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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

Handling Categorical Geological Data in Machine Learning Models

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5d ago

From Default to Publication-Ready: The Raincloud Plot

Six steps between the chart ptitprince gives you and one you would want to put in a report

From Default to Publication-Ready: The Raincloud Plot

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Jul 4

Raincloud Plots with PtitPrince: See What Your Data Is Really Doing

Three views of your data distribution in one function call

Raincloud Plots with PtitPrince: See What Your Data Is Really Doing

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Jun 14

From Boxplot to Raincloud: Building a Better Distribution Plot in Python

Constructing a raincloud plot one layer at a time

From Boxplot to Raincloud: Building a Better Distribution Plot in Python

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May 25

How to Visualise Missing Data with an Interactive Plotly Heatmap

Explore well log data completeness with interactive heatmaps

How to Visualise Missing Data with an Interactive Plotly Heatmap

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May 17

Why Your Jupyter Notebooks Are Harder to Read Than They Should Be

Working code is only half the job. The reasoning needs to be readable too.

Why Your Jupyter Notebooks Are Harder to Read Than They Should Be

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May 16

Six Matplotlib Changes That Improve Your Figures for Reporting and Publication

Small adjustments. Large visual difference.

Six Matplotlib Changes That Improve Your Figures for Reporting and Publication

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May 10

You Don’t Need to Verify Everything AI Gives You. But You Do Need to Know When It Matters

Verification isn’t binary. It’s a sliding scale, and where you sit on it should depend on what’s at stake.

You Don’t Need to Verify Everything AI Gives You. But You Do Need to Know When It Matters

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Mar 28

3 Jupyter Notebook Habits That Hold Up When Someone Else Opens Them

Small habits that make notebooks easier to rerun and share

3 Jupyter Notebook Habits That Hold Up When Someone Else Opens Them

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Mar 26

Boxplots Are Hiding Your Data. Here’s a Simple Fix

How overlaying raw data points reveals what your summary statistics quietly discard

Boxplots Are Hiding Your Data. Here’s a Simple Fix

Andy McDonald

Andy McDonald

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Petrophysicist and Data Scientist with a passion for data analytics, machine learning, and AI. More on my Substack: https://andymcdonaldgeo.substack.com/

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