This application-oriented text focuses on only what the reader needs to know to research and answer business and social science questions with Python. The authors walk the reader through each step of the python installation and analysis process, including exercises throughout so they can immediately try out the functions they have learnt.
Software is becoming more and more important across a broad range of industries, yet most technology executives struggle to deliver software improvements their businesses require. Leading-edge companies like Amazon and Google are applying DevOps and Agile principles to deliver large software projects faster than anyone thought possible. But most ......
This beginning book brings an exciting, new approach to Java instruction that eases the learning curve and uses the Eclipse IDE to make you productive as quickly as possible. In fact, in just 22 chapters, you'll grow from beginner to entry-level professional!
Software engineering from a project point of view embarks on software products that are both feasible technically and financially. Moreover, software projects must be completed on time and within budgets and are important challenges to software engineers. Research has shown that one-third of software projects are never completed, another third do ......
Numerical software is used to test scientific theories, design airplanes and bridges, operate manufacturing lines, control power plants and refineries, analyze financial derivatives, identify genomes, and provide the understanding necessary to derive and analyze cancer treatments. Because of the high stakes involved, it is essential that results ......
From his years of experience and an exhaustive study of the program planning literature, Mitchell Springer has ascertained that the program planning process is made up of four key elements - program organization planning, schedule planning, cost planning, and performance planning. Program organization planning is the process that establishes the ......
Provides an introduction to computer benchmarking. Hockney includes material concerned with the definition of performance parameters and metrics and defines a set of suitable metrics with which to measure performance and units with which to express them. He also presents new ideas resulting from the application of dimensional analysis to the field ......
This reprint of the 1969 book of the same name is a concise, rigorous, yet accessible account of the fundamentals of constrained optimization theory. Many problems arising in diverse fields such as machine learning, medicine, chemical engineering, structural design, and airline scheduling can be reduced to a constrained optimization problem. This ......
