Live Coding: Uncovering Geologic Layers with Wolfram Language

In this 3-part series of live streams, you'll see Wolfram programmers solve problems in (pseudo) real time. You'll get to see programming in its raw form, from sourcing and importing different data types to dealing with large or messy datasets, to stumbling upon bugs and using hacky code! Each live stream will focus on a different problem and look at how it might be tackled with Wolfram Language, following a data science pipeline along the way. Problems may be solved completely or may simply be explored, and if an instructor gets stuck, you may be asked to jump in with suggestions! In the case study used in this live stream, we will see what we can learn about the geologic layers of South Asia. We will begin by importing shape data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS). After making a thorough investigation of the files and their content, we will unpack the geometry data—lines, polygons and filled curves—and try to make sense of it. Finally, we will look at geological data from the Wolfram Knowledgebase to see if that can offer any more insight. Questions to explore: 1. Make use of the 'line segment' data (found in Explore - geo9alg - SHP -Geometry). 2. Extract land regions by location, rather than by area (found in Analyse - geo8apg - SHP - Geometry). 3. Finish cleaning up the 'geologic age' acronyms (found in Analyse - geo8apg - SHP - LabeledData). 4. Following from (2), try to convert the geological periods the acronyms represent to entities (there may not be a one-to-one mapping). 5. Overlay a map of the world on the final result (found in Communicate). 6. Following from (4), compare country borders with geological borders. Follow us on our official social media channels. Twitter: https://twitter.com/WolframResearch/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wolframresea... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wolframrese... LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wolf... Contribute to the official Wolfram Community: https://community.wolfram.com/ Stay up-to-date on the latest interest at Wolfram Research through our blog: https://blog.wolfram.com/