Welcome to part two of our beginners and experts series. This one is a panel format with seven

different guests, each one of them a beginner in their own way. We dig deep into some of the

follow-up conversations from part one with these panelists. On this episode, you'll meet

Vanessa Angel, Kelly Schuster Paradis, Dane Parks, Scott Stoltzman, Sergio Sanchez, Alex Caprazi, and Jason Picor.

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It really helps support the show. We're just going to hear a little bit about the background of each of our panelists, what their experience is with Python, what they do day-to-day, so you know where they're coming from

for the rest of their answers. Now let's hear from Vanessa. My name is Vanessa Angel. I live in

Anchorage, Alaska, and I'm a mom with three kids, nine, five, and two. And I work as a petroleum

engineer. I just picked up Python within the last year to apply to my job.

And in the world of petroleum engineering, there's three main kinds. The drilling engineer

drills the hole. Production engineer gets the oil from the bottom of the hole to the surface,

through the production facilities, to the sales line. And then the reservoir engineer. That's the last

kind. That's what I am. We work with

a geologist and geophysicists who use tools like seismic, core sampling, logging, to come up with

an estimate of what the layer of rock that we're studying that sits thousands of feet underground

looks like. You know, it's covering miles and miles, and we only have small

data points in between. So we use a lot of different types of data, a lot of time series data.

We have a lot of monitors in the field, and then we get a lot of inputs from the geologists

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