A Programmer’s Guide to Data Mining
The Ancient Art of the Numerati
Designed specifically for programmers, A Programmer’s Guide to Data Mining offers a practical introduction to essential data mining techniques. Through interactive exercises and clear explanations, you’ll gain the skills to leverage data for real-world applications. Recommended for: Programmers who want to expand their skillset and delve into the world of data mining. [...]
A Short Guide to Operational Risk
This comprehensive yet concise guide provides an accessible introduction to operational risk management for professionals across all industries and sectors. The renowned author defines operational risk and its crucial role within holistic enterprise-wide risk governance frameworks. In a highly practical manner, the book guides readers through the core processes of identifying, assessing, [...]
Assetization
Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism
This edited volume examines the concept of "assetization" - how things are turned into assets that can be owned, traded, and capitalized on for profit in today's technoscientific capitalist system.
Global Fintech
Financial Innovation in the Connected World
The book analyzes foundational innovations and their prompting of transitions in banking, payments and services. Contributors assess regulatory frameworks and policies, providing perspectives from academia, industry and government. Case studies evaluate recommendations for assessing mergers and standards.
Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python
This beginner-friendly book teaches both cryptography concepts and Python programming through building cipher encoding and hacking programs. Readers learn programming logic and algorithms while gaining an appreciation for ciphering history and its modern uses. The hands-on approach makes technical topics engaging and builds confidence, even for complete beginners. Recommended for: Beginner programmers [...]
Innovation matters
Competition Policy for the High-Technology Economy
This openly accessible work proposes refocusing competition policy priorities towards innovation promotion over price effects, particularly for high-technology industries. Through analyses of frameworks such as Arrow's replacement effect and views of iterative technological advancement, the book evaluates how network impacts and cumulative innovation influence these sectors.
Open Data Structures
An Introduction
This textbook teaches classical open data structures like stacks, queues, priority queues, dictionaries, ordered dictionaries and graphs using Java code examples. It provides rigorous yet accessible explanations of algorithmic concepts and data structure implementations to serve as a reusable textbook enabling independent study. Detailed Overview The content covers basic algorithm analysis and [...]
Principles of Knowledge Auditing
Foundations for Knowledge Management Implementation
“Principles of Knowledge Auditing” provides clear guidance for understanding and successfully implementing knowledge audits within organizations. Knowledge audits assess knowledge assets and needs to improve organizations, but currently lack standards. The author addresses this by outlining principles for conceptualizing, planning, executing and reporting on knowledge audits based on in-depth case studies. Recommended [...]
Selling the American people
Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech
This comprehensive open access book provides a deep-time perspective on the origins and evolution of data-driven digital advertising. Through a detailed historical analysis tracing back to the 1950s emergence of computerization, it examines how technical specialists in advertising and media progressively blended computation, quantitative methodologies, and calculative logics into a powerful ideology [...]