A Programmer’s Guide to Data Mining
The Ancient Art of the Numerati
Summary This free and openly licensed online textbook provides a hands-on introduction to fundamental data mining techniques for programmers. Spanning 8 chapters, it comprehensively yet approachably covers topics such as recommendation systems, filtering, classification, naive Bayes modeling, and clustering algorithms. Readers learn both conceptual underpinnings and practical implementation through interactive coding exercises [...]
Open data Structures
An Introduction
Summary 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 [...]
Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python
Summary 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. Detailed Overview The [...]
Principles of Knowledge Auditing
Foundations for Knowledge Management Implementation
Summary “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. [...]
Artificial Intelligence
Foundations of Computational Agents
Summary: Written by professors David Poole and Alan Mackworth, this comprehensive textbook from Cambridge University Press presents artificial intelligence through the framework of designing intelligent computational agents. At over 680 pages, it is intended to introduce both junior-level undergraduate students and first-year graduate students to the fundamental concepts and techniques underlying AI. [...]
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.
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.
Assetization
Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism
Summary This edited volume extensively explores the concept of “assetization” as a defining process in contemporary technoscientific capitalism. Assetization refers to transforming various entities that were not previously considered economic assets – such as objects, experiences, information, living beings, and people – and repositioning them as “assets” that can be controlled, traded, [...]
Selling the American people
Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech
Summary 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 [...]
A Short Guide to Operational Risk
Summary 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, [...]
The Stolen Body
The Stolen Body is a sci-fi tale by H. G. Wells,1 first published in November 1898 by The Strand Magazine. It later appeared in collections like “Twelve Stories and a Dream.” H.G. Wells, or Herbert George Wells, was an English writer who excelled in various genres, including novels, stories, biographies, and social [...]
Jack and Jill
Introduction Jack and Jill, is a children’s novel written by Louisa May Alcott in 1880. Initially appearing serially in Mary Mapes Dodge’s St. Nicholas Magazine, later Roberts Brothers published it. The tale tracks the ups and downs experienced by the children of Harmony Village throughout the year. Besides, the book focuses on [...]