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Discover the best way to build, design and launch professional websites with Squarespace quickly, without needing to learn any codeAbout This Book* Discover time-saving tricks and best practices, and avoid common pitfalls while creating a website* Create visually stunning Responsive Design templates for your website with Squarespace 7* Understand how to monitor, measure, and manage your website after launching itWho This Book Is ForThis book is ideal for anyone who wants to learn how to use the latest version of Squarespace to create a website from scratch and take it through to go-live. You don't need any prior experience with Squarespace, HTML, or CSS, or building websites in general as everything is done using Squarespace's simple, browser-based interface.What You Will Learn* Develop an essential Website Toolkit that will act as reference and materials for your entire project, ensuring you stay on-target to meet your objectives* Set up your Squarespace account, learn how the interface works, and select the correct template for your website's purpose and goals* Create your website framework, fill it with content, and arrange your pages using Squarespace's easy drag-and-drop tools* Customize your site's look and feel to match your brand, and create a stunning visual impact for your website on all types of devices, including mobiles and tablets* Configure the core functions your business needs, whether connecting to social media, promoting events, showcasing your work, or selling goods and services online* Learn time-saving tricks and how to avoid common pitfalls from an experienced professional with years of Squarespace experience* Gain valuable insights about search engine optimization, communicating effectively online, and other e-marketing advice* How to monitor, measure, and manage your website post-launchIn DetailSquarespace is a web-based tool that allows non-technical people to create and manage professional-looking websites quickly, without needing to write any code. It empowers business owners to take total control of their own websites, without needing to pay someone to design or maintain it.This book covers much more than just how to use Squarespace. It covers all aspects of creating a successful business website, from developing your brand identity, to writing and structuring content to match your target audience's needs, and dozens of other other valuable tips that will help your website shine. Most importantly, you'll learn the correct steps to follow in order to ensure your project is smooth and stress-free.The book starts by helping you plan your website project and gather all the raw materials you'll need. Next, you'll set up your account and become familiar with the terminology and tools that you'll be using. Once you've learned the basics of how the Squarespace interface, templates, and different page types operate, you will create the framework of your website, ready for you to insert content and functionality. Then, once all the core elements are in place, you'll apply the aesthetic fine-tuning needed to bring your website in line with your brand. After the aesthetics have been honed and all functions tested, you will launch your website and drive traffic to it, monitor it, and improve it.Style and approachThis easy-to-follow guide will teach you to build websites the easiest way in the latest version of Squarespace.

Leverage the power and flexibility of the Clojure language for financeAbout This Book- Apply the Clojure programming language in financial analytics and to build financial applications- Work with high-level mathematical abstractions without having to implement low-level code for financial operations.- This is a practical tutorial that takes you through real-world examples of financial analytics and applications with ClojureWho This Book Is ForIf you're a finance professional who is currently using VBA (Excel) to perform financial calculations and quantitative analysis, and would like to use Clojure instead to improve their efficiency, then this book is for you.Basic knowledge of financial concepts is essential. Basic programming knowledge would also be an added advantage.What You Will Learn- Quickly and effectively represent data and calculations using Clojure- Use Clojure's basic language tools such as laziness, immutability, and firstclass functions to solve real-world problems- Explore mathematical derivatives to generate different wave forms- Get acquainted with the advanced approaches to calculating and transforming data, and building algorithms- Use Clojure's functions to access, update, and compose data structures- Be introduced to the concept of sideeffecting behavior and the different ways to handle it- Compose simple and exponential functions together to get a buy or sell signalIn DetailClojure is a dynamic programming language with an emphasis on functional programming. Clojure is well suited to financial modeling as it is a functional programming language. Such languages help developers work with high-level mathematical abstractions without having to implement low-level code that handles the arithmetic operations.Starting with the importance of representing data and calculations effectively, this book will take you all the way to being competent in financial analytics and building financial applications.First, we introduce the notions of computation and finance, which will help you understand Clojure's utility to solve real-world problems in many domains, especially finance. Next, we will show you how to develop the simple-moving-average function by using the more advanced partition Clojure data transformation function. This function, along with others, will be used to calculate and manipulate data.You will then learn to implement slightly more complicated equations, how to traverse data, and deal with branching and conditional dispatch. Then, the concept of side-effecting and its various approaches are introduced, along with the strategy of how to use data as the interface to other systems. Finally, you will discover how to build algorithms while manipulating and composing functions.Style and approachThis book is a practical step-by-step tutorial that provides a basic overview of the concepts but focuses on providing the skills required to analyze data.

Harness the power of Dynamics 365 Operations and discover all you need to implement itAbout This Book* Master all the necessary tools and resources to evaluate Dynamics 365 for Operations, implement it, and proactively maintain it.* Troubleshoot your problems effectively with your Dynamics 365 partner* Learn about architecture, deployment choices, integration, configuration and data migration, development, testing, reporting and BI, support, upgrading, and more. Who This Book Is ForThis book is for technology leaders, project managers solution architects, and consultants who are planning to implement, are in the process of implementing, or are currently upgrading to Dynamics 365 for Operations. This book will help you effectively learn and implement Dynamics 365 for Operations.What You Will Learn* Learn about Microsoft Dynamics 365, it's offerings, plans and details of Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition* Understand the methodology and the tool, architecture, and deployment options* Effectively plan and manage configurations and data migration, functional design, and technical design* Understand integration frameworks, development concepts, best practices, and recommendations while developing new solutions* Learn how to leverage intelligence and analytics through Power BI, machine learning, IOT, and Cortana intelligence* Master testing, training, going live, upgrading, and how to get support during and after the implementationIn DetailMicrosoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition, is a modern, cloud-first, mobile-first, ERP solution suitable for medium and large enterprise customers.This book will guide you through the entire life cycle of a implementation, helping you avoid common pitfalls while increasing your efficiency and effectiveness at every stage of the project.Starting with the foundations, the book introduces the Microsoft Dynamics 365 offerings, plans, and products. You will be taken through the various methodologies, architectures, and deployments so you can select, implement, and maintain Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition. You will delve in-depth into the various phases of implementation: project management, analysis, configuration, data migration, design, development, using Power BI, machine learning, Cortana analytics for intelligence, testing, training, and finally deployment, support cycles, and upgrading. This book focuses on providing you with information about the product and the various concepts and tools, along with real-life examples from the field and guidance that will empower you to execute and implement Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, Enterprise edition.Style and approachThis book is a step-by-step guide focusing on implementing Dynamics 365 Operations solutions for your organization.

Learn how to leverage the power of R for Business IntelligenceAbout This Book- Use this easy-to-follow guide to leverage the power of R analytics and make your business data more insightful.- This highly practical guide teaches you how to develop dashboards that help you make informed decisions using R.- Learn the A to Z of working with data for Business Intelligence with the help of this comprehensive guide.Who This Book Is ForThis book is for data analysts, business analysts, data science professionals or anyone who wants to learn analytic approaches to business problems. Basic familiarity with R is expected.What You Will Learn- Extract, clean, and transform data- Validate the quality of the data and variables in datasets- Learn exploratory data analysis- Build regression models- Implement popular data-mining algorithms- Visualize results using popular graphs- Publish the results as a dashboard through Interactive Web Application frameworksIn DetailExplore the world of Business Intelligence through the eyes of an analyst working in a successful and growing company. Learn R through use cases supporting different functions within that company. This book provides data-driven and analytically focused approaches to help you answer questions in operations, marketing, and finance.In Part 1, you will learn about extracting data from different sources, cleaning that data, and exploring its structure. In Part 2, you will explore predictive models and cluster analysis for Business Intelligence and analyze financial times series. Finally, in Part 3, you will learn to communicate results with sharp visualizations and interactive, web-based dashboards.After completing the use cases, you will be able to work with business data in the R programming environment and realize how data science helps make informed decisions and develops business strategy. Along the way, you will find helpful tips about R and Business Intelligence.Style and approach This book will take a step-by-step approach and instruct you in how you can achieve Business Intelligence from scratch using R. We will start with extracting data and then move towards exploring, analyzing, and visualizing it. Eventually, you will learn how to create insightful dashboards that help you make informed decisions-and all of this with the help of real-life examples.

Build world-class enterprise Business Intelligence solutions with MicroStrategy 10About This Book- Fix the gap between BI tools and implementation/integration processes with big data and predictive analytics using this comprehensive guide to MicroStrategy 10- Highly practical, example-rich guide that lets you implement business intelligence with MicroStrategy 10 in your organization- Create the best user experience with BI dashboards using MicroStrategy using this up-to-date, comprehensive guideWho This Book Is ForThis book is intended for BI, DWH, ETL developers, BI/DWH/Analytics managers, analysts, and business users who already have MicroStrategy in their organization and want to take it to the next level in order to increase performance and improve user experience. In addition, it helps the reader to migrate from MicroStrategy 9 to MicroStrategy 10 and to start using the new capabilities.What You Will Learn- Explore various visualization techniques for presenting analyzed data- Customize MicroStrategy in order to meet your business requirements- Develop and design mobile dashboards- Use the advanced techniques such as designing reports, documents and interactive dashboards for building dashboards- Understand the concepts of data discovery and Desktop capabilities- Explore the best practices for Microstrategy system administration- Find and fix issues based on connections, environment or documents- Integrate third party ESRI map tools with MicroStrategy to create geo based reportsIn DetailBusiness intelligence is becoming more important by the day, with cloud offerings and mobile devices gaining wider acceptance and achieving better market penetration. MicroStrategy Reporting Suite is an absolute leader in the BI market and offers rich capabilities from basic data visualizations to predictive analytics. It lets you various delivery methods such as the Web, desktops, and mobiles.Using real-world BI scenarios, this book helps you to implement Business Analytics solutions in big e-commerce companies. It kicks off with MicroStrategy 10 features and then covers schema design models and techniques. Building upon your existing knowledge, the book will teach you advanced techniques for building documents and dashboards. It further teaches various graphical techniques for presenting data for analysis using maps, graphs, and advanced charts. Although MicroStrategy has rich functionality, the book will show how to customize it in order to meet your business requirements. You will also become familiar with the native analytical functions that will help you to maximize the impact of BI solutions with powerful predictive analytics.Furthermore, the book will focus on MicroStrategy Mobile Analytics along with data discovery and desktop capabilities such as connecting various data sources and building interactive dashboards. The book will also uncover best practices, troubleshooting techniques for MicroStrategy system administration, and also security and authentication techniques. Lastly, you will learn to use Hadoop for MicroStrategy reporting.By the end of the book, you will become proficient in evaluating any BI software in order to choose the best one that meets all business requirements.Style and approachThis book will be focusing on providing extensive guide to plan how to design and develop complex BI architecture for real world scenario, using Microstrategy 10, best practices and collected experience working with BI, predictive analytics, and Microstrategy and big data.

Over 80 effective recipes to help you solve real-world Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations development problemsAbout This Book* Learn all about the enhanced functionalities of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations and master development best practices* Develop powerful projects using new tools and features* Work through easy-to-understand recipes with step-by-step instructions and useful screenshotsWho This Book Is ForIf you are a Dynamics AX developer primarily focused on delivering time-proven applications, then this book is for you. This book is also ideal for people who want to raise their programming skills above the beginner level, and at the same time learn the functional aspects of Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations. Some X++ coding experience is expected.What You Will Learn* Explore data manipulation concepts in Dynamics 365 for Operations* Build scripts to assist data migration processes* Organize data in Dynamics 365 for Operations forms* Make custom lookups using AOT forms and dynamically generate them from X++ code* Create a custom electronic payment format and process a vendor payment using it* Integrate your application with Microsoft Office Suite and other external systems using various approaches* Export and import business data for further distribution or analysis* Improve your development efficiency and performanceIn DetailMicrosoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations has a lot to offer developers. It allows them to customize and tailor their implementations to meet their organization's needs. This Development Cookbook will help you manage your company or customer ERP information and operations efficiently. We start off by exploring the concept of data manipulation in Dynamics 365 for Operations. This will also help you build scripts to assist data migration, and show you how to organize data in forms. You will learn how to create custom lookups using Application Object Tree forms and generate them dynamically.We will also show you how you can enhance your application by using advanced form controls, and integrate your system with other external systems. We will help you script and enhance your user interface using UI elements. This book will help you look at application development from a business process perspective, and develop enhanced ERP solutions by learning and implementing the best practices and techniques.Style and approachThe book follows a practical recipe-based approach, focusing on real-world scenarios and giving you all the information you need to build a strong Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations implementation.

A comprehensive guide from Oracle experts, that will act as your single point of reference for building an Oracle BI 12c system that turns data in actionable insight.About This Book- Come, start your first Oracle Business intelligence system and excel in BI with this exhaustive guide- An all-encompassing guide for your Oracle business intelligence needs- Learn from the self-paced professional guidance and implement Oracle business intelligence using this easy-to-follow guide by our expertsWho This Book Is ForIf your job includes working on data, improving the financial or operational performance of your organization or you are a consultant for the above, then this book is for you. If you have been placed on a business intelligence project, then this book is for you. If you are the Project Manager, Business Analyst or Data Scientist then this book is for you. If you are an end user of Oracle Business Intelligence, then this book is for you too.Having a basic understanding of databases and the use of Business Intelligence is expected, but no knowledge of Oracle BI is required.What You Will Learn- Install OBIEE in Windows, including how to create the underlying Weblogic Application server and the required database- Build the BI system repository, the vital engine connecting your data to the front end of Oracle BI- Develop effective analysis, draw out meaning from the data, and present it to end users on interactive dashboards- Build pixel-perfect, printable reports using the embedded BI Publisher feature- Build agents for actionable insight and enable your users to act on Business Intelligence at their desktop or on the move- Understand the various aspects of securing the Oracle BI system, from data restrictions to whole dashboard access rights- Get acquainted with the system management tools and methods available for the continuous improvement of your systemIn DetailOracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 12c is packed full of features and has a fresh approach to information presentation, system management, and security. OBIEE can help any organization to understand its data, to make useful information from data, and to ensure decision-making is supported by facts. OBIEE can focus on information that needs action, alerting users when conditions are met. OBIEE can be used for data analysis, form production, dashoarding, and workflow processes.We will introduce you to OBIEE features and provide a step-by-step guide to build a complete system from scratch. With this guide, you will be equipped with a good basic understanding of what the product contains, how to install and configure it, and how to create effective Business Intelligence.This book contains the necessary information for a beginner to create a high-performance OBIEE 12c system.This book is also a guide that explains how to use an existing OBIEE 12c system, and shows end users how to create.Style and approachThis book will take you from one feature to another in a step-by-step manner and will teach how you can create effective business intelligence using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. You will be taught how to create BI solutions and dashboards from scratch. There will be multiple modules in the book, each module spread in chapters, that will cover one aspect of business intelligence in a systematic manner.

Learn to get the most out of your business data to optimize your businessAbout This Book- This book will enable and empower you to break free of the shackles of spreadsheets- Learn to make informed decisions using the data at hand with this highly practical, comprehensive guide- This book includes real-world use cases that teach you how analytics can be put to work to optimize your business- Using a fictional transactional dataset in raw form, you'll work your way up to ultimately creating a fully-functional warehouse and a fleshed-out BI platform Who This Book Is ForThis book is for anyone who has wrangled with data to try to perform automated data analysis through visualizations for themselves or their customers. This highly-customized guide is for developers who know a bit about analytics but don't know how to make use of it in the field of business intelligence.What You Will Learn- Create a BI environment that enables self-service reporting- Understand SQL and the aggregation of data- Develop a data model suitable for analytical reporting- Connect a data warehouse to the analytic reporting tools- Understand the specific benefits behind visualizations with D3.js, R, Tableau, QlikView, and Python- Get to know the best practices to develop various reports and applications when using BI tools- Explore the field of data analysis with all the data we will use for reportingIn DetailBusiness Intelligence (BI) is at the crux of revolutionizing enterprise. Everyone wants to minimize losses and maximize profits. Thanks to Big Data and improved methodologies to analyze data, Data Analysts and Data Scientists are increasingly using data to make informed decisions. Just knowing how to analyze data is not enough, you need to start thinking how to use data as a business asset and then perform the right analysis to build an insightful BI solution. Efficient BI strives to achieve the automation of data for ease of reporting and analysis.Through this book, you will develop the ability to think along the right lines and use more than one tool to perform analysis depending on the needs of your business. We start off by preparing you for data analytics. We then move on to teach you a range of techniques to fetch important information from various databases, which can be used to optimize your business.The book aims to provide a full end-to-end solution for an environment setup that can help you make informed business decisions and deliver efficient and automated BI solutions to any company.It is a complete guide for implementing Business intelligence with the help of the most powerful tools like D3.js, R, Tableau, Qlikview and Python that are available on the market.Style and approachPacked with real-world examples, this pragmatic guide helps you polish your data and make informed decisions for your business. We cover both business and data analysis perspectives, blending theory and practical hands-on work so that you perceive data as a business asset.

Learn and implement various Quantitative Finance concepts using the popular Python librariesAbout This Book* Understand the fundamentals of Python data structures and work with time-series data* Implement key concepts in quantitative finance using popular Python libraries such as NumPy, SciPy, and matplotlib* A step-by-step tutorial packed with many Python programs that will help you learn how to apply Python to financeWho This Book Is ForThis book assumes that the readers have some basic knowledge related to Python. However, he/she has no knowledge of quantitative finance. In addition, he/she has no knowledge about financial data.What You Will Learn* Become acquainted with Python in the first two chapters* Run CAPM, Fama-French 3-factor, and Fama-French-Carhart 4-factor models* Learn how to price a call, put, and several exotic options* Understand Monte Carlo simulation, how to write a Python program to replicate the Black-Scholes-Merton options model, and how to price a few exotic options* Understand the concept of volatility and how to test the hypothesis that volatility changes over the years* Understand the ARCH and GARCH processes and how to write related Python programsIn DetailThis book uses Python as its computational tool. Since Python is free, any school or organization can download and use it.This book is organized according to various finance subjects. In other words, the first edition focuses more on Python, while the second edition is truly trying to apply Python to finance.The book starts by explaining topics exclusively related to Python. Then we deal with critical parts of Python, explaining concepts such as time value of money stock and bond evaluations, capital asset pricing model, multi-factor models, time series analysis, portfolio theory, options and futures.This book will help us to learn or review the basics of quantitative finance and apply Python to solve various problems, such as estimating IBM's market risk, running a Fama-French 3-factor, 5-factor, or Fama-French-Carhart 4 factor model, estimating the VaR of a 5-stock portfolio, estimating the optimal portfolio, and constructing the efficient frontier for a 20-stock portfolio with real-world stock, and with Monte Carlo Simulation. Later, we will also learn how to replicate the famous Black-Scholes-Merton option model and how to price exotic options such as the average price call option.Style and approachThis book takes a step-by-step approach in explaining the libraries and modules in Python, and how they can be used to implement various aspects of quantitative finance. Each concept is explained in depth and supplemented with code examples for better understanding.

Create powerful, effective visualizations to help analyze your data with Tableau 10 by your sideAbout This Book- Cook your favorite Tableau 10 business intelligence recipe with the help of this easy-to-follow book - Build beautiful, interactive dashboards and visualizations in Tableau 10 that help you make informed decisions- This rich collection of independent recipes cover everything needed to become an advanced Tableau user and get an edge over other Tableau usersWho This Book Is ForThis book is targeted to business, data, and analytics professionals who want to build rich interactive visualizations using Tableau. Familiarity with previous versions of Tableau would be helpful, but is not necessary.What You Will Learn- Become familiar with the Tableau interface- Build basic to more advanced charts with step-by-step recipes - Use filters, calculated fields, parameters, and actions to add interactivity to charts and dashboards - Prepare and transform data for analysis using Tableau's built-in tools and functions- Create effective and compelling dashboards and story points- Leverage Tableau's mapping capabilities to visualize location and shape data- Integrate analytics and forecasting to enhance data analysis- Get to know tips and tricks to work more quickly and effectively in Tableau- Increase your confidence and competence in creating rich, interactive visualizations in TableauIn DetailTableau is a software tool that can speed up data analysis through its rich visualization capabilities, and help uncover insights for better and smarter decision making. This book is for the business, technology, data and analytics professionals who use and analyze data and data-driven approaches to support business operations and strategic initiatives in their organizations.This book provides easy-to-follow recipes to get the reader up and running with Tableau 10, and covers basic to advanced use cases and scenarios. The book starts with building basic charts in Tableau and moves on to building more complex charts by incorporating different Tableau features and interactivity components. There is an entire chapter dedicated to dashboard techniques and best practices. A number of recipes specifically for geospatial visualization, analytics, and data preparation are also covered.By the end of this book, you'll have gained confidence and competence to analyze and communicate data and insights more efficiently and effectively by creating compelling interactive charts, dashboards, and stories in Tableau.Style and approachThis book is a collection of independent recipes that cover a wide range of options for data visualization on offer with Tableau. With the help of the recipes in this book, you can explore Tableau and pick the business intelligence solution that's best suited for your needs.