Marketplace books

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  Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

  by Toby Segaran, Jeff Hammerbacher

  In this insightful book, you'll learn from the best data practitioners in the field just how wide-ranging -- and beautiful -- working with data can be. Join 39 contributors as they explain how they developed simple and elegant solutions on projects ranging from the Mars lander to a Radiohead video.With Beautiful Data, you will: *Explore the opportunities and challenges involved in working with the vast number of datasets made available by the Web

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  Data Analysis Using SQL and Excel

  by Gordon S. Linoff

  Useful business analysis requires you to effectively transform data into actionable information. This book helps you use SQL and Excel to extract business information from relational databases and use that data to define business dimensions, store transactions about customers, produce results, and more.

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  Beginning Excel What-If Data Analysis Tools: Getting Started with Goal Seek, Data Tables, Scenarios, and Solver

  by Paul Cornell

  Excel's "what-if" data analysis tools let you experiment with your data to project future results. In turn, these predictions will lead to better decision making and unlock the mystery of many business analysis scenarios. For example, what-if data analysis tools will enable you to forecast how lowering the price per unit&emdash;while increasing projected unit sales&emdash;might affect your profit margins.

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  Beginning PivotTables in Excel 2007: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to Professional)

  by Debra Dalgleish

  Beginning PivotTables in Excel 2007 explains what Pivot Tables are, how you can benefit from using them, how to create them and modify them, and how to use their enhanced features. Using a Pivot Table in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 is a quick and exciting way to slice and dice a large amount of data.

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  Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Internals (Pro - Developer)

  by Kalen Delaney, Paul S. Randal, Kimberly L. Tripp, Conor Cunningham, Adam Machanic

  Explore the definitive guide to the internals and architecture of the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 relational database engine. The author an expert on SQL Server internals offers the guidance developers and database administrators need to understand how SQL Server internal structures affect application development and functionality.

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  Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment

  by Ben Fry

  Enormous quantities of data go unused or underused today, simply because people can't visualize the quantities and relationships in it. Using a downloadable programming environment developed by the author, Visualizing Data demonstrates methods for representing data accurately on the Web and elsewhere, complete with user interaction, animation, and more. How do the 3.1 billion A, C, G and T letters of the human genome compare to those of a chimp or a mouse?