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Python powers some of the fastest-growing fields in tech today. According to the latest Python Developer Survey results, 47% of Python users apply it in data analysis, 42% in machine learning, and 39% in web development. With Python’s influence only expanding, staying ahead means mastering these key areas.

Packt's August 2024 releases offer the practical expertise you need to enhance your Python skills, whether you're working with big data, building machine learning models, or developing high-performance APIs.

Python Feature Engineering Cookbook - Third Editionby Soledad Galli

A complete guide to crafting powerful features for your machine learning models

Equips you with practical techniques for handling complex datasets, to craft features that will improve model performance.

Learn to impute missing values, transform numerical variables, and extract powerful features from complex datasets like time series and transactional data.

Polars Cookbook by Yuki Kakegawa

Over 60 practical recipes to transform, manipulate, and analyze your data using Python Polars 1.x

Optimise data analysis tasks with Python Polars, a blazingly fast alternative to pandas.

Ideal for data professionals looking to improve performance across a variety of datasets, solve common data problems, perform complex transformations, and analyse time-series data.

FastAPI Cookbook by Giunio De Luca

Develop high-performance APIs and web applications with Python

FastAPI is gaining ground rapidly, with 25% of Python developers now using it for web development.

Learn how to use FastAPI’s modern, async-friendly features, and take your backend development to the next level with custom middleware and WebSockets.