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Author
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 streaming video file (0 hr., 37 min., 51 sec.)) : digital, sound, color.
Language
English
Description
"Although machine learning is most commonly used for prediction, it can also help make sense of the complexity in the world around us. In this webcast, we explore how R's open-source clustering packages can discover patterns in large data and inform our understanding of complex sociological phenomena such as teenage identities."--Resource description page.
2) The raft
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (9 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Language
Multiple
Description
In the summer of 1973, a young international crew of six women and five men embarked together on a most unusual sea voyage, a close-quarters trip across the Atlantic from Spain to Mexico on a free-floating raft christened the Acali, initiated by Mexican anthropologist Santiago Genoves, who proposed to use the group as guinea pigs in his investigation of the origins of violent conflict and dynamics of sexual attraction.
Publisher
Glen Echo Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"After viewing this provocative documentary, you will never look at Wikipedia the same way. Filmmakers Scott Glosserman and Nic Hill engagingly explore the history and cultural implications of one of the most traveled and referenced sites on the Internet. A whole range of opinion is expressed about the impact of Wikipedia on the archiving of learning, from interviews with founder Jimmy Wales to commentators suspicious of the site's supposed neutrality....
Series
Criterion collection volume 1124
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mystery man, a murder, and a wad of missing cash in his wryly offbeat breakthrough, Wayne Wang updates the ingredients of classic film noir for the streets of contemporary San Francisco's Chinatown. When their business partner disappears with the money they had planned to use for a cab license, driver Jo and his nephew Steve scour the city's back alleys, waterfronts, and Chinese restaurants to track him down. But what begins as a search for a missing...
5) The city
Publisher
Naxos
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 44 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Originally shown at the 1939 World's Fair, this film comments on four types of cities: New England town, the unplanned industrial community, a crowded metropolis and the decentralized community.
6) The class
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Based on Bégaudeau's autobiographical novel. François and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough Paris neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves to not let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their...
7) Mean girls
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Formats
Description
Home-schooled Cady is a 15-year-old who is entering public high school for the first time. Trying to find her place among jocks, mathletes and other subcultures, Cady crosses paths with the meanest species of them all - Regina, The Queen Bee, the leader of the school's most fashionable clique, The Plastics. When Cady falls for Regina's ex-boyfriend, though, the Queen Bee finds herself stung. Now she schemes to ruin Cady's social future. But, Cady's...
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 113 min) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
King in the Wilderness follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the volatile last three years of his life, from the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 to his assassination in April 1968. Drawing on revelatory stories from his inner circle of friends, the film provides a clear window into the civil rights leader's character, showing him to be a man with an unshakeable commitment to peaceful protest in the face of an increasingly unstable country....
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