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Over 50 recipes to help you create web maps and GIS web applications using the Google Maps JavaScript API Overview Add to your website's functionality by utilizing Google Maps' power Full of code examples and screenshots for practical and efficient learning Empowers you to build your own mapping application from the ground up In Detail Day by day, the use of location data is becoming more and more popular, and Google is one of the main game changers in this area. The Google Maps JavaScript API is one of the most functional and robust mapping APIs used among Geo developers. With Google Maps, you can build location-based apps, maps for mobile apps, visualize geospatial data, and customize your own maps. Google Maps API Cookbook is a practical, hands-...

Create interactive SCORM-compliant demonstrations, simulations, and quizzes with Captivate 7 Overview Enhance your projects by adding interactivity, animations, sound, and more Deploy e-Learning content on a SCORM, AICC, or a Tin Can-compliant LMS Publish you project in a wide variety of formats including Flash and HTML 5 In Detail Adobe Captivate 7 helps you rapidly author a wide range of interactive and HTML5-based e-Learning content with minimum programming. With Adobe Captivate 7, you can capture the on-screen action and also enhance your e-Learning projects by including animations, videos, Smart Shapes, buttons, and drag-and-drop interactions. This book is a perfect introduction to Adobe Captivate 7. It will help you get started with the tool ...

Develop amazing games, visual charts, plots, and graphics for your iPhone Overview Seven step by step game projects for you to build Cover all aspects from graphics to game ergonomics Tips and tricks for all of your iPhone programming In Detail Designing and selling games on the iOS platform has become a phenomenon ever since the introduction of the App Store. With mobile gaming taking the World by storm, users are indulging in all different types of games. iPhone Game Blueprints is a hands on guide to both inspire and help developers, graphic designers, and game enthusiasts to create their own games for iOS devices. Taking a selection of iPhone game "styles" we will learn how to set the foundation and essential functionality for each gam...

Harness the graphical and statistical power of R and rapidly develop interactive user interfaces using the superb Shiny package Overview Helps you to use Shiny's built in functions to produce engaging and useful user interfaces in hours, not days Enables you to extend Shiny using JavaScript and jQuery with minimal coding Shows you how to write cutting-edge interactive content for the Web In Detail R is a highly flexible and powerful tool for analyzing and visualizing data. Shiny is the perfect companion to R, making it quick and simple to share analysis and graphics from R that users can interact with and query over the Web. Let Shiny do the hard work and spend your time generating content and styling, not writing code to handle user inputs. Web A...

High-speed distributed computing made easy with Spark Overview Implement Spark's interactive shell to prototype distributed applications Deploy Spark jobs to various clusters such as Mesos, EC2, Chef, YARN, EMR, and so on Use Shark's SQL query-like syntax with Spark In Detail Spark is a framework for writing fast, distributed programs. Spark solves similar problems as Hadoop MapReduce does but with a fast in-memory approach and a clean functional style API. With its ability to integrate with Hadoop and inbuilt tools for interactive query analysis (Shark), large-scale graph processing and analysis (Bagel), and real-time analysis (Spark Streaming), it can be interactively used to quickly process and query big data sets. Fast Data Processing with Spar...