Automation, data, and geoscience — for practitioners who build things.
Everyone tells the Abraham Wald airplane story. It's a great story. It is also slightly misleading, because the planes are obviously gone. The version of survivorship bias that actually matters is the one where the missing data feels like the whole sample....
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Closing the gap between geoscience and computer science is the work I care most about, and the coding piece is where most geologists get stuck. Tutorial hell is...
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Most exploration databases are built from samples that earned their way into the dataset. That selection process can flip correlations on their head and quietly mislead any analysis...
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Two recent accidents have had me thinking about how we use the phrase 'human error.' This post is a small detour from my usual topics, looking at what...
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Historical geological reports contain valuable information that is rarely used beyond their original purpose. This post shows how text mining can extract, structure, and integrate that information into...
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