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Well I've poked around through some different listings, roles, etc, and I'm a bit surprised that there are so few data mining roles at various oil and gas firms
by allsystemsgo 14y ago
Well I've poked around through some different listings, roles, etc, and I'm a bit surprised that there are so few data mining roles at various oil and gas firms. One would think seismic data mining would be a huge area. I'm quite interested in data mining and software dev.
I've found quite a number of SCADA roles but, this isn't unique to the industry, and I don't know exactly how interesting the role would be.
- Peroni 14y agoI have a few old contacts in the industry working for some of Europe's largest O&G firms. I'll drop them an email to see if there are any blog posts floating about that elaborate on the topic a bit further.
- allsystemsgo 14y agoI appreciate that. Thanks for the info.
- _dps 14y agoThere are large budgets for geological data analysis, but in contrast to most businesses the oil and gas industry actually has physical constitutive models for the phenomena they track; so, instead of domain-agnostic data mining, they are much more interested in being able to solve partial differential equations that model oil flows through various materials so that they can identify useful areas to explore (or optimize a drill insertion etc.). Traditional data mining of the form "when variable x is > 5 and variable y is < 10, expect z to be 42" is not nearly powerful enough in its current form to compete with domain models derived from physics. Silly aside: you might find that the wide variety of non-CS engineers in the oil and gas business will be amused by the idea that "tech jobs" means software jobs ;-)