Put Predictive Analytics into Action Learn the basics of Predictive Analysis and Data Mining through an easy to understand conceptual framework and immediately practice the concepts learned using the open source RapidMiner tool. Whether you are brand new to Data Mining or working on your tenth proje[...]
Companies can't survive without innovating. But most put far more emphasis on generating Big Ideas than on executing them turning ideas into actual breakthrough products, services, and process improvements. That's because 'ideating' is energizing and glamorous. By contrast, execution seems like humd[...]
One of the most unusual literary innovations ever produced, A Life Full of Holes is the result of a singular collaboration between two remarkable individuals: Driss ben Hamed Charhadi, an illiterate North African servant and street vendor, and legendary American novelist and essayist Paul Bowles. Th[...]
"Management Control Systems" helps students to develop the insight and analytical skills required of today's managers. Students uncover how real-world managers design, implement, and use planning and control systems to implement business strategies. The 12th edition builds on the strengths of prior [...]
Offers a set of laminated cards to help residents manage even the most difficult clinical situation. This title is a set of 47 laminted cards covering 75 of the medical issues most often encountered by residents when the attending physician and specialists have gone home for the night.[...]
Presents an overview of the seismic data processing sequence that includes basic tools and advancements like processing of multicomponent seismic data and seismic migration at an angle. In this book, fundamentals of methods like Amplitude Variation with Offset (AVO), Inversion and time lapse (4D) se[...]
Provides comprehensive coverage of mobile data networking and mobile communications. This book contains chapters that focus on the fundamentals that are required to study mobile data networking and mobile communications. It also includes solved examples to show applications of theoretical concepts.[...]
Vijay Krishna's 2e of "Auction Theory" improves upon his 2002 bestseller with a new chapter on package and position auctions as well as end-of-chapter questions and chapter notes. Complete proofs and new material about collusion complement Krishna's ability to reveal the basic facts of each theory i[...]
Covers mobile wireless communication, wireless networks, and internetworking/4G technology with a blend of fundamental theory and real-world concepts and problem solving methods. This book serves as a view of cellular, WiFi, and WiMAX networks, as well as the emerging wireless ad hoc and sensor netw[...]
Presents detailed examinations of themes central to auction theory. This book explores auctions and competitive bidding as games of incomplete information. It covers topics on bidding strategies, efficiency, and revenue maximization, and gives proofs for each proposition.[...]
In The Many Facets of Leadership, more than 40 top leadership experts share their insights on every aspect of leadership in the 21st century. This book brings together new ideas and techniques for leading change, promoting learning and innovation, handling complexity and crisis, overcoming blind spo[...]
Master alternative Big Data technologies that can do what Hadoop can't: real-time analytics and iterative machine learning. When most technical professionals think of Big Data analytics today, they think of Hadoop. But there are many cutting-edge applications that Hadoop isn't well suited for, espec[...]
In an efficient market, all stocks should be valued at a price that is consistent with available information. But as financial expert Vijay Singal, Ph.D., CFA, points out, there are circumstances under which certain stocks sell at a price higher or lower than the right price. In Beyond the Random Wa[...]
Inspired by George Orwell's Animal Farm and the international bestseller Our Iceberg is Melting, How Stella Saved the Farm is a simple parable about embracing change and managing innovation in difficult times. Bankruptcy, or the grim prospect of being acquired by a hostile human competitor, threaten[...]
Given the abundance of open education initiatives that aim to make educational assets freely available online, the time seems ripe to explore the potential of open education to transform the economics and ecology of education. Despite the diversity of tools and resources already available--from well[...]
Brings together contributions from leading scholars in the field, investigating the historical and theoretical relationships between new advances in discourse studies and pointing towards new directions for the future of the discipline. This book features discussion questions, classroom projects and[...]
Anil K. Gupta, Vijay Govindarajan, and Haiyan Wang are among the most distinguished experts in the field of globalization. In The Quest for Global Dominance they present the lessons from their twenty-year study of over two hundred corporations. They argue that, in order for a company to create and[...]
Forensic Accounting For Dummies serves as a handy resource for anyone looking to pursue a career in this growing field. It is an essential tool for anyone interested in understanding how financial fraud occurs and what to do when one finds, or suspects it, within their own organisation. Bullet [...]