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BOT DEVELOPMENT
There isn't a website that you can't scrape, control, or automate with Selenium Python. These skills can be used to conduct Competitive Intelligence, Test Engineering, Web Scraping, Data Mining, or Market Analysis.
SECTION ONE provides context and helps you configure your development environment. SECTION TWO details Ten Bot Projects that explore specific aspects of Selenium Python. Each project uses web pages developed specifically for this book. And, in addition to the material in the book, each project has a Video on YouTube that provides a Bot Demo and Code Walk-through, making the book a true multimedia experience. SECTION THREE contains ten chapters of theory that explore everything from Legal Obligations to Bot Architectures, Handling Big Data, How Webdriver works, and Fault Tolerance. All scripts are provided either online or in the book. Watch on YouTube Buy on Amazon |
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COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE
Competitive Intelligence creates advantages from information that other businesses ignore, or don’t have the wherewithal to process. Competitive Intelligence works by capitalizing on both unintentional communication and market dynamics.
For many organizations, Competitive Intelligence is a source of actionable intelligence that makes them both more competitive and better aware of upcoming challenges. Spying on Success represents twenty-five years of experience in developing and managing Competitive Intelligence campaigns for:
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Structured prompts reduce ambiguity and yield more consistent AI results. Plain language often fails to convey the precision needed to describe technical or complex subjects.
Chapter 1: Why structured prompts?
Learn why plain language is too nuanced to be used exclusively for Generative Artificial Intelligence prompting.
Chapter 2: Structuring visual art
Build accurate and reusable JSON objects that model people, objects, and places.
Chapter 3: Generative video with Sora
See the characters, modeled in Chapter 2, transfer flawlessly to video.
Chapter 4: Structured storytelling
Replace mechanical storytelling with narrative styles and archetypes.
Chapter 5: Artificial Intelligence simulations
Predict the future and recreate the past with AI simulations.
Chapter 6: AI workflow automation
Automate the things you don’t have time for.
Chapter 7: Understanding AI safety policies
Achieve your goals without violating platform rules.
Chapter 8: Embracing disruption
Learn how to be one who adapts and thrives.
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ABOUT
Michael Schrenk is a software developer, author and instructor. He specializes in Competitive Intelligence and in developing bots to perform intelligence gathering and automation. His first book, "Webbots, Spiders, & Screen Scrapers" (2007, No Starch Press, San Francisco) was called by Dr. Dobbs Journal, "The definitive work on the subject." Michael uses the Internet in new and innovative (odd?) ways to provide competitive advantages for his clients in The US, Europe and Asia.
He also helps journalists more effectively use computers to conduct online research through automation and by describing where and how to find otherwise hidden online information. Mike is also a regular at DEF CON--the world's largest gathering of hackers, where he has presented nine times (including DEF CON China). No stranger to Europe--he's spent much time in both Moscow Russia and Madrid Spain, both as a consultant and as a keynote speaker at security and software development conferences. He has also taught at The Centre for Investigative Journalism at City College, London, and for the VVOJ in Belgium and The Netherlands. He's been featured in The Christian Science Monitor, California Public Radio, Radiotelevisione italiana, BBC World Service, and many others. Contact Mike via his YouTube Channel. |