Get up and running with all the new features of ECMAScript and explore new ways of coding with JavaScript. About This Book ? Grasp the latest features of ECMAScript and the best way to use it in production code ? Learn newly added native APIs to JS Engine and perform tasks efficiently with a cleaner code base ? Understand the more complex sides of JavaScript such as the inheritance model, low-level memory management, multithreaded environments, and web workers Who This Book Is For This book is for web developers who have some basic programming knowledge and want to learn to write cleaner code with the power of ECMAScript. What You Will Learn ? Implement methods associated with objects as per the latest ECMAScript specification ? Make use of the latest features of ECMAScript ? Make use of many new APIs in HTML5 and modern JavaScript implementation ? Use SharedArrayBuffers for superfast concurrent and parallel programming ? Perform asynchronous programming with JavaScript ? Implement the best ways and practices to perform modular programming in JavaScript In Detail Learn ECMAScript explores implementation of the latest ECMAScript features to add to your developer toolbox, helping you to progress to an advanced level. Learn to add 1 to a variable andsafely access shared memory data within multiple threads to avoid race conditions. You’ll start the book by building on your existing knowledge of JavaScript, covering performing arithmetic operations, using arrow functions and dealing with closures. Next, you will grasp the most commonly used ECMAScript skills such as reflection, proxies, and classes. Furthermore, you’ll learn modularizing the JS code base, implementing JS on the web and how the modern HTML5 + JS APIs provide power to developers on the web. Finally, you will learn the deeper parts of the language, which include making JavaScript multithreaded with dedicated and shared web workers, memory management, shared memory, and atomics. It doesn’t end here; this book is 100% compatible with ES.Next. By the end of this book, you'll have fully mastered all the features of ECMAScript! Style and approach The level goes gradually from basic to advanced so that the reader can adapt at every point and level up their skills at the same time. The chapters are carefully arranged in a manner that makes every concept easy to learn and deploy right away in your code.

Leverage the power of machine learning and Swift programming to build intelligent iOS applications with ease About This Book ? Implement effective machine learning solutions for your iOS applications ? Use Swift and Core ML to build and deploy popular machine learning models ? Develop neural networks for natural language processing and computer vision Who This Book Is For iOS developers who wish to create smarter iOS applications using the power of machine learning will find this book to be useful. This book will also benefit data science professionals who are interested in performing machine learning on mobile devices. Familiarity with Swift programming is all you need to get started with this book. What You Will Learn ? Learn rapid model prototyping with Python and Swift ? Deploy pre-trained models to iOS using Core ML ? Find hidden patterns in the data using unsupervised learning ? Get a deeper understanding of the clustering techniques ? Learn modern compact architectures of neural networks for iOS devices ? Train neural networks for image processing and natural language processing In Detail Machine learning as a field promises to bring increased intelligence to the software by helping us learn and analyse information efficiently and discover certain patterns that humans cannot. This book will be your guide as you embark on an exciting journey in machine learning using the popular Swift language. We’ll start with machine learning basics in the first part of the book to develop a lasting intuition about fundamental machine learning concepts. We explore various supervised and unsupervised statistical learning techniques and how to implement them in Swift, while the third section walks you through deep learning techniques with the help of typical real-world cases. In the last section, we will dive into some hard core topics such as model compression, GPU acceleration and provide some recommendations to avoid common mistakes during machine learning application development. By the end of the book, you'll be able to develop intelligent applications written in Swift that can learn for themselves. Style and approach A comprehensive guide that teaches how to implement machine learning apps for iOS from scratch

A perfect guide to speed up the predicting power of machine learning algorithms About This Book ? Design, discover, and create dynamic, efficient features for your machine learning application ? Understand your data in-depth and derive astonishing data insights with the help of this Guide ? Grasp powerful feature-engineering techniques and build machine learning systems Who This Book Is For If you are a data science professional or a machine learning engineer looking to strengthen your predictive analytics model, then this book is a perfect guide for you. Some basic understanding of the machine learning concepts and Python *ing would be enough to get started with this book. What You Will Learn ? Identify and leverage different feature types ? Clean features in data to improve predictive power ? Understand why and how to perform feature selection, and model error analysis ? Leverage domain knowledge to construct new features ? Deliver features based on mathematical insights ? Use machine-learning algorithms to construct features ? Master feature engineering and optimization ? Harness feature engineering for real world applications through a structured case study In Detail Feature engineering is the most important step in creating powerful machine learning systems. This book will take you through the entire feature-engineering journey to make your machine learning much more systematic and effective. You will start with understanding your data—often the success of your ML models depends on how you leverage different feature types, such as continuous, categorical, and more, You will learn when to include a feature, when to omit it, and why, all by understanding error analysis and the acceptability of your models. You will learn to convert a problem statement into useful new features. You will learn to deliver features driven by business needs as well as mathematical insights. You'll also learn how to use machine learning on your machines, automatically learning amazing features for your data. By the end of the book, you will become proficient in Feature Selection, Feature Learning, and Feature Optimization. Style and approach This step-by-step guide with use cases, examples, and illustrations will help you master the concepts of feature engineering. Along with explaining the fundamentals, the book will also introduce you to slightly advanced concepts later on and will help you implement these techniques in the real world.

Design, build and test RESTful web services with the Django framework and Python About This Book ? Create efficient real-world RESTful web services with the latest Django framework ? Authenticate, secure, and integrate third-party packages efficiently in your Web Services ? Leverage the power of Python for faster Web Service development Who This Book Is For This book is for Python developers who want to create RESTful web services with Django; you need to have a basic working knowledge of Django but no previous experience with RESTful web services is required. What You Will Learn ? The best way to build a RESTful Web Service or API with Django and the Django REST Framework ? Develop complex RESTful APIs from scratch with Django and the Django REST Framework ? Work with either SQL or NoSQL data sources ? Design RESTful Web Services based on application requirements ? Use third-party packages and extensions to perform common tasks ? Create automated tests for RESTful web services ? Debug, test, and profile RESTful web services with Django and the Django REST Framework In Detail Django is a Python web framework that makes the web development process very easy. It reduces the amount of trivial code, which simplifies the creation of web applications and results in faster development. It is very powerful and a great choice for creating RESTful web services. If you are a Python developer and want to efficiently create RESTful web services with Django for your apps, then this is the right book for you. The book starts off by showing you how to install and configure the environment, required software, and tools to create RESTful web services with Django and the Django REST framework. We then move on to working with advanced serialization and migrations to interact with SQLite and non-SQL data sources. We will use the features included in the Django REST framework to improve our simple web service. Further, we will create API views to process diverse HTTP requests on objects, go through relationships and hyperlinked API management, and then discover the necessary steps to include security and permissions related to data models and APIs. We will also apply throttling rules and run tests to check that versioning works as expected. Next we will run automated tests to improve code coverage. By the end of the book, you will be able to build RESTful web services with Django." Style and approach The book takes a straightforward approach, giving you the techniques and best use cases to build great web services with Django and Python

Harness the power of React Native to build 4 real-world apps About This Book ? Build quirky and fun projects from scratch and become efficient with React Native ? Learn to build professional Android and iOS applications using your existing JavaScript knowledge ? Use isomorphic principles to build mobile apps that offer a native user experience ? Embedded with assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this course Who This Book Is For This book is for developers who want to build amazing cross-platform apps with React Native. What You Will Learn ? Structure React Native projects to ease maintenance and extensibility ? Optimize a project to speed up development ? Use external modules to speed up the development and maintenance of your projects ? Explore the different UI and code patterns to be used for iOS and Android ? Get to know the best practices when building apps in React Native In Detail React Native helps web and mobile developers to build cross-platform apps that perform at the same level as any other natively developed app. The range of apps that can be built using this library is huge. From e-commerce to games, React Native is a good fit for any mobile project due to its flexibility and extendable nature. This project-based book consists of four standalone projects. Each project will help you gain a sound understanding of the framework and build mobile apps with native user experience. Starting with a simple standalone car booking app, you will progressively move on to building advanced apps by adding connectivity with external APIs, using native features, such as the camera or microphone, in the mobile device, integrating with state management libraries such as Redux or MobX, or leveraging React Native’s performance by building a full-featured game. This book is ideal for developers who want to build amazing cross-platform apps with React Native. This book is embedded with useful assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book. Style and approach This project-based book consists of four projects. Each project is a standalone project that covers the core techniques and concepts of React Native. Note: This book is a blend of text and quizzes, all packaged up keeping your journey in mind. It includes content from the following Packt products: ? React Native Blueprints by Emilio Rodriguez Martinez

Explore the high-in demand core DevOps strategies with powerful DevOps tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, and Chef About This Book ? Get acquainted with methodologies and tools of the DevOps framework ? Perform continuous integration, delivery, deployment, and monitoring using DevOps tools ? Explore popular tools such as Git, Jenkins, Maven, Gerrit, Nexus, Selenium, and so on ? Embedded with assessments that will help you revise the concepts you have learned in this book Who This Book Is For This book is for engineers, architects, and developers, who wish to learn the core strategies of DevOps. What You Will Learn ? Get familiar with life cycle models, maturity states, progression and best practices of DevOps frameworks ? Learn to set up Jenkins and integrate it with Git ? Know how to build jobs and perform testing with Jenkins ? Implement infrastructure automation (Infrastructure as Code) with tools such as Chef and Ansible ? Understand continuous monitoring process with tools such as Splunk and Nagios ? Learn how Splunk improves the code quality In Detail DevOps is the most widely used software engineering culture and practice that aim sat software development and operation. Continuous integration is a cornerstone technique of DevOps that merges software code updates from developers into a shared central mainline. This book takes a practical approach and covers the tools and strategies of DevOps. It starts with familiarizing you with DevOps framework and then shows how toper form continuous delivery, integration, and deployment with DevOps. You will explore DevOps process maturity frameworks and progression models with checklist templates for each phase of DevOps. You will also be familiar with agile terminology, methodology, and the benefits accrued by an organization by adopting it. You will also get acquainted with popular tools such as Git, Jenkins ,Maven, Gerrit, Nexus, Selenium, and so on.You will learn configuration, automation, and the implementation of infrastructure automation (Infrastructure as Code) with tools such as Chef and Ansible. This book is ideal for engineers, architects, and developers, who wish to learn the core strategies of DevOps. Style and approach This book takes a practical approach and covers the tools and strategies of DevOps. It starts with familiarizing you with DevOps framework and then shows how to perform continuous delivery, integration, and deployment with DevOps. Note: This book is a blend of text and quizzes, all packaged up keeping your journey in mind. It includes content from the following Packt product: ? Hands-on DevOps by Sricharan Vadapalli

Use Qt 5 to design and build functional, appealing, and user-friendly graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for your applications. Key Features * Learn to use Qt 5 to design and customize the look and feel of your application * Improve the visual quality of an application by using graphics rendering and animation * Understand the balance of presentation and web content that will make an application appealing yet functional Book Description With the growing need to develop GUIs for multiple targets and multiple screens, improving the visual quality of your application becomes important so that it stands out from your competitors. With its cross-platform ability and the latest UI paradigms, Qt makes it possible to build intuitive, interactive, and user-friendly user interfaces for your applications. Qt5 C++ GUI Programming Cookbook, Second Edition teaches you how to develop functional and appealing user interfaces using the latest version of QT5 and C++.?This book will help you learn a variety of topics such as GUI customization and animation, graphics rendering, implementing Google Maps, and more. You will also be taken through advanced concepts like asynchronous programming, event handling using signals and slots, network programming, various aspects of optimizing your application. By the end of the book, you will be confident to design and customize GUI applications that meet your clients' expectations and have an understanding of best practice solutions for common problems. What you will learn * Animate GUI elements using Qt5's built-in animation system * Draw shapes and 2D images using Qt5's powerful rendering system * Implement an industry-standard OpenGL library in your project * Build a mobile app that supports touch events and exports it onto devices * Parse and extract data from an XML file and present it on your GUI * Interact with web content by calling JavaScript functions from C++ * Access MySQL and SQLite databases to retrieve data and display it on your GUI Who this book is for This intermediate-level book is designed for those who want to develop software using Qt 5. If you want to improve the visual quality and content presentation of your software application, this book is for you. Prior experience of C++ programming is required.

Create powerful data visualizations and unlock intelligent business insights with Tableau Key Features * Explore all the latest Tableau 2019 features and redefine business analytics for your organization * Create impressive data visualizations and interactive dashboards to get insights from your data * Learn effective data storytelling to transform how your business leverages data and makes decisions Book Description Tableau is the gold standard of business intelligence and visual analytics tools in every industry. It enables rapid data visualization and interpretation with charts, graphs, dashboards, and much more. Updated with the latest features of Tableau, this book takes you from the foundations of the Tableau 2019 paradigm through to advanced topics. This third edition of the bestselling guide by Tableau Zen Master, Milligan, will help you come to grips with updated features, such as set actions and transparent views. Beginning with installation, you'll create your first visualizations with Tableau and then explore practical examples and advanced techniques. You'll create bar charts, tree maps, scatterplots, time series, and a variety of other visualizations. Next, you'll discover techniques to overcome challenges presented by data structure and quality and engage in effective data storytelling and decision making with business critical information. Finally, you'll be introduced to Tableau Prep, and learn how to use it to integrate and shape data for analysis. By the end of this book, you will be equipped to leverage the powerful features of Tableau 2019 for decision making. What you will learn * Develop stunning visualizations that explain complexity with clarity * Explore the exciting new features of Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep * Connect to various data sources to bring all your data together * Uncover techniques to prep and structure your data for easy analysis * Create and use calculations to solve problems and enrich analytics * Master advanced topics such as sets, LOD calcs, and much more * Enable smart decisions with clustering, distribution, and forecasting * Share your data stories to build a culture of trust and action Who this book is for This Tableau book is for anyone who wants to understand data. If you’re new to Tableau, don’t worry. This book builds on the foundations to help you understand how Tableau really works and then builds on that knowledge with practical examples before moving on to advanced techniques. Working experience with databases will be useful but is not necessary to get the most out of this book.

Use self-driven data centers to reduce management complexity by deploying Infrastructure as Code to gain value from investments. Key Features * Add smart capabilities in VMware Workspace ONE to deliver customer insights and improve overall security * Optimize your HPC and big data infrastructure with the help of machine learning * Automate your VMware data center operations with machine learning Book Description This book presents an introductory perspective on how machine learning plays an important role in a VMware environment. It offers a basic understanding of how to leverage machine learning primitives, along with a deeper look into integration with the VMware tools used for automation today. This book begins by highlighting how VMware addresses business issues related to its workforce, customers, and partners with emerging technologies such as machine learning to create new, intelligence-driven, end user experiences. You will learn how to apply machine learning techniques incorporated in VMware solutions for data center operations. You will go through management toolsets with a focus on machine learning techniques. At the end of the book, you will learn how the new vSphere Scale-Out edition can be used to ensure that HPC, big data performance, and other requirements can be met (either through development or by fine-tuning guidelines) with mainstream products. What you will learn * Orchestrate on-demand deployments based on defined policies * Automate away common problems and make life easier by reducing errors * Deliver services to end users rather than to virtual machines * Reduce rework in a multi-layered scalable manner in any cloud * Explore the centralized life cycle management of hybrid clouds * Use common code so you can run it across any cloud Who this book is for This book is intended for those planning, designing, and implementing the virtualization/cloud components of the Software-Defined Data Center foundational infrastructure. It helps users to put intelligence in their automation tasks to get self driving data center. It is assumed that the reader has knowledge of, and some familiarity with, virtualization concepts and related topics, including storage, security, and networking.

Build modern day application by implementing Material Design principles in React applications using Material-UI. Key Features * Grasp the needs React components for UI elements * Master the style and theme of the tools to go along with these components * Get to grips with all the React best practices to build a modern application Book Description Material-UI is a component library for rendering UI elements, using modern best practices from React and Material Design. This book will show you how you can create impressive and captivating modern day web apps by implementing Material Design considerations. The primary objective of this book is to help you use several Material-UI components to build larger UI functionality. We will also focus on React best practices in conjunction with Material-UI components – using state, context, and other new React 16.8 features properly. This book will start with layout and navigation and then dive into presenting the information with Material-UI components. It will then talk about the different components for user interactions. By the end of this book, you will know how to improve the look and feel of your applications using Material-UI components. What you will learn * Learn to build the overall structure and navigation for your Material-UI app * Learn to present simple and complex information in a variety of ways * Build interactive and intuitive controls * Design portable themes and styles for all of your Material-UI apps * Group content into sections using tabs and expansion panels * Learn how to design a general page layout with Material-UI grids * Use lists for complex data, and cards for detailed information Who this book is for They are JavaScript developers who have some basic knowledge of React and would want to implement Material Design principles in React applications using Material-UI. The reader wants to build a user interface using React components but doesn’t want to invent their own style or UX framework.

Explore new and more sophisticated tools that reduce your marketing analytics efforts and give you precise results Key Features * Study new techniques for marketing analytics * Explore uses of machine learning to power your marketing analyses * Work through each stage of data analytics with the help of multiple examples and exercises Book Description Data Science for Marketing Analytics covers every stage of data analytics, from working with a raw dataset to segmenting a population and modeling different parts of the population based on the segments. The book starts by teaching you how to use Python libraries, such as pandas and Matplotlib, to read data from Python, manipulate it, and create plots, using both categorical and continuous variables. Then, you'll learn how to segment a population into groups and use different clustering techniques to evaluate customer segmentation. As you make your way through the chapters, you'll explore ways to evaluate and select the best segmentation approach, and go on to create a linear regression model on customer value data to predict lifetime value. In the concluding chapters, you'll gain an understanding of regression techniques and tools for evaluating regression models, and explore ways to predict customer choice using classification algorithms. Finally, you'll apply these techniques to create a churn model for modeling customer product choices. By the end of this book, you will be able to build your own marketing reporting and interactive dashboard solutions. What you will learn * Analyze and visualize data in Python using pandas and Matplotlib * Study clustering techniques, such as hierarchical and k-means clustering * Create customer segments based on manipulated data * Predict customer lifetime value using linear regression * Use classification algorithms to understand customer choice * Optimize classification algorithms to extract maximal information Who this book is for Data Science for Marketing Analytics is designed for developers and marketing analysts looking to use new, more sophisticated tools in their marketing analytics efforts. It'll help if you have prior experience of coding in Python and knowledge of high school level mathematics. Some experience with databases, Excel, statistics, or Tableau is useful but not necessary.

Enhance your programming skills to build exciting robotic projects Key Features * Build an intelligent robot that can detect and avoid obstacles and respond to voice commands * Detect and track objects and faces using OpenCV * Control your robot with a GUI button designed using Qt5 Book Description C++ is one of the most popular legacy programming languages for robotics, and a combination of C++ and robotics hardware is used in many leading industries. This book will bridge the gap between Raspberry Pi and C/C++ programming and enable you to develop applications for Raspberry Pi. To follow along with the projects covered in the book, you can implement C programs in Raspberry Pi with the wiringPi library. With this book, you’ll develop a fully functional car robot and write programs to move it in different directions. You’ll then create an obstacle - avoiding robot using an ultrasonic sensor. Furthermore, you’ll find out how to control the robot wirelessly using your PC/Mac. This book will also help you work with object detection and tracking using OpenCV, and guide you through exploring face detection techniques. Finally, you will create an Android app and control the robot wirelessly with an Android smartphone. By the end of this book, you will have gained experience in developing a robot using Raspberry Pi and C/C++ programming. What you will learn * Install software in Raspberry Pi compatible with C++ programming * Program the Raspberry Pi in C++ to run a motor * Control RPi-powered robot wirelessly with your laptop or PC * Program an RPi camera using OpenCV Control a Raspberry Pi robot with voice commands * Implement face and object detection with Raspberry Pi Who this book is for This book is for developers, programmers, and robotics enthusiasts interested in leveraging C++ to build exciting robotics applications. Prior knowledge of C++ is necessary to understand the projects covered in this book.

Invent your own Python scripts to automate your infrastructure About This Book ? Make the most of Python libraries and modules to automate your infrastructure ? Leverage Python programming to automate server configurations and administration tasks ? Efficiently develop your Python skill set Who This Book Is For Hands-On Enterprise Automation with Python is for system administrators and DevOps engineers who are looking for an alternative to major automation frameworks such as Puppet and Chef. Basic programming knowledge with Python and Linux shell scripting is necessary. What You Will Learn ? Understand common automation modules used in Python ? Develop Python scripts to manage network devices ? Automate common Linux administration tasks with Ansible and Fabric ? Managing Linux processes ? Administrate VMware, OpenStack, and AWS instances with Python ? Security automation and sharing code on GitHub In Detail Hands-On Enterprise Automation with Python starts by covering the set up of a Python environment to perform automation tasks, as well as the modules, libraries, and tools you will be using. We’ll explore examples of network automation tasks using simple Python programs and Ansible. Next, we will walk you through automating administration tasks with Python Fabric, where you will learn to perform server configuration and administration, along with system administration tasks such as user management, database management, and process management. As you progress through this book, you’ll automate several testing services with Python scripts and perform automation tasks on virtual machines and cloud infrastructure with Python. In the concluding chapters, you will cover Python-based offensive security tools and learn how to automate your security tasks. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the skills of automating several system administration tasks with Python. Style and approach This book will follow a practical approach to help you script and automate tasks using Python.

Mastering material for dealing with DBA certification exams About This Book ? Prepare yourself for the IBM C2090-600 certification exam ? Cover over 50 Db2 procedures including database design, performance, and security ? Work through over 150 Q&As to gain confidence on each topic Who This Book Is For The IBM Db2 11.1 Certification Guide is an excellent choice for database administrators, architects, and application developers who are keen to obtain certification in Db2. Basic understanding of Db2 is expected in order to get the most out of this guide. What You Will Learn ? Configure and manage Db2 servers, instances, and databases ? Implement Db2 BLU Acceleration and a DB2 pureScale environment ? Create, manage, and alter Db2 database objects ? Use the partitioning capabilities available within Db2 ? Enforce constraint checking with the SET INTEGRITY command ? Utilize the Db2 problem determination (db2pd) and dsmtop tools ? Configure and manage HADR ? Understand how to encrypt data in transit and at rest In Detail IBM Db2 is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that helps you store, analyze, and retrieve data efficiently. This comprehensive book is designed to help you master all aspects of IBM Db2 database administration and prepare you to take and pass IBM's Certification Exams C2090-600. Building on years of extensive experience, the authors take you through all areas covered by the test. The book delves deep into each certification topic: Db2 server management, physical design, business rules implementation, activity monitoring, utilities, high availability, and security. IBM Db2 11.1 Certification Guide provides you with more than 150 practice questions and answers, simulating real certification examination questions. Each chapter includes an extensive set of practice questions along with carefully explained answers. This book will not just prepare you for the C2090-600 exam but also help you troubleshoot day-to-day database administration challenges. Style and approach A comprehensive certification preparation guide for the C2090-600 exam, covering all the topics in greater detail and with sample questions and answers at the end of each chapter.

Automate data and model pipelines for faster machine learning applications About This Book ? Build automated modules for different machine learning components ? Understand each component of a machine learning pipeline in depth ? Learn to use different open source AutoML and feature engineering platforms Who This Book Is For If you’re a budding data scientist, data analyst, or Machine Learning enthusiast and are new to the concept of automated machine learning, this book is ideal for you. You’ll also find this book useful if you’re an ML engineer or data professional interested in developing quick machine learning pipelines for your projects. Prior exposure to Python programming will help you get the best out of this book. What You Will Learn ? Understand the fundamentals of Automated Machine Learning systems ? Explore auto-sklearn and MLBox for AutoML tasks ? Automate your preprocessing methods along with feature transformation ? Enhance feature selection and generation using the Python stack ? Assemble individual components of ML into a complete AutoML framework ? Demystify hyperparameter tuning to optimize your ML models ? Dive into Machine Learning concepts such as neural networks and autoencoders ? Understand the information costs and trade-offs associated with AutoML In Detail AutoML is designed to automate parts of Machine Learning. Readily available AutoML tools are making data science practitioners’ work easy and are received well in the advanced analytics community. Automated Machine Learning covers the necessary foundation needed to create automated machine learning modules and helps you get up to speed with them in the most practical way possible. In this book, you’ll learn how to automate different tasks in the machine learning pipeline such as data preprocessing, feature selection, model training, model optimization, and much more. In addition to this, it demonstrates how you can use the available automation libraries, such as auto-sklearn and MLBox, and create and extend your own custom AutoML components for Machine Learning. By the end of this book, you will have a clearer understanding of the different aspects of automated Machine Learning, and you’ll be able to incorporate automation tasks using practical datasets. You can leverage your learning from this book to implement Machine Learning in your projects and get a step closer to winning various machine learning competitions. Style and approach Step by step approach to understand how to automate your machine learning tasks

A step by step guide for beginners to create interactive and dynamic websites from scratch. About This Book ? A fun-filled book with incrementing projects that would help you learn and adapt the fundamentals of web development ? Bring your web design to life with the help of HTML, CSS, JQuery, and learn to kick-start your future projects with Bootstrap ? Explore popular web development techniques such as responsive, adaptive, and material design and initiate yourself with Vue.js Who This Book Is For This book is for anyone who wants to learn about web development regardless of previous experience. It's perfect for complete beginners with zero experience; it's also great for anyone who does have some experience in a few technologies (such as HTML and CSS) but not all of them. What You Will Learn ? Understand the importance of web design and the basic design components ? Learn HTML5 and CSS3 ? Difference between adaptive and responsive web design ? Learn how to create your first website ? Add interaction and dynamic content to your website with JavaScript and JQuery ? Implement Bootstrap Framework in your project ? Get familiar with server-side rendering In Detail Web design is the process of creating websites. It encompasses several different aspects, including webpage layout, content production, and graphic design. This book offers you everything you need to know to build your websites. The book starts off by explaining the importance of web design and the basic design components used in website development. It'll show you insider tips to work quickly and efficiently with web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, concluding with a project on creating a static site with good layout. Once you've got that locked down, we'll get our hands dirty by diving straight into learning JavaScript and JQuery, ending with a project on creating dynamic content for your website. After getting our basic website up and running with the dynamic functionalities you'll move on to building your own responsive websites using more advanced techniques such as Bootstrap. Later you will learn smart ways to add dynamic content, and modern UI techniques such as Adaptive UI and Material Design. This will help you understand important concepts such as server-side rendering and UI components. Finally we take a look at various developer tools to ease your web development process. Style and approach This is a fun-filled book with conversational and engaging content ; with each incrementing project, you'll would easily learn and adapt the fundamentals of web development. Each project showcases a different use case and incrementally teaches the web development basics.

Leverage the power of the popular Jupyter notebooks to simplify your data science tasks without any hassle About This Book ? Create and share interactive documents with live code, text and visualizations ? Integrate popular programming languages such as Python, R, Julia, Scala with Jupyter ? Develop your widgets and interactive dashboards with these innovative recipes Who This Book Is For This cookbook is for data science professionals, developers, technical data analysts, and programmers who want to execute technical coding, visualize output, and do scientific computing in one tool. Prior understanding of data science concepts will be helpful, but not mandatory, to use this book. What You Will Learn ? Install Jupyter and configure engines for Python, R, Scala and more ? Access and retrieve data on Jupyter Notebooks ? Create interactive visualizations and dashboards for different scenarios ? Convert and share your dynamic codes using HTML, JavaScript, Docker, and more ? Create custom user data interactions using various Jupyter widgets ? Manage user authentication and file permissions ? Interact with Big Data to perform numerical computing and statistical modeling ? Get familiar with Jupyter's next-gen user interface - JupyterLab In Detail Jupyter has garnered a strong interest in the data science community of late, as it makes common data processing and analysis tasks much simpler. This book is for data science professionals who want to master various tasks related to Jupyter to create efficient, easy-to-share, scientific applications. The book starts with recipes on installing and running the Jupyter Notebook system on various platforms and configuring the various packages that can be used with it. You will then see how you can implement different programming languages and frameworks, such as Python, R, Julia, JavaScript, Scala, and Spark on your Jupyter Notebook. This book contains intuitive recipes on building interactive widgets to manipulate and visualize data in real time, sharing your code, creating a multi-user environment, and organizing your notebook. You will then get hands-on experience with Jupyter Labs, microservices, and deploying them on the web. By the end of this book, you will have taken your knowledge of Jupyter to the next level to perform all key tasks associated with it. Style and approach The recipes in this book are highly practical and very easy to follow, and include tips and tricks that will help you crack any problem that you might come across while getting the most out of your Jupyter notebook.

Improve information security by learning Social Engineering. About This Book ? Learn to implement information security using social engineering ? Get hands-on experience of using different tools such as Kali Linux, the Social Engineering toolkit and so on ? Practical approach towards learning social engineering, for IT security Who This Book Is For This book targets security professionals, security analysts, penetration testers, or any stakeholder working with information security who wants to learn how to use social engineering techniques. Prior knowledge of Kali Linux is an added advantage What You Will Learn ? Learn to implement information security using social engineering ? Learn social engineering for IT security ? Understand the role of social media in social engineering ? Get acquainted with Practical Human hacking skills ? Learn to think like a social engineer ? Learn to beat a social engineer In Detail This book will provide you with a holistic understanding of social engineering. It will help you to avoid and combat social engineering attacks by giving you a detailed insight into how a social engineer operates. Learn Social Engineering starts by giving you a grounding in the different types of social engineering attacks,and the damages they cause. It then sets up the lab environment to use different toolS and then perform social engineering steps such as information gathering. The book covers topics from baiting, phishing, and spear phishing, to pretexting and scareware. By the end of the book, you will be in a position to protect yourself and your systems from social engineering threats and attacks. All in all, the book covers social engineering from A to Z , along with excerpts from many world wide known security experts. Style and approach A step-by-step practical guide that will get you well acquainted with Social Engineering. You’ll be able to get started with it in a matter of minutes with the help of different tools such as the Social Engineering toolkit , Kali Linux and so on.

Leverage the power of Matplotlib to visualize and understand your data more effectively About This Book ? Perform effective data visualization with Matplotlib and get actionable insights from your data ? Design attractive graphs, charts, and 2D plots, and deploy them to the web ? Get the most out of Matplotlib in this practical guide with updated code and examples Who This Book Is For This book is essentially for anyone who wants to create intuitive data visualizations using the Matplotlib library. If you’re a data scientist or analyst and wish to create attractive visualizations using Python, you’ll find this book useful. Some knowledge of Python programming is all you need to get started. What You Will Learn ? Create 2D and 3D static plots such as bar charts, heat maps, and scatter plots ? Get acquainted with GTK+3, Qt5, and wxWidgets to understand the UI backend of Matplotlib ? Develop advanced static plots with third-party packages such as Pandas, GeoPandas, and Seaborn ? Create interactive plots with real-time updates ? Develop web-based, Matplotlib-powered graph visualizations with third-party packages such as Django ? Write data visualization code that is readily expandable on the cloud platform In Detail Python is a general-purpose programming language increasingly being used for data analysis and visualization. Matplotlib is a popular data visualization package in Python used to design effective plots and graphs. This is a practical, hands-on resource to help you visualize data with Python using the Matplotlib library. Matplotlib for Python Developers, Second Edition shows you how to create attractive graphs, charts, and plots using Matplotlib. You will also get a quick introduction to third-party packages, Seaborn, Pandas, Basemap, and Geopandas, and learn how to use them with Matplotlib. After that, you’ll embed and customize your plots in third-party tools such as GTK+3, Qt 5, and wxWidgets. You’ll also be able to tweak the look and feel of your visualization with the help of practical examples provided in this book. Further on, you’ll explore Matplotlib 2.1.x on the web, from a cloud-based platform using third-party packages such as Django. Finally, you will integrate interactive, real-time visualization techniques into your current workflow with the help of practical real-world examples. By the end of this book, you’ll be thoroughly comfortable with using the popular Python data visualization library Matplotlib 2.1.x and leveraging its power to build attractive, insightful, and powerful visualizations. Style and approach Step by step approach to learning the best of Matplotlib 2.1.x

Leverage the power of Tensorflow to design deep learning systems for a variety of real-world scenarios About This Book ? Build efficient deep learning pipelines using the popular Tensorflow framework ? Train neural networks such as ConvNets, generative models, and LSTMs ? Includes projects related to Computer Vision, stock prediction, chatbots and more Who This Book Is For This book is for data scientists, machine learning developers as well as deep learning practitioners, who want to build interesting deep learning projects that leverage the power of Tensorflow. Some understanding of machine learning and deep learning, and familiarity with the TensorFlow framework is all you need to get started with this book. What You Will Learn ? Set up the TensorFlow environment for deep learning ? Construct your own ConvNets for effective image processing ? Use LSTMs for image caption generation ? Forecast stock prediction accurately with an LSTM architecture ? Learn what semantic matching is by detecting duplicate Quora questions ? Set up an AWS instance with TensorFlow to train GANs ? Train and set up a chatbot to understand and interpret human input ? Build an AI capable of playing a video game by itself –and win it! In Detail TensorFlow is one of the most popular frameworks used for machine learning and, more recently, deep learning. It provides a fast and efficient framework for training different kinds of deep learning models, with very high accuracy. This book is your guide to master deep learning with TensorFlow with the help of 10 real-world projects. TensorFlow Deep Learning Projects starts with setting up the right TensorFlow environment for deep learning. Learn to train different types of deep learning models using TensorFlow, including Convolutional Neural Networks, Recurrent Neural Networks, LSTMs, and Generative Adversarial Networks. While doing so, you will build end-to-end deep learning solutions to tackle different real-world problems in image processing, recommendation systems, stock prediction, and building chatbots, to name a few. You will also develop systems that perform machine translation, and use reinforcement learning techniques to play games. By the end of this book, you will have mastered all the concepts of deep learning and their implementation with TensorFlow, and will be able to build and train your own deep learning models with TensorFlow confidently. Style and approach This book contains 10 unique, end-to-end projects covering all aspects of deep learning and their implementations with TensorFlow. Each project will equip you with a unique skillset in training efficient deep learning models, and empower you to implement your own projects more confidently

Learn, by example, the fundamentals of data analysis as well as several intermediate to advanced methods and techniques ranging from classification and regression to Bayesian methods and MCMC, which can be put to immediate use. About This Book ? Analyze your data using R – the most powerful statistical programming language ? Learn how to implement applied statistics using practical use-cases ? Use popular R packages to work with unstructured and structured data Who This Book Is For Budding data scientists and data analysts who are new to the concept of data analysis, or who want to build efficient analytical models in R will find this book to be useful. No prior exposure to data analysis is needed, although a fundamental understanding of the R programming language is required to get the best out of this book. What You Will Learn ? Gain a thorough understanding of statistical reasoning and sampling theory ? Employ hypothesis testing to draw inferences from your data ? Learn Bayesian methods for estimating parameters ? Train regression, classification, and time series models ? Handle missing data gracefully using multiple imputation ? Identify and manage problematic data points ? Learn how to scale your analyses to larger data with Rcpp, data.table, dplyr, and parallelization ? Put best practices into effect to make your job easier and facilitate reproducibility In Detail Frequently the tool of choice for academics, R has spread deep into the private sector and can be found in the production pipelines at some of the most advanced and successful enterprises. The power and domain-specificity of R allows the user to express complex analytics easily, quickly, and succinctly. Starting with the basics of R and statistical reasoning, this book dives into advanced predictive analytics, showing how to apply those techniques to real-world data though with real-world examples. Packed with engaging problems and exercises, this book begins with a review of R and its syntax with packages like Rcpp, ggplot2, and dplyr. From there, get to grips with the fundamentals of applied statistics and build on this knowledge to perform sophisticated and powerful analytics. Solve the difficulties relating to performing data analysis in practice and find solutions to working with messy data, large data, communicating results, and facilitating reproducibility. This book is engineered to be an invaluable resource through many stages of anyone’s career as a data analyst. Style and approach An easy-to-follow step by step guide which will help you get to grips with real world application of Data Analysis with R