The Power of Fit Curves: Helping Audiences Understand & Trust Your Visualization As a geoscientist or engineer, you need to provide graphs and charts that are understandable and trustworthy—and fit curves help achieve those goals. You might know them as “trendlines” in Excel, the classic [...]
Why Graph Templates Should Become Your New Go-To Graphing isn't always a quick and easy process. Whether you're visualizing technical data such as soil classifications on a ternary diagram or simpler insights like average revenue on a line graph, creating a visual that's both accurate [...]
Top Signs Your 2D Maps Aren’t Clearly Communicating Surface & Subsurface Data When you're sharing surface and subsurface data with stakeholders, your main objective is simple: make the information easy to understand so everyone can make informed decisions. But if you’re still leaning heavily on [...]
Turning Subsurface Data Into Opportunity: How a Geologist Uses Software & Expertise to Guide Drilling Decisions John Andersen is a geology consultant and Senior Geologist with O'Chiese Energy LP in Calgary, a city in Alberta, Canada. Working with the O'Chiese First Nation, which owns a [...]
Webinar Recap: Enhancing Visualizations With New 3D Picks and Contact Surfaces Recently, our Surfer Pro and Senior Technical Sales Specialist, Drew Dudley, hosted a live webinar to introduce one of the most exciting new features in Surfer Beta: the ability to create contact picks and [...]
Unveiling the Secrets of Swan Lake: A Decade of Water Quality Monitoring with Surfer and Grapher For a decade, Robert Bowen, CEO of Diversified Scientific Solutions, has been returning to the shores of Swan Lake with one goal: to better understand its health. From May [...]
Enhancing Clarity & Understanding: Choose the Right Lighting for Your 3D Model When you're presenting a 3D model to stakeholders, clarity is everything. After all, you need stakeholders to understand the data you’re sharing so they can make informed decisions. Achieving this goal, however, requires [...]
How Geophysics Revived a School District’s Construction Plan: The Story of a Once ‘Un-Buildable’ Site When a school district out west set out to build a new facility, they needed to know if their preferred location—which included a portion of a soccer field—was suitable for [...]
Glaciers, Trolls, and Family Time: A Look at Our Surfer Product Manager’s Trip to Norway When she’s not guiding the development of new features in Surfer, our Surfer Product Manager Kari Dickenson is often exploring the great outdoors. This summer, she took her spirit of [...]
New Insights on the Dire Wolf in the Interior of North America For more than a century, Aenocyon dirus—the dire wolf—has held a place in both scientific research and popular imagination. And a new paper, An update on Aenocyon dirus in the interior of North [...]