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Book Qlik Sense Cookbook

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pablo Labbe
  • Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
  • Release : 2018-08-30
  • ISBN : 1788997174
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Qlik Sense Cookbook written by Pablo Labbe and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create dynamic dashboards to perform interactive analytics for business intelligence operations Key Features Explore newly added features in Qlik Sense Discover best practices to work with data using Qlik Sense Learn to implement advanced functions for better data insight Book Description Qlik Sense allows you to explore simple and complex data to reveal hidden insight and data relationships that help you make quality decisions for overall productivity. An expert Qlik Sense user can use its features for business intelligence in an enterprise environment effectively. Qlik Sense Cookbook is an excellent guide for all aspiring Qlik Sense developers and will empower you to create featured desktop applications to obtain daily insights at work. This book takes you through the basics and advanced functions of Qlik Sense February 2018 release. You’ll start with a quick refresher on obtaining data from data files and databases, and move on to some more refined features including visualization, and scripting, as well as managing apps and user interfaces. You will then understand how to work with advanced functions like set analysis and set expressions. As you make your way through this book, you will uncover newly added features in Qlik Sense such as new visualizations, label expressions and colors for dimension and measures. By the end of this book, you will have explored various visualization extensions to create your own interactive dashboard with the required tips and tricks. This will help you overcome challenging situations while developing your applications in Qlik Sense. What you will learn Source, preview, and distribute your data through interactive dashboards Explore and work with the latest visualization functions Learn how to write and use script subroutines Make your UI advanced and intuitive with custom objects and indicators Use visualization extensions for your Qlik Sense dashboard Work with Aggr and learn to use it within set analysis Who this book is for Qlik Sense Cookbook is for data and BI analysts who want to become well versed with Qlik Sense to apply business intelligence in data. If you are a beginner in data analytics and want to adopt an independent recipe-based approach to learn the required concepts and services in detail, this book is ideal! Individuals with prior knowledge of its sister product, QlikView, will also benefit from this book. Familiarity with the basics of business intelligence is a prerequisite.

Book Learning Qlik Sense    The Official Guide

Download or read book Learning Qlik Sense The Official Guide written by Christopher Ilacqua and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the most out of your Qlik Sense investment with the latest insight and guidance direct from the Qlik Sense team About This Book Updated with new coverage on Qlik Cloud, Qlik Sense Modeling, and Extending the Qlik Analytic Platform. Get insider insight on Qlik Sense and its new approach to business intelligence Explore practical demonstrations for utilizing Qlik Sense to discover data for sales, human resources, and more Who This Book Is For Learning Qlik Sense®: The Official Guide Second Edition is for anyone seeking to understand and utilize the revolutionary new approach to business intelligence offered by Qlik Sense. Familiarity with the basics of business intelligence will be helpful when picking up this book, but not essential. What You Will Learn Understand the vision behind the creation of Qlik Sense, and the promise that data discovery offers to you and your organization Get to grips with the life cycle of a Qlik Sense application Load and manage your data for app creation Visualize your data with Qlik Sense's engaging and informative graphing Administer your Qlik Sense system and monitor its security Build efficient and responsive Associative Models Extend the Qlik Analytic Platform with the Dev Hub Optimize Qlik Sense for sales, human resources, and demographic data discovery In Detail The intuitive and powerful Qlik Sense visual analytics software allows anyone to engage in data discovery, to explore your data, and find meaningful insights to empower your business. Qlik Sense lets you easily create personalized reports and visualizations and reveal essential connections to show new opportunities from every angle. Written by members of the Qlik Sense team, this book is the official guide from Qlik to understanding and using their powerful new product with fully updated coverage to the latest features of the most modern edition of Qlik Sense. Benefit from the vision behind the development of Qlik Sense and get to grips with how Qlik Sense can empower you as a data discovery consumer. Learn how to create your own applications for Qlik Sense to customize it to meet your personal needs for business intelligence, and how to oversee and administer the Qlik Sense data architecture. Finally, explore utilizing Qlik Sense to uncover essential data, with practical examples on finding and visualizing intelligence for sales figures, human resources information, travel expense tracking, and demographic data discovery. Style and approach This book is a practical guide to understand what Qlik Sense is and how to implement it. This is an example-rich, step-by-step book to implement and optimize Qlik Sense for sales, human resources, and demographic data discovery.

Book Hands On Business Intelligence with Qlik Sense

Download or read book Hands On Business Intelligence with Qlik Sense written by Pablo Labbe and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create dynamic dashboards to bring interactive data visualization to your enterprise using Qlik Sense Key FeaturesImplement various Qlik Sense features to create interactive dashboardsAnalyze data easily and make business decisions faster using Qlik SensePerform self-service data analytics and geospatial analytics using an example-based approachBook Description Qlik Sense allows you to explore simple-to-complex data to reveal hidden insights and data relationships to make business-driven decisions. Hands-On Business Intelligence with Qlik Sense begins by helping you get to grips with underlying Qlik concepts and gives you an overview of all Qlik Sense’s features. You will learn advanced modeling techniques and learn how to analyze the data loaded using a variety of visualization objects. You’ll also be trained on how to share apps through Qlik Sense Enterprise and Qlik Sense Cloud and how to perform aggregation with AGGR. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll explore the stories feature to create data-driven presentations and update an existing story. This book will guide you through the GeoAnalytics feature with the geo-mapping object and GeoAnalytics connector. Furthermore, you’ll learn about the self-service analytics features and perform data forecasting using advanced analytics. Lastly, you’ll deploy Qlik Sense apps for mobile and tablet. By the end of this book, you will be well-equipped to run successful business intelligence applications using Qlik Sense's functionality, data modeling techniques, and visualization best practices. What you will learnDiscover how to load, reshape, and model data for analysisApply data visualization practices to create stunning dashboardsMake use of Python and R for advanced analyticsPerform geo-analysis to create visualizations using native objectsLearn how to work with AGGR and data storiesWho this book is for If you’re a data analyst, BI developer, or interested in business intelligence and want to gain practical experience of working on Qlik Sense, this book is for you. You’ll also find it useful if you want to explore Qlik Sense’s next-generation applications for self-service business intelligence. No prior experience of working with Qlik Sense is required.

Book Mastering QlikView

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Redmond
  • Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
  • Release : 2014-11-26
  • ISBN : 1782173307
  • Pages : 610 pages

Download or read book Mastering QlikView written by Stephen Redmond and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are a business application developer or a system analyst who has learned QlikView and Qlik Sense and now want to take your learning to a higher level, then this book is for you. It is assumed that you are aware of the fundamentals of QlikView and have working knowledge of development and in-memory analytics.

Book Qlik Sense  Advanced Data Visualization for Your Organization

Download or read book Qlik Sense Advanced Data Visualization for Your Organization written by Ferran Garcia Pagans and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perform Interactive Data Analysis with Smarter Visualizations and Support your Enterprise-wide Analytical Needs Key Features Get a practical demonstration of discovering data for sales, human resources, and more using Qlik Sense Create dynamic dashboards for business intelligence and predictive analytics Create and collaborate comprehensive analytical solutions using Rattle and Qlik Sense Book Description Qlik Sense is powerful and creative visual analytics software that allows users to discover data, explore it, and dig out meaningful insights in order to make a profit and make decisions for your business. This course begins by introducing you to the features and functions of the most modern edition of Qlik Sense so you get to grips with the application. The course will teach you how to administer the data architecture in Qlik Sense, enabling you to customize your own Qlik Sense application for your business intelligence needs. It also contains numerous recipes to help you overcome challenging situations while creating fully featured desktop applications in Qlik Sense. It explains how to combine Rattle and Qlik Sense Desktop to apply predictive analytics to your data to develop real-world interactive data applications. The course includes premium content from three of our most popular books: [*] Learning Qlik Sense: The Official Guide Second Edition [*] Qlik Sense Cookbook [*] Predictive Analytics using Rattle and Qlik Sense On completion of this course, you will be self-sufficient in improving your data analysis and will know how to apply predictive analytics to your datasets. Through this course, you will be able to create predictive models and data applications, allowing you to explore your data insights much deeper. What you will learn Build simple visualization models with Rattle and Qlik Sense Desktop Get to grips with the life cycle and new visualization functions of a Qlik Sense application Discover simple ways to examine data and get it ready for analysis Visualize your data with Qlik Sense's engaging and informative graphs Build efficient and responsive Associative Models Optimize Qlik Sense for sales, human resources, and demographic data discovery Explore various tips and tricks of navigation for the Qlik Sense® front end Develop creative extensions for your Qlik Sense® dashboard Who this book is for This course is for anyone who wishes to understand and utilize the various new approaches to business intelligence actively in their business practice. Knowing the basics of business intelligence concepts would be helpful when picking up this course, but is not mandatory.

Book Implementing Qlik Sense

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ganapati Hegde
  • Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
  • Release : 2017-10-20
  • ISBN : 1786466600
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book Implementing Qlik Sense written by Ganapati Hegde and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Become a full-fledged Qlik Sense Consultant with the help of this unique guide About This Book Become a successful Qlik consultant with the help of this insightful guide Build what is in line as well as exceeding your customer's expectations from your Qlik Sense solutions using this highly practical guide Build result-driven optimized BI solutions using Qlik with the help of industry examples Who This Book Is For If you have basic familiarity with Qlik Sense and want to upgrade your skills to become a full-fledged Qlik Consultant, this book is for you. With this book, you will be able to create efficient business intelligence solutions that would fetch client satisfaction, and in turn, more projects. What You Will Learn Understand the importance and expectations of a consultant's role Engage with the customer to understand the ir goals and future objectives Design the optimum architecture, using the best practices for the development and implementation of your projects Ensure successful adoption using real-life examples to make your learning complete Learn about the important stages of a Qlik project's life cycle In Detail Qlik Sense is a leading platform for business intelligence (BI) solutions. Qlik Sense helps organizations in making informed decisions based on the data they have. This book will teach you how to effectively use Qlik for optimum customer satisfaction. You will undergo a metamorphosis from a developer to a consultant who is capable of building the most suitable BI solutions for your clients. The book will take you through several business cases – this will give you enough insight to understand the needs of the client clearly and build a BI solution that meets or exceeds their expectations. Starting from the pre-project activities, you will go to the actual execution of the project, the implementation, and even maintenance. This book will give you all the information you need - from the strategy to requirement gathering to implementing BI solutions using Qlik Sense. The book will empower you to take the right decisions in tricky and diffi cult situations while developing analytics and dashboards. Style and approach This book will be a hands-on guide that will teach you all the what-to-do's, when-to-do's, and how-to-do's for becoming a successful Qlik Sense Consultant. With the help of various business scenarios, the book will cover real-world problems that you can relate to. Various solutions in the book will be backed up by the thought process of why are these solutions used and how you can implement them in your own business environment.

Book Predictive Analytics Using Rattle and Qlik Sense

Download or read book Predictive Analytics Using Rattle and Qlik Sense written by Ferran Garcia Pagans and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qlik Sense Desktop, the personal and free version of Qlik Sense, is a powerful tool for business analysts to analyze data and create useful data applications. Rattle, developed in R, is a GUI used for data mining and complements Qlik Sense Desktop very well. By combining Rattle and Qlik Sense Desktop, a business user can learn how to apply predictive analytics to create real-world data applications. The objective is to use Qlik Sense to analyze data and complement it with predictive analytics using Rattle. This book will introduce you to basic predictive analysis techniques using Rattle and basic data visualizations concepts using Qlik Sense Desktop. You will start by setting up Qlik Sense Desktop, R, and Rattle and learn the basic of these tools. Then this book will examine the data and make it ready to be analyzed. After that, you will get to know the key concepts of predictive analytics, by building simple models with Rattle and creating visualizations with Qlik Sense Desktop. Finally, the book will show you the basics of data visualization and will help you to create your first data application and dashboard.

Book Machine Learning with Qlik Sense

Download or read book Machine Learning with Qlik Sense written by Hannu Ranta and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master the art of machine learning by using the one-of-a-kind Qlik platform, and take your data analytics skills to the next level Key Features Gain a solid understanding of machine learning concepts and learn to effectively define a problem Explore the application of machine learning principles within the Qlik platform Apply your knowledge of ML to real-world scenarios with the help of practical examples Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book DescriptionThe ability to forecast future trends through data prediction, coupled with the integration of ML and AI, has become indispensable to global enterprises. Qlik, with its extensive machine learning capabilities, stands out as a leading analytics platform enabling businesses to achieve exhaustive comprehension of their data. This book helps you maximize these capabilities by using hands-on illustrations to improve your ability to make data-driven decisions. You’ll begin by cultivating an understanding of machine learning concepts and algorithms, and build a foundation that paves the way for subsequent chapters. The book then helps you navigate through the process of framing machine learning challenges and validating model performance. Through the lens of Qlik Sense, you'll explore data preprocessing and analysis techniques, as well as find out how to translate these techniques into pragmatic machine learning solutions. The concluding chapters will help you get to grips with advanced data visualization methods to facilitate a clearer presentation of findings, complemented by an array of real-world instances to bolster your skillset. By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered the art of machine learning using Qlik tools and be able to take your data analytics journey to new heights.What you will learn Find out how to build practical machine learning solutions with the Qlik platform Develop the skills needed to generate and verify machine learning models using the Qlik platform Discover techniques used for preparing and investigating data to craft machine learning solutions Understand how to transform real-world business problems into machine learning models Expand your potential to new use cases with data analytics Explore advanced visualization techniques to make your models come alive Who this book is forIf you’re interested in data and analytics and are looking to extend your skillset to machine learning, this book is for you. Basic working knowledge of data, preferably with Qlik tools, will help you get started with this book. This is an excellent guide for anyone who wants to start using machine learning as part of their data analytics journey.

Book Advanced Splunk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav
  • Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
  • Release : 2016-06-13
  • ISBN : 1785881213
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Advanced Splunk written by Ashish Kumar Tulsiram Yadav and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master the art of getting the maximum out of your machine data using Splunk About This Book A practical and comprehensive guide to the advanced functions of Splunk,, including the new features of Splunk 6.3 Develop and manage your own Splunk apps for greater insight from your machine data Full coverage of high-level Splunk techniques including advanced searches, manipulations, and visualization Who This Book Is For This book is for Splunk developers looking to learn advanced strategies to deal with big data from an enterprise architectural perspective. It is expected that readers have a basic understanding and knowledge of using Splunk Enterprise. What You Will Learn Find out how to develop and manage apps in Splunk Work with important search commands to perform data analytics on uploaded data Create visualizations in Splunk Explore tweaking Splunk Integrate Splunk with any pre-existing application to perform data crunching efficiently and in real time Make your big data speak with analytics and visualizations using Splunk Use SDK and Enterprise integration with tools such as R and Tableau In Detail Master the power of Splunk and learn the advanced strategies to get the most out of your machine data with this practical advanced guide. Make sense of the hidden data of your organization – the insight of your servers, devices, logs, traffic and clouds. Advanced Splunk shows you how. Dive deep into Splunk to find the most efficient solution to your data problems. Create the robust Splunk solutions you need to make informed decisions in big data machine analytics. From visualizations to enterprise integration, this well-organized high level guide has everything you need for Splunk mastery. Start with a complete overview of all the new features and advantages of the latest version of Splunk and the Splunk Environment. Go hands on with uploading data, search commands for basic and advanced analytics, advanced visualization techniques, and dashboard customizing. Discover how to tweak Splunk to your needs, and get a complete on Enterprise Integration of Splunk with various analytics and visualization tools. Finally, discover how to set up and use all the new features of the latest version of Splunk. Style and approach This book follows a step by step approach. Every new concept is built on top of its previous chapter, and it is full of examples and practical scenarios to help the reader experiment as they read.

Book Mastering Qlik Sense

    Book Details:
  • Author : Juan Ignacio Vitantonio
  • Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
  • Release : 2018-03-16
  • ISBN : 1782174877
  • Pages : 505 pages

Download or read book Mastering Qlik Sense written by Juan Ignacio Vitantonio and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master the capabilities of Qlik Sense to design and deploy solutions that address all the Business Intelligence needs of your organization Key Features Create compelling dashboards and visualizations with your data by leveraging Qlik Sense's self-service model Perform data loading and model efficient solutions with faster performance and better governance Master Qlik Sense’s APIs and develop powerful mashups and fantastic extensions for visualizations and other components that run across all platforms Book Description Qlik Sense is a powerful, self-servicing Business Intelligence tool for data discovery, analytics and visualization. It allows you to create personalized Business Intelligence solutions from raw data and get actionable insights from it. This book is your one-stop guide to mastering Qlik Sense, catering to all your organizational BI needs. You'll see how you can seamlessly navigate through tons of data from multiple sources and take advantage of the various APIs available in Qlik and its components for guided analytics. You'll also learn how to embed visualizations into your existing BI solutions and extend the capabilities of Qlik Sense to create new visualizations and dashboards that work across all platforms. We also cover other advanced concepts such as porting your Qlik View applications to Qlik Sense,and working with Qlik Cloud. Finally, you'll implement enterprise-wide security and access control for resources and data sources through practical examples. With the knowledge gained from this book, you'll have become the go-to expert in your organization when it comes to designing BI solutions using Qlik Sense. What you will learn Understand the importance of self-service analytics and the IKEA-effect Explore all the available data modeling techniques and create efficient and optimized data models Master security rules and translate permission requirements into security rule logic Familiarize yourself with different types of Master Key Item(MKI) and know how and when to use MKI. Script and write sophisticated ETL code within Qlik Sense to facilitate all data modeling and data loading techniques Get an extensive overview of which APIs are available in Qlik Sense and how to take advantage of a technology with an API Develop basic mashup HTML pages and deploy successful mashup projects Who this book is for This book is for Business Intelligence professionals and Data Analysts who want to become experts in using Qlik Sense. If you have extensively used QlikView in the past and are looking to transition to Qlik Sense, this book will also help you. A fundamental understanding of how Qlik Sense works and its features is all you need to get started with this book.

Book QlikView for Developers Cookbook

Download or read book QlikView for Developers Cookbook written by Stephen Redmond and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recipes in this Cookbook provide a concise yet practical guide on how to become an excellent QlikView developer. The book begins with intermediate level recipes and then moves on to more complex recipes in an incremental manner.This book is for anyone who has either attended QlikView Developer training or has taught themselves QlikView from books or online sources. You might be working for a QlikView customer, partner, or even QlikView themselves (or want to!) and want to improve your QlikView skills.

Book Qlik Sense r  Cookbook

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip Hand
  • Publisher : Packt Publishing
  • Release : 2015-11-27
  • ISBN : 9781782175148
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Qlik Sense r Cookbook written by Philip Hand and published by Packt Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 80 step-by-step recipes to tackle the everyday challenges faced by Qlik Sense® developersAbout This Book• Create dynamic dashboards for business intelligence• Discover the techniques and practices for Qlik Sense®• Delve into a broad range of topics covering the Qlik Sense® backend and the all-important user interfaceWho This Book Is ForThe book is for everybody who have been exposed to Qlik Sense® and want to start using it actively for business intelligence. Anybody with prior knowledge of its sister product, QlikView, will also benefit from this book. Familiarity with the basics of business intelligence is a prerequisite.What You Will Learn• Source, load, preview, and distribute your organization's information• Maximize the effect of visualizations for different types of data• Get to grips with the new visualization functions and add bespoke features not covered in the standard options• Leverage scripting tools, techniques, and best practices that once implemented, never stop adding value• Make your user interface more advanced and intuitive with various custom objects and indicators• Explore various tips and tricks of navigation for the Qlik Sense® frontend• Develop creative extensions for your Qlik Sense® dashboardIn DetailThis book is an excellent guide for all aspiring Qlik Sense® developers. It will take you through the basics, right through to the use of more advanced functions. With the recipes in this book, you will be empowered to create fully featured desktop applications in Qlik Sense®.Starting with a quick refresher on obtaining data from data files and databases, this book moves on to the more refined features of Qlik Sense®, including visualization, scripting, and set analysis. The tips and tricks provided will help you to overcome challenging situations while developing your applications in Qlik Sense®. This and more will help you to deliver engaging dashboards and reports efficiently.By the end of the book, you will be an expert user of Qlik Sense® and will be able to use its features effectively for business intelligence in an enterprise environment.Style and approachThis book is the perfect mix of essential theory combined with real-life examples, with clear explanations of sophisticated Qlik Sense® concepts. Each recipe begins with a task-based problem and the answers are provided in simple steps. This book follows an intuitive problem and solution approach that is easy to follow.

Book QlikView Server and Publisher

Download or read book QlikView Server and Publisher written by Stephen Redmond and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive guide with a step-by-step approach that enables you to host and manage servers using QlikView Server and QlikView Publisher. If you are a server administrator wanting to learn about how to deploy QlikView Server for server management, analysis and testing, and QlikView Publisher for publishing of business content then this is the perfect book for you. No prior experience with QlikView is expected.

Book Qlik Sense for Beginners

Download or read book Qlik Sense for Beginners written by Mark O'Donovan and published by TechStuffy Books. This book was released on 2014-09-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to learn Qlik Sense? Do you want to learn the next generation of data visualization software called Qlik Sense? Start to explore your data with personalized visualizations… Business intelligence has changed a lot in recent years and qlik have provided a revolutionary product to meet these changes head on. Qlik Sense will allow you to create dynamic dashboards to explore data in ways you didn't think were possible. You will be able to analyse your data so you can make informed decisions that help you reach your goals. With the book 'Qlik Sense for Beginners' you'll discover a step-by-step concise approach to learning Qlik Sense. Inside this book you'll discover: How to get started with Qlik Sense from installation to creating your first app.How to read different data sources such as Excel, Access Data or simply text files into your app.How to create various charts and tables in Qlik Sense for example bar, gauges, line, combo, treemaps and scatter plots.How to manage the data in your Qlik Sense app. After the basics you'll learn: Development Tips – such as migrating from QlikView to Qlik Sense.Development Techniques - for example subroutines, external scripts and crosstables.Advanced Functions such as Class, Intervalmatch, Dual and more.Set analysis and Inner JoinsQVDs and Incremental loadsBookmarksStorytellingQlik Sense Extensions And much more… Start learning today and take the understanding of your data to the next level. www.techstuffybooks.com

Book Beginning Apache Spark Using Azure Databricks

Download or read book Beginning Apache Spark Using Azure Databricks written by Robert Ilijason and published by Apress. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyze vast amounts of data in record time using Apache Spark with Databricks in the Cloud. Learn the fundamentals, and more, of running analytics on large clusters in Azure and AWS, using Apache Spark with Databricks on top. Discover how to squeeze the most value out of your data at a mere fraction of what classical analytics solutions cost, while at the same time getting the results you need, incrementally faster. This book explains how the confluence of these pivotal technologies gives you enormous power, and cheaply, when it comes to huge datasets. You will begin by learning how cloud infrastructure makes it possible to scale your code to large amounts of processing units, without having to pay for the machinery in advance. From there you will learn how Apache Spark, an open source framework, can enable all those CPUs for data analytics use. Finally, you will see how services such as Databricks provide the power of Apache Spark, without you having to know anything about configuring hardware or software. By removing the need for expensive experts and hardware, your resources can instead be allocated to actually finding business value in the data. This book guides you through some advanced topics such as analytics in the cloud, data lakes, data ingestion, architecture, machine learning, and tools, including Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive, Python, and SQL. Valuable exercises help reinforce what you have learned. What You Will Learn Discover the value of big data analytics that leverage the power of the cloudGet started with Databricks using SQL and Python in either Microsoft Azure or AWSUnderstand the underlying technology, and how the cloud and Apache Spark fit into the bigger picture See how these tools are used in the real world Run basic analytics, including machine learning, on billions of rows at a fraction of a cost or free Who This Book Is For Data engineers, data scientists, and cloud architects who want or need to run advanced analytics in the cloud. It is assumed that the reader has data experience, but perhaps minimal exposure to Apache Spark and Azure Databricks. The book is also recommended for people who want to get started in the analytics field, as it provides a strong foundation.

Book Data Science on the Google Cloud Platform

Download or read book Data Science on the Google Cloud Platform written by Valliappa Lakshmanan and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how easy it is to apply sophisticated statistical and machine learning methods to real-world problems when you build on top of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This hands-on guide shows developers entering the data science field how to implement an end-to-end data pipeline, using statistical and machine learning methods and tools on GCP. Through the course of the book, you’ll work through a sample business decision by employing a variety of data science approaches. Follow along by implementing these statistical and machine learning solutions in your own project on GCP, and discover how this platform provides a transformative and more collaborative way of doing data science. You’ll learn how to: Automate and schedule data ingest, using an App Engine application Create and populate a dashboard in Google Data Studio Build a real-time analysis pipeline to carry out streaming analytics Conduct interactive data exploration with Google BigQuery Create a Bayesian model on a Cloud Dataproc cluster Build a logistic regression machine-learning model with Spark Compute time-aggregate features with a Cloud Dataflow pipeline Create a high-performing prediction model with TensorFlow Use your deployed model as a microservice you can access from both batch and real-time pipelines

Book IBM Cognos TM1 The Official Guide

Download or read book IBM Cognos TM1 The Official Guide written by Karsten Oehler and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2011-10-22 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only official guide to building effective business solutions with TM1 from IBM Cognos IBM Cognos TM1: The Official Guide offers complete coverage of the 64-bit in-memory online analytical processing (OLAP) engine. Based on the newest release, TM1 10, this official guide offers an advanced tutorial for TM1 concepts from a technical and a business point of view. The authors, members of the TM1 team, provide typical business examples and technical insights for building practical solutions, based on their own experiences. Emphasis is placed on teaching best practices and expanding skills to learn the more powerful capabilities of TM1. The book covers analytical processing, data entry, simulation, workflow components, and more. IBM Cognos TM1: The Official Guide: The first and only officially endorsed book on IBM Cognos TM1 Written by members of IBM Cognos TM1 team with combined experience of 50 years with the product Provides working solutions for relevant business problems Offers deep insights into the most powerful and undocumented capabilities of TM1 Explains how to build actionable business intelligence