It's weird how mixed quality their books are, and how many overlapping books they have. From Packt I like Sebastian Raschka's books on Python Machine Learning. Other than that from time to time they do have some good "recipes", but hardly any of their books seems worth reading cover to cover.
I think that's a case where a good author has chosen the publisher for some reason. They are good enough to be published by someone else but went with Packt possibly because it was an easy onboarding.
