter where you are today...
Deep Learning for Coders With Fastai and PyTorch Jeremy Howard and Sylvain Gugger
Deep learning is often viewed as the exclusive domain of math PhDs and big tech companies. But as this hands-on guide demonstrates, programmers comfortable with Python can achieve impressive results in deep learning with little math background, smal...
Deep Simplicity: Chaos, Complexity and the Emergence of Life John Gribbin
'Gribbin takes us through the basics with his customary talent for accessibility and clarity' Sunday TimesThe world around us can be a complex, confusing place. Earthquakes happen without warning, stock markets fluctuate, weather forecasters seldom ...
Deep Work Cal Newport
An Amazon Best Book of January 2016 in Business & Leadership PickOne of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results.Deep work is the ability to focus without di...
Defending AI Research: A Collection of Essays and Reviews John McCarthy
CSLI Lecture Notes [192]: John McCarthy's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of LISP and time-sharing to the coining of the term AI and the founding of the AI laboratory at Stanford University. One of the foremost figures in comp...
Design Thinking: Understanding How Designers Think and Work Nigel Cross
Design thinking is the core creative process for any designer; this book explores and explains this apparently mysterious "design ability".Focusing on what designers do when they design, Design Thinking is structured around a series of in-depth case...
The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition Don Norman
Design doesn't have to complicated, which is why this guide to human-centered design shows that usability is just as important as aesthetics. Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to tur...
The Diary of Anne Frank Frances Goodrich, Anne Frank, Albert Hackett
Adapted from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, edited by Otto Frank, winner of the 1956 Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award, Critics Circle Award, and virtually every other coveted prize of the theatre. During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands Anne ...
Diary of a Nobody George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith
The diary is that of a man who acknowledges that he is not a "Somebody" - Charles Pooter of 'The Laurels', Brickfield Terrace, Holloway, a clerk in the city of London - and it chronicles in hilarious detail the everyday life of the lower middle clas...
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen
The 10th-anniversary edition of the New York Times business bestseller-now updated with "Answers to Ten Questions People Ask"
We attempt or avoid difficult conversations every day-whether dealing with an underperforming employee, disagreeing with a...
Dilbert 2.0: The Boom Years: 1994 to 1997 Scott Adams
Scott Adams "is a VERY tough act to follow." --Suzanne Tobin, Washington PostIn the tradition of The Complete Far Side and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert 2.0 celebrates the 20th anniversary of Scott Adams's Dilbert, the touchstone of office ...
Dilbert 2.0: The Dot-Com Bubble: 1998 TO 2000 Scott Adams
In the tradition of The Complete Far Side and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert 2.0 celebrates the 20th anniversary of Scott Adams's Dilbert, the touchstone of office humor. This third volume of the four-volume e-book edition of Dilbert 2.0 cov...
Dilbert 2.0: The Early Years: 1989 to 1993 Scott Adams
In the tradition of The Complete Far Side and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert 2.0 celebrates the 20th anniversary of Scott Adams's Dilbert, the touchstone of office humor. This first volume of the four-volume e-book edition of Dilbert 2.0 cov...
Dilbert 2.0: The Modern Era: 2001 TO 2008 Scott Adams
In the tradition of The Complete Far Side and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert 2.0 celebrates the 20th anniversary of Scott Adams's Dilbert, the touchstone of office humor. This fourth volume of the four-volume e-book edition of Dilbert 2.0 co...
The Dilbert Future: Thriving on Business Stupidity in the 21st Century Scott Adams
Step aside, Bill Gates! Here comes today′s real technology guru and his totally original, laugh-out-loud New York Times bestseller that looks at the approaching new millennium and boldly predicts: more stupidity ahead. In The Dilbert Principle and D...
Dilbert Gives You the Business Scott Adams
Everyone who reads DILBERT and works in an office will appreciate this collection, Dilbert Gives You the Business.Creator Scott Adams tells it like it is through the insane business world inhabited by Dilbert. If frustration and lunacy are an inevita...
Discrimination and Disparities Thomas Sowell
An empirical examination of how economic and other disparities arise Economic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortuna...
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Daniel Ellsberg
Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for The California Book Award in NonfictionThe San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year ListForeign Affairs Best Books of the Year In These Times “Best Books of the Yea...
Drug Use for Grown-Ups Dr. Carl L. Hart
From one of the world's foremost experts on the effects of recreational drugs on the mind and body, a powerful argument that the greatest dangers from drugs flow from their being illegal, and a testament to how they can be part of a responsible and h...
