What’s new this week? This is what…
Find work fast — Earth science is undoubtedly experiencing something of an employment crisis at the moment. Happily, the #jobs channel has been busy lately, with nine positions posted in the last seven days. Three of them at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute.
Virtually no rain… or pubs — A question about virtual geological field trips highlighted some good resources, including this excellent resource — and map, below — from the MicroMyEarth website, which is run by Arthur Adams, a Canadian geochemist based in Switzerland. If you teach earth science, you should definitely check it out!
Spot the difference — The #python channel is probably the most active channel on the Software Underground Slack, and often sees great debate. This biggest thread this week was in reponse to a question about the difference between Jupyter Notebook and Jupyter Lab, but the answers go well off piste. Check it out.
Arrrrrr, treasure — Although Python wins the popularity contest, there are a great many earth science libraries for the R programming language. Calgary-based geoscientist Danny Coutts took the trouble to find them all, and told everyone about it in the #r-stats channel.
📈 Interactive plots — everyone loves widgets! Later today, at 1600 UTC, Wesley Banfield and Steve Purves will be looking at ways to sprinkle a little bit of JavaScript into your Python to get some next-level interactivity. And if you’re reading this after the fact, not to worry, it’ll be in the Rendezvous playlist on our YouTube channel.
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