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Find it fast : extracting expert information from social networks, big data, tweets, and more / by Berkman, Robert I.,author.(CARDINAL)188972;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Super sources: the cream of the crop -- Libraries: still valuable in the digital age -- Search engines, precision search strategies, and taming information overload -- The social search: tapping into your networks -- Truth, lies, and influence: determining credibility in a trending social media world -- Identifying experts: who they are, where to find them -- Making the connection: getting access to an expert -- Talking with experts: strategies for getting inside information -- Wrapping it up: organizing and writing up your results and the expert review -- Troubleshooting: typical questions information seekers ask."Go beyond Google to mine big data and social media. Author Robert Berkman gives expert advice on how to search the internet to locate the best information sources, how to find and utilize the professionals behind those sources, and how to combine these techniques to complete an information search on any subject. This fully updated 6th edition includes how to search beyond Google, leveraging big data in the search process, and how to search the social web. Readers will also find expert advice on how to know if a site is a trusted source; understanding how and why sources differ; using precision search strategies and taming information overload; and finding, evaluating, and identifying experts. Whether it's consumer advice, information for a job or project, facts for starting a new business, or answers to questions on obscure topics, Find It Fast is the perfect resource for learning to hone one's internet searching skills"--

Subjects: Information retrieval.; Research.; Internet searching.; Search engines.; Information resources;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2

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You could look it up : the reference shelf, from ancient Babylon to Wikipedia / by Lynch, Jack(John T.)(CARDINAL)659981;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-442) and index.Looking it up -- Justice in the earth : laws of the ancient world -- Of making many books : information overload -- In the beginning was the word : the first dictionaries -- A fraction of the total : counting reference books -- The history of nature : science in antiquity -- Easy as ABC : the rise (and fall?) of alphabetical order -- Round earth's imagined corners : mapping the world -- The invention of the codex -- The circle of the sciences : ancient encyclopedias -- The dictionary gets its day in court -- Leechcraft : medieval medicine -- Plagiarism : the crime of literary theft -- New Worlds : cartography in an age of discovery -- Tell me how you organize your books -- Admirable artifice : computers before computers -- To bring people together : societies -- The infirmity of human nature : guides to error -- Ignorance, pure ignorance : of omissions, ambiguities, and plain old blunders -- Guarding the avenues of language : dictionaries in the eighteenth century -- Of ghosts and Mountweazels -- The way of faith : guidelines for believers -- Who's who and what's what : making the cut -- Erotic recreations : sex manuals -- The boys' club -- Collecting knowledge into the smallest areas : the great encyclopedias -- Dictionary or encyclopedia? -- Of redheads and Babus : dictionaries and empire -- A small army : collaborative endeavors -- Killing time : games and sports -- Out of print -- Monuments of erudition : the great national dictionaries -- Counting editions -- Grecian glory, Roman grandeur : Victorian eyes on the ancient world -- Lost projects : what might have been -- Words telling their own stories : the historical dictionaries -- Overlong and overdue -- An Alms-Basket of words : the reference book as salvation -- Reading the dictionary -- Modern materia medica : staying healthy -- Incomplete and abandoned projects -- The foundation stone : library catalogs -- Index learning -- The good life : the arts and high society -- Some unlikely reference books -- Presumed purity : science in a scientific age -- At no extra cost! the business of reference books -- Full and authoritative information : doctrine for the modern world -- Unpersons : damnatio memoriae -- Nothing special : books for browsers -- The world's information : the encyclopedia dream."Today we think of Wikipedia as the source of all information, the ultimate reference. Yet it is just the latest in a long line of aggregated knowledge--reference works that have shaped the way we've seen the world for centuries. You Could Look It Up chronicles the captivating stories behind these great works and their contents, and the way they have influenced each other. From The Code of Hammurabi, the earliest known compendium of laws in ancient Babylon almost two millennia before Christ to Pliny's Natural History; from the 11th-century Domesday Book recording land holdings in England to Abraham Ortelius's first atlas of the world; from Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language to The Whole Earth Catalog to Google, Jack Lynch illuminates the human stories and accomplishment behind each, as well as its enduring impact on civilization. In the process, he offers new insight into the value of knowledge." -- Publisher's website.

Subjects: Reference books; Encyclopedias and dictionaries;

Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3

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Automate the boring stuff with Python : practical programming for total beginners / by Sweigart, Al,author.(CARDINAL)620318;

Python programming basics. Python basics ; Flow control ; Functions ; Lists ; Dictionaries and structuring data ; Manipulating strings -- Automating tasks. Pattern matching with regular expressions ; Input validation ; Reading and writing files ; Organizing files ; Debugging ; Web scraping ; Working with Excel spreadsheets ; Working with Google sheets ; Working with PDF and Word documents ; Working with CSV files and JSON data ; Keeping time, scheduling tasks, and launching programs ; Sending email and text messages ; Manipulating images ; Controlling the keyboard and mouse with GUI automation -- Appendix A: Installing third-party modules -- Appendix B: Running programs -- Appendix C: Answers to the practice questionsIf you've ever spent hours renaming files or updating hundreds of spreadsheet cells, you know how tedious tasks like these can be. But what if you could have your computer do them for you. In this fully revised second edition of the best-selling classic Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, you'll learn how to use Python to write programs that do in minutes what would take you hours to do by hand--no prior programming experience required. You'll learn the basics Python and explore Python's rich library of modules for performing specific tasks, like scraping data off websites, reading PDF and Word documents, and automating clicking and typing tasks. Step-by-step instructions walk you through each program, and updated practice projects at the end of each chapter challenge you to improve those programs and use your newfound skills to automate similar tasks.

Subjects: Python (Computer program language); Computer programming.;

Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 4

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Acer Chromebook Spin 311 / by Acer American Corporationmanufacturer.;

EVLD Library of Things items are only available for EVLD patron hold and checkout.The convertible and ultraportable Chromebook Spin 311 is designed to handle all your classes and everyday projects. With an improved typing experience, extended battery life, and the latest connectivity features, this Chromebook easily keeps up with you and your life all day long. Weighing in at a mere 1.05kg, this convertible Chromebook is not only extremely light, but also smaller than an A4 piece of paper for extreme portability. Combined with its octa-core processor, this Chromebook boasts enough processing power to get you through the day no matter where you take it. Make every keystroke a joyful one with concave keycaps. Along with a key travel distance of 1.6mm1, find pleasure in how you'll not only work faster, but make fewer typing mistakes along the way. Make full use of this Chromebook's 11" display. With its 360-degree convertible modes, easily make presentations or share your screen in convenient and collaborative ways. On the antimicrobial Corning Gorilla Glass touchscreen. Stay synced and connected. With a fully functional USB-C port and 802.11ac Wi-Fi with Bluetooth 4.2, connect to multiple devices at the same time while also making full use of the integrated 720p HDR webcam for crystal clear video calls in Google Hangouts.System specifications: operating system, Google Chrome OS ; processor, Intel Celeron Dual-Core 2.6 GHz celeron_n4000; display, 11.6" LCD (1366 x 768 HD) widescreen LED ; RAM, ‎4 GB LPDDR4 ; internal drive, 64 GB SSD ; ports,2 x USB 3.1 Type-C, 2 x USB 3.1 (up to 5 Gbps), 1 x Headphone/microphone combo jack, 1 x microSD Media Card Reader ; Wi-Fi.

Subjects: Laptop computers.; Portable computers.; Chromebook (Computer);

© [2020], Acer American Corporation,

Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5

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