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by Kristina Chodorow
Second Edition
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by C.J. Date
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by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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by Rick Copeland
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by Steve Suehring
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by MC Brown
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by Robin Nixon
Second Edition
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by Tom White
Third Edition
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by Jonathan Gennick
Third Edition
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by Stuart Gripman, Susan Prosser
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by Alan Beaulieu
Second Edition
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by Jason Rutherglen, Dean Wampler, Edward Capriolo
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by Anthony Molinaro
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by Lynn Beighley
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by Steven Feuerstein, Bill Pribyl
Fifth Edition
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by Eric Sammer
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by Regina Obe, Leo Hsu
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by Rick Copeland

Data News

Visualization of the Week: CIA rendition flights of terror suspects

By Jenn Webb
May 23, 2013

The Rendition Project, a collaboration between academics at Kent and Kingston universities and the NGO Reprieve, has developed an interactive visualization of the extent of CIA rendition flights of terror suspects. In a post at The Guardian’s Datablog, James Ball …

The elusive quest to transform healthcare through patient empowerment

By Andy Oram
May 21, 2013

Would you take a morning off from work to discuss health care costs and consumer empowerment in health care? Over a hundred people in the Boston area did so on Monday, May 6, for the conference “Empowering Healthcare Consumers: A …

Looking ahead to a world of data-dominated decisions

By Andy Oram
May 21, 2013

Measuring a world-shaking trend with feet planted in every area of human endeavor cannot be achieved in a popular book of 200 pages, but one has to start somewhere. I am happy to recommend the adept efforts of Viktor Mayer-Schönberger …

Improving options for unlocking your graph data

By Ben Lorica
May 19, 2013

The popular open source project GraphLab received a major boost early this week when a new company comprised of its founding developers, raised funding to develop analytic tools for graph data sets. GraphLab Inc. will continue to use the open …

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Data Experts

Matthew Russell Matthew Russell is a computer scientist from middle Tennessee; and serves Digital Reasoning Systems as the Director of Advanced Technology. Hacking and writing are two activities essential to his renaissance man regimen.

Stafford Vaughan Stafford Vaughan Stafford Vaughan started computer programming at an early age. In 2005 he joined CustomWare, a professional services organization that specializes in the technology of fast-growing software companies, and personally established the training departments of Atlassian, Zendesk, and GoodData. In 2013, Stafford joined one of the world's leading consumer electronics…

Shyam Seshadri Shyam Seshadri Shyam Seshadri is the owner / CEO of Fundoo Solutions (http://www.befundoo.com), where he splits his time between working on innovative and exciting new products for the Indian markets, and consulting about and running workshops on AngularJS. Prior to Fundoo Solutions, Shyam completed his MBA from the prestigious Indian School of…

Brian K. Jones Brian K. Jones is an infrastructure architect, and system/network/database administrator, and co-author of Linux Server Hacks, Volume Two .

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