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A General Introduction to Data Analytics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

A General Introduction to Data Analytics

A guide to the principles and methods of data analysis that does not require knowledge of statistics or programming A General Introduction to Data Analytics is an essential guide to understand and use data analytics. This book is written using easy-to-understand terms and does not require familiarity with statistics or programming. The authors—noted experts in the field—highlight an explanation of the intuition behind the basic data analytics techniques. The text also contains exercises and illustrative examples. Thought to be easily accessible to non-experts, the book provides motivation to the necessity of analyzing data. It explains how to visualize and summarize data, and how to find...

Information, Accountability, and Cumulative Learning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 505

Information, Accountability, and Cumulative Learning

Examines a set of voter information campaigns worldwide to assess their effectiveness, and develops a new social science research model aimed at cumulative learning. It will appeal to academics and practitioners looking for innovative ways to conduct social science research that is rigorous, policy-relevant, and cumulative.

Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 159

Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2021, held in November 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually The 10 revised full papers and 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. The papers address a broad range of current topics in computational biology and bioinformatics.

City on the Edge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

City on the Edge

“The authors reveal how the Cuban success story has transformed the character of Miami while delineating more sharply the identity of other ethnic communities.” —New York Times Book Review “Makes a case for the importance of political capital . . . in building ethnic solidarity.”—Contemporary Sociology

The Volatility Curse
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 261

The Volatility Curse

Economic voting is common around the world, but in many developing countries economic performance is dependent on exogenous international factors.

The Political Economy of Elites in Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

The Political Economy of Elites in Latin America

Recent years have seen renewed interest in elites around the world, and their interconnection with power, privilege, social stratification, and social change. The contributors to this edited volume explore the many facets of the role of elites in the political economy of Latin America: their position within society, their impact upon the economy, and their influence within governing institutions. The book demonstrates that in Latin America, as in many other parts of the world, structural change and movements toward more just, inclusive, and sustainable societies seem impossible without the involvement of elites at some level. This raises important questions: Under what conditions do elites p...

Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2012
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 795

Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2012

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-06-16
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  • Publisher: Springer

The four-volume set LNCS 7333-7336 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2012, held in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, in June 2012. The four volumes contain papers presented in the following workshops: 7333 - advances in high performance algorithms and applications (AHPAA); bioinspired computing and applications (BIOCA); computational geometry and applicatons (CGA); chemistry and materials sciences and technologies (CMST); cities, technologies and planning (CTP); 7334 - econometrics and multidimensional evaluation in the urban environment (EMEUE); geographical analysis, urban modeling, spatial statistics (Ge...

Democratization by Institutions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Democratization by Institutions

The case of Argentina demonstrates that formal government institutions can facilitate democratization

Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 971

Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, ISPA 2006, held in Sorrento, Italy in November 2006. The 79 revised full papers presented together with five keynote speeches cover architectures, networks, languages, algorithms, middleware, cooperative computing, software, and applications.

Democrats and Autocrats
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Democrats and Autocrats

The book advances a new explanation to account for the continuity of undemocratic subnational regimes (SURs) in democratic countries.