>>most of the time Packt is a reliable signal for low quality
In my opinion, Packt is the first one with a book on a new technology or framework or use case. When I was getting started with Clojure , I ran into a bunch of problems in applying it. Packt has more clojure data science books than any other source and they were pretty helpful to me. They were not as fundamental to my learning as "Clojure for the Brave.." but ideas from those books helped me on.
That was a good book. I looked at it recently and it’s now in the 3rd edition! Congrats.
Any other suggestions for good Packt books?
I agree, Packt’s quality is much lower than other publishers. As a rule of thumb I stay away but occasionally there’s a gem.
I’ve been looking at “Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading”. It feels like a dump of wikipedia and a bunch of jupyter notebooks with sloppy code. I cannot decide if it’s worth the pain if slogging through that mess.
Still, most of the time Packt is a reliable signal for low quality