Interactive Books

This is must reading for anyone in e-commerce marketing. The insight that can be gained from this book is amazing.

If you're designing voice user interfaces, you should buy this book.

The basic premise of the book is that when a computer has a voice--and it doesn't matter whether the voice is a recorded human or synthesized--people are going to subconsciously interact with the computer as if it is human (bringing their biases about gender, ethnicity, and personality).

I bought this book thinking I would skim it for ideas before writing a proposal. The proposal was focused on improving human-computer interaction for a communications device that uses voice (speech recognition) as the input and the output.

Well, I skimmed the first couple of chapters and realized that I really should read them more closely. I learned a couple of great nuggets on voice gender that influenced what I would include in the proposal.

Then I skimmed the next couple of chapters on personality of voices, realized I should read those more closely, learned a few more nuggets that I knew were going into the proposal.

At that point, I realized I needed to read the whole book closely and fast. Luckily, that was not a problem. The book is an easy read. Every chapter talks about an important design issue for voice user interfaces, describes the decisions that a designer could make, then outlines the research that was done, explains what was learned from the research, and discusses the implications of that research for how you should design your interface.

In short, this book completely changed the proposal, and I think we have a much better chance of winning the business. Furthermore, I have already identified about 5 major things we can do to improve our exsisting products that I did not know about before reading this book.

I loved this book. the pictures are suitable to hang in windows or glass doors and the pictures really reflect the light.I recomend this for all ages who love art.

I bought this for my son who loves to draw. The pictures are simply beautiful and it is a unique way to produce a coloring book.

I am 59 and have about 25 of these Dover Coloring books and really like all but 2 of them. (it is just a matter of what you like, though). When you buy these from Amazon, you get one free if you buy 3. I took the suggestion of several reviewers and bought a good set of colored pencils. I got regular and fine line. My daughter (also an adult) wanted to color some, too. I came up with the idea to copy them on my printer for her. Then I decided to copy all of them when I want to color. This way we can use the pictures over and over. It is nice to use a heavier printer paper. Be careful, we find it to be a very addicting past time!

My therapist recommended coloring very complex pics with colored pencils as a means to reduce stress. These are wonderful pics to do that with. I highly recommend them.

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I read quotes almost daily, and can't get over the way I find myself learning new ways and thoughts. Very inspiring. A must read.

Wolfgang Hardle is a well known statistician from Europe who is known for his work in smoothing and nonparametric regression. He has authored a number of excellent statistical texts. He developed a highly interactive software package for exploratory data analysis, smoothing and modeling that he named XploRe. It seems that this software is very similar in capability to SPlus. Like SPlus it offers easy exploration of high dimensional data and all the sophisticated tools of regression modeling (including generalized linear, generalized additive models and more), and time series analysis etc.
In this book, Hardle serves as an editor as well as an author of some of the chapters. Several statisticians (some very well known) offer chapters on specific applications of XploRe. The exposition is generally good throughout.

Hardle starts with an interesting applied problem that illustrates many of the elementary features of XploRe and even some sophisticated GAM and GLM models and various two dimensional plots. This is the appetizer chapter. It is followed with two tutorial chapters that teach the basics of using XploRe to create regression lines, smoothers, use brushing techniques on plots and produce Flury faces ( a generalization of the Chernoff faces).

Section 2, Chapters 4-15 is a collection of articles by various authors illustrating particular applications. These applications include density and smooth function estimation, clustering and classification, exploratory projection pursuit methods, generalized linear models, additive models, regression with error in covariates, and nonlinear time series analysis. XploRe code is presented to implement the techniques and many excellent graphs are displayed in the text.

In some chapters there are color versions that provide additional information. These pictures are located in the front of the text. In the chapter the reader sees a black and white version with the notation "(see color insert)" to refer the reader to the corresponding color picture at the front of the book.

This is a well written book with excellent illustrations and exposition of statistical techniques. The early chapters provide step by step instructions for the users to familiarize them with the software.

I would recommend it to any statistician as a reference book whether or not he or she uses XploRe. My guess is that it is more commonly used in Europe, whereas most American statisticians probably use SPlus. Still, four of the authors (Carroll, Chen, Fan and Hilbe) are from universities in the United States.

Wolfgang Hardle is a well known statistician from Europe who is known for his work in smoothing and nonparametric regression. He has authored a number of excellent statistical texts. He developed a highly interactive software package for exploratory data analysis, smoothing and modeling that he named XploRe. It seems that this software is very similar in capability to SPlus. Like SPlus it offers easy exploration of high dimensional data and all the sophisticated tools of regression modeling (including generalized linear, generalized additive models and more), and time series analysis etc.

In this book, Hardle serves as an editor as well as an author of some of the chapters. Several statisticians (some very well known) offer chapters on specific applications of XploRe. The exposition is generally good throughout.

Hardle starts with an interesting applied problem that illustrates many of the elementary features of XploRe and even some sophisticated GAM and GLM models and various two dimensional plots. This is the appetizer chapter. It is followed with two tutorial chapters that teach the basics of using XploRe to create regression lines, smoothers, use brushing techniques on plots and produce Flury faces ( a generalization of the Chernoff faces).

Section 2, Chapters 4-15 is a collection of articles by various authors illustrating particular applications. These applications include density and smooth function estimation, clustering and classification, exploratory projection pursuit methods, generalized linear models, additive models, regression with error in covariates, and nonlinear time series analysis. XploRe code is presented to implement the techniques and many excellent graphs are displayed in the text.

In some chapters there are color versions that provide additional information. These pictures are located in the front of the text. In the chapter the reader sees a black and white version with the notation "(see color insert)" to refer the reader to the corresponding color picture at the front of the book.

This is a well written book with excellent illustrations and exposition of statistical techniques. The early chapters provide step by step instructions for the users to familiarize them with the software.

I would recommend it to any statistician as a reference book whether or not he or she uses XploRe. My guess is that it is more commonly used in Europe, whereas most American statisticians probably use SPlus. Still, four of the authors (Carroll, Chen, Fan and Hilbe) are from universities in the United States.

I am very happy to have this book. It is a great resource for getting a jump start on YouTube, and it is also very good to motivate one to make the most of YouTube, perhaps a must read for business owners wanting to make use of the latest and greatest on the internet.

YouTube is my favorite web site so I didn't really need to read this book. I only bought this book because it is about YouTube. The authors deserve a lot of "hater comments" because they merely describe how to use the web site. YouTube has already updated their web site, ensuring that this book will quickly become obsolete. I would have preferred a book that explored the social networking aspects of the YouTube community. They could have devoted more chapters to video production as well. There is also no mention of Stickam which is a web site you need to know about to become a YouTube insider. Also, I think potential vloggers should be strongly warned about the extremely malicious harassment that is being allowed to flourish on YouTube.

Well for one thing my head was spining!I didn't blink my eye's almost turned to glass just like the zombie's.And Rainwash, sounds more like Brainwash.Oh, and the monocle that miss simms's has, that's cool becuas you get to tell who's gonna turn in to a zombie.MR.R.L.Stine I'm not just try'ing to get the gift certificate I just whanted you to now that I started reading your book's when I was four, and now I'm ten and still colecting.I know I'm suppost to be telling about the other thing but I just wanted to tell you you'r my favroite auther I don't read any other book's yet!You'r a really great auther, keep on writing those spooky stories!Thank's for the inspiration!

Great news! You just got accepted onto the best boarding school in te country. But when you see it. you finally feel creeped out. If you take Science, you might end up with a transmitter implanted on your arm!

... To my surprise I found the book very well laid out and ultra-conducive to high speed learning. To document my effort (and to have fodder for my lawsuit) I videotaped my Flash 5 session. After 7 minutes I began to think that this book really does deliver. At 9 minutes and 47 seconds I threw my hands up in the air and said "Its true, this book is amazing, I can learn this stuff in 10 minutes."...

A great educational book... I guarantee everyone in the whole family will learn somthing!

This is a great product for parents who wish to help their kindergartener build on what they are learning in class. Lets face it, it's been a while since we adults have been in Kindergarten so we can easily mix in inappropriate leasons from higher grades thinking they are what is covered in Kindergarten. This book removes those questions of appropriateness lesson objectives and lets the parents focus on what counts the lessons themselves.

This book is also great for the pre-kindergarteners to get a heads up on what to expect from school and not to be surprised by the lessons. As the lessons are designed to take 30 minutes or less, it is not to hard to hold a child's attention span for the lessons.

The book even gives permission of copyright to be able to duplicate the lessons for multiple student use. (Guilt free usage, can't beat it.)

If you are looking for a tool, designed by teachers to help your child in an easy to understand daily lesson format, then buy this book.

Best of luck to you and your young student(s).