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The Unsolved Problem Hiding Inside Every Oil and Gas Deal
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The Unsolved Problem Hiding Inside Every Oil and Gas Deal

Chuck Yates Got A Job

March 11, 202619m 33s

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Show Notes

Most energy companies buying billion dollar assets get handed a stack of hard drives and have zero clue what's on them. Clay Branch, Technical Staff at Collide, joins Chuck to break down the unglamorous but absolutely critical work of document categorization, data extraction, and why clean reliable data is the real foundation of any AI strategy in oil and gas.

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0:00 Clay's background and how he ended up at Collide
1:34 The reality of energy data: hard drives, banker's boxes, and chaos
4:47 Building document categorization tools from scratch
8:52 Handling duplicates and the shared drive problem
13:57 Why data reliability is the foundation of AI
17:21 The last mile: getting from 80% to 100% accuracy

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