Fatiando: Open-source Python library for modeling and inversion in geophysics

They published a paper at scipy

http://conference.scipy.org/proceedings/scipy2013/html/pdfs/...

The talk, with a demo of the software, is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec38h1oB8cc

Of interest during the video, is the emphasis he makes on how he automated a lot of his manual processing. What's surprising about this is the implication that there are a lot of grad students, who when confronted with a tedious, manual, and repetitive data processing task, simply slog through it.

Kudos to Leonardo to going to the additional effort to automate his processes, and crucially, publish his work on github.