On this day exactly 10 years ago, I created a free community outreach blog for geoscience data and AI. Thank you to everyone for all the encouragement and support you have given over the years.
The blog was initially focused on techniques leveraging content in documents – unstructured data, search (IR) and NLP, tying this to practical examples and use cases. This has evolved to include other areas such as geological AI ethics. I was keen on outreach, not just engaging expert practitioners in the field, but also reaching out to others less familiar with the subject. Those just starting out in their studies and careers, those transitioning to new roles, and those in different locations and backgrounds.
One thing I have learnt over the years is to never assume people know what already exists. So part of my ‘mission’ has been to raise awareness of the ‘old’ as well as presenting the ‘new’. Hopefully a useful resource for business, academics, governments, charities and non-profits.
Techniques and resources on the blog may support economic mining exploration, oil and gas exploration, renewables such as geothermal, and carbon capture and storage (supporting energy security, netzero and the energy transition; geohazards, geoheritage, hydrogeology, geotechnical engineering and academic research; all contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
In the top 20 countries for blog visitor volumes we have a variety of Global North and Global South countries:
Africa: NIGERIA
Latin America: BRAZIL and COLOMBIA
Southeast Asia: MALAYSIA, VIETNAM and SINGAPORE
South Asia: INDIA
East Asia: CHINA and JAPAN
Oceania: AUSTRALIA
Middle East: SAUDI ARABIA
North America: US and CANADA
Europe: UK, GERMANY, THE NETHERLANDS, FRANCE, ITALY, NORWAY and DENMARK.
Use of social media (LinkedIN) to support posts has been extremely effective. For example, 3 posts I made just last month had over 3,000 likes and 300,000 views, showing global reach and interest in the topic.
Most popular posts:
1. When text analytics meets geoscience
2. Machine learning on Subsurface Data
3. Applying Deep Learning to Geoscience Image Classification
4. Finding information – Why so difficult?
5. The future of geoscience: Facing an extinction level event?
6. Word embeddings and Language Models in geoscience
7. Enterprise Search satisfaction
8. Scholarly Publishing, Search & Discovery
9. First large scale empirical study of Enterprise Search
10. Unsupervised Machine Learning of Geoscience Text
There is an incredible amount of global geological and subsurface data and tools which are open and publicly available. The innovation from academia and practitioners around digital geoscience world-wide is quite extraordinary. The ‘Geodyssey’ continues!
