The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era
Does the idea of a world in which facts mean nothing cause anxiety? Fear? Maybe even paranoia? Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-Truth Era cannot cure all the ills of a post-truth world, but by demonstrating how the emergence of digital technology into everyday life has knitted together a number of seemingly loosely related ......
In this book, we describe the online world that youth begin to encounter, often without adult oversight. It is a critical time where they are first getting to know both the outside world and form their own identity. We explain the social forces and sways that influence kids' attitudes and choices, from peers in social apps to influencers. We show ......
In this book, we describe the online world that youth begin to encounter, often without adult oversight. It is a critical time where they are first getting to know both the outside world and form their own identity. We explain the social forces and sways that influence kids' attitudes and choices, from peers in social apps to influencers. We show ......
The goal of this book is to introduce readers to an assortment of powerful command line utilities that can be combined to create simple, yet powerful shell scripts. While all examples and scripts use the "bash" command set, many of the concepts translate into other forms of shell scripting (ksh, sh, csh), including the concept of piping data ......
With many recent advances in data science, we have many more tools and techniques available for data analysts to extract information from data sets. This book will assist data analysts to move up from simple tools such as Excel for descriptive analytics to answer more sophisticated questions using machine learning.
As part of the best-selling Pocket Primer series, this book is designed to present the fundamentals of data structures using Python. Data structures provide a means to managing huge amounts of information such as large databases and the ability to use search and sort algorithms effectively.
This book is intended primarily for developers who have little or no experience with Python or Pandas. It contains a fast-paced introduction to Python and Python-based solutions to various tasks. Chapter 1 provides a quick tour of basic Python 3, followed by a chapter that shows how to work with loops and conditional logic in Python. Chapter 3 ......
As part of the successful Pocket Primer series, this book was designed for someone like you who needs to master Access programming fundamentals without spending too much time. All you need is a short book to get you started. It will show you only the things you need to know to feel at home with VBA. What you learn in this book on Access ......
This book is intended for those who plan to become data scientists as well as anyone who needs to perform data cleaning tasks using Pandas and NumPy. It contains a variety of code samples and features of NumPy and Pandas, and how to write regular expressions.
