Ennen: Software, Software Everywhere

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I liked this one a lot.

I wonder if we are expecting things to change or if the list of software mentioned is anticipated to be stable? A quick look around suggests that most of these have been around for a while, so are likely to be around for a decent time.

Geologists also do a lot more than look for oil and gas, so it might need a qualification that that is the problem space being discussed. (Since there is probably not space to start discussing geochemical packages and the various modelling software used on mines and such.)

Something that might help would be linking things back to the first few tasks mentioned. It feels like that is something that will frame the entire discussion, but then there is a long digression into seismic processing that does not seem to intuitively fit into the processes suggested as being handled by Petra and Geographix.

Is it worth adding python/scipy in along with MATLAB, Mathematica and Maple? I certainly see and use it more, but that might be my own echo chamber.

Quantum GIS has rebranded, and is simply QGIS now.

I enjoyed this essay, and the advice on learning a new package seems valuable and spot on to me. Thanks for writing this.