Automation, data, and geoscience — for practitioners who build things.
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 real. This series is three short videos to take a working geoscientist from never...
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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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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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