{"id":9623,"date":"2015-12-21T09:46:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T14:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/21_Code.png"},"modified":"2016-01-13T10:33:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T15:33:05","slug":"21_code","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/21_code\/","title":{"rendered":"21st December: a year of coding"},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-9623","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/21_Code.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" src=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/21_Code-300x113.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/21_Code-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/21_Code-600x226.png 600w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/21_Code-900x339.png 900w, https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/21_Code.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chris <\/strong>still loves fieldwork, and believes that most useful geological research requires <em>some<\/em> ground-truthing. However, field data isn\u2019t perfect. It\u2019s usually incomplete in time and space, with gaps that could be filled in a number of ways. More often than not, you are not directly measuring the thing you want to measure, which can mean that there\u2019s more than one possible interpretation of your data. When simple models break down, and simply fitting a best-fit line through a scatter plot no longer cuts it, more complex simulations and models are required to try and find an interpretation that best explains what you are seeing. This is where knowing how to write your own computer code comes in. In the last few years, Chris has discovered that knowing how to speak computer is a valuable part of his research toolkit. Having played with Perl, R, Fortran and particularly Python, he now knows more computer languages than human ones (if you exclude the dead ones, at least). In this era of \u2018Big Data\u2019, he thinks it\u2019s going to be an increasingly important part of every scientist\u2019s workflow in the years to come. Even Anne (grudgingly) agrees!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2015\/12\/a-highly-allochthonous-advent-calendar\/\">Return to the Advent Calendar<\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/21_code\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/png","media_details":{"width":1000,"height":377,"file":"2015\/12\/21_Code.png","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"21_Code-150x150.png","width":150,"height":150,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/21_Code-150x150.png"},"medium":{"file":"21_Code-300x113.png","width":300,"height":113,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/21_Code-300x113.png"},"large":{"file":"21_Code-600x226.png","width":600,"height":226,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/21_Code-600x226.png"},"wptouch-new-thumbnail":{"file":"21_Code-144x144.png","width":144,"height":144,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/21_Code-144x144.png"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"21_Code-940x198.png","width":940,"height":198,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/21_Code-940x198.png"},"foundation-featured-image":{"file":"21_Code-900x339.png","width":900,"height":339,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/21_Code-900x339.png"},"full":{"file":"21_Code.png","width":1000,"height":377,"mime_type":"image\/png","source_url":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/21_Code.png"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":0,"credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":0,"copyright":"","focal_length":0,"iso":0,"shutter_speed":0,"title":"","orientation":0}},"post":null,"source_url":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/21_Code.png","filename":"21_Code.png","filesize":307285,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9623"}]}}