Tag: informatics

Hands On With Google Data Studio: A Data Citizen’s Survival Guide (Stockport E-Book)

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author(s): Hurst L
First published:2020 Published: Chichester Publisher: Wiley
ISBN:978-1119616085

Data is no longer the sole domain of tech professionals and scientists. Whether in our personal, business, or community lives, data is rapidly increasing in both importance and sheer volume. The ability to visualize all kinds of data is now within reach for anyone with a computer and an internet connection. Google Data Studio, quickly becoming the most popular free tool in data visualization, offers users a flexible, powerful way to transform private and public data into interactive knowledge that can be easily shared and understood. Hands On With Google Data Studio teaches you how to visualize your data today and produce professional quality results quickly and easily.

No previous experience is required to get started right away—all you need is this guide, a Gmail account, and a little curiosity to access and visualize data just like large businesses and organizations. Clear, step-by-step instructions help you identify business trends, turn budget data into a report, assess how your websites or business listings are performing, analyze public data, and much more. Practical examples and expert tips are found throughout the text to help you fully understand and apply your new knowledge to a wide array of real-world scenarios. This engaging, reader-friendly guide will enable you to:

  • Use Google Data Studio to access various types of data, from your own personal data to public sources
  • Build your first data set, navigate the Data Studio interface, customize reports, and share your work
  • Learn the fundamentals of data visualization, personal data accessibility, and open data API’s
  • Harness the power of publicly accessible data services including Google’s recently released Data Set Search
  • Add banners, logos, custom graphics, and color palettes

Hands On With Google Data Studio: A Data Citizens Survival Guide is a must-have resource for anyone starting their data visualization journey, from individuals, consultants, and small business owners to large business and organization managers and leaders.

Google Data Studio for Beginners: Start Making Your Data Actionable (Stockport E-Book)

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author(s): Kemp G and White G
First published:12020 Published: New York Publisher: Apress
ISBN:978-1484251553

Google Data Studio is becoming a go-to tool in the analytics community. All business roles across the industry benefit from foundational knowledge of this now-essential technology, and Google Data Studio for Beginners is here to provide it. Release your locked-up data and turn it into beautiful, actionable, and shareable reports that can be consumed by experts and novices alike.

Authors Grant Kemp and Gerry White begin by walking you through simple dashboards and interactive visualizations. As you progress through Google Data Studio for Beginners, you gain the knowledge necessary to blend multiple data sources and create comprehensive marketing dashboards. Advanced features such as calculated fields, cleaning up data, and data blending to build powerhouse reports are featured as well. Presenting your data in client-ready, digestible forms is a key factor that many find to be a roadblock, and this book will help strengthen this essential skill in your organization.

Centralizing the power from sources such as Google Analytics, online surveys, and a multitude of other popular data management tools puts you as a business leader and analyzer ahead of the rest. Your team as a whole will benefit from Google Data Studio for Beginners, because by using these tools, teams can collaboratively work on data to build their understanding and turn their data into action. Data Studio is quickly solidifying itself as the industry standard, and you don’t want to miss this essential guide for excelling in it.

Office 365 All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd ed. (Stockport E-Book)

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author(s): Weverka P and Wade M
First published:2022 Published: London Publisher: For Dummies
ISBN:978-1119830702

Microsoft Office 365 contains straightforward tools for virtually every office task you could possibly think of. And learning how to use this powerful software is much easier than you might expect! With the latest edition of Office 365 All-in-One For Dummies, you’ll get a grip on some of the most popular and effective office software on the planet, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Publisher, and Teams.

This expanded handbook walks you through the ins and outs of reviewing and composing documents with Word, hosting and joining meetings with Teams, crunching numbers with Excel, and answering emails with Outlook. And it’s ideal for anyone who’s brand new to Office and those who just need a quick refresher on the latest useful updates from Microsoft.

In this one-stop reference, you’ll find:

  • Step-by-step instructions on the installation, maintenance, and navigation of all the critical components of Office 365
  • Guidance for using Office 365’s built-in online and cloud functionality
  • Complete explanations of what every part of Office 365 is used for and how to apply them to your life

It covers:

  • Common Office Tasks
  • Word 365
  • Excel 365
  • PowerPoint 365
  • Outlook 365
  • Access 365
  • Publisher 365
  • Working with Charts and Graphics
  • Office 365: One Step Beyond
  • Microsoft Teams
  • File Sharing and Collaborating

Office 365 All-in-One For Dummies is the last handbook you’ll ever need to apply Microsoft’s world-famous software suite to countless everyday tasks.

Advanced Analytics in Power BI With R and Python: Ingesting, Transforming, Visualizing

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 393 Format: EPUB Publisher: APress
Published: 13/10/2020
eISBN-13: 9781484258293

This easy-to-follow guide provides R and Python recipes to help you learn and apply the top languages in the field of data analytics to your work in Microsoft Power BI. Data analytics expert and author Ryan Wade shows you how to use R and Python to perform tasks that are extremely hard, if not impossible, to do using native Power BI tools. For example, you will learn to score Power BI data using custom data science models and powerful models from Microsoft Cognitive Services.

The R and Python languages are powerful complements to Power BI. They enable advanced data transformation techniques that are difficult to perform in Power BI in its default configuration but become easier by leveraging the capabilities of R and Python. If you are a business analyst, data analyst, or a data scientist who wants to push Power BI and transform it from being just a business intelligence tool into an advanced data analytics tool, then this is the book to help you do that.

What You Will Learn

  • Create advanced data visualizations via R using the ggplot2 package
  • Ingest data using R and Python to overcome some limitations of Power Query
  • Apply machine learning models to your data using R and Python without the need of Power BI premium compacity
  • Incorporate advanced AI in Power BI without the need of Power BI premium compacity via Microsoft Cognitive Services, IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding, and pre-trained models in SQL Server Machine Learning Services
  • Perform advanced string manipulations not otherwise possible in Power BI using R and Python

Who This Book Is For

Power users, data analysts, and data scientists who want to go beyond Power BI’s built-in functionality to create advanced visualizations, transform data in ways not otherwise supported, and automate data ingestion from sources such as SQL Server and Excel in a more concise way

Building the Modern Workplace With SharePoint Online: Solutions With SPFx, Power Automate, Power Apps, Teams, and PVA

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 343 Format: EPUB Publisher: APress Published: 01/07/2021
eISBN-13: 9781484269459

Build a digital workplace solution from scratch using SharePoint Online, Teams, and the Power Platform. The book will help you implement all the modern capabilities of the SharePoint Framework, Teams, and Power Platform into a SharePoint Online solution.You will begin your journey with a short overview of the basics of SharePoint Online. You will then work through a case study with a solutions approach to implement various business requirements using SharePoint Online. Further, you will learn how to provision sites using PnP and build SharePoint forms using out-of-the-box forms. The next section covers Power Apps and Power Automate, followed by a discussion on SharePoint Framework where you will learn to customize SharePoint Online sites using SPFx. Moving forward you will go through configuration and customization of PnP modern search. Wrapping up, you will integrate Microsoft Teams, MS Graph, and Power Virtual Agents with SharePoint Online. After reading Building the Modern Workplace with SharePoint Online you will be able to build SharePoint Online sites according to your business requirements and integrate SharePoint Online with other services for a modern workplace experience. What You Will Learn:

  • Build modern workplace solutions using SharePoint Online out-of-the-box features Use Power App forms, SPFx web parts, SPFx extensions, and modern search
  • Create Power Automate workflows
  • Develop Teams solutions and chatbots
  • Use Microsoft Graph and PnP JS with SharePointCustomize search capabilities
  • Who This Book Is ForAll SharePoint developers and power users.

Workflow Automation with Microsoft Power Automate: Achieve digital transformation through business automation with minimal coding

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 302 Format: EPUB Publisher: Packt Publishing
Published: 18/09/2020
eISBN-13: 9781781267608

Enhance your organization’s productivity by automating repetitive tasks and simplifying business workflows using Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow)Key FeaturesCreate basic and advanced workflows for automating Twitter posts, sending emails, push notifications, and much moreManage user inputs, documents, approvals, and database storage using flow controlsCreate flows that integrate with services both inside and outside the Microsoft 365 ecosystemBook DescriptionMicrosoft Power Automate (formerly Flow) is a workflow automation tool built into Microsoft 365 to help businesses and users to automate repetitive tasks or trigger business processes without user intervention. If you are new to Microsoft Power Automate, this book will give you a comprehensive introduction to help you to get up to speed with automating business processes in no time. Complete with hands-on tutorials, projects, and self-assessment questions, this easy-to-follow guide will show you how to configure automation workflows for business processes between hundreds of Microsoft and third-party applications. Once you understand how to use connectors, triggers, and actions to automate business processes, you’ll get to grips with managing user inputs, documents, approvals, and database storage using efficient flow controls. This Power Automate book explains key concepts and takes you through creating your own flows step by step. By the end of the book, you’ll have learned how to use Microsoft Power Automate to replace repetitive tasks with business workflow automation technology.What you will learn:

  • Get to grips with the building blocks of Power Automate, its services, and core capabilities
  • Explore connectors in Power Automate to automate email workflows
  • Discover how to create a flow for copying files between two cloud services
  • Understand the business process, connectors, and actions for creating approval flows
  • Use flows to save responses submitted to a database through Microsoft Forms
  • Find out how to integrate Power Automate with Microsoft Teams

Who this book is forThe book is for technologists, system administrators, and Power users with little or no Microsoft Power Automate experience. Familiarity with basic Microsoft 365 services is expected.

Raspberry Pi projects for dummies

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 461 Format: PDF Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 30/01/2015
eISBN-13: 9781118766729

The Raspberry Pi has opened up a whole new world of innovation for everyone from hardware hackers and programmers to students, hobbyists, engineers, and beyond. Featuring a variety of hands-on projects, this easy-to-understand guide walks you through every step of the design process and will have you creating like a Raspberry Pi pro in no time. You’ll learn how to prepare your workspace, assemble the necessary tools, work with test equipment, and find your way around the Raspberry Pi before moving on to a series of fun, lively projects that brings some power to your plain ol’ Pi.

  • Introduces Raspberry Pi basics and gives you a solid understanding of all the essentials you’ll need to take on your first project
  • Includes an array of fun and useful projects that show you how to do everything from creating a magic light wand to enhancing your designs with Lego sensors, installing and writing games for the RISC OS, building a transistor tester, and more
  • Provides an easy, hands-on approach to learning more about electronics, programming, and interaction design for Makers and innovators of all ages

Bring the power of Pi to your next cool creation with Raspberry Pi Projects For Dummies!

Live Longer with AI: How artificial intelligence is helping us extend our healthspan and live better too

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Woods T and Ream M
Pages: 602p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: Packt Publishing, (30 Sept. 2020)
eISBN-13: 978-1838646158

A wakeup call that shows us how to live our best and longest lives through the power of AI

Key Features

  • Discover how the latest cutting-edge developments in health and AI are helping us live longer, healthier, and better lives
  • Personalize your health, wealth and well-being using technology best suited to help you plan and build up your assets for a multi-stage life
  • Understand how we can live our best lives in a post-COVID-19 world and equip ourselves for the next pandemic using technology

Microsoft Teams For Dummies

Posted onAuthorJames Ryan

Author: Withee R.
Pages: 304
Format: PDF
Publisher: For Dummies 19/03/2020
eISBN-13: 9781119660569

Millions of people access Microsoft Teams every day to assist with the collaboration it takes to get work done. That number continues to grow thanks to the countless communication tools for working with associates inside and outside your organization you can find in Microsoft Teams. If you’re new to Microsoft Teams, start here. This book will give you must-have insight on chatting, file sharing, organizing teams, using video communication, and more. You’ll also see just how you should be doing things, with best-practice recommendations and ideas for integrating Microsoft Teams into your existing workflows. Learn your way around Microsoft Teams and set up the interface. Communicate via chat and video chat, inside and outside your org. Integrate Teams with other Office apps for seamless collaboration. Use Teams to optimize your meetings, build a knowledge wiki, and more! Microsoft’s shared workspace can help you get collaborative and stay connected to the people and files you need, whether you’re at your desk or on the go.

Agile Working and the Digital Workspace: Best Practices for Designing and Implementing Productivity

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Eary, John Pages: 163 Size: 2.35 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Business Expert Press
Published: 03 October, 2018
eISBN-13: 9781947441545

Organizations are increasingly adopting new ways of working to take advantage of new digital technologies to enhance the services they can offer and become more productive. This book defines and explains the different terms that are used to describe new ways of working and identifies the benefits and limitations of different approaches.

Readers will learn about the key components of successful agile working and how a holistic approach is needed for the successful implementation of agile working. The author provides advice on the introduction of new ways of working, including preparing a robust business case, setting up an agile working program, and providing a road map. The contributions of the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence to the digital workspace and agile working are assessed.

Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Trevor L. Strome. Pages: 242 Size: 6.58 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley
Published: 14 October, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781118760178

Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement walks your healthcare organization from relying on generic reports and dashboards to developing powerful analytic applications that drive effective decision-making throughout your organization. Renowned healthcare analytics leader Trevor Strome reveals in this groundbreaking volume the true potential of analytics to harness the vast amounts of data being generated in order to improve the decision-making ability of healthcare managers and improvement teams.

Examines how technology has impacted healthcare delivery

Discusses the challenge facing healthcare organizations: to leverage advances in both clinical and information technology to improve quality and performance while containing costs

Explores the tools and techniques to analyze and extract value from healthcare data

Demonstrates how the clinical, business, and technology components of healthcare organizations (HCOs) must work together to leverage analytics
Other industries are already taking advantage of big data. Healthcare Analytics for Quality and Performance Improvement helps the healthcare industry make the most of the precious data already at its fingertips for long-overdue quality and performance improvement.

The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Gerald J. Langley … [et Al.]. Pages: 515 Size: 2.53 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Jossey Bass Ltd
Published: 13 May, 2009
eISBN-13: 9780470430880

This new edition of this bestselling guide offers an integrated approach to process improvement that delivers quick and substantial results in quality and productivity in diverse settings. The authors explore their Model for Improvement that worked with international improvement efforts at multinational companies as well as in different industries such as healthcare and public agencies. This edition includes new information that shows how to accelerate improvement by spreading changes across multiple sites. The book presents a practical tool kit of ideas, examples, and applications.

How to Succeed on Primary Care and Community Placements

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: David Pearson, Sandra Nicholson. Pages: 230 Size: 1.25 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 22 January, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781118343425

How to Succeed on Primary Care and Community Placements offers practical advice on how to get the most from your time on community visits, within patient consultations, and with the practice team. It highlights the unique opportunities and challenges you will face on placement, from using clinical information systems, to home visits and long term patient relationships, and how to take advantage of new ways of learning with web-based tools, mobile devices and social networking. Key features include: Learning outcomes at the start of each chapter with links to web-based learning, case examples, and tasks to undertake whilst on placement An evidence-based, practical approach to improving learning, teaching, assessment and feedback in community settings Written by a team of experienced community-based medical education specialists, it is ideal for all medical students, whether on early clinical placements or later in training, and for tutors and preceptors looking for novel ways to engage their students.

Principles of Health Interoperability

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Tim Benson, Grahame Grieve. Pages: 465 Size: 9.34 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Springer Verlag
Published: 01 January, 2016
eISBN-13: 978331930370

This book provides an introduction to health interoperability and the main standards used. Health interoperability delivers health information where and when it is needed. Everybody stands to gain from safer more soundly based decisions and less duplication, delays, waste and errors. The third edition of Principles of Health Interoperability includes a new part on FHIR (Fast Health Interoperability Resources), the most important new health interoperability standard for a generation. FHIR combines the best features of HL7`s v2, v3 and CDA while leveraging the latest web standards and a tight focus on implementability. FHIR can be implemented at a fraction of the price of existing alternatives and is well suited for use in mobile phone apps, cloud communications and EHRs. The book is organised into four parts. The first part covers the principles of health interoperability, why it matters, why it is hard and why models are an important part of the solution. The second part covers clinical terminology and SNOMED CT. The third part covers the main HL7 standards: v2, v3, CDA and IHE XDS. The new fourth part covers FHIR and has been contributed by Grahame Grieve, the original FHIR chief.

The Health Care Data Guide

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Lloyd P. Provost, Sandra K. Murray. Pages: 481 Size: 18.55 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Jossey Bass Ltd
Published: 15 August, 2011
eISBN-13: 9781118086117

Step by step this comprehensive resource explores the statistical process control (SPC), a philosophy, a strategy, and a set of methods for ongoing improvement of processes and systems to yield better outcomes in health care organizations. It includes information on processes, stratification, rational subgrouping and stability and capability analysis, measurement, data collection methods, planned experimentation, and graphical methods. This book shows how to apply SPC to evaluate current process performance, search for ideas for improvement, tell if changes have resulted in evidence of improvement, and track implementation efforts to document sustainability of the improvement.

Healthcare and Big Data Management

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 165 Size: 2.01 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Springer Verlag
Published: 01 January, 2017
eISBN-13: 9789811060410

The book addresses the interplay of healthcare and big data management. Thanks to major advances in big data technologies and precision medicine, healthcare is now becoming the new frontier for both scientific research and economic development. This volume covers a range of aspects, including: big data management for healthcare; physiological and gut microbiota – data collection and analysis; big data standardization and ontology; and personal data privacy and systems level modeling in the healthcare context. The book offers a valuable resource for biomedical informaticians, clinicians, health practitioners and researchers alike.

Big Data in Healthcare: Extracting Knowledge From Point-Of-Care Machines

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 104 Size: 2.3 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Springer Verlag
Published: 01 January, 2017
eISBN-13: 9783319629902

This book reviews a number of issues including: Why data generated from POC machines are considered as Big Data. What are the challenges in storing, managing, extracting knowledge from data from POC devices? Why is it inefficient to use traditional data analysis with big data? What are the solutions for the mentioned issues and challenges? What type of analytics skills are required in health care? What big data technologies and tools can be used efficiently with data generated from POC devices? This book shows how it is feasible to store vast numbers of anonymous data and ask highly specific questions that can be performed in real-time to give precise and meaningful evidence to guide public health policy.

Statistics & Data Analytics for Health Data Management

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Davis, Nadinia A.;shiland, Betsy J. Pages: 266 Size: 3.9 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Saunders
Published: 04 December, 2015
eISBN-13: 9780323292214

New text that emphasizes the easy-to-learn, practical use of statistics and manipulation of data in the health care setting. With its unique hands-on approach and friendly writing style, this vivid text uses real-world examples to show you how to identify the problem, find the right data, generate the statistics, and present the information to other users. Brief Case scenarios ask you to apply information to situations Health Information Management professionals encounter every day, and review questions are tied to learning objectives and Bloom’s taxonomy to reinforce core content. From planning budgets to explaining accounting methodologies, Statistics & Data Analytics addresses the key HIM Associate Degree-Entry Level competencies required by CAHIIM and covered in the RHIT exam.

Storytelling with Data

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic Pages: 284 Size: 2.44 MB Format: PDF Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Published: 09 October, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781119002260

Don`t simply show your data tell a story with it! Storytelling with Data teaches you the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. You`ll discover the power of storytelling and the way to make data a pivotal point in your story. The lessons in this illuminative text are grounded in theory, but made accessible through numerous real-world examples ready for immediate application to your next graph or presentation. Storytelling is not an inherent skill, especially when it comes to data visualization, and the tools at our disposal don`t make it any easier. This book demonstrates how to go beyond conventional tools to reach the root of your data, and how to use your data to create an engaging, informative, compelling story. Specifically, you`ll learn how to:

  • Understand the importance of context and audience
  • Determine the appropriate type of graph for your situation
  • Recognize and eliminate the clutter clouding your information
  • Direct your audience`s attention to the most important parts of your data
  • Think like a designer and utilize concepts of design in data visualization
  • Leverage the power of storytelling to help your message resonate with your audience

Together, the lessons in this book will help you turn your data into high impact visual stories that stick with your audience. Rid your world of ineffective graphs, one exploding 3D pie chart at a time. There is a story in your data Storytelling with Data will give you the skills and power to tell it!

Web Development and Design Foundations with HTML5

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Terry Felke-Morris. Pages: 669 Size: 19.84 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Pearson Education M.U.A.
Published: 20 March, 2013
eISBN-13: 978027377451

Using Hands-On Practice exercises and Web Site Case Studies to motivate readers, Web Development and Design Foundations with HTML5 includes all the necessary lessons to guide students in developing highly effective Web sites. A well-rounded balance of hard skills (HTML5, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript) and soft skills (Web Design, e-commerce, Web site promotion strategies) presents everything beginning Web developers need to know to build and promote successful Web sites.

Managing Quality: Integrating the Supply Chain

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: S. Thomas Foster. Pages: 481 Size: 4.51 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Pearson Education M.U.A.
eISBN-13: 9781292154275

For courses in Quality Management. Navigating Quality Management With A Unifying Framework Foster’s Managing Quality: Integrating the Supply Chain, Sixth Edition offers students a thorough introduction to quality management by presenting a supply chain theme as the unifying framework for quality improvement. The supply chain thread enhances the integration of systems with customers, suppliers, technology, and people. The colorful, stunning text appeals to visual learners and grabs students’ attention at the outset. The Sixth Edition elicits a theme of “currency” while offering updated vignettes and references to remain state-of-the-art. The new edition is selectively edited and enhanced with new content that maintains its scope and withstands pivotal points in each section. Managing Quality keeps a competitive advantage by sustaining and building on cutting -edge, relevant topics in quality management.

Management Information Systems, 7th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Kenneth J. Sousa, Effy Oz. Pages: 562 Size: 282.32 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Cengage Learning
Published: 01 September, 2014
eISBN-13: 9781473714991

Combines a wealth of case studies and real-world examples to provide a clear emphasis on the business and management elements of information technology. The new edition offers the most current coverage available, including expanded discussions of social networking, IT security, mobile computing, and much more. From overviews of the information age to online business and business intelligence, readers gain a sound balance of the technical and business elements of information technology. In addition, numerous business cases integrated throughout the text enable readers to apply what they learn to real-world practice–equipping them with skills they can immediately put into action in the business world.

Exploring Microsoft Office Excel 2010

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Grauer, Poatsy, Mulbery, Hogan. Pages: 303 Size: 28.82 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Pearson Education M.U.A.
Published: 03 October, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781292053288

For introductory computer courses on Microsoft Office 2010 or courses in computer concepts with a lab component for Microsoft Office 2010 applications. The goal of the Exploring series has been to move students beyond the point and click, helping them understand the why and how behind each skill. The Exploring series for Office 2010 also enables students to extend the learning beyond the classroom. Students go to college now with a different set of skills than they did five years ago. With this in mind, the Exploring series seeks to move students beyond the basics of the software at a faster pace, without sacrificing coverage of the fundamental skills that everybody needs to know. A lot of learning takes place outside of the classroom, and the Exploring series provides learning tools that students can access anytime, anywhere.

Expert Internet Searching, 5th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Bradley, Phil Pages: 248 Size: 1.98 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Facet Publishing
Published: 23 June, 2017
eISBN-13: 9781783302499

In an environment where increasing amounts of information (and fake news) flood the internet on websites and social media, the information professional’s job is getting harder. It is important that they are skilled at finding and using the appropriate information and assisting users in working out what information they need and the best way of getting it. Expert Internet Searching provides library and information professionals with in-depth practical information on how to search the internet quickly and effectively to help their users and make their lives easier.

Now fully revised for its fifth edition, this book covers the basics of search before going into detail on how to run advanced and complex searches using a variety of different search engines. This edition has been updated to include current trends in search, such as social media search, fake news, and discussion of the authority and validity of search results. It will ensure that information professionals, whether complete beginners or more experienced, are able to work efficiently to obtain accurate information in a timely fashion.

Key topics covered include:

  • an introduction to the internet and search engines
  • the Google experience and a discussion of its disadvantages
  • directory, clustering and similarity search engines
  • visual and image search engines
  • specialized search engines incorporating academic search and services for children
  • academic and other specialized search engines
  • news-based search engines including traditional media resources and a discussion of fake news
  • social media search engines
  • hints and tips on better searching.

Evaluating the Impact of Your Library

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Sharon Markless And David Streatfield. Pages: 288 Size: 997 KB Format: PDF Publisher: Facet Publishing
Published: 23 December, 2012
eISBN-13: 9781856048941

Assessing impact is increasingly critical to the survival of services: managers now require comprehensive information about effectiveness, especially in relation to users. Outlining a rigorously tested approach to library evaluation and offering practical tools and highly relevant examples, this book enables LIS managers to get to grips with the slippery concept of service impact and to address their own impact questions in their planning. The 2nd edition is fully updated to include international approaches to qualitative library evaluation, new international research, and current debates on the evolving nature of evaluation, as well as reflections on the importance of involving stakeholders and of evaluation to guide advocacy. Key topics include:

  • The demand for evidence
  • Getting to grips with impact
  • The research base of this work
  • Putting the impact into planning
  • Getting things clear: objectives
  • Success criteria and impact indicators: how you know you are making a difference
  • Making things happen: activities and process indicators * Thinking about evidence * Gathering and interpreting evidence
  • Taking stock, setting targets and development planning
  • Doing national or international evaluation
  • Where do we go from here?

Readership: Practising library and information service managers and policy makers in the field. LIS policy shapers and managers in public, education (schools, further and higher education), health and special libraries and information services working in any country or internationally and people engaged in professional education in the field such as lecturers or students.

Computer Networks and Internets

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Douglas E. Comer. Pages: 668 Size: 5.1 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Pearson Education M.U.A.
Published: 26 February, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781292061825

Appropriate for all introductory-to-intermediate courses in computer networking, the Internet, or Internet applications; students need no background in networking, operating systems, or advanced mathematics. Leading networking authority Douglas Comer presents a wide-ranging, self-contained tour of the concepts, principles, and technologies that enable today’s Internet to support applications ranging from web browsing to telephony and multimedia. Comer begins by illuminating the applications and facilities offered by today’s Internet. Next, he systematically introduces the underlying network technologies and protocols that make them possible. With these concepts and technologies established, he introduces several of the most important contemporary issues faced by network implementers and managers, including quality of service, Internet telephony, multimedia, network security, and network management. Comer has carefully designed this book to support both top-down and bottom-up teaching approaches. Students need no background in operating systems, and no sophisticated math: Comer relies throughout on figures, drawings, examples, and analogies, not mathematical proofs. Teaching and Learning Experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience-for you and your students.

  • Broad Coverage of Key Concepts and Principles, Presented in a Technology-independent Fashion: Comer focuses on imparting knowledge that students will need regardless of which technologies emerge or become obsolete.
  • Flexible Organization that Supports both Top-down and Bottom-up Teaching Approaches: Chapters may be sequenced to accommodate a wide variety of course needs and preferences.
  • An Accessible Presentation that Resonates with Students: Comer relies throughout on figures, drawings, examples, and analogies, not mathematical proofs.
  • Keep Your Course Current: Content is refreshed to provide the most up-to-date information on new technologies for your course.

Business Intelligence and Analytics: Systems for Decision Support, 10th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Ramesh Sharda, Dursun Delen, Efraim Turban ; With Contributions By J. E. Aronson, Ting-Peng Liang, David King. Pages: 689 Size: 34.45 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Pearson Education M.U.A.
Published: 10 September, 2014
eISBN-13: 9781292009261

Decision Support and Business Intelligence Systems provides the only comprehensive, up-to-date guide to today’s revolutionary management support system technologies, and showcases how they can be used for better decision-making. The 10th edition focuses on Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics for enterprise decision support in a more streamlined book.

Advanced Data Management: For SQL, NoSQL, cloud and distributed databases

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Lena Wiese. Pages: 392 Size: 8.82 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Walter De Gruyter
Published: 29 October, 2015
eISBN-13: 9783110433074

This graduate text book provides a formal analysis of alternative, non-relational data models and storage mechanisms and gives a decent overview of non-SQL query languages. It describes a perspective beyond SQL and relational database management systems and thus covers the theoretical background of modern data management. It also helps to take informed decisions about what database systems to use.

Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate At Scale

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, And Barry O`Reilly. Pages: 341 Size: 6.48 MB Format: PDF Publisher: O`Reilly
Published: 04 December, 2014
eISBN-13: 9781491946558

How well does your organization respond to changing market conditions, customer needs, and emerging technologies when building software-based products? This practical guide presents Lean and Agile principles and patterns to help you move fast at scale – and demonstrates why and how to apply these methodologies throughout your organization, rather than with just one department or team. Through case studies, you`ll learn how successful enterprises have rethought everything from governance and financial management to systems architecture and organizational culture in the pursuit of radically improved performance. Adopting Lean will take time and commitment, but it`s vital for harnessing the cultural and technical forces that are accelerating the rate of innovation. Discover how Lean focuses on people and teamwork at every level, in contrast to traditional management practices Approach problem-solving experimentally, by exploring solutions, testing assumptions, and getting feedback from real users Lead and manage large-scale programs in a way that empowers employees, increases the speed and quality of delivery, and lowers costs Learn how to implement ideas from the DevOps and Lean Startup movements even in complex, regulated environments

Managing Long-term Conditions and Chronic Illness in Primary Care

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Judith Carrier.
Pages: 245 Size: 1.59 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Routledge Ltd
Published: 29 June, 2015
eISBN-13: 9780203077306

Effective management of long-term conditions is an essential part of contemporary nursing policy and practice. Systematic and evidence-based care which takes account of the expert patient and reduces unnecessary hospital admissions is vital to support those with long-term conditions/chronic diseases and those who care for them. Reflecting recent changes in treatment, the nurse’s role and the patient journey and including additional content on rehabilitation, palliative care, and non-medical prescribing, this fully updated new edition highlights the key issues in managing long-term conditions. It provides a practical and accessible guide for nurses and allied health professionals in the primary care environment and covers: – the physical and psychosocial impact of long-term conditions – effective case management – self-management and the expert patient – behavioural change strategies and motivational counselling – telehealth and information technology – nutritional and medication management. Packed with helpful, clearly written information, Managing Long-term Conditions and Chronic Illness in Primary Care includes case studies, fact boxes and pointers for practice. It is ideal reading for pre- and post-registration nursing students taking modules on long-term conditions, and will be a valuable companion for pre-registration students on community placements.

Healthcare Management

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Kieran Walshe And Judith Smith.
Pages: 619 Size: 9.81 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 01 September, 2011
eISBN-13: 9780335243822

This popular book is amongst the most comprehensive textbooks on healthcare management available. Written with healthcare managers, professionals and students in mind, it provides an accessible guide to healthcare systems, services, organisations and management. Key areas include: Allocating resources for healthcare: setting and managing priorities; health technologies, research and innovation; and, internationalisation of health systems and policies; Healthcare services: structure and delivery; and, chronic disease and integrated care; Healthcare leadership and networks: incentives, governance and performance. The new edition features an updated structure to support teaching and learning and thirteen new chapters which draw upon a wealth of experience from leading international experts in the field. This includes references to practical policy and case study materials, chapter summaries focusing on key points, self-assessment learning exercises, further reading and links to useful web-based resources. “Healthcare Management” is valuable reading for students and healthcare professionals involved in management, research and health policy making. The links between the theory and practice of healthcare management are skilfully explored and the authors show how best practice within healthcare systems can be maintained.

Practical file system design with the BE file system

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Dominic Giampaolo.
Pages: 247 Size: 1.1 MB Format: PDF Publisher: dawsonera
Published: 21 December, 1998
eISBN-13: 9786000039479

This work provides an in-depth look at the BeOS from the vantage point of the operating system`s file system design and implementation issues in general, and looks at how those issues were handled in the development of the BeOS.

Electronic Health Records For Dummies

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: By Trenor Williams And Anita Samarth. Pages: 388 Size: 12.41 MB Format: PDF Publisher: For Dummies
Published: 23 November, 2010
eISBN-13: 9781118011416

The straight scoop on choosing and implementing an electronic health records (EHR) system Doctors, nurses, and hospital and clinic administrators are interested in learning the best ways to implement and use an electronic health records system so that they can be shared across different health care settings via a network-connected information system. This helpful, plain-English guide provides need-to-know information on how to choose the right system, assure patients of the security of their records, and implement an EHR in such a way that it causes minimal disruption to the daily demands of a hospital or clinic.

  • Offers a plain-English guide to the many electronic health records (EHR) systems from which to choose
  • Authors are a duo of EHR experts who provide clear, easy-to-understand information on how to choose the right EHR system an implement it effectively
  • Addresses the benefits of implementing an EHR system so that critical information (such as medication, allergies, medical history, lab results, radiology images, etc.) can be shared across different health care settings
  • Discusses ways to talk to patients about the security of their electronic health records

Electronic Health Records For Dummies walks you through all the necessary steps to successfully choose the right EHR system, keep it current, and use it effectively.

E-Communication Skills: A Guide for Primary Care

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Louise Simpson … [et Al.].
Pages: 142 Size: 1.22 MB Format: PDF Publisher: CRC Press Inc – M.U.A.
Published: 06 July, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781138030343

This is a practical, easy-to-use, patient-centred approach to e-communication that can be read from cover to cover, or dipped into as a quick reference guide. It covers potential issues both internally (patients and practice) and externally (the primary care trust and the wider community) and considers both clinical and non-clinical settings and is also a very useful teaching resource. e-Communication Skills adopts the approach that communication is the responsibility of everyone in the primary care team, and helps everyone to play their part. This is an important book for healthcare professionals in primary care, including administrators and communications managers. It is also vital for healthcare e-organisations such as web based information services and networks, and policy makers and shapers.

Delivering Research Data Management Services: Fundamentals of Good Practice

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Graham Pryor, Sarah Jones And Angus Whyte.
Pages: 256 Size: 3.99 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Facet Publishing
Published: 23 April, 2014
eISBN-13: 9781783300242

The research landscape is changing, with key global research funders now requiring institutions to demonstrate how they will preserve and share research data. However, the practice of structured research data management is very new, and the construction of services remains experimental and in need of models and standards of approach. This groundbreaking guide will lead researchers, institutions and policy makers through the processes needed to set up and run effective institutional research data management services. This ‘how to’ guide provides a step-by-step explanation of the components for an institutional service. Case studies from the newly emerging service infrastructures in the UK, USA and Australia draw out the lessons learnt. Different approaches are highlighted and compared; for example, a researcher-focused strategy from Australia is contrasted with a national, top-down approach, and a national research data management service is discussed as an alternative to institutional services. The key topics covered are: research data provision; options and approaches to research data management (RDM) service provision; a spectrum of roles, responsibilities and competences; a pathway to sustainable research data services; the range and components of RDM infrastructure and services; case studies of Johns Hopkins University, University of Southampton, Monash University, the UK Data Service and Jisc Managing Research Data programmes. This book will be an invaluable guide to those entering a new and untried enterprise. It will be particularly relevant to heads of libraries, information technology managers, research support office staff and research directors planning for these types of services. It will also be of interest to researchers, funders and policy makers as a reference tool for understanding how shifts in policy will have a range of ramifications within institutions. Library and information science students will find it an informative window on an emerging area of practice.