If you don't know python and you're interested in analytics you should solve that.
IMHO you'll become a far better developer if you devote the majority of your time to learning advanced algorithms, ml, and ai as opposed to the new hot framework.
IMHO you'll become a far better developer if you devote the majority of your time to learning advanced algorithms, ml, and ai as opposed to the new hot framework.
For example drilling for oil in sea is quite expensive, could easily cost over 100 million USD. With machine learning we can predict the seismic ground pattern by predicting the amount of clay, lime etc in different locations and between wells. This can help us to decide if there is a good chance there could be oil/gas underground.
The problem when I present this, is that it quickly sounds like science fiction.
It's entirely possible that machine learning techniques could be used as well as modeling and simulation for these problems. (They may be already! But my limited expose suggests they're mostly doing traditional HPC.) But you'd probably need to be a petroleum expert already, not just someone with machine learning expertise living in an O&G hub.[2]
[0] Just an example: http://www.aiche.org/chenected/2012/12/bp-building-new-houst...
[1] http://rice2014.og-hpc.org/
[2] Apologies, btw, if you are a petroleum expert who's just frustrated by a lack of machine learning in the industry. :)