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Accounting Information Systems (10th Edition) (Accounting Information Systems)

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Yawning Hell
Only Buy if Required for a Class
Caution: Will Cause Drowsiness.
Agreed. Boring as dirt.
Comprehensive but boring

Accounting Information Systems (10th Edition) (Accounting Information Systems)
Marshall B. Romney , and Paul J. Steinbart
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Binding: Hardcover

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Cost Accounting (12th Edition) (Charles T Horngren Series in Accounting)
Intermediate Accounting
Auditing and Assurance Services: An Integrated Approach (11th Edition)
Intermediate Accounting
Building Accounting Systems Using Access 2003

ASIN: 0131475916

Book Description

Thorough and up-to-date, this book supports any of the most popular approaches to AIS: focus on transaction cycles and controls; focus on systems life cycle; focus on databases and data modeling; or focus on computer-based controls, fraud and auditing. The book begins with an overview and conceptual foundations then goes on to discuss control and audit of accounting information systems, accounting information systems applications, and the systems development process. For CPAs and corporate accountants.

Customer Reviews:

Yawning Hell.......2006-05-31

Is this the world's most boring book ? Technically competent but painfully dry. A gift too insomniacs. Good luck on getting past page 1 !

Only Buy if Required for a Class.......2005-05-09

Very boring reading. Chapters tend to repeat themselves. The class I had for this book was one of the most boring classes I ever had. Instructor lectured from power point slides. I could have taken this class homestudy and done just fine, than to sit in class.

Caution: Will Cause Drowsiness........2004-04-03

This book is simply horrible. It takes the stereotypical accountant and shoves him into the pages. It is so lethargic and monotonous that all the valuable information within the book just stops making sense. This book should be read by anyone who has doubts about becoming an accountant. They'll drop everything and go into premed. Horrible!

Agreed. Boring as dirt........2003-05-10

Everything you need is in here, but the book truly is boring as dirt. If you need it for a class, fine. But do not buy it if you just want something to read.

Comprehensive but boring.......1999-09-12

This is a very comprehensive textbook of the subject. It deals with just about every aspect of the AIS realm. It is, however, a very dull book. There isn't much illustrating, no color, and absolutely no life beyond the black and white wasteland of its pages.

Information Systems Today: Why IS Matters (2nd Edition)

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Information Systems Today: Why IS Matters (2nd Edition)
Leonard Jessup , and Joseph Valacich
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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ASIN: 0131454870

Book Description

Contemporary and well written, this book serves as a good desk reference for business professionals who need to know about information systems. Chapter topics include database management, telecommunications, electronic commerce, information system ethics, security, and more. For systems analysts or general business professionals who need to know about information systems.

Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day

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Great Tool
Excellent!
It's about time
Very Basic Beginners Manual
Doesn't seem to work for themselves!

Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day
Jennifer Grappone , and Gradiva Couzin
Manufacturer: Sybex
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ASIN: 0471787531

Book Description

Influence search engine results and bring targeted traffic to your Web site with an hour a day of search engine optimization (SEO). Drawing on years of experience as successful SEO consultants, Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin provide detailed, practical, and often surprisingly simple techniques for improving results. Their simple strategies include setting SEO goals, site optimization, developing and implementing a strategy that might include both free and paid efforts, and tools for monitoring trends, measuring the competition, and tracking results.

Customer Reviews:

Great Tool.......2007-05-22

As a novice to SEO, this book is excellent at walking you through all of the items and tools that one needs to implement a solid SEO plan.

Excellent!.......2007-05-12

I'am very pleased with this book. Definately one of the best books on the subject of SEO.

It's about time.......2007-05-09

As an SEO Consultant for a large design company, I often speak to people who have no idea what SEO is, let alone understand it's sometime tricky nuances. It was very nice to see a "beginner" oriented book that not only made things easy to understand, but touched on some of those tricky parts.

I've read a number of beginning SEO books, and this was by far the best one yet. You will be hard pressed to find information in this writing that will not be pertinent and right on point with search engine guidelines and proper SEO methods. This was very pleasing, and it's about time a beginner book was written to get others started correctly.

Very Basic Beginners Manual.......2007-04-22

As a professional Web Developer, I'm always looking for expanding my skillset. Our company creates very search engine friendly websites, so we have already been doing most of what's in this book. The things we don't already do are actually outdated practices anyway. If you're an average website owner looking for a DIY solution, this will be adequate for you. If you know even a little about SEO already, it'll be like reading an ABC book. You can read it in a day & check off each chapter as 'been there, done that'.

Doesn't seem to work for themselves!.......2007-04-11

I searched for "seo tips" and neither of their two websites showed up in the top 20. Uh oh... if they can't make what they preach work for themselves, how can they help *you*, who might have paid for this book?

Take Back Your Life! Special Edition: Using Microsoft Outlook to Get Organized and Stay Organized (Bpg-Other)

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Author completely misses Outlook's powerful heirarchical capabilities.
Great book to start getting organized
Take Back Your Life!
Stong Emphasis on Up Front Planning
Outlook on Steroids

Take Back Your Life! Special Edition: Using Microsoft Outlook to Get Organized and Stay Organized (Bpg-Other)
Sally McGhee
Manufacturer: Microsoft Press
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Take Back Your Life!: Using Microsoft Outlook to Get Organized and Stay Organized (Bpg-Other)

ASIN: 0735622159

Customer Reviews:

Author completely misses Outlook's powerful heirarchical capabilities........2006-11-08

The result of using Outlook the way this author recommends is that you'll essentially have two separate lists: one list of all your projects and another list of all your "next actions". Since you'll be able to sort your next-action list according to the context in which each action will be done, this arrangement is better than nothing. But the problem with this arrangement is that with it, Outlook maintains neither project-to-next-actions connections nor next-actions-to-project connections. The author would have you list "next actions" within each project's Notes field to link the project to its next actions, and the author offers no link of each next action back to its project.

The author has missed a simple, powerful solution to this problem. When using Tasks in Outlook, the Tasks folder offers a heirarchical directory structure in which it's very easy to add folders and subfolders, just as one might do in Windows Explorer. Each of these folders that you create can be named to represent a project, and the next actions for each of these projects can be stored within the project's folder. Then all you have to do to see a list of all your next actions (across all projects) is to run a quick "Advanced Find" on your Outlook Tasks folder. Once you get the criteria of your search the way you want them, your search criteria can easily be saved, allowing you to recreate your "next actions" list with current data whenever you want it. If you include the "In Folder" field to display in your search results, then this field provides your next-action-to-project connection; and when you're reviewing your Outlook Tasks folder, the directory list of folders is essentially your project list, and within each project you see only the next actions associated with that project, so it's easy to maintain a project focus when planning your projects. Also, when using Outlook this way, many additional Outlook features can be used as well.

This book offers a few good ideas, but by failing to describe a simple and powerful way to have Outlook itself maintain the association of each project to its next actions, this book cannot be strongly recommended.

Great book to start getting organized.......2006-09-11

This book gives you great ideas about how to get organiazed and get things going. The only thing is that you will really need to use and get along MS Outlook pretty well, else you'll miss some of the tips and tricks in the book.
Pretty good start-up place for those who need some pointers at how to classify and prioritize tasks, events, items, and almost everything.

Take Back Your Life!.......2006-07-10

I'm not even to the end of the book and I already have my e-mail box emptied to zero, all my documents and files organized on my computer into an easy reference system so I know what information I already have. I am going to apply the same principles to my paper files this week. I had so much information stored and coming in that it is a huge relief to gain control over it all! All because I applied what I learned from this book.

Stong Emphasis on Up Front Planning.......2006-07-03

I am a veteran Franklin Covey planner user and consider myself very well organized and a strong time manager. Our company recently made the move to outlook, and I purchased this book hoping to get some tips on how to make the most of planning with outlook from someone who had a time management orientation. What I didn't expect was to learn anything more about time management. Boy was I wrong! Sally provides some real eye openers about spending more time up front planning tasks to get to "Strategic Next Actions" - tasks you can actually do without any dependencies. She also packs in excellent tips on setting up a reference system, handling email, and using the outlook task categories to their full potential.

I was able to achieve my basic objective with this book. My planning system was one where I used my Franklin Covey Plan Plus for Outlook software to create a daily task list each day with only items I could do that day, and used a collection of spreadsheets and word documents to track more complex "projects." Sally show how to integrate all of this into outlook with both planning and action tasks.

If you are looking for an indepth book on outlook however this isn't it. Instead its what it is advertised to be - a book on organizing first that tells who how to use outlook to implement the organizing system Sally has developed. The outlook information you need to implement the system is provided in a concise fashion and was very helpful to me.

Outlook on Steroids.......2006-04-02

I discovered this book while searching for something to help me manage the relentless flood of email coming at me every day (I had 900 unread emails at the time). I thought if I could become an outlook power user, I might be able to manage that number down. This book helped me learn the ins and outs of outlook, but more importantly, taught me a compelling approach to managing my crazy, demanding, overcommited, multi-tasking life. Mind you, I was a Franklin Planner flunky and a Day-Timer drop out, which made me a motivated learner. I literally devoured this book - read it cover to cover in just a few days (with a highlighter). Along the way I configured Outlook the work way the author recommends. I discussed it with friends. I actually implemented my own "IMS", which I think is what sets this book apart from David Allen's "Getting Things Done". You could read GTD, but the content may just "wash over you" and not make a practical difference in the way you work. This is specific, hands on, step by step instruction that if you're serious, will change the way you work in Outlook for the better. Highly recommended . . .

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites

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A lifesaver
Intriguing Title (3rdEd)
Excellent reference
Very biased book
An ok overview of the topic, with very little useful info

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
Louis Rosenfeld , and Peter Morville
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become
Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design
The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web
Prioritizing Web Usability (VOICES)

ASIN: 0596527349

Book Description

The post-Ajaxian Web 2.0 world of wikis, folksonomies, and mashups makes well-planned information architecture even more essential. How do you present large volumes of information to people who need to find what they're looking for quickly? This classic primer shows information architects, designers, and web site developers how to build large-scale and maintainable web sites that are appealing and easy to navigate.

The new edition is thoroughly updated to address emerging technologies -- with recent examples, new scenarios, and information on best practices -- while maintaining its focus on fundamentals. With topics that range from aesthetics to mechanics, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web explains how to create interfaces that users can understand right away. Inside, you'll find:

An overview of information architecture for both newcomers and experienced practitioners
The fundamental components of an architecture, illustrating the interconnected nature of these systems. Updated, with updates for tagging, folksonomies, social classification, and guided navigation
Tools, techniques, and methods that take you from research to strategy and design to implementation. This edition discusses blueprints, wireframes and the role of diagrams in the design phase
A series of short essays that provide practical tips and philosophical advice for those who work on information architecture
The business context of practicing and promoting information architecture, including recent lessons on how to handle enterprise architecture
Case studies on the evolution of two large and very different information architectures, illustrating best practices along the way

How do you document the rich interfaces of web applications? How do you design for multiple platforms and mobile devices? With emphasis on goals and approaches over tactics or technologies, this enormously popular book gives you knowledge about information architecture with a framework that allows you to learn new approaches -- and unlearn outmoded ones.

Customer Reviews:

A lifesaver.......2007-06-22

As project manager, I was in a bind when our contract information architect failed to understand the complexities of our matrixed business model and client base. Rosenfeld's book helped me design a IA for our 700 page HTML site that has since been described as simple, intuitive, a no-brainer. What great compliments!

The book describes basic theories of IA in general (i.e. book indexes and tables of contents, libraries, etc.) and the pros and cons of different organization, labeling, and navigation systems. Then Rosenfeld advises on presenting IA to management, etc., managing expectations (yours and others), and gives detailed examples of IA strategies online.

Intriguing Title (3rdEd).......2007-06-16

In "Part I - Intro to IA," obviously the basics are covered, like what exactly is IA? What does an Information Architect do? After reading this title, I would define an Information Architect as a glorified content manager. Someone that occupies the realm between UI designer and DB engineer.

Google is pretty good at finding information for us on the vast Internet, but there is a long way to go. I believe these authors make a valid point that IA will become increasingly relevant. In fact, I wouldn't doubt that in the future you will actually be able to obtain a BS in IA. Nonetheless, IA is around us everyday when we use technology no matter what we want call it.

The elements that make up IA are covered in "Part II - Basic Principles of IA." The basis of IA is the interaction or retrieval of information in terms of organization systems, labeling systems, navigation systems, search systems, thesauri, controlled vocabularies, and metadata. What this basically means is, how do we categorize our data so that it makes sense, is easy to navigate and search, and is relevant or adaptable according to our users' vocabularies.

"Part III - Process and Methodology" helps one plan a path to your IA goals. For instance, developing a research management team to discuss such goals, your target audiences, functionality/deficiencies of your current IA system, and integrating other software, such as your customer management system (CMS).

My favorite topic here is the detailed discussion of "building vocabularies." This is something everybody needs to constantly perfect. An example of this is, two people can search for the same thing using two different criteria. How can can we build a vocabulary system that recognizes that?

Many research tools are discussed. My favorite technique, and it's so simple, is card sorting. Get some blank cards (20-25) and write on them the headings from categories, subcategories, and content within your site. Ask a user to sort this stack of cards into piles that make sense to him and have him label those cards using post-it notes. Make sure to tell them to think-out-loud and be sure to take notes. This will give you an idea of how one would "travel" through your site, what is relevant, and what should not be on your homepage, etc.

The authors take the reader through the process of the IA development cycle, from concept, to getting managers to buy-in, to the implementation and administration of the system; very thorough.

The hands-on aspects of IA are explained in "Part IV - IA in Practice." One thing I found insightful was how one could pursue an official education in the area of IA, albeit there is no such degree. To gain a competitive advantage, the authors suggest obtaining a degree in Library and Information Science (LIS) or Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

At the end of chapter 15, there is a list of position titles making up an ideal IA team.
This list may prove helpful for potential readers to get a better understanding of what IA is comprised of.

1) Strategy Architect - responsible for overall design goals and integration

2) Thesaurus Designer - develops classification schemes, controlled vocabularies, and thesauri

3) Controlled Vocabulary Manager - manages the evolution of controlled vocabularies and coordinates the indexing specialists team

4) Indexing Specialist - tags content and services with controlled vocabulary metadata

5) Interaction Designer - creates navigation schemes and page layouts with a focus on user interaction

6) IA Software Analyst - links the IA and IT teams, focusing on ways to leverage software to create, manage, and drive the user experience

7) IA Usability Engineer - focuses on intersection of usability and IA by conducting studies that isolate IA elements, such as category labels or metadata.

8) Cartographer - converts patterns in content, structure, and usage into maps, guides, indexes, and other useful navigational tools.

9) Search Analyst - leads the design, improvement, and ongoing analysis of search system.

"PART V - IA in the Organization" was a little dry for my tastes and irrelevant to me. May be very helpful for someone in a large bureaucratic organization that wants to implement their IA concepts.

The moral of the story is that "site builders" must employ multiple info retrieval methods and tightly integrate them. Everyone searches, browses, scans, and finds info differently; accommodate them.

This book is very comprehensive and even deals with the politics of IA. To me, the book gets a little long at times, but if your life evolves around information somehow, this is an essential read.

Excellent reference.......2007-06-12

The topic of the Polar Bear is very defined and focused, and the book reflects this. It's a bit dry - reads much like stereo instructions - but for someone who is dedicated to exploring content and information architecture in depth, there's simply no better reference.

I wouldn't call this a good primer, but I'd definitely recommend it for more advanced reading, and definitely as a reference book.

Very biased book.......2007-06-02

In general, this book contains some useful yet common sense information. This book is more about how to become a talker than a worker. I read through and found the first half confirmed my experience and the second half is a bust. If you want to become an office politician, this is a must have.

An ok overview of the topic, with very little useful info.......2007-05-24

Although this book does provide a nice overview of the field of IA, it provided me with very little useful information in regards to advanced IA techniques and practices. The few bits of useful information that I found we're sandwiched between pages upon pages of common sense, no-brainer techniques.

If your a beginner in the fields, or an outsider hoping to learn about IA, perhaps you might benefit from this book. If you've been in the industry for awhile, I'd suggest getting your IA info from a better source. Information Architecture: Blueprints For The Web is a good one. So are Defensive Design for The Web, and Getting Real, by 37 Signals.

Text Mining: Predictive Methods for Analyzing Unstructured Information

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it is 200 pages thick
Great introduction book of text mining
an idiot savant, statistical viewpoint
Very Good Intro Book
An excellent introduction

Text Mining: Predictive Methods for Analyzing Unstructured Information
Sholom Weiss , Nitin Indurkhya , Tong Zhang , and Fred Damerau
Manufacturer: Springer
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ASIN: 0387954333

Book Description

The growth of the web can be seen as an expanding public digital library collection. Online digital information extends far beyond the web and its publicly available information. Huge amounts of information are private and are of interest to local communities, such as the records of customers of a business. This information is overwhelmingly text and has its record-keeping purpose, but an automated analysis might be desirable to find patterns in the stored records. Analogous to this data mining is text mining, which also finds patterns and trends in information samples but which does so with far less structured--though with greater immediate utility for users--ingredients. This book focuses on the concepts and methods needed to expand horizons beyond structured, numeric data to automated mining of text samples. It introduces the new world of text mining and examines proven methods for various critical text-mining tasks, such as automated document indexing and information retrieval and search. New research areas are explored, such as information extraction and document summarization, that rely on evolving text-mining techniques.

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it is 200 pages thick.......2007-04-06

The authors (4 guys) tried to cover all IR big words as much as they can, and ended up with the 221 pages book. Let's take one example, inverted index takes 1.5 pages: It says inverted index is a table with the key-pair. The key is all the keywords scanned from the source, and the value is the document and word position (key in that document), period. IMHO, it is apparent facts that inverted index is like this way. But in practical world algorithm, it is much more complicated than a table, for example, how to incremental fill the index, how to sync between multiple backup copy, how to blabla. And even THAT google paper is more useful than it on this area. People may argue it is a comprehensive introduction book, well, then try Gerald's classic book. The whole impression is like I am reading a C++ programming book which spends 10 pages talking K&R's from Bell, how long they had been there, etc ...
I spent about 1 hr scanning the whole book without much left on my brain . Considering the price 69 bucks, I have to give it 0 on performance/price.

Great introduction book of text mining.......2006-12-29

This is a great book on text mining. It provides every detail you need to know to build a search engine or text analysis. There are several other books available on similar topics, but this one is definitely the best. Among all the chapters in this book, I like chapter 2 the best. It provides a complete list of solutions to convert the unstructured texts into vectors. Many researchers and enginners are familiar with the process, but few pay attention to many aspects as the book did, such as sentence boundary determination and phrase recognition.

In one word, it is a great introduction book for someone new to the area, also a good handbook to check from time to time.

an idiot savant, statistical viewpoint .......2006-10-27

The authors give an excellent review of how matters stood in 2004, regarding text mining. The approach of the book is to minimise linguistic and semantic analysis. Instead, it looks more at the statistics of words (tokens) in documents. By using various such methods, they offer an automated way to classify documents. When this works, it can be a tremendous saver of manual effort. Think of the book as perhaps advocating an idiot savant vantage, and seeing how far one can usefully take this approach.

The results of the methods can also be used as input to more advanced and specialised methods, that rely on semantic analysis.

The book can also be applied to search engine analysis.

Very Good Intro Book.......2006-02-12

I wouldn't give it 5 stars, but definitely worth the money. I took an online class at statistics.com that used this as the text. Really a great combination of book and class and wasn't expensive. Highly recommend both to any data miner interested in getting into text mining.

An excellent introduction.......2005-07-07

I found the book informative and timely. The book describes the algorithms with psuedocode, and this made it possible for me to apply the algorithms to a legacy structure using another language within a few days of finishing the book.

The book's software (available from their website) requires XML formatted documents for input.

Accounting Information Systems (9th Edition)

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WOW!
The Life and Times of Accounting Information Systems
A Comprehensive book for IT and Audit Professionals. Just Fa
Accounting IS

Accounting Information Systems (9th Edition)
George H. Bodnar , and William S. Hopwood
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Advanced Accounting (9th Edition) (Advanced Accounting)
Auditing and Assurance Services: An Integrated Approach (11th Edition)
Cost Accounting (12th Edition) (Charles T Horngren Series in Accounting)
Accounting Information Systems: Cases and Readings
Fundamentals of Advanced Accounting

ASIN: 0130082058

Book Description

This interesting, extremely useful book stresses information, communication, and networking technology within the realm of business processes and internal control structure. Its brief yet comprehensive coverage has been updated to include all of the latest AIS topics, such as: electronic commerce, electronic security, web commerce, internet security, network security, statistical sampling and artificial intelligence, EDI, databases, and encryption. The new focus on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) allows for more precise planning, forecasting, and monitoring. Advances in Business Engineering and Blueprinting and new discussions on SAP are also highlighted. For those involved in the planning, set-up, implementation, and monitoring of accounting information systems.

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WOW!.......2004-01-31

This book changed my life, I had no idea that there are people out there, who feel the EXACT same way that I do!! I recommend this book to anyone who is down and needs some inspiration and motivation in their life.

The Life and Times of Accounting Information Systems.......2003-01-14

This book reminds me more of a travelog about many of the sights and sounds you will encounter on your quest to become best friends with your Accounting Information System.

It would make a lot more sense if the authors skipped a lot of the details of where Accounting Information Systems fit in our social experience and get down to dealing with the dirty details of how someone would go about writing a system of their own.

Then they could spend a chapter on how to go about the testing of the system and how and why to do a complete re-write of this masterpiece.

A Comprehensive book for IT and Audit Professionals. Just Fa.......2001-05-16

This is one book our professor recommends to all MBAs, IT Auditors and accounting professionals. I think its worth the price.

Accounting IS.......1999-12-05

This's good one, for all MIS and can use in the real worl

Microsoft Access 2003 Forms, Reports, and Queries (Business Solutions)

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Great reference and intro if you are familiar with programming
This Book Saved My Behind!
Well-Rounded Basic to Intermediate Reference
Incredibly useful book
a nuts & bolts book for a database user

Microsoft Access 2003 Forms, Reports, and Queries (Business Solutions)
Paul McFedries
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When it comes to job-productivity, we all want to be able to perform well, especially when it comes to challenging assignments. Anyone who works with Microsoft Access on a regular basis knows that this program can prove to be one of the most challenging. If you are looking for a way to get the most you can out of the primary Access tasks, Microsoft Access 2003 Forms, Reports and Queries is the learning tool that you need. Focusing only on the forms, reports and queries functions, this book provides you with practical know-how, real-world examples and techniques that you can put to use immediately. Learn to condense mountains of information into manageable molehills of useful knowledge, so that you can perform at your best!

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Microsoft Access is a large, intimidating program. Unlike Word or Excel where users can perform basic tasks without much in the way of training, Access presents challenges from the outset. Most users never progress beyond creating simple tables and using Wizards to create basic forms and reports. At the same time, all users - from managers to researchers to administrative assistants - need to know that what they seek is embedded somewhere in their Access tables. Without a more sophisticated knowledge of how to extract and present that data, they are forced to rely on office gurus and overworked IT people to provide canned reports or one-size-fits-all solutions.This book changes all that by giving readers the skills required to etract the data they need (queries), build efficient front-ends for that data (forms), and publish the results in an attractive and easy-to-read format (reports). To that end, this book shuns the big Access picture and instead focuses intently on queries, forms, and reports. This in-depth approach will give the reader the skills and understanding he or she needs to get at the data and prove the old adage that knowledge is indeed power.

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Great reference and intro if you are familiar with programming.......2007-03-24

I've never done SQL or DB programming before, but I have experience with data structures and programming in other languages. This book was a great reference tool to introduce me to the language. Most importantly, it laid out syntax very neatly. I skimmed through most of it in a few hours and was successfully writing SQL queries (no wizards) afterwards. The size of the book is really nice. A great reference to keep handy.

This Book Saved My Behind!.......2006-11-22

I just completed a very time-sensitive project with the help of this book, and would not have been able to meet my deadline without it! As a beginner/intermediate Access user, this book gave me all the information I needed to quickly throw together a database with a simple user interface that did some fairly complex calculations in the queries. Unlike Microsoft's online help, the excellent layout, table of contents and index of this book make it easy to find ways to accomplish what you need to do, even if you're not sure exactly what terminology to use. I would recommend this book for anyone who who knows that Access is capable of doing lots of cool tricks, but just isn't sure how to get it to do them.

Well-Rounded Basic to Intermediate Reference.......2006-11-10

This book stays next to my computer at all times! (Along with the "Automating Microsoft Access with VBA" book in the "Business Solutions" series.)

I found great references for building criteria expressions, custom input masks and detailed query operations, along with modifying forms, queries and reports created with the access wizard.

Also a good resource for form error handling and data validation. I would recommend it to a newer Access user for a well-rounded introduction to customizing forms/queries/reports, or as a handy reference for intermediate users. It doesn't include much VBA; most of the changes made are through the form/report properties window or query builder window.

Incredibly useful book.......2006-10-17

This book is terrific. It has helped me go from a novice user of Access, to a very proficient user. It has everything you need to know to build a solid database in an accessible format. The information is easy to find and incredibly easy to understand. I use it at work and I am continually having to track it down because it gets borrowed by my coworkers. Finally I asked the company to just buy a second copy, which they did.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough if you need a reference manual for forms, queries or reports. I have another Access book that is 1400 pages, but I never use it because this small book is a thousand times better, easier to understand, and provides on-point helpful information. I pull it out as soon as I'm about to work in Access and just keep it open on my desk. So far it's gotten me through everything I've wanted to do. Highly, highly recommended.

a nuts & bolts book for a database user.......2006-08-10

It is easy to follow, clear cut and useful. The reader should have a working knowledge of access. I found the work on queries best followed by reports then forms. It could use better proof reading but that's a minor thing compared to the books content. I definitely got the books price in useful information.

Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

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Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques, Second Edition (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
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Data Mining, Second Edition, Second Edition : Concepts and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

ASIN: 0120884070
Release Date: 2005-06-10

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As with any burgeoning technology that enjoys commercial attention, the use of data mining is surrounded by a great deal of hype. Exaggerated reports tell of secrets that can be uncovered by setting algorithms loose on oceans of data. But there is no magic in machine learning, no hidden power, no alchemy. Instead there is an identifiable body of practical techniques that can extract useful information from raw data. This book describes these techniques and shows how they work.

The book is a major revision of the first edition that appeared in 1999. While the basic core remains the same, it has been updated to reflect the changes that have taken place over five years, and now has nearly double the references. The highlights for the new edition include thirty new technique sections; an enhanced Weka machine learning workbench, which now features an interactive interface; comprehensive information on neural networks; a new section on Bayesian networks; plus much more.

* Algorithmic methods at the heart of successful data miningincluding tried and true techniques as well as leading edge methods
* Performance improvement techniques that work by transforming the input or output
* Downloadable Weka, a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks, including tools for data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, and visualizationin a new, interactive interface

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Like the popular first edition, Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques with Java Implementations offers a thorough grounding in machine learning concepts as well as practical advice on applying machine learning tools and techniques in real-world data mining situations. Inside, you'll learn all you need to know about preparing inputs, interpreting outputs, evaluating results, and the algorithmic methods at the heart of successful data mining-including both tried-and-true techniques of the past and Java-based methods at the leading edge of contemporary research. If you're involved at any level in the work of extracting usable knowledge from large collections of data, this clearly written and effectively illustrated book will prove an invaluable resource. Complementing the authors' instruction, including a fully-revised Chapter 8 and 30 new technique sections, is a fully functional platform-independent Java software s

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Incredibly Useful for theory and Practice.......2007-05-15

This book is by the guys who created WEKA. It covers a wide swath of machine learning without losing a dilligent reader. Then it walks the reader through using WEKA - a fantastically powerful open source tool.

Amazing.

wrong named.......2007-04-20

If "practical" means having a sample project with the theory, the name of this book is incorrectly named. With a big bunch of text or description, it is not "practical"!

Incredibly practical introduction.......2006-10-30

This book is perfect if you are trying to get your hands around what data mining and machine learning is. Most of the books I have read on this subject want to start with equations and get more complex from there, with little practicality. This book makes extensive use of examples and introduces the mathematical basis for algorithms where needed. The authors make the point that simpler algoritms often work best for solving machine learning problems. Similarly, I would argue, simpler books work best for understanding highly complex fields. I very highly recommend this book.

Words words and more words but little substance.......2006-05-01

I bought this book based on all the reviews posted on Amazon.com. I must say I was extremely disappointed. The book does not describe even a single machine learning algorithm adequately - no pseudocode, no mathematical description, and at the end of the day, no real understanding. If you are an analytically challenged manager who wants to pick up a bunch of buzzwords to throw around to impress your equally analytically challeged colleagues or customers who don't have a clue, this might be the book for you - a n overpriced, highly overrated "data mining for dummies". If you want to learn something about machine learning, well.. stick to books like Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell or Elements of Statistical Learning by Hastie, Tibshirani, and Friedman.

Very helpful.......2006-04-27

The major virtue of this book is the emphasis on practical applications and bread-and-butter techniques for accomplishing tasks that one could expect in a business environment. That is not to say that these techniques could not be used in a scientific research environment. They indeed could be, and in fact may be even easier to implement due to the long time scales that are available in research environments for processing information. In the business world however data mining has proven to be an activity that gives a substantial competitive edge, and so many businesses are seeking even more sophisticated methods of data mining and Web mining. Data mining could easily be considered to a branch of artificial intelligence (AI), due to its emphasis on learning patterns and performing classification, and the learning and classification tools it uses were discovered by individuals who would describe themselves as being researchers in artificial intelligence. But many, and it is fair to include the authors of this book, do not want to view data mining as part of artificial intelligence, since the latter stirs up discussions on the origin of intelligence, autonomous robots, and conscious machines, to paraphrase a line from chapter 8 of this book. The authors make it a point to emphasize that data mining, or "machine learning" is concerned with the algorithms for the inference of structure from data and the validation of that structure.

Along with its practical emphasis, the book includes discussions of some very interesting developments that are not usually included in books or monographs on data mining. One of these concerns the current research in `programming by demonstration.' This research is targeted towards the "ordinary" computer user who does not possess any programming knowledge but yet wants to automate predictable tasks. The only thing required from the user is knowledge of how to do the task in the usual way. As an example, the authors discuss briefly the `Familiar' system, which extracts information from user applications to make predictions and then generates explanations for the user about its predictions. Even more interesting is that it learns the tasks that are specialized for each individual user. It learns from the unique style of each user and their interaction history. One of the most interesting and powerful claims of programming by demonstration is that is domain-independent, considering the current intense interest in reasoning patterns or algorithms that can process information arising from multiple domains. In this regard a successful system would then be able to learn how to play chess from a user along with perhaps composing music. Again, the ability of a machine to reason in many domains is a step towards what many in the artificial community have called a `universal' learning machine. But the authors do not hold to this view, and in fact they open up the discussion in the chapter on the Weka workbench with a statement to the effect that there is no single learning algorithm that will work with all data mining problems. The "universal learner" they say, is an "idealistic fantasy."

Another interesting discussion included in the book is that of `co-training', which is a methodology that arises in the context of `semi-supervised learning.' In this learning scheme the input contains both unlabeled and labeled data. In co-training, one depends on the fact that the classification task depends on two different and independent perspectives. Then assuming there are a few labeled examples, a different model will be learned for each perspective, and then the models are separately used to label the unlabeled examples. Each model will contribute both negative and positive examples to the pool of labeled examples. The procedure is then repeated until the unlabeled pool is empty. This allows both models to be trained on the new pool of labeled examples. The authors point out some evidence indicating that if a (naive) Bayesian learner is used throughout this procedure, then it outperforms a learner that develops a single model from the labeled data. The intuition behind this is that using the independence of the two perspectives allows one to reduce the likelihood of an incorrect labeling. References are given for readers that want to investigate this approach in more detail, along with more brief discussions on its generalizations, such as co-EM, which involves probabilistic labeling of unlabeled data in one perspective, and how to use support vector machines in place of the naive Bayesian learner.

For the practitioner, the most useful discussion in the book concerns the evaluation of the different methods for data mining. What makes one approach to data mining better than another, and is there then a ranking of the different approaches? Can one in fact make judgments on the reliability or performance of data mining algorithms using solely the training or test data? If one had a general methodology for ranking data mining algorithms according to their performance then this would be a major advance, since this would allow a classification scheme for machine learning where one could speak of one machine being `more intelligent' than another. Unfortunately however this is difficult, and even said to be impossible according to some researchers. There are results in the research literature, going by the name of `free lunch' theorems, which seem to indicate that one cannot distinguish machine learning algorithms based solely on the way the deal with training or test data. The authors do not discuss these results in this book, but it is certainly apparent that they are aware of the difficult issues involved in the prediction of performance for data mining algorithms.

Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

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This is the one book you ought to have if you want to expand your knowledge of online transaction processing (OLTP) and learn how to apply it to the real world. Transaction Processing completely covers the problems faced by OLTP systems and discusses fault tolerance and recovery--the ability of a system to withstand failures of various kinds without dropping the ball. Additionally, Gray and Reuter cover system architecture decisions, monitoring, concurrence (including locks and isolation), scheduling (including deadlock resolution), and file systems. The book concludes with a discussion (circa 1993) of the merits of various hardware and software used in OLTP systems. Although there is no companion CD-ROM with Transaction Processing, the authors do illustrate many of the book's concepts with C source code. As this is a college textbook, you can expect some dry prose and academic approaches to certain problems. Nonetheless, the authors' writing is clear and easy to follow.

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The key to client/server computing.

Transaction processing techniques are deeply ingrained in the fields of
databases and operating systems and are used to monitor, control and update
information in modern computer systems. This book will show you how large,
distributed, heterogeneous computer systems can be made to work reliably.
Using transactions as a unifying conceptual framework, the authors show how
to build high-performance distributed systems and high-availability
applications with finite budgets and risk.

The authors provide detailed explanations of why various problems occur as
well as practical, usable techniques for their solution. Throughout the book,
examples and techniques are drawn from the most successful commercial and
research systems. Extensive use of compilable C code fragments demonstrates
the many transaction processing algorithms presented in the book. The book
will be valuable to anyone interested in implementing distributed systems
or client/server architectures.

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This is the bible for Transaction Processing!.......2006-03-24

This book is the base for all who want to be a Gurus in a bigs systems OLTP with hundreds of TPS and hundreds or thousands of customes conected doing transactions or using a terminals. This is a book that you mast have mandatorily.

This book is a revelation.......2006-01-14

God himself has spoken. You will understand what is the difference between real computer science (Jim Gray) and changing configuration values at random in your MySQL setup (Jeremy Zawodny style)

Perfect.......2003-02-14

Well organized, complete, nontrivial, wealth of sample code, interesting historical notes, good index. Magnificent work. Definitely worth the money.

Showing its age, but still has a lot to offer.......2002-07-21

For nearly a decade this book has been the definitive reference on transaction processing. Although the more recent, May 2001 book titled "Transactional Information Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control" by Gerhard Weikum and Gottfried Vossen will probably supplant this book as the standard reference, there is still much material that makes this book useful.

In particular, this book covers the following topics in more depth than the newer boom cited above:
- Fault tolerance and availability, both topics are covered in depth from hardware and software perspectives. This is unique for a book on transaction processing in that most books on the subject confine their scope to software and databases.

- A wide and complete survey of transaction models. True, some of this material is about models that are falling into disuse, but the value is the way the authors go deeply into the mechanics. I've always felt that this part of the book is the most valuable because the principles can be refactored into hybrid models. Moreover, comparing this material with the newer book by Weikum and Vossen shows that these principles are still employed in today's TP solutions.

Material about transaction processing monitors is obviously out of date, but, like the TP models, the principles still apply to contemporary systems. My recommendation is if you are going to buy a single book on the topic get the Weikum and Vossen I cited in the first paragraph. However, if your budget allows, I also highly recommend this book as well because of the depth in which fault tolerance and TP models are covered. If you want to just learn the basics of TP I recommend that you consider "Principles of Transaction Processing" by Philip A. Bernstein and Eric Newcomer because it is less daunting than this or the Weikum and Vossen book (both of which are 1100+ pages).

The bible of transaction processing.......2001-11-22

I used this book as a CS grad student in college
for a class on transaction based systems and it covers
how to do transactions from top to bottom. Although
it was published in 1993 the techniques described in this
book are actually more advanced than techniques
used in a lot of real world systems today so it is not
out dated. I have yet to see a book as comprehensive as
this on how to actually implement transactions. Good
book for software engineers to read. My only complaint
is that the book has a lot of typos and some bugs in the
source code listings. Also because the book is so damn big
(i.e. lot of pages) they chose to use very thin paper which
makes it not very good for using hilight markers on. Still
this is the definitive book on how to implement transaction
processing.

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