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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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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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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Why Whole-Well Completeness Numbers Can Hide Critical Data Gaps
Visualising Well Log Data Availability by Formation Across Multiple Wells
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From Default to Publication-Ready: Transforming Matplotlib Heatmaps in 8 Steps
Take a Basic Well Log Data Availability Heatmap and Make It Something Worth Putting in a Report
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AI That Suggests vs AI That Acts
Distinguishing between AI systems that suggest versus those that act autonomously is more critical than accuracy metrics alone.
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Visualising Well Log Data Availability in the Terminal with Python
Building a coverage heatmap for LAS files using rich and lasio
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Inspecting LAS Files in the Terminal with rich and lasio
A practical approach to inspecting LAS files in Python without jumping straight to plots
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Working With LAS Files in Python
A practical look at the LAS format, its structure, and how to work with it using lasio for subsurface well data
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Working With Agentic LLMs: Why Structured Workflows Matter More Than Clever Prompts
A geoscientist’s approach to controlled AI-assisted coding
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AI in Petrophysics: When Did Everything Become Artificial Intelligence?
I've been thinking a lot about how casually we use the word AI at the moment.
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Using Python to Explore and Understand Equations in Petrophysics
A simple way to understand parameters to the Archie Water Saturation equation using Python
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Python in Geoscience: An Essential Skill
How Python can help your daily subsurface geoscience workflows
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Loading Well Log Data From DLIS using Python
A short tutorial on loading and displaying processed acoustic waveform data using dlisio and matplotlib
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