Adding a Geological Facies Display to a Well Log Plot in Matplotlib and Plotly
Adding a column of colour to a well log plot using Python
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6 Ways to Customise Your Raincloud Plot
Splitting, highlighting, connecting means, tuning the cloud, styling the rain, and knowing when to go vertical
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When a Line Chart Becomes Spaghetti
Past a handful of series, a line chart stops letting you follow any of them. Here is what breaks and what to plot instead
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Why a Histogram Can Show You the Wrong Shape
How the number and position of bins can change what you think the distribution is telling you
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Handling Categorical Geological Data in Machine Learning Models
What label, ordinal, and one hot encoding each tell a model about your rocks
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From Boxplot to Raincloud: Building a Better Distribution Plot in Python
Constructing a raincloud plot one layer at a time
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Boxplots Are Hiding Your Data. Here’s a Simple Fix
How overlaying raw data points reveals what your summary statistics quietly discard
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From Default to Publication-Ready: Transforming Matplotlib Histograms
Seven Steps From a Default Chart to Something Worth Publishing
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When a Jupyter Notebook Is the Wrong Tool: Moving Logic Into Modules and Scripts
Notebooks are great for thinking. They are not always the right place to keep the machinery
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Ridgeline Plots in Matplotlib: An Underused Way to Compare Distributions
Build stacked KDE plots from scratch and with joypy to show shape, skew, and spread across multiple groups
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The Project Structure That Makes Good Jupyter Notebook Habits Automatic
Set it up once. Use it on every project.
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6 Jupyter Notebook Habits That Make Your Work Easy to Return To
From messy exploration to a record that still makes sense months later
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