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This O'Reilly cookbook provides more than 150 recipes to help scientists, engineers, programmers, and data analysts generate high-quality graphs quickly-without having to comb through all the details of R's graphing systems.

How do you develop products that people will actually use and buy? This practical guide shows you how to validate product and company ideas through customer development researchbefore you waste months and millions on a product or service that no one needs or wants.With a combination of open-ended interviewing and fast and flexible research techniques, youll learn how your prospective customers behave, the problems they need to solve, and what frustrates and delights them. These insights may shake your assumptions, but theyll help you reach the "e;ah-ha!"e; moments that inspire truly great products.Validate or invalidate your hypothesis by talking to the right peopleLearn how to conduct successful customer interviews play-by-playDetect a customers behaviors, pain points, and constraintsTurn interview insights into Minimum Viable Products to validate what customers will use and buyAdapt customer development strategies for large companies, conservative industries, and existing products

Do you feel like your thoughts, ideas, and plans are being suffocated by a constant onslaught of information? Do you want to get those great ideas out of your head, onto the whiteboard and into everyone elses heads, but find it hard to start? No matter what level of sketching you think you have, Presto Sketching will help you lift your game in visual thinking and visual communication.In this practical workbook, Ben Crothers provides loads of tips, templates, and exercises that help you develop your visual vocabulary and sketching skills to clearly express and communicate your ideas. Learn techniques like product sketching, storyboarding, journey mapping, and conceptual illustration. Dive into how to use a visual metaphor (with a library of 101 visual metaphors), as well as tips for capturing and sharing your sketches digitally, and developing your own style.Designers, product managers, trainers, and entrepreneurs will learn better ways to explore problems, explain concepts, and come up with well-defined ideas - and have fun doing it.

iOS 11, Swift 4, and Xcode 9 provide many new APIs for iOS developers. With this cookbook, youll learn more than 170 proven solutions for tackling the latest features in iOS 11 and watchOS 4, including new ways to use Swift and Xcode to make your day-to-day app development life easier. This collection of code-rich recipes also gets you up to speed on continuous delivery and continuous integration systems.Ideal for intermediate and advanced iOS developers looking to work with the newest version of iOS, these recipes include reusable code on GitHub, so you can put them to work in your project right away.Among the topics covered in this book:New features in Swift 4 and Xcode 9Tools for continuous delivery and continuous integrationSnapshot testing and test automationCreating document-based applicationsUpdated Map view and Core Location featuresiOS 11s Security and Password AutofillData storage with Apples Core DataCreating lively user interfaces with UI DynamicsBuilding iMessage applications and sticker packagesIntegrating Siri into your apps with Siri KitCreating fascinating apps for Apple Watch

Learn how to build app store-ready hybrid apps with the Ionic 2, the framework built on top of Apache Cordova (formerly PhoneGap) and Angular. This revised guide shows you how to use Ionics tools and services to develop apps with HTML, CSS, and TypeScript, rather than rely on platform-specific solutions found in Android, iOS, and Windows Phone.Author Chris Griffith takes you step-by-step through Ionics powerful collection of UI components, and then helps you use it to build three cross-platform mobile apps. Whether youre new to this framework or have been working with Ionic 1, this book is ideal for beginning, intermediate, and advanced web developers.Understand what a hybrid mobile app is, and what comprises a basic Ionic applicationLearn how Ionic leverages Apache Cordova, Angular, and TypeScript to create native mobile applicationsCreate a Firebase-enabled to-do application that stores data across multiple clientsBuild a tab-based National Park explorer app with Google Map integrationDevelop a weather app with the Darksky weather API and Googles GeoCode APIDebug and test your app to resolve issues that arise during developmentWalk through steps for deploying your app to native app storesLearn how Ionic can be used to create Progressive Web Apps

This book was written for people who have never used a 3D carving machine. It teaches the basics of designing and making things with Inventables' software (Easel) and 3D carving machines (X-Carve and Carvey).

Using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for illustrations only scratches the surface of this formats potential on the web. With this practical guide, youll learn how to use SVG not only for illustrations but also as graphical documents that you can integrate into complex HTML5 web pages, and style with custom CSS. Web developers will discover ways to adapt designs by adding data based graphics, dynamic styles, interaction, or animation.Divided into five parts, this book includes:SVG on the web: Understand how SVG works with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to define graphicsDrawing with markup: Learn the vector language of x and y coordinates that let SVG create basic and custom shapesPutting graphics in their place: Use the coordinate system to draw SVG shapes and text at different scales and positionsArtistic touches: Explore how color is used, how strokes are created and manipulated, and how graphical effects like filters, clipping, and masking are appliedSVG as an application: Make your graphic more accessible to humans and computers, and learn how to make it interactive or animated

Learn how to automate your build, integration, release and deployment process with Jenkins, the popular Java-based open source tool that has revolutionized the way teams think about continuous integration (CI).

Why does poor software quality continue to plague enterprises of all sizes in all industries? Part of the problem lies with the process, rather than individual developers. This practical guide provides ten best practices to help team leaders create an effective working environment through key adjustments to their process.As a follow-up to their popular book, Building Maintainable Software, consultants with the Software Improvement Group (SIG) offer critical lessons based on their assessment of development processes used by hundreds of software teams. Each practice includes examples of goalsetting to help you choose the right metrics for your team.Achieve development goals by determining meaningful metrics with the Goal-Question-Metric approachTranslate those goals to a verifiable Definition of DoneManage code versions for consistent and predictable modificationControl separate environments for each stage in the development pipelineAutomate tests as much as possible and steer their guidelines and expectationsLet the Continuous Integration server do much of the hard work for youAutomate the process of pushing code through the pipelineDefine development process standards to improve consistency and simplicityManage dependencies on third party code to keep your software consistent and up to dateDocument only the most necessary and current knowledge

Making Things Smart teaches the fundamentals of the powerful ARM microcontroller by walking beginners and experienced users alike through easily assembled projects comprised of inexpensive, hardware-store parts.

Light up your life with ingenious LED projects perfect for the whole family! This beautifully presented book is filled with full-color photographs and step-by-step instructions for projects that can be completed by even the youngest Maker

Each volume of William Gurstelle's unique, hands-on journey through history examines remarkable inventors whose insights and inventions helped create our modern world.

Voice user interfaces (VUIs) are becoming all the rage today. But how do you build one that people can actually converse with? Whether youre designing a mobile app, a toy, or a device such as a home assistant, this practical book guides you through basic VUI design principles, helps you choose the right speech recognition engine, and shows you how to measure your VUIs performance and improve upon it.Author Cathy Pearl also takes product managers, UX designers, and VUI designers into advanced design topics that will help make your VUI not just functional, but great.Understand key VUI design concepts, including command-and-control and conversational systemsDecide if you should use an avatar or other visual representation with your VUIExplore speech recognition technology and its impact on your designTake your VUI above and beyond the basic exchange of informationLearn practical ways to test your VUI application with usersMonitor your app and learn how to quickly improve performanceGet real-world examples of VUIs for home assistants, smartwatches, and car systems

Have you ever felt frustrated working with someone elses code? Difficult-to-maintain source code is a big problem in software development today, leading to costly delays and defects. Be part of the solution. With this practical book, youll learn 10 easy-to-follow guidelines for delivering C# software thats easy to maintain and adapt. These guidelines have been derived from analyzing hundreds of real-world systems.Written by consultants from the Software Improvement Group (SIG), this book provides clear and concise explanations, with advice for turning the guidelines into practice. Examples for this edition are written in C#, while our companion Java book provides clear examples in that language.Write short units of code: limit the length of methods and constructorsWrite simple units of code: limit the number of branch points per methodWrite code once, rather than risk copying buggy codeKeep unit interfaces small by extracting parameters into objectsSeparate concerns to avoid building large classesCouple architecture components looselyBalance the number and size of top-level components in your codeKeep your codebase as small as possibleAutomate tests for your codebaseWrite clean code, avoiding "e;code smells"e; that indicate deeper problems

As technology becomes deeply integrated into every aspect of our lives, weve begun to expect more emotionally intelligent interactions. But smartphones dont know if were having a bad day, and cars couldnt care less about compassion. Technology is developing more IQ, but it still lacks EQ.In this book, Pamela Pavliscakdesign researcher and advisor to Fortune 500 companiesexplores new research about emotion, new technology that engages emotion, and new emotional design practices. Drawing on her own research and the latest thinking in psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics, Pamela shows you how design can help promote emotional well-being.Youll learn:How design has transformed emotion and how tech is transforming it againNew principles for merging emotional intelligence and design thinkingHow to use a relationship model for framing product interactions and personalityMethods for blending well-being interventions with design patternsHow emotional resonance can guide designers toward ethical futuresImplications of emotionally intelligent technology as it scales from micro- to mega-emotional spheres

Concurrency can be notoriously difficult to get right, but fortunately, the Go open source programming language makes working with concurrency tractable and even easy. If youre a developer familiar with Go, this practical book demonstrates best practices and patterns to help you incorporate concurrency into your systems.Author Katherine Cox-Buday takes you step-by-step through the process. Youll understand how Go chooses to model concurrency, what issues arise from this model, and how you can compose primitives within this model to solve problems. Learn the skills and tooling you need to confidently write and implement concurrent systems of any size.Understand how Go addresses fundamental problems that make concurrency difficult to do correctlyLearn the key differences between concurrency and parallelismDig into the syntax of Gos memory synchronization primitivesForm patterns with these primitives to write maintainable concurrent codeCompose patterns into a series of practices that enable you to write large, distributed systems that scaleLearn the sophistication behind goroutines and how Gos runtime stitches everything together

This hands-on guide provides the knowledge and tools you need to measure, deploy, and manage your web application infrastructure before you experience explosive growth. In this thoroughly updated edition, authors Arun Kejariwal (MZ) and John Allspaw provide a systematic, robust, and practical approach to capacity planning.

This practical guide to using Keystone provides detailed, step-by-step guidance to creating a secure cloud environment at the Infrastructure-as-a-Service layer-as well as key practices for safeguarding your cloud's ongoing security.

Short and sweet, this short book is an excerpt from the upcoming fourth edition of CSS: The Definitive Guide. When you purchase either the print or the ebook edition of Padding, Borders, Outlines, and Margins in CSS, you'll receive a discount on the entire Definitive Guide once it's released. Why wait? Learn how to bring life to your web pages now

In this practical guide, author Eric Meyer reveals some interesting-and surprising-ways to use CSS floats in your web design, including the latest capability to flow content past non-rectangular float shapes.

Carefully reviewed for clarity, accuracy, and completeness, this book is an authoritative and comprehensive resource for database professionals, with over 1700 entries (many with examples) dealing with issues and concepts arising from the relational model of data.

Data Science is booming thanks to R and Python, but Java brings the robustness, convenience, and ability to scale critical to today's data science applications. With this practical book, Java software engineers looking to add data science skills will take a logical journey through the data science pipeline. Author Michael Brzustowicz explains the basic math theory behind each step of the data science process, as well as how to apply these concepts with Java.You'll learn the critical roles that data IO, linear algebra, statistics, data operations, learning and prediction, and Hadoop MapReduce play in the process. Throughout this book, you'll find code examples you can use in your applications.Examine methods for obtaining, cleaning, and arranging data into its purest formUnderstand the matrix structure that your data should takeLearn basic concepts for testing the origin and validity of dataTransform your data into stable and usable numerical valuesUnderstand supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms, and methods for evaluating their successGet up and running with MapReduce, using customized components suitable for data science algorithms

From the pages of Make: magazine comes this collection of dozens of projects you can make in your home or school workshop. You'll learn how to create toys and games from stuff you have lying around, create unusual and inspiring home improvements, and even find some new ways to have fun outdoors.

The author draws on more than 20 years of experience doing hands-on science to facilitate tinkering: learning science while fooling around with real things. Updated with new photographs and in full color, this new edition is even more accessible to young makers or young-at-heart makers.

If you're just catching on to the Maker Movement and wonder what you've missed, this book contains the best projects and articles from the magazine. Find out what keeps Makers coming back to Make.

This updated edition of Algorithms in a Nutshell describes a large number of existing algorithms for solving a variety of problems, and helps you select and implement the right algorithm for your needs-with just enough math to let you understand and analyze algorithm performance.

If you want to convince your organization to conduct a web performance upgrade, this concise book will strengthen your case. Drawing upon her many years of web performance research, author Tammy Everts uses cases studies and other data to explain how web page speed and availability affect a host of business metrics. Youll also learn how our human neurological need for quick, uncomplicated processes drives these metrics.Ideal for managers, this books case studies demonstrate how Walmart, Staples.com, Mozilla, and other organizations significantly improved conversion rates through simple upgrades. Find out why happy customers return, while frustrated users can send your metricsand your domaininto a tailspin.Youll explore:What happens neurologically when people encounter slow or interrupted processesHow page speed affects metrics in retail and other industries, from media sites to SaaS providersWhy internal applications are often slower than consumer apps, and how this hurts employee morale and productivityCommon performance problems and the various technologies created to fight themHow to pioneer new metrics, and create an organizational culture of performance

How can you create products that successfully find customers? With this practical book, youll learn from some of the best product designers in the field, from companies like Facebook and LinkedIn to up-and-coming contenders. Youll understand how to discover and interpret customer pain, and learn how to use this research to guide your team through each step of product creation.Written for designers, product managers, and others who want to communicate better with designers, this book is essential reading for anyone who contributes to the product creation process.Understand exactly who your customers are, what they want, and how to build products that make them happyLearn frameworks and principles that successful product designers useIncorporate five states into every screen of your interface to improve conversions and reduce perceived loading timesDiscover meeting techniques that Apple, Amazon, and LinkedIn use to help teams solve the right problems and make decisions fasterDesign effective interfaces across different form factors by understanding how people hold devices and complete tasksLearn how successful designers create working prototypes that capture essential customer feedbackCreate habit-forming and emotionally engaging experiences, using the latest psychological research