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Scikit-Learn Cookbook

by Trent Hauck  · 3 Nov 2014

Chapter 4 Notice how accuracy is going up for the most part. There certainly is some randomness associated with the accuracy, but the graph is up and to the right. In the following How it works... section, we'll talk about the association between random forest and bootstrap, and what is generally better. How it

Getting Started with D3

by Mike Dewar  · 26 Jun 2012  · 100pp  · 15,500 words

) + 10) .attr("y", percent_scale(d.late_percent) - 10) .attr("id", d.line_id); }); Nothing terribly new here: we append an SVG text element just up and to the right of the circle and set the id of the text to the line_id. The one odd-looking line here is first line in the

shall fade the label out and, because it is so easy to get carried away with transitions, we shall transform the position of the label up and to the right a bit, giving the label fade a bit of drama: g.selectAll("circle") .on("mouseout.tooltip", function(d){ d3.select("text." + d.line_id) .transition

No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

by Richard Dobbs and James Manyika  · 12 May 2015  · 389pp  · 87,758 words

have surely had their share of days in recent years, it’s important to note that the long-term trend of so many indicators points up and to the right. In 1930, as the Great Depression spread around the world, the great British economist John Maynard Keynes boldly predicted that, one hundred years on, progressive

Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond

by Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar  · 19 Oct 2017  · 416pp  · 106,532 words

like Coinbase may have only a handful of addresses, which serve to store bitcoin for millions of users. Thus, while this metric shows a nice up-and-to-the-right trend, it’s only part of the picture. Figure 13.17 shows the hyper growth of Ethereum’s unique address count. With Ethereum, an address

Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work

by Sarah Kessler  · 11 Jun 2018  · 246pp  · 68,392 words

published.34 Above an excerpt of the statement on its website, the union posted a graph with three lines over time. One showed productivity, angling up and to the right. The other two represented average hourly compensation as estimated in two different ways, with both lines leveling off around 2005. There was no attempt to

has moved online and now services, including work, are too,” one of the smooth color-copied slides beamed. A graph showing freelancer earnings jutted straight up and to the right, pausing at $3.2 billion at the end of 2014. On the last slide, the presentation urged me to imagine what this meant for the

Beautiful Visualization

by Julie Steele  · 20 Apr 2010

and “bad” directions: it is good for a country to move toward a higher GDP and a longer life expectancy (i.e., to go up and to the right), and bad to move in the opposite direction (down and to the left). With Rosling’s sure hand guiding the watcher’s gaze, the visualization

100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-To-1 and How to Find Them

by Christopher W Mayer  · 21 May 2018

talking about a maker of beverages. You can also see on the far right-hand side that even with all the movement, the stock marched up and to the right most of the time. Think about all those times, however, when the stock took a 20+ percent dive. How often would you have been watching

Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation

by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber  · 29 Oct 2024  · 292pp  · 106,826 words

of this view is articulated by Steven Pinker, who makes the claim that global trends of health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are going up and to the right. See Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (London: Penguin, 2018). 6 For an overview of the spiritual, cultural, and civilizational

Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken in and What We Can Do About It

by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris  · 10 Jul 2023  · 338pp  · 104,815 words

graph with the date on the x-axis and the total number of cases on the y-axis, we would have a straight line going up and to the right. Now imagine instead that there were 10 new Covid-19 cases diagnosed on one day. On the next day, there were 11 new cases, on

The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness

by Morgan Housel  · 7 Sep 2020  · 209pp  · 53,175 words

filled with misery. And in fact you know it will be filled with misery. You can be optimistic that the long-term growth trajectory is up and to the right, but equally sure that the road between now and then is filled with landmines, and always will be. Those two things are not mutually exclusive

Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car

by Anthony M. Townsend  · 15 Jun 2020  · 362pp  · 97,288 words

Shipping Greatness

by Chris Vander Mey  · 23 Aug 2012  · 231pp  · 71,248 words

Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold and the Ultimate Limits of Adventure

by Alex Honnold and David Roberts  · 2 Nov 2015  · 265pp  · 77,084 words

The Practice of Cloud System Administration: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services, Volume 2

by Thomas A. Limoncelli, Strata R. Chalup and Christina J. Hogan  · 27 Aug 2014  · 757pp  · 193,541 words

Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed

by Alexis Ohanian  · 30 Sep 2013  · 216pp  · 61,061 words

Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)

by Christian Rudder  · 8 Sep 2014  · 366pp  · 76,476 words

The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

by Brad Stone  · 30 Jan 2017  · 373pp  · 112,822 words

Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

by Safi Bahcall  · 19 Mar 2019  · 393pp  · 115,217 words

New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

by James Bridle  · 18 Jun 2018  · 301pp  · 85,263 words

Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth

by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares  · 5 Oct 2015  · 232pp  · 63,846 words

Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side

by Howard Marks  · 30 Sep 2018  · 302pp  · 84,428 words

Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever

by Alex Kantrowitz  · 6 Apr 2020  · 260pp  · 67,823 words

Debunking Economics - Revised, Expanded and Integrated Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?

by Steve Keen  · 21 Sep 2011  · 823pp  · 220,581 words

How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets

by Andy Kessler  · 13 Jun 2005  · 218pp  · 63,471 words

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

by Anna Wiener  · 14 Jan 2020  · 237pp  · 74,109 words

Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice

by Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones  · 27 Apr 2020  · 419pp  · 102,488 words

Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street

by Jeff John Roberts  · 15 Dec 2020  · 226pp  · 65,516 words

Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care

by Jonathan Bush and Stephen Baker  · 14 May 2014  · 238pp  · 68,914 words

The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs That Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . And What You Can Do Right Now

by Sergey Young  · 23 Aug 2021  · 326pp  · 88,968 words

The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion

by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell  · 19 Jul 2021  · 460pp  · 130,820 words

Doing Data Science: Straight Talk From the Frontline

by Cathy O'Neil and Rachel Schutt  · 8 Oct 2013  · 523pp  · 112,185 words

No One Succeeds Alone

by Robert Reffkin  · 4 May 2021  · 210pp  · 62,278 words

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

by Eric Ries  · 13 Sep 2011  · 278pp  · 83,468 words

Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought A. I. To Google, Facebook, and the World

by Cade Metz  · 15 Mar 2021  · 414pp  · 109,622 words

More From Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources – and What Happens Next

by Andrew McAfee  · 30 Sep 2019  · 372pp  · 94,153 words

Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?

by Aaron Dignan  · 1 Feb 2019  · 309pp  · 81,975 words

The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future

by Keach Hagey  · 19 May 2025  · 439pp  · 125,379 words

The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors

by Spencer Jakab  · 1 Feb 2022  · 420pp  · 94,064 words

The Life and Loves of a He Devil: A Memoir

by Graham Norton  · 22 Oct 2014  · 225pp  · 78,025 words

Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism

by Wendy Liu  · 22 Mar 2020  · 223pp  · 71,414 words

This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World

by Yancey Strickler  · 29 Oct 2019  · 254pp  · 61,387 words

Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers

by Paulina Rowinska  · 5 Jun 2024  · 361pp  · 100,834 words

Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell

by Phil Lapsley  · 5 Feb 2013  · 744pp  · 142,748 words

Cuba: An American History

by Ada Ferrer  · 6 Sep 2021  · 723pp  · 211,892 words

The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

by Jimmy Soni  · 22 Feb 2022  · 505pp  · 161,581 words

That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea

by Marc Randolph  · 16 Sep 2019  · 334pp  · 102,899 words

Makers at Work: Folks Reinventing the World One Object or Idea at a Time

by Steven Osborn  · 17 Sep 2013  · 310pp  · 34,482 words

Upscale: What It Takes to Scale a Startup. By the People Who've Done It.

by James Silver  · 15 Nov 2018  · 291pp  · 90,771 words

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

by Mike Isaac  · 2 Sep 2019  · 444pp  · 127,259 words

Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else

by Jordan Ellenberg  · 14 May 2021  · 665pp  · 159,350 words

Running Money

by Andy Kessler  · 4 Jun 2007  · 323pp  · 92,135 words

Multitool Linux: Practical Uses for Open Source Software

by Michael Schwarz, Jeremy Anderson and Peter Curtis  · 7 May 2002

The Startup Way: Making Entrepreneurship a Fundamental Discipline of Every Enterprise

by Eric Ries  · 15 Mar 2017  · 406pp  · 105,602 words

HTML5 Canvas

by Steve Fulton and Jeff Fulton  · 2 May 2013  · 1,881pp  · 178,824 words

Architects of Intelligence

by Martin Ford  · 16 Nov 2018  · 586pp  · 186,548 words

The Big U

by Neal Stephenson  · 2 Jan 1984  · 344pp  · 103,532 words

The Men's Health Big Book of Exercises: Four Weeks to a Leaner, Stronger, More Muscular You!

by Adam Campbell  · 22 Dec 2009  · 724pp  · 106,509 words

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

by Antonio Garcia Martinez  · 27 Jun 2016  · 559pp  · 155,372 words

Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

by Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz  · 1 Mar 2013  · 567pp  · 122,311 words

The Peripheral

by William Gibson  · 23 Oct 2014  · 513pp  · 128,075 words

The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

by Michael Lewis  · 29 Sep 1999  · 146pp  · 43,446 words

The Firm

by Duff McDonald  · 1 Jun 2014  · 654pp  · 120,154 words

Wealth Without a Job: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Freedom and Security Beyond the 9 to 5 Lifestyle

by Phil Laut and Andy Fuehl  · 12 Sep 2004  · 290pp  · 98,699 words

Caliban's War

by James S. A. Corey  · 6 Jun 2012  · 630pp  · 174,171 words

How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story

by Billy Gallagher  · 13 Feb 2018  · 359pp  · 96,019 words

From eternity to here: the quest for the ultimate theory of time

by Sean M. Carroll  · 15 Jan 2010  · 634pp  · 185,116 words

Debt of Honor

by Tom Clancy  · 2 Jan 1994

An Optimist's Tour of the Future

by Mark Stevenson  · 4 Dec 2010  · 379pp  · 108,129 words

Patriot Games

by Tom Clancy  · 2 Jan 1987

Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It

by Scott Kupor  · 3 Jun 2019  · 340pp  · 100,151 words

Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs

by Andy Kessler  · 1 Feb 2011  · 272pp  · 64,626 words

Alpha Trader

by Brent Donnelly  · 11 May 2021

I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59

by Douglas Edwards  · 11 Jul 2011  · 496pp  · 154,363 words

WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

by Tim O'Reilly  · 9 Oct 2017  · 561pp  · 157,589 words

Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets From Inside Amazon

by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr  · 9 Feb 2021  · 302pp  · 100,493 words

How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success From the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs

by Guy Raz  · 14 Sep 2020  · 361pp  · 107,461 words

Nothing Personal: My Secret Life in the Dating App Inferno

by Nancy Jo Sales  · 17 May 2021  · 445pp  · 135,648 words

Binge Times: Inside Hollywood's Furious Billion-Dollar Battle to Take Down Netflix

by Dade Hayes and Dawn Chmielewski  · 18 Apr 2022  · 414pp  · 117,581 words

Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale

by David N. Blank-Edelman  · 16 Sep 2018

The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze

by Laura Shin  · 22 Feb 2022  · 506pp  · 151,753 words

The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

by Max Fisher  · 5 Sep 2022  · 439pp  · 131,081 words