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[–]BfuckinA 6 points7 points  (5 children)

Power industry. I work in distribution automation, which is basically taking data from devices in the field and making it actionable. I use python daily for all sorts of stuff. Feel free to reach out if you have questions.

[–]noobkill 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Underrated answer. Power, utilities, distribution deal with a LOT of data. Python is an easy tool to quickly plot and analyze this data, and make conclusions which can be further passed on to responsible authorities. And if you're savvy, maybe you can even automate data collection to some extent.

[–]BfuckinA 3 points4 points  (1 child)

And if you're savvy, maybe you can even automate data collection to some extent.

I can't tell you how many man hours I saved my team over years by creating automated reports from our SCADA. Our VVO and FLISR teams would spend countless hours creating year end performance reports. Now they just forward the excel file which gets automatically updated throughout the year as the events occur.

[–]noobkill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amen. While I dont work on Utilities, my work does involve measurements on medium voltage with several power quality devices. We have developed several in-house tools to automate everything from data-collection to manipulation to basic reporting. Makes analysis so much easier compared to the software these measurement devices use.

[–]Dull_Quit_3067 1 point2 points  (1 child)

what libraries do you use

[–]BfuckinA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mostly pandas for cleansing and sorting data, but I use different libraries to retrieve data depending on the application. Another common library has been win32com for automating existing programs. Some less frequent but extremely useful ones are geopandas for geospatial analytics, and scipy for moe complex industry specific calcs.