1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910814081903321

Autore

Ellis Byron

Titolo

Real-time analytics : techniques to analyze and visualize streaming data / / Byron Ellis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Indianapolis, Indiana : , : Wiley, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-118-83802-5

1-118-83793-2

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (841 p.)

Disciplina

025.04

Soggetti

Real-time data processing

Data flow computing

Data mining

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Chapter 1: Introduction to Streaming Data; Sources of Streaming Data; Why Streaming Data Is Different; Infrastructures and Algorithms; Conclusion; Part I: Streaming A Analytics Architecture; Chapter 2: Designing Real-Time Streaming Architectures; Real-Time Architecture Components; Features of a Real-Time Architecture; Languages for Real-Time Programming; A Real-Time Architecture Checklist; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Service Configuration and Coordination; Motivation for Configuration and Coordination Systems; Maintaining Distributed State; Apache ZooKeeper; Conclusion

Chapter 4: Data-Flow Management in Streaming Analysis Distributed Data Flows; Apache Kafka: High-Throughput Distributed Messaging; Apache Flume: Distributed Log Collection; Conclusion; Chapter 5: Processing Streaming Data; Distributed Streaming Data Processing; Processing Data with Storm; Processing Data with Samza; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Storing Streaming Data; Consistent Hashing; "NoSQL" Storage Systems; Other Storage Technologies; Choosing a Technology; Warehousing; Conclusion; Part II: Analysis and Visualization; Chapter 7: Delivering Streaming Metrics; Streaming Web Applications

Visualizing Data Mobile Streaming Applications; Conclusion; Chapter 8:



Exact Aggregation and Delivery; Timed Counting and Summation; Multi-Resolution Time-Series Aggregation; Stochastic Optimization; Delivering Time-Series Data; Conclusion; Chapter 9: Statistical Approximation of Streaming Data; Numerical Libraries; Probabilities and Distributions; Working with Distributions; Random Number Generation; Sampling Procedures; Conclusion; Chapter 10: Approximating Streaming Data with Sketching; Registers and Hash Functions; Working with Sets; The Bloom Filter; Distinct Value Sketches

The Count-Min Sketch Other Applications; Conclusion; Chapter 11: Beyond Aggregation; Models for Real-Time Data; Forecasting with Models; Monitoring; Real-Time Optimization; Conclusion; Introduction; Overview and Organization of This Book; Who Should Read This Book; Tools You Will Need; What''s on the Website; Time to Dive In; End User License Agreement

Sommario/riassunto

Construct a robust end-to-end solution for analyzing and visualizing streaming data Real-time analytics is the hottest topic in data analytics today. In Real-Time Analytics: Techniques to Analyze and Visualize Streaming Data, expert Byron Ellis teaches data analysts technologies to build an effective real-time analytics platform. This platform can then be used to make sense of the constantly changing data that is beginning to outpace traditional batch-based analysis platforms. The author is among a very few leading experts in the field. He has a prestigious background in research, development,



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910969204603321

Autore

Azim Firdous <1952->

Titolo

The colonial rise of the novel / / Firdous Azim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1993

ISBN

1-280-44272-7

1-134-86608-9

1-134-86607-0

9786610442720

0-203-20259-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

823.8

8238

Soggetti

English fiction - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Feminism and literature - Great Britain - History

Literature and society - Great Britain - History

Women and literature - Great Britain - History

Social problems in literature

Imperialism in literature

Colonies in literature

Sex role in literature

First person narrative

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-243) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; THE SUBJECT/S OF THE NOVEL; SLAVERY AND SEXUALITY IN OROONOKO; DANGEROUS IDENTITY The many disguises of Roxana; CHARLOTTE BRONTE/CURRER BELL Sexuality, the text and the woman novelist; THE BRONTE CHILDREN AT PLAY; THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE IN THE PROFESSOR; REREADING FEMINISM'S TEXTS Jane Eyre and Shirley; LANGUAGE, SUBJECTIVITY AND LITERATURE: An afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this challening book, Firdous Azim, provides a feminist critique of



orthodox accounts of the `rise of the novel' and exposes the underlying orientalist assumptions of the early English novel. Whereas previous studies have emphasized the universality of the coherent and consistent subject which found expression in the novels of the eighteenth century, Azim demonstrtes how certain categories: women and people of colour, were silenced and excluded. The Colonial Rise of the Novel makes an important and provocative contribution to post-colonial and feminist criticism. It will be essenti