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Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Simplified by
An introduction to business intelligence and data warehousing through a simple question/answer format.
Data Mining and Warehousing by
Providing comprehensive coverage of various aspects of data mining and warehousing concepts, this book offers examples, diagrams, and questions in a simple language, a crystal clear approach, and a straightforward comprehensible presentation.
Data Warehousing: Using the Wal-Mart Model by
A real-world look at how Wal-Mart developed and uses its massive data warehouse.
At 70 terabytes and growing, Wal-Mart's data warehouse is still the world's largest, most ambitious, and arguably most successful commercial database.
Data Warehousing in the Age of Big Data by
Helping you navigate through the complex layers of Big Data and data warehousing, this practical and timely book provides information on how to effectively think about using all of the technologies and architectures to design the next-generation data warehouse.
Healthcare Informatics by
This book supplies an understanding of the different types of healthcare service providers, corresponding information technologies, analytic methods, and data issues that play a vital role in transforming the healthcare industry. All these elements are reshaping the various activities such as workflow and processes of hospitals, healthcare systems, ACOs, and patient analytics, including hot spotting, risk stratification, and treatment effectiveness. This latest book includes new content that examines the evolution of Big Data and how it is revolutionizing the healthcare industry. It presents strategies for achieving national goals for the meaningful use of health information technology and includes sound project management principles and case illustrations for technology roll-out, such as Computer Physician Order Entry (CPOE) for optimal utilization. The book describes how to enhance process efficiency by linking technologies, data, and analytics with strategic initiatives to achieve success. It explains how to leverage data resources with analytics to enhance decision support for care providers through in-depth descriptions of the array of analytic methods that are used to create actionable information, including Business Intelligence, Six Sigma, Data, and Text Mining.
Statistical Data Analytics by
A comprehensive introduction to statistical methods for data mining and knowledge discovery.
Urban Informatics by
This open access book is the first to systematically introduce the principles of urban informatics and its application to every aspect of the city that involves its functioning, control, management, and future planning. It introduces new models and tools being developed to understand and implement these technologies that enable cities to function more efficiently - to become 'smart' and 'sustainable'. This book offers a comprehensive review of the methods that form the core of urban informatics from various kinds of urban remote sensing to new approaches to machine learning and statistical modelling. It provides a detailed technical introduction to the wide array of tools information scientists need to develop the key urban analytics that are fundamental to learning about the smart city, and it outlines ways in which these tools can be used to inform design and policy so that cities can become more efficient with a greater concern for environment and equity.
