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💧🌏 Greg Cocks<p>Technical Book Review: Learning Geospatial Analysis With Python, 4th Edition - Joel Lawhead<br>--<br><a href="https://post.news/@/kiwiincolorado/2cFKx6F4VUzyYlLjqYQK9VVYO6f" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">post.news/@/kiwiincolorado/2cF</span><span class="invisible">Kx6F4VUzyYlLjqYQK9VVYO6f</span></a> &lt;-- link to review<br>--<br>[disclaimers – (i) a publisher’s representative solicited a review of this book and provided an e-book version for that purpose but no recompense, (ii) this is my impartial, personal review - and hence is not an endorsement by my employer, implicit or otherwise.]<br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spatial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mapping</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/gischat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gischat</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/remotesensing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>remotesensing</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>python</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatialanalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spatialanalysis</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/python3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>python3</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/opendata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opendata</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/technologystack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technologystack</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/technicalbook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technicalbook</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>learning</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/bookreview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookreview</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/elevationdata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>elevationdata</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/model" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>model</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/modeling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>modeling</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/realtimedata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>realtimedata</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/workedexamples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>workedexamples</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/continuedlearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>continuedlearning</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/platformagnostic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>platformagnostic</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/solutionagnostic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solutionagnostic</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/continuingeducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>continuingeducation</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/continuouslearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>continuouslearning</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/learningjourney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>learningjourney</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/technicalskills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technicalskills</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/pythonprogramming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pythonprogramming</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/pythoncoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pythoncoding</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/appliedscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>appliedscience</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/alldataispatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alldataispatial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/opendata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opendata</span></a><br>@packt @packtpublishing <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/packt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>packt</span></a></p>
Chris Partridge<p>Is it general knowledge in the <a href="https://cybersecurity.theater/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InfoSec</span></a> community that publisher <a href="https://cybersecurity.theater/tags/Packt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Packt</span></a> solicits fraudulent reviews to boost their products?</p><p>Usually they're better at feigning that they want "unbiased" reviews in exchange for free products, but not today. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231007040533/https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fcybersecurity%2Fcomments%2F171tzby%2Fbook_reviewing_opportunity%2F" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2023100704</span><span class="invisible">0533/https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fcybersecurity%2Fcomments%2F171tzby%2Fbook_reviewing_opportunity%2F</span></a></p><p>This isn't a one-off either - extensive history from other "DevRel Marketing Executives" on Reddit include guerrilla marketing from u/Namita_Packt &amp; soliciting reviews from u/Ankur_Packt + u/Royreddituser3 + u/kunal_packtpub + etc.</p>
Amin Girasol<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.cat/@riley" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>riley</span></a></span> that's exactly the perception I have of them too. Though it's one thing to publish garbage, as, say, <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Packt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Packt</span></a> gleefully do; it's another to publish a fact-based book by an author who also believes six impossible things before breakfast. Aren't <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/Apress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apress</span></a> aware of the damage to their own credibility?</p>