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Getting Started with DuckDB

A practical guide for accelerating your data science, data analytics, and data engineering workflows

By: Simon Aubury,Ned Letcher

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Getting Started with DuckDB

A practical guide for accelerating your data science, data analytics, and data engineering workflows

By: Simon Aubury,Ned Letcher

Analyze and transform data efficiently with DuckDB, a versatile, modern, in-process SQL database Key Features Use DuckDB to rapidly load, transform, and query data across a range of sources and formats Gain practical experience using SQL, Python, and R to effectively analyze data Learn how open source tools and cloud services in the broader data ecosystem complement DuckDB’s versatile capabilities Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Book DescriptionDuckDB is a fast in-process analytical database. Getting Started with DuckDB offers a practical overview of its usage. You'll learn to load, transform, and query various data formats, including CSV, JSON, and Parquet. The book covers DuckDB's optimizations, SQL enhancements, and extensions for specialized applications. Working with examples in SQL, Python, and R, you'll explore analyzing public datasets and discover tools enhancing DuckDB workflows. This guide suits both experienced and new data practitioners, quickly equipping you to apply DuckDB's capabilities in analytical projects. You'll gain proficiency in using DuckDB for diverse tasks, enabling effective integration into your data workflows.What you will learn Understand the properties and applications of a columnar in-process database Use SQL to load, transform, and query a range of data formats Discover DuckDB's rich extensions and learn how to apply them Use nested data types to model semi-structured data and extract and model JSON data Integrate DuckDB into your Python and R analytical workflows Effectively leverage DuckDB's convenient SQL enhancements Explore the wider ecosystem and pathways for building DuckDB-powered data applications Who this book is for If you’re interested in expanding your analytical toolkit, this book is for you. It will be particularly valuable for data analysts wanting to rapidly explore and query complex data, data and software engineers looking for a lean and versatile data processing tool, along with data scientists needing a scalable data manipulation library that integrates seamlessly with Python and R. You will get the most from this book if you have some familiarity with SQL and foundational database concepts, as well as exposure to a programming language such as Python or R.

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Packt Publishing Ltd

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1803232536

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The Essential Guide to Herbal Safety

By: Simon Y Mills,Kerry Bone

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The Essential Guide to Herbal Safety

By: Simon Y Mills,Kerry Bone

Winner of American Botanical Council's 2005 James A. Duke Botanical Literature Award, the Essential Guide to Herbal Safety offers a balanced and objective perspective on the principles of herbal medicine safety as well as the complex challenges relating to self-prescribed or professionally prescribed herbal medications and supplements. With contributions from leading international practitioners and authorities, it contains comprehensive reviews, in monograph format, of the published safety data for 125 common herbs. You'll also find coverage of issues of quality, interactions, adverse reactions, toxicity, allergy, contact sensitivity, and idiosyncratic reactions. Provides the most current information on safety issues in herbal medicine. Presents authoritative and credible safety information from two experienced herbal practitioners. Combines theoretical chapters with 125 well-researched monographs, making it the most thorough and comprehensive text on the market for herbal safety in practice. Provides clear information using the most current evidence-based reviews, covering factors that influence herb safety, including the negative placebo effects (nocebo), various types of unpredictable effects, the basis for interactions between herbs and drugs, and quality issues. Uses an established grading system for assessing safety in pregnancy and lactation that is realistic and appropriate to herb use. Thoroughly critiques the dominant misinformation in the media and medical journals on herb safety issues. Contains 83 documented case studies on hepatoxicity and the effects in relation to kava. Kava safety is a hot topic. Includes two useful appendices detailing herbal references for pregnancy and lactation considerations.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0443071713

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9780443071713

Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy

Modern Herbal Medicine

By: Kerry Bone,Simon Mills

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Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy

Modern Herbal Medicine

By: Kerry Bone,Simon Mills

The authoritative and comprehensive modern textbook on western herbal medicine - now in its second edition This long-awaited second edition of Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy covers all major aspects of herbal medicine from fundamental concepts, traditional use and scientific research through to safety, effective dosage and clinical applications. Written by herbal practitioners with active experience in clinical practice, education, manufacturing and research, the textbook is both practical and evidence based. The focus, always, is on the importance of tailoring the treatment to the individual case. New insights are given into the herbal management of approxiately 100 modern ailments, including some of the most challenging medical conditions, such as asthma, inflammatory bowel disease and other complex autoimmune and inflammatory conditions, and there is vibrant discussion around the contribution of phytotherapy in general to modern health issues, including health ageing. Fully referenced throughout, with more than 10, 000 citations, the book is a core resource for students and practitioners of phytotherapy and naturopathy and will be of value to all healthcare professionals - pharmacists, doctors, nurses - with an interest in herbal therapeutics. 50 evidence-based monographs, including 7 new herbs Rational guidance to phytotherapeutic strategies in the consulting room New appendices provide useful information on topics such as herbal actions, dosage in children and reading and interpreting herbal clinical trials Comprehensive revision of vital safety data, including an extensive herb-drug interaction chart. 50 evidence-based monographs, including 7 new herbs Rational guidance to phytotherapeutic strategies in the consulting room New appendices provide useful information on topics such as herbal actions, dosage in children and reading and interpreting herbal clinical trials Comprehensive revision of vital safety data, including an extensive herb-drug interaction chart.

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0702052973

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Getting Started with DuckDB

A practical guide for accelerating your data science, data analytics, and data engineering workflows

By: Simon Aubury,Ned Letcher

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All We Know

By: Simon French

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All We Know

By: Simon French

A rites of passage novel that takes Arkie through the last days of primary school, when everything seems changing: her relationship with her family, with friends, and her growing awareness of herself as an individual. First published in hardback in 1986, and in Puffin in 1988. New edition with a new cover illustration. Ages 10-12.

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Getting Started with DuckDB

Getting Started with DuckDB

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Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy

Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy

Getting Started with DuckDB

Getting Started with DuckDB

All We Know

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