Most Popular Books by Michael Burch

In 1949 the author''s mother, unable to care for him, left him at a Brooklyn orphanage, and for the next three years he lived in institutions and foster homes. Finally he found caring people.

Interactive visualization and visual analytics tools have been designed and developed in the past and will be developed in the future as well. In each application domain in which data is measured, generated, and recorded we see a potential candidate for an interactive visualization tool with the goal to find insights and knowledge in the data. This knowledge can be found either visually by humans’ interventions or algorithmically by the machine, in the best case by applying both concepts in combination as in visual analytics. One of the easiest ways to get an interactive visualization tool running is by means of dashboards, typically implemented as webpages that can run in a web browser and are accessible online, creating some kind of web-based solution. This book describes ways to design and implement dashboards based on the programming language Python, the graphics library Plotly, and Dash. The readers can use the provided dashboard codes as a starting point and extend the functionality and features on their desire. Technical topics discussed in the book include: Design in visualization Interaction principles in information visualization User interface design Linking Python, Dash, and Plotly Coding in Python Dashboard examples with Python code.

Visualization and visual analytics are powerful concepts for exploring data from various application domains. The endless number of possible parameters and the many ways to combine visual variables as well as algorithms and interaction techniques create lots of possibilities for building such techniques and tools. The major goal of those tools is to include the human users with their tasks at hand, their hypotheses, and research questions to provide ways to find solutions to their problems or at least to hint them in a certain direction to come closer to a problem solution. However, due to the sheer number of design variations, it is unclear which technique is suitable for those tasks at hand, requiring some kind of user evaluation to figure out how the human users perform while solving their tasks. The technology of eye tracking has existed for a long time; however, it has only recently been applied to visualization and visual analytics as a means to provide insights to the users’ visual attention behavior. This generates another kind of dataset that has a spatio-temporal nature and hence demands for advanced data science and visual analytics concepts to find insights into the recorded eye movement data, either as a post process or even in real-time. This book describes aspects from the interdisciplinary field of visual analytics, but also discusses more general approaches from the field of visualization as well as algorithms and data handling. A major part of the book covers research on those aspects under the light and perspective of eye tracking, building synergy effects between both fields – eye tracking and visual analytics – in both directions, i.e. eye tracking applied to visual analytics and visual analytics applied to eye tracking data. Technical topics discussed in the book include: • Visualization; • Visual Analytics; • User Evaluation; • Eye Tracking; • Eye Tracking Data Analytics; Eye Tracking and Visual Analytics includes more than 500 references from the fields of visualization, visual analytics, user evaluation, eye tracking, and data science, all fields which have their roots in computer science. Eye Tracking and Visual Analytics is written for researchers in both academia and industry, particularly newcomers starting their PhD, but also for PostDocs and professionals with a longer research history in one or more of the covered research fields. Moreover, it can be used to get an overview about one or more of the involved fields and to understand the interface and synergy effects between all of those fields. The book might even be used for teaching lectures in the fields of information visualization, visual analytics, and/or eye tracking.

Have you reached a point of darkness in your life that has taken away your ability to have hope for your future? Have you seemingly been sentenced to a dark prison cell due to illness, depression, addiction, or your own sin? David, a man after God''s own heart, experienced such times in his walk with God. Not only was his life one of extreme ups and downs, he was capable of communicating the realness of his experiences and feelings to God like no other figure in the Bible. Whether David was soaring on the heights of a military victory or despairing for his life, he never stopped talking to God with an unrestricted honesty and depth. This is the way that God wants us to talk with Him, real and raw. The Psalms reflect the way to commune with the loving Father. New Psalms and Other Thoughts embodies this desire. Royalties from the sale of the book will be donated to the Edgewood Children''s Ranch in Orlando, Florida.

(Meredith Music Resource). This one-of-a-kind volume is perfect for those who have never programmed a Canadian band piece or simply want to expand their knowledge of Canada''s many gems for wind band. With up-to-date biographies of 63 Canadian composers and more than 200 of their works in grades 1 through 6, this book''s listing of each work includes program notes, description of the piece, grade level, duration, and publisher. Also included are easy-to-use, four-year performance sequences for each grade level. "...should be of interest to anyone passionate about discovering new repertoire and excited by the quest to uncover many hidden treasures." Jim Cochran , President, Shattinger Music. (a href="http://youtu.be/jmsjgke7WmM" target="_blank")Click here for a YouTube video on Canadian Band Music(/a)

The best concert band music by Australian composers! This book is a must-have reference for band directors who are interested in multi-cultural or international programming. Choose from one hundred six works by thirty-eight Australian composers. Each entry includes information about the composer and program notes, duration, and level of difficulty for every work. Find the work that fits your band''s skill level by consulting the appendix of works listed by difficulty. Fine tune your programming by consulting appendix of works sorted by theme - history, geography and the arts.

"Lunar Rhapsody" is a sequence of poems directly inspired by the Moon and moonlight that is used as a metaphor for romance and spiritual endeavor. It is captivatingly couched in a semi-modernist, semi-traditionalist style, making use of extremely attractive metrical patterns, as well as half-rhymes.

The author of these memoirs witnessed the atomic bombing of his hometown and the deaths of his parents and sisters when he was eight. He emigrated to North America when he was 18, vowing to avenge his fathers death. Once in America however the author converted to Christianity, and found forgiveness, peace, and reconciliation.

A range of organisms that grow naturally in source water are known to cause taste and odour problems in drinking water supplies. The scientific literature and practical experience indicates that these can include cyanobacteria and algae, actinomycete bacteria, fungi and other aquatic microbiota. This project aims to investigate the occurrence of these organisms in Australian reservoirs and to better understand their relative potential to produce significant taste and odours which affect water quality.

My paper examines the current state of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in China. I review the quality and quantity of cost-benefit analyses produced in China and find that there are a limited number of high quality cost-benefit analyses publicly available. I discuss potential reasons for this finding, the resulting impact on governance in China, and the prospects of future change.