Using log data to create value isn’t new to mechanized industries. But in today’s data-driven environment—particularly with the rise of the Internet of Things—this type of data exhaust can be converted from inactive, latent assets to critical-path components of an overall production ecosystem. In this report, Cameron Turner provides three real-world case studies in which his company, The Data Guild, served as a product co-development consultancy. You’ll learn how an energy efficiency firm, a tech company, and a healthcare organization combined their historical logs with newly generated sensor data from the IoT. By leveraging machine learning to proactively identify efficiency and opportunity through prediction and recommendation, each company was able to deploy an ROI-generating solution and gain a significant business advantage. This report also provides advice for successfully implementing IoT data, as well as key factors to consider when performing data analysis.

The Google Maps API remains one of the showcase examples of the Web 2.0 development paradigm. Beginning Google Maps Applications with Rails and Ajax: From Novice to Professional is the first book to comprehensively introduce the service from a developer perspective, showing you how you can integrate mapping features into your Rails-driven web applications. Proceeding far beyond simplistic map display, youll learn how to draw from a variety of data sources such as the U.S. Census Bureau's TIGER/Line data and Google's own geocoding feature to build comprehensive geocoding services for mapping many locations around the world. The book also steers you through various examples that show how to encourage user interaction such as through pinpointing map locations, adding comments, and building community-driven maps. Youll want to pick up a copy of this book because This is the first book to comprehensively introduce the Google Maps application development using the Rails development framework. Youll be introduced to the very latest changes to the Google Maps API, embodied in the version 2 release. It is written by four developers actively involved in the creation of location-based mapping services. For additional info, please visit the author's reference site for this book.

Until recently, building interactive web-based mapping applications has been a cumbersome affair. This changed when Google released its powerful Maps API. Beginning Google Maps Applications with PHP and Ajax was written to help you take advantage of this technology in your own endeavorswhether you're an enthusiast playing for fun or a professional building for profit. This book covers version 2 of the API, including Google's new Geocoding service. Authors Jeffrey Sambells, Cameron Turner, and Michael Purvis get rolling with examples that require hardly any code at all, but you'll quickly become acquainted with many facets of the Maps API. They demonstrate powerful methods for simultaneously plotting large data sets, creating your own map overlays, and harvesting and geocoding sets of addresses. You'll see how to set up alternative tile sets and where to access imagery to use for them. The authors even show you how to build your own geocoder from scratch, for those high-volume batch jobs. As well as providing hands-on examples of real mapping projects, this book supplies a complete reference for the Maps API, along with the relevant aspects of JavaScript, CSS, PHP, and SQL. Visit the authors' website for additional tips and advice.