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Learn how to solve real-world data problems using machine learning and RPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a…
free eBook in PDF format.Key FeaturesThe 10th Anniversary Edition of the bestselling R machine learning book, updated with 50% new content for R 4.0.0 and beyondHarness the power of R to build flexible, effective, and transparent machine learning modelsLearn quickly with this clear, hands-on guide by machine learning expert Brett LantzBook DescriptionMachine learning, at its core, is concerned with transforming data into actionable knowledge. R offers a powerful set of machine learning methods to quickly and easily gain insight from your data. Machine Learning with R, Fourth Edition, provides a hands-on, accessible, and readable guide to applying machine learning to real-world problems. Whether you are an experienced R user or new to the language, Brett Lantz teaches you everything you need to know for data pre-processing, uncovering key insights, making new predictions, and visualizing your findings. This 10th Anniversary Edition features several new chapters that reflect the progress of machine learning in the last few years and help you build your data science skills and tackle more challenging problems, including making successful machine learning models and advanced data preparation, building better learners, and making use of big data.You'll also find this classic R data science book updated to R 4.0.0 with newer and better libraries, advice on ethical and bias issues in machine learning, and an introduction to deep learning. Whether you're looking to take your first steps with R for machine learning or making sure your skills and knowledge are up to date, this is an unmissable read that will help you find powerful new insights in your data.What you will learnLearn the end-to-end process of machine learning from raw data to implementationClassify important outcomes using nearest neighbor and Bayesian methodsPredict future events using decision trees, rules, and support vector machinesForecast numeric data and estimate financial values using regression methodsModel complex processes with artificial neural networksPrepare, transform, and clean data using the tidyverseEvaluate your models and improve their performanceConnect R to SQL databases and emerging big data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop, H2O, and TensorFlowWho this book is forThis book is designed to help data scientists, actuaries, data analysts, financial analysts, social scientists, business and machine learning students, and any other practitioners who want a clear, accessible guide to machine learning with R. No R experience is required, although prior exposure to statistics and programming is helpful.Learn IT security essentials and prepare for the Security+ exam with this CompTIA exam guide, complete with additional online resources—including…
flashcards, PBQs, and mock exams—at securityplus.trainingKey FeaturesWritten by Ian Neil, one of the world's top CompTIA Security+ trainersTest your knowledge of cybersecurity jargon and acronyms with realistic exam questionsLearn about cryptography, encryption, and security policies to deliver a robust infrastructureBook DescriptionThe CompTIA Security+ certification validates the fundamental knowledge required to perform core security functions and pursue a career in IT security. Authored by Ian Neil, a world-class CompTIA certification trainer, this book is a best-in-class study guide that fully covers the CompTIA Security+ 601 exam objectives. Complete with chapter review questions, realistic mock exams, and worked solutions, this guide will help you master the core concepts to pass the exam the first time you take it. With the help of relevant examples, you'll learn fundamental security concepts from certificates and encryption to identity and access management (IAM). As you progress, you'll delve into the important domains of the exam, including cloud security, threats, attacks and vulnerabilities, technologies and tools, architecture and design, risk management, cryptography, and public key infrastructure (PKI). You can access extra practice materials, including flashcards, performance-based questions, practical labs, mock exams, key terms glossary, and exam tips on the author's website at securityplus.training. By the end of this Security+ book, you'll have gained the knowledge and understanding to take the CompTIA exam with confidence.What you will learnMaster cybersecurity fundamentals, from the CIA triad through to IAMExplore cloud security and techniques used in penetration testingUse different authentication methods and troubleshoot security issuesSecure the devices and applications used by your companyIdentify and protect against various types of malware and virusesProtect yourself against social engineering and advanced attacksUnderstand and implement PKI conceptsDelve into secure application development, deployment, and automationWho this book is forIf you want to take and pass the CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 exam, even if you are not from an IT background, this book is for you. You'll also find this guide useful if you want to become a qualified security professional. This CompTIA book is also ideal for US Government and US Department of Defense personnel seeking cybersecurity certification.Get started with creating intuitive native user interfaces on Android platformsKey FeaturesUnderstand the difference between the imperative (Android View) and…
declarative (Jetpack Compose) approachLearn about the structure of a Compose app, built-in Compose UI elements, and core concepts such as state hoisting and composition over inheritanceWrite, test, and debug composable functionsBook DescriptionJetpack Compose is Android's new framework for building fast, beautiful, and reliable native user interfaces. It simplifies and significantly accelerates UI development on Android using the declarative approach. This book will help developers to get hands-on with Jetpack Compose and adopt a modern way of building Android applications. The book is not an introduction to Android development, but it will build on your knowledge of how Android apps are developed.Complete with hands-on examples, this easy-to-follow guide will get you up to speed with the fundamentals of Jetpack Compose such as state hoisting, unidirectional data flow, and composition over inheritance and help you build your own Android apps using Compose. You'll also cover concepts such as testing, animation, and interoperability with the existing Android UI toolkit.By the end of the book, you'll be able to write your own Android apps using Jetpack Compose.What you will learnGain a solid understanding of the core concepts of Jetpack ComposeDevelop beautiful, neat, and immersive UI elements that are user friendly, reliable, and performantBuild a complete app using Jetpack ComposeAdd Jetpack Compose to your existing Android applicationsTest and debug apps that use Jetpack ComposeFind out how Jetpack Compose can be used on other platformsWho this book is forThis book is for any mobile app developer looking to understand the fundamentals of the new Jetpack Compose framework and the benefits of native development. A solid understanding of Android app development, along with some knowledge of the Kotlin programming language, will be beneficial. Basic programming knowledge is necessary to grasp the concepts covered in this book effectively.Learn the core concepts of geospatial data analysis for building actionable and insightful GIS applications Key Features Create GIS solutions…
using the new features introduced in Python 3.7 Explore a range of GIS tools and libraries such as PostGIS, QGIS, and PROJ Learn to automate geospatial analysis workflows using Python and Jupyter Book Description Geospatial analysis is used in almost every domain you can think of, including defense, farming, and even medicine. With this systematic guide, you'll get started with geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing analysis using the latest features in Python. This book will take you through GIS techniques, geodatabases, geospatial raster data, and much more using the latest built-in tools and libraries in Python 3.7. You'll learn everything you need to know about using software packages or APIs and generic algorithms that can be used for different situations. Furthermore, you'll learn how to apply simple Python GIS geospatial processes to a variety of problems, and work with remote sensing data. By the end of the book, you'll be able to build a generic corporate system, which can be implemented in any organization to manage customer support requests and field support personnel. What you will learn Automate geospatial analysis workflows using Python Code the simplest possible GIS in just 60 lines of Python Create thematic maps with Python tools such as PyShp, OGR, and the Python Imaging Library Understand the different formats that geospatial data comes in Produce elevation contours using Python tools Create flood inundation models Apply geospatial analysis to real-time data tracking and storm chasing Who this book is for This book is for Python developers, researchers, or analysts who want to perform geospatial modeling and GIS analysis with Python. Basic knowledge of digital mapping and analysis using Python or other scripting languages will be helpful.Learn C# programming from scratch using Unity as a fun and accessible entry point with this updated edition of the…
bestselling series.Includes invitation to join the online Unity Game Development community to read the book alongside peers, Unity developers/C# programmers and Harrison Ferrone.Key FeaturesDevelop a strong foundation of programming concepts and the C# languageBecome confident with Unity fundamentals and features in line with Unity 2022Build a playable game prototype in Unity—a working first-person shooter game prototypeBook DescriptionIt's the ability to write custom C# scripts for behaviors and game mechanics that really takes Unity the extra mile. That's where this book can help you as a new programmer! Harrison Ferrone, in this seventh edition of the bestselling series, will take you through the building blocks of programming and the C# language from scratch while building a fun and playable game prototype in Unity. This book will teach you the fundamentals of OOPs, basic concepts of C#, and Unity engine with lots of code samples, exercises and tips to go beyond the book with your work. You will write C# scripts for simple game mechanics, perform procedural programming, and add complexity to your games by introducing intelligent enemies and damage-dealing projectiles. You will explore the fundamentals of Unity game development, including game design, lighting basics, player movement, camera controls, collisions, and more with every passing chapter. Note: The screenshots in the book display the Unity editor in full-screen mode for a comprehensive view. Users can easily reference color versions of images by downloading them from the GitHub repository or the graphics bundle linked in the book. What you will learnUnderstanding programming fundamentals by breaking them down into their basic partsComprehensive explanations with sample codes of object-oriented programming and how it applies to C#Follow simple steps and examples to create and implement C# scripts in UnityDivide your code into pluggable building blocks using interfaces, abstract classes, and class extensionsGrasp the basics of a game design document and then move on to blocking out your level geometry, adding lighting and a simple object animationCreate basic game mechanics such as player controllers and shooting projectiles using C#Become familiar with stacks, queues, exceptions, error handling, and other core C# conceptsLearn how to handle text, XML, and JSON data to save and load your game dataWho this book is forIf you're a developer, programmer, hobbyist, or anyone who wants to get started with Unity and C# programming in a fun and engaging manner, this book is for you. You'll still be able to follow along if you don't have programming experience, but knowing the basics will help you get the most out of this book.Build scalable and production-ready infrastructure in Amazon Web Services with CloudFormation Key Features Leverage AWS CloudFormation templates to manage your…
entire infrastructure Get up and running with writing your infrastructure as code and automating your environment Simplify infrastructure management and increase productivity with AWS CloudFormation Book Description DevOps and the cloud revolution have forced software engineers and operations teams to rethink how to manage infrastructures. With this AWS book, you'll understand how you can use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to simplify IT operations and manage the modern cloud infrastructure effectively with AWS CloudFormation. This comprehensive guide will help you explore AWS CloudFormation from template structures through to developing complex and reusable infrastructure stacks. You'll then delve into validating templates, deploying stacks, and handling deployment failures. The book will also show you how to leverage AWS CodeBuild and CodePipeline to automate resource delivery and apply continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices to the stack. As you advance, you'll learn how to generate templates on the fly using macros and create resources outside AWS with custom resources. Finally, you'll improve the way you manage the modern cloud in AWS by extending CloudFormation using AWS serverless application model (SAM) and AWS cloud development kit (CDK). By the end of this book, you'll have mastered all the major AWS CloudFormation concepts and be able to simplify infrastructure management. What you will learn Understand modern approaches to IaC Develop universal and reusable CloudFormation templates Discover ways to apply continuous delivery with CloudFormation Implement IaC best practices for the AWS Cloud Provision massive applications across multiple regions and accounts Automate template generation and software provisioning for AWS Extend CloudFormation with custom resources and template macros Who this book is for If you are a developer who wants to learn how to write templates, a DevOps engineer interested in deployment and orchestration, or a solutions architect looking to understand the benefits of managing infrastructure with ease, this book is for you. Prior understanding of the AWS Cloud is necessary.Discover the secrets to creating cutting-edge, compelling full stack applications using Spring Boot and React's rich and varied toolsetsKey FeaturesUtilize…
Spring Boot to make powerful, complex, and secure backends for your applicationsLeverage React's full arsenal of tools for building slick, high-performance frontendsBuild modern, scalable full stack applications that comfortably meet the demands of your usersBook DescriptionGetting started with full stack development can be daunting. Even developers who are familiar with the best tools, such as Spring Boot and React, can struggle to nail the basics, let alone master the more advanced elements. If you're one of these developers, this comprehensive guide covers everything you need!This updated edition of the Full Stack Development with Spring Boot 2 and React book will take you from novice to proficient in this expansive domain. Taking a practical approach, this book will first walk you through the latest Spring Boot features for creating a robust backend, covering everything from setting up the environment and dependency injection to security and testing.Once this has been covered, you'll advance to React frontend programming. If you've ever wondered about custom Hooks, third-party components, and MUI, this book will demystify all that and much more. You'll explore everything that goes into developing, testing, securing, and deploying your applications using all the latest tools from Spring Boot, React, and other cutting-edge technologies.By the end of this book, you'll not only have learned the theory of building modern full stack applications but also have developed valuable skills that add value in any setting.What you will learnMake fast and RESTful web services powered by Spring Data RESTCreate and manage databases using ORM, JPA, Hibernate, and moreExplore the use of unit tests and JWTs with Spring SecurityEmploy React Hooks, props, states, and more to create your frontendDiscover a wide array of advanced React and third-party componentsBuild high-performance applications complete with CRUD functionalityHarness MUI to customize your frontendTest, secure, and deploy your applications with high efficiencyWho this book is forThis book is for Java developers who are familiar with Spring Boot but don't know where to start when it comes to building full stack applications. You'll also find this book useful if you're a frontend developer with knowledge of JavaScript basics looking to learn full stack development or a full stack developer experienced in other technology stacks looking to learn a new one.This textbook explores sustainability, climate change, and the corporate responsibility movement from a broad array of perspectives, including the challenges,…
risks, and opportunities of ESG policies, energy and environmental science, economics and philosophy, and sound public and private sector management. There is no intergenerational issue that is more pressing than the challenge of sustainability and climate change. It is a concern that will only worsen within any reader’s lifetime, especially if we fail to act. At the same time, there is growing concern among corporations arising from the Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) paradigm that includes climate risk, future profits, and stakeholder expectations. Many of our leading institutions also increasingly acknowledge a responsibility for corporate decisions since the onset of the Industrial Revolution that plays no small role in bringing us to the existential precipice of our day. This book provides necessary tools of sufficient sophistication to address complex intergenerational issues, such as global warming, economic justice and fairness, appropriate intergenerational planning, sustainable finance, corporate risk management, and governance. The book offers a vital resource for students, shareholders, sustainability practitioners, agencies, and advocates interested in climate action, intergenerational accountability, and economic sustainability.Climate Resilient Innovative Livelihoods in Indian Sundarban Delta: Scopes and Challenges
Par Abhijit Mitra, Sufia Zaman, Prosenjit Pramanick. 2023
This book covers several innovative alternative livelihoods based on mangrove floral resources with their respective SWOT analysis. True mangrove flora…
and their associates in Indian Sundarbans are noted for their wide spectrum of ecosystem services in which livelihoods of the region are one of the most important components. Many alternative mangrove-centric livelihoods are in the pipeline of startup. However, due to difficulty in marketing and lack of clarity over ownership of natural resources, the values of the mangrove-based products have not been fully realized. Natural resources of several categories in Indian Sundarbans like oysters, seaweeds, medicinal mangrove flora, vitamin-rich mangrove fruits, etc. are still lying untapped. These untapped resources have been spun with the livelihood sectors of the Sundarban people backed up with sound business models to make the venture sustainable. The carbon foot prints associated with each of these livelihoods have been studied in details and steps have been suggested for net zero carbon livelihood programmes along with their sustainability. The book provides the readers about several mangrove-based cutting-edge researches and technologies in the domain of climate resilient livelihood, which if implemented can lead to food and economic security of the region.Tranquilos, libres y felices: 70 actividades para cada día en casa, en la escuela y de vacaciones
Par Anna Mas Estruch. 2023
70 actividades para los más pequeños de la casa en cualquier momento del día 70 actividades para acompañar a los…
niños desde el respeto, el amor y la libertad enfocadadas a respetar rutinas, hábitos de conducta y comportamientos adaptados a las necesidades de cada niño en particular. Potencian la autonomía, mejoran la autoestima y ayudan al niño a crecer como miembro activo de un grupo, entre sus propios compañeros del aula, en la familia o con amigosEl manual imprescindible para que los más pequeños de la casa jueguen, se diviertan y aprendan lejos de las pantallas.A City Cannot Be a Work of Art: Learning Economics and Social Theory From Jane Jacobs
Par Sanford Ikeda. 2024
This open access book connects Jane Jacobs's celebrated urban analysis to her ideas on economics and social theory. While Jacobs…
is a legend in the field of urbanism and famous for challenging and profoundly influencing urban planning and design, her theoretical contributions – although central to her criticisms of and proposals for public policy – are frequently overlooked even by her most enthusiastic admirers. This book argues that Jacobs’s insight that “a city cannot be a work of art” underlies both her ideas on planning and her understanding of economic development and social cooperation. It shows how the theory of the market process and Jacobs’s theory of urban processes are useful complements – an example of what economists and urbanists can learn from each other. This Jacobs-cum-market-process perspective offers new theoretical, historical, and policy analyses of cities, more realistic and coherent than standard accounts by either economists or urbanists.Tsūji, Interpreters in and Around Early Modern Japan (Translation History)
Par Mino Saito, Miki Sato. 2023
This book introduces English-speaking audiences to tsūji, who were interpreters in different contexts in Japan and then the Ryukyu Kingdom from…
the late 16th to the mid-19th century. It comprises seven historical case studies on tsūji in which contributors adopt a context-oriented approach. They aim to explore the function of these interpreters in communication with other cultures in different languages, including Japanese, Dutch, Chinese, Korean, Ryukyuan, English, Russian and Ainu. Each chapter elucidates the tsūji and the surrounding social, political and economic conditions. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of translation and interpreting, but also readers interested in the early modern history of interpreting and cultural exchange. It will similarly appeal to those interested in the Japanese language, but with limited access to books written in Japanese.Computer Vision and Robotics: Proceedings of CVR 2023 (Algorithms for Intelligent Systems)
Par Andries Engelbrecht, Praveen Kumar Shukla, Himanshu Mittal. 2023
This book consists of a collection of the high-quality research articles in the field of computer vision and robotics which…
are presented in the International Conference on Computer Vision and Robotics (CVR 2023), organized by BBD University Lucknow, India, during 24–25 February 2023. The book discusses applications of computer vision and robotics in the fields like medical science, defence, and smart city planning. The book presents recent works from researchers, academicians, industry, and policy makers.This book is the first to analyse the practice of governance to resolve conflict in the case of Aceh in…
Indonesia. Combining theoretical discourse on conflict, democracy, and governance, it draws from original field research on the separatist conflict, utilizing a social constructivist approach in collating observations and interviews with political elites from both the Government of Indonesia and the Aceh Independent Movement (GAM). The conflict was an intractable one in which thousand civilians were killed between 1976 and 2006. The author zooms into the 2003 and 2007 period, against the broader context of the political landscape of Indonesia under the Suharto regime. In doing so, the book tackles the challenges presented by intrastate conflicts relating to ethno-religiosity, land use, and separatism. It unpacks the Indonesian political system’s shift from an authoritarian regime to a democratic one, and demarcates the prevalence of state violence in managing conflicts, as exemplified in the Aceh separatism conflict. Relevent to political scientists and scholars in peace, conflict and development studies, this co-published book presents novel sociological insights into Indonesia’s historical, and contemporary, political landscape.This book constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Web Services, ICWS 2023, held as Part of the…
Services Conference Federation, SCF 2023, held in Honolulu, HI, USA, in September 2023. The 7 full papers and one short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 14 submissions. The papers cover topics in the field of: research track; application and industry track and short paper track.The International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) has been a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Web-based services, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of Web-based services. All topics regarding Internet/Web services lifecycle study and management align with the theme of ICWS.Questioning Care in Higher Education: Resisting Definitions as Radical
Par Rachel Burke, Sally Baker. 2023
This book explores questions of care in higher education. Using Joan Tronto’s seven signs that institutions are not caring well,…
the authors examine whether students and staff consider universities to be caring institutions. As such, they outline how universities systematically, structurally, and actively ‘undercare’ when it comes to supporting students and staff, a phenomenon which was amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on scholarly ideas from the sociology of care, higher education, social justice, and feminist critique, and in dialogue with empirical insights gathered with people who work and study in universities in Australia, South Africa, and the UK, the book questions why people care, as well as why adopting a caring position in higher education can be viewed as radical. The authors conclude by asking what we can do to counter that view by thinking carefully about the purpose, power, and plurality of care, before imagining how we can create more caring universities.Technische Maßnahmen, die es Cyberangreifern schwer machen, dienen zur Abschreckung, weil Hacker immer nur so hoch springen, wie sie müssen.…
Bei komplexen und vor allem sicherheitsrelevanten IT-Infrastrukturen reichen diese technischen Maßnahmen allein jedoch oft nicht aus.Dieses Lehrbuch betrachtet alle Aspekte der IT-Sicherheit und effektive Maßnahmen, um Angriffe zu detektieren und sich erfolgreich dagegen zu wehren. Es behandelt allgemeine Angriffsmechanismen und Angriffsszenarien, die von Angreifern angewendet werden. Dabei soll klar werden, dass es nicht ausreichend ist, Firewall-Regeln sauber zu konfigurieren oder die aktuellsten Patches einzuspielen. Vielmehr muss ein ganzheitlicher Ansatz gewählt werden, der Nutzende einschließt (Awareness) und funktionierende Prozesse für den Fall eines konkreten Angriffs etabliert. Das Buch zeigt, wo die Schwachstellen liegen, wie man sie schließt, wie man Angriffe erkennt und wie man sie erfolgreich abwehrt.Im Zuge der Globalisierung konkurrieren Unternehmen verstärkt untereinander und auch die Anzahl der Wettbewerber steigt dadurch an. Um wettbewerbsfähig zu…
bleiben, müssen Unternehmen Produkte und Dienstleistungen anbieten, die die Bedürfnisse der Kunden befriedigen. Unternehmen stehen vor der Herausforderung, wie sie Konsumenten und Interessenten als aktive Ideenlieferanten gewinnen können. Eine Möglichkeit ist die Einbeziehung und Integrierung von Nutzern auf Online-Plattformen, wobei auf die Produktideen von externen Personen zurückgegriffen wird, weshalb sich dieser Prozess durch die Crowd auslagern lässt. Nutzer, die an solchen Wettbewerben partizipieren wollen, werden gezielt als kollektive Wissensquelle für die Gewinnung von Produktideen im Innovationsprozess integriert; dieser Prozess wird als Value-Co-Creation bezeichnet. Value-Co-Creation wird sowohl in der Forschung als auch in der Managementpraxis eine hohe Bedeutung zugesprochen, da sie Unternehmen ermöglicht, potenzielle Kunden aktiv in Wertschöpfungsprozesse einzubeziehen. Für Forschung und Praxis wurden dafür ein Modell zur Aktivierung der Teilnahme an Value-Co-Creations in sozialen Netzwerken entwickelt. Hierbei wurden Co-Creators gebildet, unter Berücksichtigung der Incentivierung auf den verschiedenen sozialen Netzwerken und dem Einbezug der unterschiedlichen Arten von Value-Co-Creation-Aufgaben.Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems LV (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14280)
Par Abdelkader Hameurlain, A Min Tjoa. 2023
The LNCS journal Transactions on Large-scale Data and Knowledge-centered Systems focuses on data management, knowledge discovery, and knowledge processing, which…
are core and hot topics in computer science. Since the 1990s, the Internet has become the main driving force behind application development in all domains. An increase in the demand for resource sharing across different sites connected through networks has led to an evolution of data- and knowledge-management systems from centralized systems to decentralized systems enabling large-scale distributed applications providing high scalability.This, the 55th issue of Transactions on Large-Scale Data and Knowledge-Centered Systems, contains five fully revised regular papers covering a wide range of very hot topics in the fields of data driven science life science, workflows, weak signals, online social networks, root cause analysis, detected anomalies, analysis of interplanetary file systems, concept weighting in knowledge graphs, and neural networks.Big Data Analytics for Smart Urban Systems (Urban Sustainability)
Par Ali Cheshmehzangi, Saeid Pourroostaei Ardakani. 2023
Big Data Analytics for Smart Urban Systems aims to introduce Big data solutions for urban sustainability smart applications, particularly for…
smart urban systems. It focuses on intelligent big data which takes the benefits of machine learning to analyse large and rapidly changing datasets in smart urban systems. The state-of-the-art Big data analytics applications are presented and discussed to highlight the feasibility of big data and machine learning solutions to enhance smart urban systems, smart operations, urban management, and urban governance. The key benefits of this book are, (1) to introduce the principles of machine learning-enabled big data analysis in smart urban systems, (2) to present the state-of-the-art data analysis solutions in smart management and operations, and (3) to understand the principles of big data analytics for smart cities and communities. Endorsements‘Over the many years of collaboration between academia and industry, we noticed the common language is ‘big data’; with that, we have developed novel ideas to bridge the gaps and help promote innovation, technologies, and science’.- Tian Tang, Independent Researcher, China ‘Big Data Analytics is a fascinating research area, particularly for cities and city transformations. This book is valuable to those who think vigorously and aim to act ahead’.- Li Xie, Independent Researcher, China‘For urban critiques, knowledge trains aspiring opportunities toward outstanding manifestations. Smartness has evolved or/ advanced rambunctious & embracing realities along (with) novel directions and nurturing integrated city knowledge’.- Aaron Golden, SELECT Consultants, UK