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Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises


Free Download Ray Dalio, "Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1668009293 | EPUB | pages: 480 | 123.3 mb
Ray Dalio, the legendary investor and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Principles-whose books have sold more than five million copies worldwide-shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well. This template allowed his firm, Bridgewater Associates, to antic­ipate 2008’s events and navigate them well while others struggled badly.

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Big Data Shocks An Introduction to Big Data for Librarians and Information Professionals (LITA Guides)


Free Download Big Data Shocks: An Introduction to Big Data for Librarians and Information Professionals (LITA Guides) by Andrew Weiss
English | March 15, 2018 | ISBN: 1538103222 | 218 pages | PDF | 41 Mb
"Big data," as it has become known in business and information technology circles, has the potential to improve our knowledge about human behavior, and to help us gain insight into the ways in which we organize ourselves, our cultures, and our external and internal lives. Libraries stand at the center of the information world, both facilitating and contributing to this flood as well as helping to shape and channel it to specific purposes. But all technologies come with a price. Where the tool can serve a purpose, it can also change the user’s behavior to fit the purposes of the tool. Big Data Shocks: An Introduction to Big Data for Librarians and Information Professionals examines the roots of big data, the current climate and rising stars in this world. The book explores the issues raised by big data and discusses theoretical as well as practical approaches to managing information whose scope exists beyond the human scale.

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Kaufmann’s The Big Store in Pittsburgh


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English | ISBN: 1467119903 | 2016 | 160 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Join Letitia Stuart Savage on a journey to a time of leisurely shopping for the latest fashions complete with a side of Mile High Ice Cream Pie from the Tic Toc Restaurant.

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Big Data Analytics Theory, Techniques, Platforms, and Applications (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)


Free Download Big Data Analytics: Theory, Techniques, Platforms, and Applications (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology) by Ümit Demirbaga, Gagangeet Singh Aujla, Anish Jindal
English | May 8, 2024 | ISBN: 3031556380 | 307 pages | MOBI | 15 Mb
This book introduces readers to big data analytics. It covers the background to and the concepts of big data, big data analytics, and cloud computing, along with the process of setting up, configuring, and getting familiar with the big data analytics working environments in the first two chapters. The third chapter provides comprehensive information on big data processing systems – from installing these systems to implementing real-world data applications, along with the necessary codes. The next chapter dives into the details of big data storage technologies, including their types, essentiality, durability, and availability, and reveals their differences in their properties. The fifth and sixth chapters guide the reader through understanding, configuring, and performing the monitoring and debugging of big data systems and present the available commercial and open-source tools for this purpose. Chapter seven gives information about a trending machine learning, Bayesian network: a probabilistic graphical model, by presenting a real-world probabilistic application to understand causal, complex, and hidden relationships for diagnosis and forecasting in a scalable manner for big data. Special sections throughout the eighth chapter present different case studies and applications to help the readers to develop their big data analytics skills using various big data analytics frameworks.

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The One Thing Small Ideas, Big Outcomes, A Brighter Future for South Africa


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English | 1 October 2024 | ISBN: 1770109447 | 360 pages | PDF | 2.42 Mb
If South Africa were a cat, it would be rapidly running out of its nine lives. In 2024, voters sent a clear signal to the fractured ANC that they had run out of patience. It lost its majority and was forced to enter a difficult multi-party coalition.

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