Dynamic Models in Biology Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is an excellent book for students or faculty interested in learning more about the current state of the art in modeling of biological systems. The authors make a great effort to keep the mathematical sophistication at a level that students (or faculty) who primarily have a biological background...

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Mastering Oracle SQL, 2nd Edition Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)[A REVIEW OF THE SECOND EDITION]Those of you dealing with the latest Oracle 10g, and perhaps frustrated with the quality of the Oracle documentation, might want to consult this second edition. Its greatest difference compared to the first edition is simply that it deals with 10g, whereas the latter talks...

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Designing Effective Database Systems (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book gives you a points-to-points look-in on various core aspects ie: component parts & pieces, which earmark & characterizes the design of an effective database systemi'd say, this is a good (first,introductory db design book). it will endow you with the vision or skills to look at/objectively...

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Market Segmentation: Conceptual and Methodological Foundations (International Series in Quantitative Marketing) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)We conduct several customer segmentaiton studies for various clients each year. This is one of only 5 books I recommend to other market researcher who are interested in the topic of consumer segmentation.Click Here to see more reviews about: Market Segmentation: Conceptual and Methodological Foundations...

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Create Dynamic Charts in Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I bought this book because it addressed a need I have - how to make better charts with the newest version of Excel (2007), and do it in a dynamic manner, i.e. with data that changes.This is a typical computer book, with many hundreds of pages and an included CD of examples and other things.One of the...

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Microsoft® SQL Server(TM) 2000 Analysis Services Step by Step (DV-DLT Fundamentals) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This Step by Step guide serves as a great starting point for getting familiar with Microsoft's Analysis services. It starts with a quick introduction to data warehousing (without resorting to giving an entire history of the subject, as seems so common today) and how it relates to OLAP and then moves...

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Bayes and Empirical Bayes Methods for Data Analysis, Second Edition Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book features a deep and focused lesson on Bayes and Empirical Bayes Methods. It goes through the key topics as conjugate priors, MCMC methods (non iteratives and iteratives as the well known Gibbs samplining and metropolitis hastings algorithms), model selection methods (as bayes factor) and issues...

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Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Uniting information theory and inference in an interactive and entertaining way, this book has been a constant source of inspiration, intuition and insight for me. It is packed full of stuff - its contents appear to grow the more I look - but the layering of the material means the abundance of topics...

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SQL in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is designed as a reference -- the book that you keep near your workstation after you learn the basics, because youhaven't got everything memorised yet. It's great for that. Irefer to it when I have a question.But actually I picked up this book with no prior knowledge ofSQL (except that I knew...

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Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practitioners Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Over the last week or so, I've been reading C. J. Date's book Database In Depth - Relational Theory for Practitioners (O'Reilly). While it's a well-done title, it's the type of book I have a hard time reading...Contents:Introduction; Relations Versus Types; Tuples And Relations; Relation Variables; Relational...

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Modelling Armoured Vehicles (Osprey Modelling) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Any one that wishes to improve they're modeling skills this is a very good book. Not only on the Models covered, but it also gives ideas on how to improve others. The simple to follow step by step instructions on how to detail the subjects in the book can be used on any model.Click Here to see more reviews...

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Data Quality: The Field Guide Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I like this book quite a bit because although it's not a huge doorstop of a tome in terms of length, it's quite complete and thorough. Some data quality books cover management aspects, some the technical aspects, and some take other angles. This book takes a look at all of the different angles on data...

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Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is not intended as a comprehensive/blow-by-blow tutorial. It is a part of o'reilly's new 'notebook' series which is intended as a VERY brief intro to a new technology for experienced developers.This book is for folks who are pretty experienced with Java and databases, and its intention is to...

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UML 2.0 in Action: A project-based tutorial: A detailed and practical walk-through showing how to apply UML to real world development projects Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)First of all, why learning UML? Mainly because the Unified Modeling Language is maybe the best-known standardized graphical notation you can use to create an abstract model of a system. With complex systems, you can not rely on ad-hoc graphical representations.Then, how to choose a good and practical...

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An Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms (Progress in Theoretical Computer Science) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If you have cut your teeth on Donald Knuth's classic three volumes, "The Art of Computer Programming", and you want more detail, at a similar level of complexity, then consider Storer's book.It delves into lists, recursion, trees, graphs, heaps and sets. Like Knuth, Storer thoughtfully supplies an extensive...

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Core Data: Apple's API for Persisting Data on Mac OS X Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Word of warning: not one of the 5-star reviewers actually worked through examples in this book then reviewed it.It's not a 5-star book. It's a 5-star topic, and sadly (very very sadly) it's the only book I know of actually on that topic. I think the author's intentions are good, and there's a lot of...

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Building Financial Models (McGraw-Hill Finance & Investing) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Fantastic financial modeling book! This should be the text (or at least supplemental) for any serious corporate finance or financial modeling class. I wish it would've been metioned in my MBA classes. The book covers basics of Excel and accounting so you don't need to be an expert on either subject....

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