Sri Manikanta is an undergraduate student pursuing his bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering at SICET under JNTUH. He is a founder of the Open Stack Developer Community at his college. He started his journey as a competitive programmer and he always loves to solve problems that are related to the filed of data science. He has worked on a couple of projects on deep learning and machine learning. He has published many articles regarding data science, machine learning, programming and cyber security in top publications such as Hacker Noon, freeCodeCamp, Towards Data Science, and DDI. He completed his Python specialization at the University of Michigan, through Coursera.
A special thanks to my friends and well-wishers for supporting me, and to Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to review this book.
Richard Marsden has 25 years of professional software development experience. After starting in the field of geophysical surveying for the oil industry, he has spent the last 15 years running the Winwaed Software Technology LLC, an independent software vendor. Winwaed specializes in geospatial tools and applications including web applications and operates the Mapping-Tools website for tools and add-ins for geospatial applications such as Caliper Maptitude, Microsoft MapPoint, Android, and Ultra Mileage.
Richard has been a technical reviewer for a number of Packt publications, including Python Geospatial Development and Python Geospatial Analysis Essentials, both by Erik Westra; and Python Geospatial Analysis Cookbook, by Michael Diener.