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4 Essential Resources to Help Improve Your Data Visualisations

Creating compelling data visualisations is essential for any data scientist, geoscientist or petrophysicist. By learning these skills, we can ensure that we can convey our research and analysis results to our intended audience. By understanding our audience, we can tweak the charts and the messages accordingly. For example, we could have a more simplified and artistic chart

August 27, 2023 No Comments

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Create Eye-Catching Radial Bar Charts With Matplotlib

Radial bar charts are a visually attractive alternative to traditional bar charts. Data are plotted on a polar coordinate system instead of the conventional cartesian coordinate system. This allows the bars to be represented by rings rather than as vertical bars. Radial bar charts can make a great and visually appealing graphic to include in

June 29, 2023 1 Comment

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9 Creative Alternatives to the Traditional Pie Chart for Data Visualisation

Pie charts are a commonly used, easy to create circular graphic for visualising the relative sizes of different categories that contribute to a whole. Each slice within the pie chart represents a category, and its size is relative to its contribution. They are useful visualisations when dealing with a limited number of categories. Even though

June 28, 2023 No Comments

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7 Useful Pandas Display Options You Need to Know

Pandas is a powerful Python library commonly used within data science. It allows you to load and manipulate datasets from a variety of sources and is often one of the first libraries you come across in your data science journey. When working with pandas, the default options will be suitable for the majority of people. However, there may

December 6, 2022 No Comments

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How to Level up Your Pandas Skills in 5 Easy Ways

Pandas is a powerful and versatile Python library for data science. It is often one of the first libraries you come across when learning how to use Python for data science applications. It can be used to load data, visualise it and manipulate it to suit the objectives of the project you are working on. However,

December 4, 2022 No Comments

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5 Essential Soft Skills to Succeed as a Data Scientist

Data science is a rapidly growing field with the demand for data scientists projected to grow by 36% over the next decade according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. However, the field can be very competitive, and there are many steps between being an entry-level data scientist and getting promoted into a senior role at a large company.

November 4, 2022 No Comments

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Folium Mapping: Displaying Markers on a Map

Folium is a powerful Python library that makes it easy to visualise geospatial data. It utilises the power of Leaflet.js, which is a popular and leading JavaScript library that can be used to create interactive maps that can be used across both desktop and mobile platforms. The library has been designed in a way that makes it

October 19, 2022 No Comments

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Data Quality Considerations for Machine Learning Models

Reducing the Impacts of Garbage In Garbage Out on Machine Learning Models Ensuring you have good data quality prior to running machine learning algorithms is a crucial step within the overall data science and machine learning workflow. The use of poor-quality data can lead to severe degradation in the results and have further consequences when

October 7, 2022 No Comments

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Adding Formation Data to a Well Log Plot

Taking well log plots one step further using Python and matplotlib Well log plots are a common visualization tool within geoscience and petrophysics. They allow easy visualization of data (for example, Gamma Ray, Neutron Porosity, Bulk Density, etc) that has been acquired along the length (depth) of a wellbore. I have previously covered different aspects

February 28, 2021 3 Comments