FlowingData

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

I wrote a book! You’ll learn how to use a variety of tools and work through the full visualization process, from data to visual analysis to publication-ready graphics. This second edition is loosely based on the first, but this is a brand new book. Tags: book It’s the second edition of Visualize This.

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Hacker News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At the time, doing serious reading in an academic field was almost impossible if you didn’t have an affiliation with a major research university, or live near a major public research library. The creation of the World Wide Web thirty years ago led some of the walls of the ivory tower to start crumbling.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

When Amazon launched the first Kindle fifteen years ago, book piracy was already a common problem. Rempant Book Piracy Fast forward to today and book piracy is easier and more widespread than ever. Many see their books being openly shared for free, just hours after they hits the stores.

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Hacker News

JULY 24, 2023

I used to have PDFs for my books on my web site - I moved them to this public repo. free-older-books-and-software/opencontent at main · mark-watson/free-older-books-and-software

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Hacker News

DECEMBER 28, 2023

As someone who has been known to start series smack in the middle—with both books and television shows—I tend to be a bit agnostic on the question of “what order should I read/watch these in?…

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Dataconomy

JULY 5, 2023

This week, a self-published author observed that books on Kindle Unlimited written by machines and packed with nonsense were dominating Amazon’s numerous bestselling lists. There are supposedly a ton of books produced by artificial intelligence (AI) on Amazon Kindle. I can see 19 actual legit books.

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Hacker News

APRIL 8, 2023

With more than 12 million books in its archive, Z-Library advertised itself as the largest repository of pirated books on the Internet. “Books you have read should not gather dust on your shelf – instead, they can get a second life in the hands of new readers! Government seized the site’s main domain names.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The view of biology often presented to the public is oversimplified and out of date. Scientists must set the record straight, argues a new book. The view of biology often presented to the public is oversimplified and out of date. Scientists must set the record straight, argues a new book.

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ODSC - Open Data Science

MARCH 2, 2023

Normally a bastion where new writers can self-publish their work without the hurdles of traditional publishing, it’s being reported that AI-generated books are entering the market in force according to South China Morning Post. The idea of writing a book finally seemed possible…I thought ‘I can do this. He’s not the only one.

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Hacker News

AUGUST 5, 2023

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The Data Administration Newsletter

APRIL 4, 2023

Why would Technics Publications publish a book outside its specialty of data management? We published Graham Witt’s Technical Writing for Quality for two reasons. First, Graham is a world-renowned data modeler and the author of Data Modeling for Quality, and therefore many of his examples are in the field of data management.

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Hacker News

MARCH 18, 2024

the education technology company and publisher of books including the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is seeking a valuation of about $1 billion its initial public offering, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc.,

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Analytics Vidhya

AUGUST 17, 2021

ArticleVideo Book This article publicize as a part of the Data Science Blogathon Introduction Most of you guys might be familiar with the word Web. The post Beginner’s Web Scraping Project: Web Scraping Subreddit (Step-by-Step) appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

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The Data Administration Newsletter

APRIL 20, 2021

Steve Hoberman has been a long-time contributor to The Data Administration Newsletter (TDAN.com), including his The Book Look column since 2016, and his The Data Modeling Addict column years before that.

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Iguazio

DECEMBER 14, 2023

With practical code examples and specific tool recommendations, the book empowers readers to implement the concepts effectively. After reading the book, ML practitioners and leaders will know how to deploy their ML models to production and scale their AI initiatives, while overcoming the challenges many other businesses are facing.

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Hacker News

JULY 3, 2023

A prominent author's decision to pull her novel from publication after being "review bombed" highlights Goodreads's power and raises questions about its owner: Amazon.

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Flipboard

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Amazon revealed the publication limitation in a post on the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) forum. KDP allows authors to self-publish their books and sell them in e-book, paperback, and hardback versions on the retail site. Read Entire Article

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Hacker News

MARCH 25, 2024

In addition to archiving the web, IA also operates a library that offers a broad collection of digital media, including books. Staying true to the centuries-old library concept, IA patrons can also borrow books that are scanned and digitized in-house. Internet Archive’s theory of fair use represents a threat just as grave.”

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

In their labours to preserve food and transform it into wholesome cuisine, Milton saw an analogue for how the reading public might digest books — good and bad alike — into nourishing ideas.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Books in Progress is what we call a “public drafting tool”: Drafts will be made available for comment from the public, allowing for direct collaboration between author and reader.

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Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Books in Progress is what we call a “public drafting tool”: Drafts will be made available for comment from the public, allowing for direct collaboration between author and reader.

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Cassie Kozyrkov

JANUARY 1, 2024

Managing to stay kind, balanced, cheerful, and there for my family as I navigate being CEO of not one but two startups (the advising/speaking one that I’ve been public about and the secret AI one that’s so stealth I’ve never mentioned it before). ? I also signed with an awesome book agent. Finding a (stellar) co-founder.

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Flipboard

AUGUST 7, 2023

On Monday morning, numerous writers woke up to learn that their books had been uploaded and scanned into a massive dataset without their consent. A project of cloud word processor Shaxpir, Prosecraft compiled over 27,000 books, comparing, ranking and analyzing them based on the “vividness” of their language.

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FlowingData

JUNE 29, 2022

Visualising Knowledge is an open book from PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, based on 25 years of making charts : PBL data visualisation is about visualising research results, using graphs, maps, diagrams and infographics. Tags: book , lessons , public. Download either version here.

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Hacker News

MAY 22, 2023

Z-Library has become the go-to site for many readers in recent years by providing access to millions of books, without charging a penny. Serving Students and Teachers Z-Library instead doubled down on its mission to provide free books to the public at large, including educational material and textbooks. When the U.S.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 7, 2017

The post Government Stats Are Ready for Change (Book Review) appeared first on Dataconomy. It’s an easy read and offers a solid.

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The Data Administration Newsletter

DECEMBER 20, 2022

It has been eight years plus since the first edition of my book, Non-Invasive Data Governance: The Path of Least Resistance and Greatest Success, was published by long-time TDAN.com contributor, Steve Hoberman, and his publishing company Technics Publications. The book has now been translated into five languages with […].

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Tableau

APRIL 7, 2021

Maybe you’ve read it in a book, or recognize it from a podcast recording or two (or three or four). I’m a lifelong learner, so to better understand data transformation and Data Culture challenges and best practices, I reached out to some leaders in the public sector where the impact of data-driven decision making is significant.

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Hacker News

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The concept of blameless culture has been around for a long time in other industries, and while the history isn’t clear, you could argue that it became an “official” part of the tech industry with the publication of the definitive book Site Reliability Engineering in 2016. My summary of blameless culture is: when there is […]

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Smart Data Collective

OCTOBER 25, 2022

However, many public entities are also leveraging AI technology to serve the public more efficiently. Through RFID and barcode technologies, you can have self-checkout and check-in, so the handling of books becomes more efficient as the borrowing, return and renewal process is done by the visitors and with minimal staff involvement.

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Hacker News

JUNE 4, 2023

Aside from the party budget, there are books and tuition fees to pay as well. To reduce costs, some students choose to share books or buy cheaper second-hand versions. Others go a step further and venture onto the dark side, by downloading or even buying ‘pirated’ books. Studying can be a costly endeavor.

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

By providing free access to millions of books, Z-Library became the go-to site for many readers in recent years. The site continued to operate on the dark web, offering millions of pirated books and articles as it did before. I was not in [a] condition to buy new books. To access it, follow this link singlelogin.me

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Hacker News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Anna’s Archive is a meta-search engine for book piracy sources and shadow libraries. criminal crackdown, its self-stated goal is to ensure and facilitate the availability of books and articles to the broader public. These records contain no copyrighted books or articles.

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ODSC - Open Data Science

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In the report, Amazon updated their guidelines with the following, “ We require you to inform us of AI-generated content (text, images or translations) when you publish a new book or make edits to and republish an existing book through KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing). AI-generated images include cover and interior images and artwork.”

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Tableau

APRIL 7, 2021

Maybe you’ve read it in a book, or recognize it from a podcast recording or two (or three or four). I’m a lifelong learner, so to better understand data transformation and Data Culture challenges and best practices, I reached out to some leaders in the public sector where the impact of data-driven decision making is significant.

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FlowingData

JULY 25, 2022

Their diagram designs evolved over two batches of publications, giving them opportunities to react to the efforts of other parties also jockeying for influence. These competitors buried stuffy graphic analysis inside thick books. It was more than data visualization—it was data storytelling.

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Dataconomy

JANUARY 8, 2024

This concern was highlighted recently when Amazon had to intervene to address the issue of AI-generated books crowding its bestseller charts. They alleged copyright infringement on the grounds that ChatGPT’s accurate summaries of their books implied the AI had been trained on their copyrighted material.

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