Automation, data, and geoscience — for practitioners who build things.
Most beginner Python tutorials use Iris flowers, Titanic passengers, or Boston housing prices. There is a reason a lot of geologists bounce off them, and it is not the Python. Video 2 of the Python for Geoscientists series tries to fix that...
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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...
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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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