The organizing committee of the 4th ISFOG will propose a series of six webinars on topics of relevance to the offshore geotechnical engineering community. These webinars will emphasize theoretical engineering aspects and will be offered free-of-charge monthly from January 2022 to June 2022. They will consist of 45-min live online presentations, followed by 15 min Q&A. They will be recorded and posted on YouTube. The January 2021 event will feature Bruno Stuyts of Ghent University speaking on data management.

Offshore geotechnical engineering is a data-intensive discipline which utilises geo-data from different sources (geological, geophysical, geotechnical investigation and in-situ monitoring data). Recently, an acceleration in the field of data science has put tools at the disposal of practicing engineers to process this data more efficiently and use it as the basis for creating predictive models.

This online presentation provides an essential introduction to data science for offshore geotechnical engineering applications. Based on two practical applications (soil type classification and pile driving blowcount predictions), participants will be introduced to the principles of building a data analysis pipeline. The essential tools for manipulating large datasets and building predictive machine learning models will be introduced.