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Automation, data, and geoscience — for practitioners who build things.

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Human Error Is a Design Problem

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 we owe our teams when we design the systems and workflows they work inside....

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Text Mining Drill Reports

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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Why Geologists Make Great Data Scientists

Geologists often underestimate how much of their existing skill set already maps onto data science. Domain knowledge, uncertainty, spatial reasoning, and pattern recognition are not side benefits. They...

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