Archive for the ‘books’ Category

The numbers behind living dangerously

4th June 2009 by No Comments

Boing Boing reviews a new book, Absinthe & Flamethrowers: Projects and Ruminations on the Art of Living Dangerously. Among other things, it shows how people fit a normal distribution when it comes to how willing they are to take risks. What’s interesting is that they found that those people who are within one [...]

Text of R Graphics available online

8th May 2009 by No Comments

The full text of the book, R Graphics by Paul Murrell, is available online.

New data book available from Cloudera founder

2nd May 2009 by No Comments

Cloudera founder, Jeff Hammerbacher, has a new data book available – Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

Book: Refactoring SQL Applications

12th March 2009 by No Comments

If your database isn’t performing the way you’d hoped, then this book might be for you. Refactoring SQL Applications provides a set of tested options for making code modifications to dramatically improve the way your database applications function. Backed by real-world examples, you’ll find quick fixes for simple problems, in-depth answers for more complex [...]

Required Reading: Analytics: A Winning New Way

1st May 2007 by No Comments

Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris argue that companies need analytics to make better decisions and extract maximum value from their business processes.
by Colin Beasty
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
In a world where the traditional bases of competitive advantage have largely disappeared, how do you separate your company’s performance from the rest of the pack’s? In Competing on [...]

Book Review – SQL Hacks

8th January 2007 by No Comments

I just came across a review of “SQL Hacks – tips and tools for digging into your data By Andrew Cumming, Gordon Russell” and thought I would share it with everyone.
Here’s the review:
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/08/1536255&from=rss
and here’s the link to the book:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sqlhks/index.html