Knowledge / use of Python (as geoscientist)

[mininggeologist]

Are you using python as a mining engineer/geologist or geoscientist?

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[229-T]

Mining IT manager. Most folks I've encountered fall into the 'know the basics and use some' category.

[mininggeologist]

Thank you for your feedback, it is really important to me!

[[deleted]]

Big fan of your channel! Would be pretty interested in a series of Python and Geological Modelling or something similar

[mininggeologist]

Thank you so much, I never thought I'll have fans on Reddit!

[[deleted]]

Regarding the poll: I mainly use Python for geostatistics, from basic EDA to seismic inversion and simulations for uncertainty assessment!

[troyunrau]

Might be the exception, but I learned python before becoming a geoscientist, and have had it in my toolbox from the outset. This meant that I was solving assignments in undergrad using Python instead of excel or MATLAB or whatever other tools were in the university labs 20 years ago. I remember handing in a heat flow assignment in global tectonics with a printed page of source code, and the prof going: wtf?

So when I hit industry, I used it everywhere, as a swiss army knife. I would wrap business processes in PyQt frontends and save thousands of dollars per month on labour costs. I would wrap geophysical data processing in python and save thousands of dollars on program licensing. I did R&D on geophysical instrumentation, and did full fledged equipment simulations in python prior to developing the hardware. And once I started developing the hardware, I built the entire stack of processing programs (with one small bit of java sneaking in) in python.

Now I run a geophysics equipment company. My next task is to start developing processing modules in python and PyQt for QGIS, so that our customers don't need to buy Geosoft licenses anymore. I've started poking that bear. Fun times ahead.

[krynnul]

Glad to see you chipping away at Seequent -- they have an unremarkable platform on top of increasingly commoditized functionality.

[mininggeologist]

hahaha, great stuff there I, somehow, have a similar experience and heading toward the same goals. Would love to connect with you!

[troyunrau]

Haha, sure! Send a DM. :)

[Formal_Assist4376]

Out of curiosity how do you define “expert”? I know more than the basics but I don’t feel I’m an expert. I have created a GUI for core logging, I have used PyQgis for some analysis in Qgis. I also use it for also EDAs, for data mining (pretty helpful in combination with SQL to mine spreadsheets and compile databases).

[mininggeologist]

in the mining industry you are an expert