Author: Roger Bilisoly File Type: pdf ReviewPractical Text Mining with Perl is an excellent book for readers at a variety of different programming skill levels Bilisolys book would serve as a good text for an introductory text mining course, and could be supplemented with lecture notes for Web mining or data mining courses. (Journal of Statistical Software, January 2009) From the Back CoverProvides readers with the methods, algorithms, and means to perform text mining tasksThis book is devoted to the fundamentals of text mining using Perl, an open-source programming tool that is freely available via the Internet (www.perl.org). It covers mining ideas from several perspectivesstatistics, data mining, linguistics, and information retrievaland provides readers with the means to successfully complete text mining tasks on their own.The book begins with an introduction to regular expressions, a text pattern methodology, and quantitative text summaries, all of which are fundamental tools of analyzing text. Then, it builds upon this foundation to exploreullProbability and texts, including the bag-of-words modelllInformation retrieval techniques such as the TF-IDF similarity measurellConcordance lines and corpus linguisticsllMultivariate techniques such as correlation, principal components analysis, and clusteringllPerl modules, German, and permutation testslulEach chapter is devoted to a single key topic, and the author carefully and thoughtfully introduces mathematical concepts as they arise, allowing readers to learn as they go without having to refer to additional books. The inclusion of numerous exercises and worked-out examples further complements the books student-friendly format.Practical Text Mining with Perl is ideal as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in text mining and as a reference for a variety of professionals who are interested in extracting information from text documents.

Author: Snezana Lawrence File Type: pdf To open a newspaper or turn on the television it would appear that science and religion are polar opposites - mutually exclusive bedfellows competing for hearts and minds. There is little indication of the rich interaction between religion and science throughout history, much of which continues today. From ancient to modern times, mathematicians have played a key role in this interaction. This is a book on the relationship between mathematics and religious beliefs. It aims to show that, throughout scientific history, mathematics has been used to make sense of the big questions of life, and that religious beliefs sometimes drove mathematicians to mathematics to help them make sense of the world. Containing contributions from a wide array of scholars in the fields of philosophy, history of science and history of mathematics, this book shows that the intersection between mathematics and theism is rich in both culture and character. Chapters cover a fascinating range of topics including the Sect of the Pythagoreans, Newtons views on the apocalypse, Charles Dodgsons Anglican faith and Godels proof of the existence of God.**

Author: Andrew Pettegree File Type: epub The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the worlds greatest bibliophiles The Dutch Golden Age has long been seen as the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, whose paintings captured the public imagination and came to represent the marvel that was the Dutch Republic. Yet there is another, largely overlooked marvel in the Dutch world of the seventeenth century books. In this fascinating account, Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen show how the Dutch produced many more books than pictures and bought and owned more books per capita than any other part of Europe. Key innovations in marketing, book auctions, and newspaper advertising brought stability to a market where elsewhere publishers faced bankruptcy, and created a population uniquely well-informed and politically engaged. This book tells for the first time the remarkable story of the Dutch conquest of the European book world and shows the true extent to which these pious, prosperous, quarrelsome, and generous people were shaped by what they read. **Review The Dutch Republic during the 17th and much of the 18th century was indeed the bookshop of the world. In fact, as Pettegree and Der Weduwen show in this excellent account, publishing, newspapers, importing and exporting books and the wider book trade with its published catalogues and book auctions were one of the most innovative and important aspects of the Dutch Golden Age.Jonathan Israel, author of The Dutch Republic Offers a fresh understanding of the fundamental importance of print in early modern Europe. Alert to the growing interdependence of money and power, and searching out evidence for the existence of long-lost public announcements and news sheets as well as books and engravings, Pettegree and Der Weduwen reinterpret the formation of the information system supporting the rise of the Dutch Republic, a grand exemplar of the new commercial state. It is a remarkable achievement.Harold J. Cook, author of Matters of Exchange Allprinted matter and its makers is grist for the finely grinding mill of Pettegree and Der Weduwen. Their pioneering research feeds into every last field of study in the Dutch seventeenth century, and via the Netherlands into the rest of the literate world. This is a far larger and lesser-known territory than the familiar Republic of Letters, and fuller of surprises. Gary Schwartz, author of Rembrandts Universe Book Description This account uncovers for the first time a largely overlooked marvel of the Dutch Golden Age books. Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen show how the Dutch reshaped the seventeenth-century book world and, in the process, bought and owned more books per capita than any other people in Europe.

Author: Paul Watson File Type: epub Intriguing [and] enjoyable.Ian McGuire, New York Times Book Review Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1845whose two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and their crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic icewith the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the recent incredible discoveries of the wrecks. Paul Watson, a Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist who was on the icebreaker that led one of the discovery expeditions, tells a fast-paced historical adventure story and reveals how a combination of faith in Inuit knowledge and the latest science yielded a discovery for the ages.