This accessible and classroom-tested textbook/reference presents an introduction to the fundamentals of the emerging and interdisciplinary field of data science. The coverage spans key concepts adopted from statistics and machine learning, useful techniques for graph analysis and parallel programming, and the practical application of data science for such tasks as building recommender systems or performing sentiment analysis. Topics and features: provides numerous practical case studies using...

This book is exceptional in the sense that it provides an introduction to law in general rather than the law of one specific jurisdiction, and it presents a unique way of looking at legal education.

This book is exceptional in the sense that it provides an introduction to law in general rather than the law of one specific jurisdiction, and it presents a unique way of looking at legal education. It is crucial for lawyers to be aware of the different ways in which societal problems can be solve...

Written for those who want to develop their knowledge of requirements engineering process, whether practitioners or students.Using the latest research and driven by practical experience from industry, Requirements Engineering gives useful hints to practitioners on how to write and structure requirements. It explains the importance of Systems Engineering and the creation of effective solutions to problems. It describes the underlying representations used in system modeling and introduces the U...

Since the Snowden revelations, the adoption in May 2016 of the General Data Protection Regulation and several ground-breaking judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union, data protection and privacy are high on the agenda of policymakers, industries and the legal research community.Against this backdrop, Data Protection and Privacy under Pressure sheds light on key developments where individuals' rights to data protection and privacy are at stake. The book discusses the persistent...

This volume analyses the genesis of Beckett’s novel Malone meurt / Malone Dies. Written in French in 1947-1948, and translated into English by the author in 1954-1956, it is the second part of the so-called ‘Trilogy’, preceded by Molloy and followed by L’Innommable / The Unnamable.

Because Malone’s account approximates a diary, this book starts from H. Porter Abbott’s notion of ‘diary fiction’ to examine the surviving manuscripts, typescripts, and pre-book publication extracts...

Amsterdam as a lab. That is what Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences' three fieldlabs and its many partners have in mind. Functional illiteracy, debts, learning deficiencies or problems caused by extreme precipitation: the city contains plenty of tough issues, demanding novel approaches in which co-creation and participation by residents, social organizations and knowledge institutions are basic principles.In the fieldlabs, people try to change current practices by working with, instead ...

Does our knowledge about city and urban planning have solid ground? Can historical research promote creative thinking? How can we theorise about urban design and architecture in our age of the media?

These questions have guided the creation of this multi-layered, richly documented and illustrated triptych, in which the Dutch architectural theorist Wim Nijenhuis pursues a creative goal: to stimulate new ways of thinking in architectural culture.

Each part of the triptych treats distinctive i...

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'Vraag niet naar de weg want iedereen is de weg kwijt', zingt Frank Boeijen. In deze complexe en turbulente wereld is inzicht en overzicht, kennis en empathie maar ook flexibiliteit en creativiteit nodig om een eigen weg te kunnen vinden.

Tijdens zijn vele reizen door Europa en de Arabische wereld in de afgelopen 10 jaar, heeft de schrijver vele jonge mensen, docenten en anderen ontmoet, Al die ervaringen heeft hij op een creatieve, hu...

Een jaarboek in het Engels over de cultuur van de Lage Landen. Over literatuur, kunsten, algemeen-maatschappelijke onderwerpen en over de relaties tussen de Engelstalige en de Nederlandstalige wereld. Een mooi vormgegeven boek waarin de diversiteit en de vitaliteit van de cultuur van Vlaanderen en Nederland aan de wereld wordt getoond.

De 25ste editie heeft als thema: 'Wees realistisch. Eis het onmogelijke - De ambigue erfenis van de jaren zestig.

In this 25th edition, we discuss student upri...