This book shows how to build open source web applications with the latest version of MySQL and PHPLearn how to build a sample application using PHP and MySQL in the Spotlight section.Download three full-length case studies (including code trees) to find out how others have used the open source database and scripting language to build web applications.Visit the companion web site to get source code samples and live web applications.

Developments in information communication technologies (ICTs) have altered the fabric of youth culture in terms of a young person's access to information and ability to communicate with a global audience. The conditions, opportunities, and limitations of using digital media are different for marginalized urban youth. In order to harness the educational value of digital media in the lives of disenfranchised youth, we must understand its potential as a means of empowerment. Central to this book is the development of a model for working with youth using ICTs called digital youth praxis (DYP), which offers praxis orientation of ICTs that are critical, creative, and grounded in social justice. This model includes three tenets: the DYP H3 model, used for understanding context and ICT creation practices; the DYP phases, which offers six phases for critical ICT making; and the DYP typology, which offers insight on three different levels of ICT engagement and what they include. The purpose of this model is to clarify concepts and propose interdisciplinary relationships among concepts, provide a context for interpreting the findings, explain observations and creative content, and to encourage theory development that is useful to practice. Providing insight based on community-based fieldwork with marginalized youth, the interdisciplinary nature of Digital Youth Praxis is an excellent guide for formal and informal educators interested or engaged in youth media productions.

By the millennium most government departments and businesses will rely on some sort of GIS to conduct their everyday activities. The power and speed of such a tool in planning, research and managing spatial databases is invaluable. However, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the legal implications of GIS are as convoluted as those raised by the Internet. This is already becoming a field which is stretching legal systems around the world to their limit. Users, practitioners, developers, and custodians of data need a clear guide. This book, avoiding technological and legal jargon, clarifies the issues of the rights, limitations, and responsibilities of GIS. Geographic Information Systems and the Law addresses the legal relations between those who provide data and those who use the data. Areas covered include:

• the legal regimes and economic aspects of GIS
• contract law governing information technology
• data and information in a digital age
• legal liabilities — damages, negligence, and standards of care
• public access and ownership of information
• privacy and security issues — intellectual property and copyright
• international law and the globalisation of information technology

This undergraduate textbook adopts the perspective of organizations - not individuals - and clarifies the impact of social media on their different departments or disciplines, while also exploring how organizations use social media to create business value. To do so, the book pursues a uniquely multi-disciplinary approach, embracing IT, marketing, HR and many other fields. Readers will benefit from a comprehensive selection of current topics, including: tools, tactics and strategies for social media, internal and external communication, viral marketing campaigns, social CRM, employer branding, e-recruiting, search engine optimization, social mining, sentiment analysis, crowdfunding, and legal and ethical issues.

Services als grundlegende Bausteine von Organisationen und Unternehmenswelten erzeugen vollig neue, teilweise nicht vorhersehbare Eigenschaften. Pervasive Computing, Ambient Intelligence auf der einen Seite, internetbasierte, virtuelle Organisationen bestehend aus vielen Partnern auf der anderen Seite sind Formen digitaler Okosystemen, die zukunftig den Alltag verandern werden. Der Autor betrachtet die Steuer- und Realisierbarkeit solcher digitaler Okosysteme und stellt die Frage, ob solche grossen Systeme uberhaupt noch kontrollierbar sind."

Angesichts der Globalisierung suchen Unternehmen nach Moglichkeiten, veranderten Marktanforderungen gerecht zu werden. Eine Massnahme besteht in der Auslagerung von IT-Services in Niedriglohnlander, dem "IT-Offshoring." Erste Erfahrungen deutscher Firmen waren allerdings nicht durchweg positiv. Strukturelle Rahmenbedingungen des deutschen IT-Service-Marktes, kulturelle und sprachliche Unterschiede erfordern spezifische Herangehensweisen. "

Prominente Autoren aus Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Politik schildern in diesem Buch, welche konkreten Projekte verwirklicht werden m ssen, damit Deutschland in den n chsten Jahren eine Spitzenposition im Wettbewerb einnehmen kann und sich nicht mit einem Absteigerplatz zufriedengeben muss. Zu den Autoren des Buches geh ren Lothar Sp th, Vorsitzender des Vorstands der JENOPTIK AG, Klaus Eierhoff, Leiter der DirectGroup und Mitglied des Vorstands der Bertelsmann AG, Klaus Mangold, Mitglied des Vorstands DaimlerChrysler AG, Hubert Burda, Vorstandsvorsitzender und alleiniger Gesellschafter der Hubert Burda Media Holding, Brigitte Zypries, Staatssekret rin im Bundesministerium des Innern, Josef Brauner, Vorstandsmitglied der Deutschen Telekom AG und Ulf B ge, Pr sident des Bundeskartellamts. Das Buch bietet eine Agenda f r die notwendigen IT-Entwicklungen der n chsten Jahre in Deutschland.

All the answers to your data science questions Over half of all businesses are using data science to generate insights and value from big data. How are they doing it? Data Science Strategy For Dummies answers all your questions about how to build a data science capability from scratch, starting with the "what" and the "why" of data science and covering what it takes to lead and nurture a top-notch team of data scientists. With this book, you'll learn how to incorporate data science as a strategic function into any business, large or small. Find solutions to your real-life challenges as you uncover the stories and value hidden within data. Learn exactly what data science is and why it's important Adopt a data-driven mindset as the foundation to success Understand the processes and common roadblocks behind data science Keep your data science program focused on generating business value Nurture a top-quality data science team In non-technical language, Data Science Strategy For Dummies outlines new perspectives and strategies to effectively lead analytics and data science functions to create real value.

The book delivers an elaboration of multidisciplinary concepts, examples, and practices that can be useful for researching the evolution of developments in the field. In this book, we continue to provide a critical look at the information management in business organizations by exploring knowledge aspects from theoretical and practical perspectives. The compilation of chapters presented in this book helps to define the range of activities, identify areas for future research, and draw practical conclusions. The variety of industrial sectors examined supports continuous gaining and usage of an efficient business analysis in organizations.

SPSS. Powerful, user-friendly, and useful, particularly in psychology, sociology, psychiatry, and other social sciences. But to fully exploit its capabilities and effectively execute its wide range of procedures, users need detailed, to-the-point guidance that other resources lack.

A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using SPSS clearly and concisely describes how to conduct univariate and multivariate statistical analyses using the latest release of SPSS, version 11. Each chapter addresses a different type of analytical procedure and applies it to real data sets, primarily, though not exclusively, from the social and behavioral sciences. The authors briefly review the theoretical background of many of the techniques, but they set that material apart in boxes so that the presentation of the various analyses proceeds without interruption.

Each chapter ends with exercises, some related to the data sets introduced in that chapter, others introducing additional data sets. These data sets and answers to most of the exercises are available for download at www.iop.kcl.ac.uk/iop/departments/BioComp/SPSSBook.shtml.

If you're a relative newcomer to performing statistical analyses, a new user of SPSS, or a veteran on both fronts, A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using SPSS will be a welcome addition to your library. Researchers and students alike will find this a convenient, self-contained route to using SPSS for effective data analysis.

Das Praxisbuch dient als Grundlage fur die Abnahme von komplexen IT-Software-Systemen. Die Methoden, die hier vorgestellt werden, gelten sowohl fur Standard- als auch fur angepasste oder neu entwickelte Software und berucksichtigen ITIL und andere IT-Prozess-Standards. Sie haben sich in der Praxis vielfach bewahrt. Sie haben sich in der Praxis vielfach bewahrt. Beschrieben werden zunachst die organisatorischen Voraussetzungen, die fur eine erfolgreiche Abnahme erforderlich sind, sodann alle vorbereitenden Arbeiten, die getatigt werden mussen. Betrachtet werden auch organisatorische Schnittstellenbereiche, die bei der Ermittlung von fachlichen und technischen Anforderungen betroffen sind. Der Autor stellt das Abnahmegeschehen im Detail vor. Die dazu gehoerigen Werkzeuge zur Durchfuhrung und fur den Abschluss werden im Einzelnen erlautert.

This proceedings, LCT 2022, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies, LCT 2022, held as Part of the 24th International Conference, HCI International 2022, which took place in June/July 2022. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The total of 1271 papers and 275 poster papers included in the 39 HCII 2022 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 5487 submissions. The papers of LCT 2022 are organized in topical sections named: Designing and Developing Learning Technologies; Learning and Teaching Online; Diversity in Learning; Technology in Education: Practices and Experiences.

This book includes the proceedings of the third workshop on recommender systems in fashion and retail (2021), and it aims to present a state-of-the-art view of the advancements within the field of recommendation systems with focused application to e-commerce, retail, and fashion by presenting readers with chapters covering contributions from academic as well as industrial researchers active within this emerging new field. Recommender systems are often used to solve different complex problems in this scenario, such as product recommendations, size and fit recommendations, and social media-influenced recommendations (outfits worn by influencers).

Turn your Mac into a productivity powerhouse with Office 2021! Long gone are the days when Microsoft's powerful office suite was just for Windows users. Mac enthusiasts are also able to pop open ubiquitous apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on their preferred desktop or laptop! But if you're new to Microsoft Office on the Mac--or you just need a hand with some of its latest features--you should check out Office 2021 For Macs For Dummies. This handy guide will show you how to conquer the essentials of all the key apps that make Office 2021 such a productivity booster. You'll also discover: Brand-new features, like an improved dark mode and better accessibility capabilities How to share documents directly in a collaborative setting How Microsoft's Text Predictions work in various apps in Office 2021 Ideal for Mac-lovers who can't escape the lure of Microsoft's iconic office software, Office 2021 For Macs For Dummies is a can't-miss resource that will help you successfully blend the reliable computing power of your Mac or MacBook with the productivity power of Microsoft Office.

Das Buch behandelt Rechtsfragen des elektronischen Geschaftsverkehrs und des Datenschutzes in der Kreditwirtschaft. Schwerpunkte bilden neben Fragen der rechtlichen Gestaltung von Vertragen des Electronic-Banking haftungs- und beweisrechtliche Probleme sowie die Bedeutung des Datenschutzes und des Bankgeheimnisses fur alle Kundensegmente der Kreditinstitute. In einem ersten Teil werden die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen fur Bankgeschafte uber Fernabsatzmedien anhand der von der deutschen Kreditwirtschaft angebotenen Verfahren dargestellt. Der zweite Teil beschaftigt sich schwerpunktmassig mit dem Datenschutz und dem Bankgeheimnis, zeigt aber auch die Bedeutung dieser beiden Gebiete fur die zivilrechtliche Gestaltung von Bankvertragen auf und erlautert, welche Konsequenzen sich ergeben koennen, wenn diesen nicht hinreichend Rechnung getragen wird.

The Definitive Guide to the Microsoft Enterprise Library introduces one of the most exciting and popular .NET-oriented initiatives, the Enterprise Library. The EL offers nine classes of reusable code, or blocks, that are used to solve a variety of common problem spaces. These problems cover a number of topics, including configuration, data access, exception management, caching, application updates, UI separation, asynchronous invocation, logging, security, and XML-based information aggregation. Author Keenan Newton, a senior consultant for noted Microsoft Partner Magenic, begins the book with an introduction to common challenges, explaining the conditions that brought about the creation of the EL. After an EL overview, subsequent chapters offer detailed information about each of the nine blocks. The book concludes by outlining the framework available for creating custom application blocks. You'll be able to build .NET applications faster and more efficiently by taking advantage of readily available code developed and released by Microsoft's Patterns and Practices group. All book examples are based on a theme project that develops a point-of-sale application for a cosmetics company. You will be introduced to these technologies in conjunction with real-world scenarios.

This volume, first published in 1988, examines the challenge to management which is posed by ever more sophisticated applications of information technology. It reports on cases of actual practice, and seeks to draw lessons from these experiences which will be of practical value to managers and their advisers. The book will also be a useful source of ideas, experience, and examples to students of economics, business studies, and management.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the rapidly changing world of Web-based business technologies and their often-disruptive innovations. The history of the Web is a short one. Indeed many college graduates today were not even born when the Web first emerged. It is therefore an opportune time to view the Web as having reached the point of graduation. The Web has led to new ways in which businesses connect and operate, and how individuals communicate and socialize; related technologies include cloud computing, social commerce, crowd sourcing, and the Internet of Things, to name but a few. These developments, including their technological foundations and business impacts, are at the heart of the book. It contextualizes these topics by providing a brief history of the World Wide Web, both in terms of the technological evolution and its resultant business impacts. The book was written for a broad audience, including technology managers and students in higher education. It is also intended as a guide for people who grew up with a background in business administration or engineering or a related area but who, in the course of their career paths, have reached a point where IT-related decisions have become their daily business, e.g., in digital transformation. The book describes the most important Web technologies and related business applications, and especially focuses on the business implications of these technologies. As such, it offers a solid technology- and business-focused view on the impact of the Web, and balances rules and approaches for strategy development and decision making with a certain technical understanding of what goes on "behind the scenes."

Die "Architektur integrierter Informationssystme" ARIS hat sich zur Optimierung von Gesch ftsprozessen und zur Einf hrung von Anwendungssystemen auch international durchgesetzt. In diesem Buch wird der Ansatz um die Beschreibung von Leistungsfl ssen und die Einordnung moderner Softwarekonzepte erweitert. Auch die Anbindung der Gesch ftsprozessorganisation an die strategische Unternehmensplanung wird st rker betont. Das ARIS-Konzept zeigt einen geschlossenen Weg von der organisatorischen Gestaltung von Gesch ftsprozessen bis zur informationstechnischen Umsetzung. Es vermittelt somit zwischen den Verst ndniswelten der Betriebswirtschaftslehre und der Informationstechnik. Praktische Beispiele von Standardsoftware, insbesondere SAP R/3, veranschaulichen die Ausf hrungen.

Discover how to achieve business goals by relying on high-quality, robust data In Data Quality: Empowering Businesses with Analytics and AI, veteran data and analytics professional delivers a practical and hands-on discussion on how to accelerate business results using high-quality data. In the book, you'll learn techniques to define and assess data quality, discover how to ensure that your firm's data collection practices avoid common pitfalls and deficiencies, improve the level of data quality in the business, and guarantee that the resulting data is useful for powering high-level analytics and AI applications. The author shows you how to: Profile for data quality, including the appropriate techniques, criteria, and KPIs Identify the root causes of data quality issues in the business apart from discussing the 16 common root causes that degrade data quality in the organization. Formulate the reference architecture for data quality, including practical design patterns for remediating data quality Implement the 10 best data quality practices and the required capabilities for improving operations, compliance, and decision-making capabilities in the business An essential resource for data scientists, data analysts, business intelligence professionals, chief technology and data officers, and anyone else with a stake in collecting and using high-quality data, Data Quality: Empowering Businesses with Analytics and AI will also earn a place on the bookshelves of business leaders interested in learning more about what sets robust data apart from the rest.

Take to the (virtual) skies with help from Microsoft Flight Simulator Microsoft Flight Simulator has offered a great way to fly aircraft of all sizes without ever leaving the ground for nearly 40 years. With help from Microsoft Flight Simulator For Dummies, you'll take to the skies in everything from tiny two-seaters to huge commercial airliners. Plot your course and deal with realistic wind and weather as you fly pond hoppers, 747s, and everything in between all around the world. In this book, you'll learn how to: Start with getting a feel for the controls of a small plane before moving on to larger airliners Get familiar with the instrument panels of all sorts of planes Deal with virtual emergencies, dynamic weather, Maydays, and more! Great for anyone just getting started with Microsoft Flight Simulator, Microsoft Flight Simulator For Dummies is also the perfect book for existing players looking to get the most out of their time with this awesome game.

This volume, first published in 1988, examines the challenge to management which is posed by ever more sophisticated applications of information technology. It reports on cases of actual practice, and seeks to draw lessons from these experiences which will be of practical value to managers and their advisers. The book will also be a useful source of ideas, experience, and examples to students of economics, business studies, and management.

This authoritative and practical introduction to solution architecture is suitable for new entrants to the field but also of benefit to experienced professionals wishing to consolidate their knowledge and skills. Tools and techniques are presented in the context of a framework and life cycle, taking a problem or idea through logical steps to design a holistic, evidence-based solution. There is a focus on collaboration with the business as well as with disciplines such as enterprise architecture.