Do you want to learn more about creating map applications for Android? How about Python machine learning? Or perhaps you'd like a refresher on the essentials of GitHub? Our latest batch of eBooks covers all these subjects and more.

What You’ll Learn

In the past couple of months we’ve made 16 new eBooks available for Envato Tuts+ subscribers to download. Here’s a selection of those eBooks, and a summary of what you can learn from them.

1. Python Machine Learning

Machine learning and predictive analytics are transforming the way businesses and other organizations operate. Python Machine Learning gives you access to the world of predictive analytics and demonstrates why Python is one of the world’s leading data science languages. If you want to ask better questions of data, or need to improve and extend the capabilities of your machine learning systems, this practical data science book is invaluable. 

2. Mastering Social Media Mining With R

Mastering Social Media Mining With R will teach you how to solve powerful business cases by applying machine learning techniques on social media data. You will learn about important and recent developments in the field of social media, along with a few advanced topics such as Open Authorization (OAuth). Through practical examples, you will access data from R using APIs of various social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, GitHub, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Blogger, and other networks. 

With this handy guide, you will be ready to embark on your journey as an independent social media analyst. 

3. Yii2 by Example

Yii is a high-performance PHP framework best for developing Web 2.0 applications. It provides fast, secure, and professional features to create robust projects. Yii2 by Example contains a series of practical project examples for developers starting from scratch. Each section contains the most relevant theories for every topic as you walk through developing each project, focusing on key aspects that commonly confuse users.

4. Mastering Python Scientific Computing

In today's world, along with theoretical and experimental work, scientific computing has become an important part of scientific disciplines. Python is among the top choices for developing scientific workflow, and this book helps existing Python developers to master this domain using Python. 

The main things to learn in the book are the concept of scientific workflow, managing scientific workflow data, and performing computation on this data using Python. The book discusses NumPy, SciPy, SymPy, matplotlib, Pandas and IPython with several example programs.

5. GitHub Essentials

Whether you are an experienced developer or a novice, learning to work with Version Control Systems is a must in the software development world. Git is the most popular tool for that purpose, and GitHub was built around it leveraging its powers by bringing it to the web. GitHub Essentials will take you through everything from creating a repository to writing documentation, managing teams, configuring settings, and more.

6. WordPress 4.0 Site Blueprints: Second Edition

This book will take you through the process of creating ten popular kinds of site using WordPress with free plugins and themes. Without writing too much code, you’ll be able to create a store, a video streaming site, a team communications site, a jobs board, and more. This book is a one-stop solution to resolve all your worries about creating a website that will give the best experience to your users.

7. Learning Android Google Maps

Learning Android Google Maps helps you to overcome the most common problems faced by users and helps you create a successful map application without any hassle. It starts with a brief description of how to set up an environment and obtain an API key to create your map application. Then you'll learn about adding markers, overlays, and information windows to the map in detail. You will then dive deep into customizing various types of maps and working with location data and Google Street view.

By the end of this book, you will be able to create succinct map applications in Android using Google Maps efficiently.

8. PhoneGap Essentials

PhoneGap is an open-source framework that allows you to quickly build cross-platform mobile apps using HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS. 

In PhoneGap Essentials, you’ll develop an app that uses various device capabilities through different plugins, learn how to build an app in the cloud with PhoneGap’s Build service, and much more.

9. Amazon S3 Cookbook

Amazon S3 is one of the most famous cloud object storage services, which is highly scalable, low-latency, and economical. Amazon S3 Cookbook teaches you to successfully implement pro-level practices, techniques, and solutions in Amazon S3.

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