Review:The book starts off very easy and understandable. At about chapter 10, when logic gates are introduced, I felt I was reading a text book, without the practice problems or variety of examples. The author's ability to write cohesive understandable statements diminishes at this point in the book. Assumptions begin to be made about circuit diagrams, and it is extremely easy to become lost. The book is not easy to read at all post chapter 10ish, and this why EE and CE's get paid 100k+ per year. ... Read more

Review:Just finished this book. I couldn’t put it down. Nearly every free minute was put into completing it. Even had a barbershop conversation about the facts in this book. Definite a read for an ethics class. Read more

Review:Should be required reading for anyone talking or thinking about Big Data and how it's used. This will be the first of many to make more sense of it than has been to date. It's fine to say don't start into big data efforts just for the sake of mountains of data, but have an objective, but most people haven't a clue how to begin to figure out what those objectives might be. This will help, but the future holds more ideas I'm sure. Still is nods toward the power and value of big data analyses that ... Read more

Review:As stated in the book (209) chapter 8: "The previous chapter introduced basic issues of model evaluation and explored the question of what makes for a good model. We developed detailed calculations based on the expected value framework. That chapter was much more mathematical than previous ones, and if this is your first introduction to that material you may have felt overwhelmed by the equations. ......"

Even thought this not my first time with this material I found this book unclear. Al... Read more

Review:Excellent book. Gives the foundation of ML very well. He even includes other books to read along with his. I would suggest reading this along with Sebastian rashkas book, a book on introduction to statistical learning. Read more

Review:This is the BEST book there is for learning about DB design from the ground up. It moves very quickly from theory to how to practically implement a robust DB design. It assumes no knowledge, but by the end of the book you WILL be able to sit in discussions with MIS and understand and contribute to the discussion. I don't want to leave the impression, however, that this skips the hard topics: far from it. It covers Business Rules and even has some excellent forms that you can copy from the bo... Read more

Review:[A review of the Second Edition 2007, the review being written on 27 Oct 2007.]

From the ground up, the authors teach SQL. Not just the syntax, but more broadly, how to design a set of tables that will describe your data, and then how create and populate these tables.

If you already know some SQL, you may be curious as to which version is described. The up to date nature of this 2007 Edition means that you're getting a good current description. Though in practise, given the slow p... Read more

Review:Found this book to be excellent source of gaining some basic understanding and as a quick reference once my understanding of SQL advanced. The author produces some of the best material I've read (I wish he did more books on other languages I was needing something for). He is presents the material in a manner to be not too in-depth that it goes over your head, yet still remains to give a thorough enough explanation. The examples are simple, relevant, and error free. The most useful feature I ... Read more