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Dive into the fascinating world of radio frequencies with Mastering Radio Frequencies, your essential guide to understanding, harnessing, and utilizing the power of the RF spectrum. This comprehensive eBook offers a deep exploration into the realms of HF, VHF, and UHF bands, explaining their unique characteristics, applications, and the technology behind them. Start your journey with a solid foundation in Chapter 1, where you'll unravel the complexities of the radio frequency spectrum. Discover why frequency matters and how it shapes communication as we know it. Progress to Chapters 2 ...

Dive into the captivating realm of radio frequencies with Unlocking the Spectrum, a comprehensive guide that unravels the mysteries of this invisible yet essential force of modern technology. Whether you're an amateur enthusiast or a seasoned professional, this eBook offers an enlightening journey through the world of radio communication. Begin your exploration with a foundational understanding of radio frequencies and their historical evolution. Discover the fascinating science behind electromagnetic waves and how they traverse through space, forming the backbone of our communication ...

Author Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate the diverse data landscape by examining the pros and cons of various technologies for processing and storing data. Software keeps changing, but the fundamental principles remain the same. With this book, software engineers and architects will learn how to apply those ideas in practice, and how to make full use of data in modern applications.

Master the fundamentals of networking and confidently prepare for the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) exam with this comprehensive guide. This book equips you with the knowledge and skills required to excel in today's dynamic networking landscape.

Becoming a Data Head is a complete guide for data science in the workplace: covering everything from the personalities you’ll work with to the math behind the algorithms. The authors have spent years in data trenches and sought to create a fun, approachable, and eminently bingeable book. Anyone can become a Data Head—an active participant in data science, statistics, and machine learning. Whether you're a business professional, engineer, executive, or aspiring data scientist, this book is for you.

Did you know that ChatGPT already boasts a community of over 100 million users? That's 100 million opportunities to make a splash in a still-young market. So, if you're tired of sitting on the sidelines, watching others take the prize, this guide is your game-changer, your treasure map, and your ticket to the big leagues — all powered by ChatGPT.

The ability to effectively communicate with data is no longer a luxury in today’s economy; it is a necessity. Transforming data into visual communication is only one part of the picture. It is equally important to engage your audience with a narrative—to tell a story with the numbers. Effective Data Storytelling will teach you the essential skills necessary to communicate your insights through persuasive and memorable data stories.

Discover the power of communication when every second counts with Emergency Communication Essentials, an indispensable guide for beginners and seasoned operators alike. Dive into the world of HAM radio and unlock the secrets of a communication tool that becomes crucial when traditional means fail. This comprehensive eBook walks you through the essential systems and protocols that make emergency communication effective and reliable. Start your journey by understanding the vital role communication plays in crisis situations, and get introduced to the diverse systems available for emergency ...

Dive into the transformative world of amateur radio with "Digital Waves," your comprehensive guide to mastering digital modes. This eBook unveils the fascinating evolution of amateur radio, leading you into the intricacies of FT8, RTTY, and PSK31 — the cutting-edge digital modes revolutionizing communication. Start your journey with an insightful introduction to digital modes, tracing their evolution and understanding the rise of popular protocols like FT8. Discover practical steps to set up your FT8 station and learn essential operating tips to enhance your radio experience. Transition ...

Discover a world beyond borders with "The Art of DXing", the ultimate guide for radio enthusiasts eager to master the thrilling craft of long-distance communication. Dive into a rich history and uncover the scientific marvels that make DXing a fascinating pursuit. Each chapter offers a treasure trove of insights that guide you from a curious beginner to a seasoned expert in the art of capturing elusive signals. Begin your journey with an exploration of radio wave propagation, where the mysteries of the ionosphere and atmospheric effects unravel. Learn to harness the evolutionary leap in ...

Unlock the mysteries of wireless communication with "Antennas 101," your comprehensive guide to the fascinating world of antennas. Whether you're a passionate hobbyist, a professional engineer, or simply curious about the technology that powers our connected world, this book lays out everything you need to know in an accessible and engaging format. Start your journey with an introduction to antenna basics, where you'll discover what antennas are and why they matter. Delve into the fundamentals of radio frequencies, exploring how radio waves work and how different frequency bands are ...

Data engineering has grown rapidly in the past decade, leaving many software engineers, data scientists, and analysts looking for a comprehensive view of this practice. With this practical book, you'll learn how to plan and build systems to serve the needs of your organization and customers by evaluating the best technologies available through the framework of the data engineering lifecycle.

Untangle the mesh of complex data with this user-friendly manual to SQL. Imagine a world overflowing with data – numbers, stats, facts, all buzzing around, waiting to tell a story. There's one common element that can help you navigate this vast sea of data – Structured Query Language (SQL).

In this explosive memoir, a political consultant and technology whistleblower reveals the disturbing truth about the multi-billion-dollar data industry, revealing to the public how companies are getting richer using our personal information and exposing how Cambridge Analytica exploited weaknesses in privacy laws to help elect Donald Trump - and how this could easily happen again in the 2020 presidential election.

Smacking some numbers onto a pie chart is old news and simply doesn't work anymore. Keeping your audience inspired and on the edge of their seats through an engaging data story is what we as business professionals should be striving to do. How to Win with Your Data Visualizations uncovers the fundamentals of what makes a winning data presentation and has laid them out in five easy-to-understand parts you can immediately apply to your next chart and presentation to see a winning data story unfold.

In Generative AI: Navigating the Course to the Artificial General Intelligence Future, Martin Musiol delivers an incisive and one-of-a-kind discussion of the current capabilities, future potential, and inner workings of generative artificial intelligence. In the book, you'll explore the short but eventful history of generative artificial intelligence, what it's achieved so far, and how it's likely to evolve in the future. You'll also get a peek at how emerging technologies are converging to create exciting new possibilities in the GenAI space.

Dark Data explores the many ways in which we can be blind to missing data and how that can lead us to conclusions and actions that are mistaken, dangerous, or even disastrous. Examining a wealth of real-life examples, from the Challenger shuttle explosion to complex financial frauds, Hand gives us a practical taxonomy of the types of dark data that exist and the situations in which they can arise, so that we can learn to recognize and control for them.

When "metadata" became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered this once-obscure term from information science for the first time. Should people be reassured that the NSA was "only" collecting metadata about phone calls - information about the caller, the recipient, the time, the duration, the location - and not recordings of the conversations themselves? Or does phone call metadata reveal more than it seems?

Between 2012 and 2023, Ian Graham worked as Liverpool FC's Director of Research. His tenure coincided with the club’s greatest period of success since the 1980s, including winning the Premier League in 2020 – Liverpool’s first league title after an agonising 29 years. Here for the first time, Graham reveals the fascinating data that informed some of the club’s most pivotal moments of the past decade, from the appointment of Jurgen Klopp as manager in 2015 to the signing of Mohamed Salah in 2017.

From the ocean floor to outer space, China’s Digital Silk Road aims to wire the world and rewrite the global order. Taking listeners on a journey inside China’s surveillance state, rural America, and Africa’s megacities, Jonathan Hillman reveals what China’s expanding digital footprint looks like on the ground and explores the economic and strategic consequences of a future in which all routers lead to Beijing.