David Stuart

Practical Data Science for Information Professionals provides an accessible introduction to a potentially complex field, offering readers an overview of data science and a framework for its application. It includes detailed examples and analyses of real data sets to explore the basics of the subject in three principal areas: clustering and social network analysis, predictions and forecasts, and text analysis...

Practical Data Science for Information Professionals provides an accessible introduction to a potentially complex field, giving readers an overview of data science and a framework for its application. It uses detailed examples and analysis of real data sets to explore the basics of the subject in three principal areas: clustering and social network analysis; predictions and forecasts; and text analysis...

Practical Ontologies for Information Professionals provides an accessible introduction and exploration of ontologies and demonstrates their value to information professionals. More data and information is being created than ever before. Ontologies, formal representations of knowledge with rich semantic relationships, have become increasingly important in the context of today’s information overload and data deluge. The publishing and sharing of explicit explanations...

Library and information professionals increasingly need to create, manage, and monitor a wide range of online content, from a library’s social media account and websites to the new and traditional research outputs that funders expect to be made available openly online. It is important that they understand the new opportunities that web metrics provide for measuring the impact of an...

The Four Heavens brings to life the cultural and visual splendour of the ancient Maya, drawing on the oldest indigenous texts of the Americas and the latest archaeological discoveries to present an entirely new history of this spectacular civilisation. Renowned historian and archaeologist David Stuart, who has made groundbreaking contributions to the decipherment of Maya hieroglyphics, shows how there was...