Geochemical Quality Assurance and Control Python Code

<div>Quality assurance and quality control (QAQC) of geochemical data is an important first step before any interpretation of the data is undertaken. Due to the increasing number of elements that are being reported by laboratories undertaking multi-element analysis, the time to undertake QAQC of the data has increased. In order to alleviate the increasing time constraints of undertaking QAQC this python script was developed. This script provides a quick first pass of the data automatically to produce summary statistics and plots of the included standards laboratory duplicates and analytical duplicates. The statistics and plots allow for rapid assessment of geochemical data to discover potential issues with the data and trends though time, whilst also providing a consistent approach. It should be noted that no general quality cut-offs have been included within the script as it does not replace the need for an expert examining the data to identify potential issues.</div>

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Date (Creation)
2023-02-19T18:00:00
Date (Publication)
2023-06-26T23:33:57
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/147731

Citation identifier
Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/147731

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Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Main, P.

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Purpose

Produce quality assurance and control results and plots for geochemical data.

Status
Completed
Point of contact
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Resource provider

Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division

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Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Main, P.

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Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Resource format

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Product data repository: Various Formats

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Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

Project

  • EFTF – Exploring for the Future

Project

  • ARF - Australia’s Resources Framework

Project

  • National Geochemical Framework

Keywords

  • Python

Keywords

  • Geochemistry

Keywords

  • Quality controlled

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf

  • Inorganic Geochemistry

Keywords

  • Published_External

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

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CC-BY

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4.0

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Any
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© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2023

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Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
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https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

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Unclassified
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Australian Government Security Classification System

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English
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UTF8

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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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OnLine resource

Link to GitHub Repository

Link to GitHub Repository

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Resource lineage

Statement

<div>This python script and GitHub repository were created to check the quality of geochemistry data. The GitHub repository maintains version information and update histories.</div>

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/4f3c7921-3d54-4748-bf40-e58971a87c82

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GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

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Point of contact

Main, P.

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Type of resource

Resource scope
Software

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Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

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Citation identifier
eCatId/147731

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https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/4f3c7921-3d54-4748-bf40-e58971a87c82

Date info (Creation)
2023-06-26T06:02:13
Date info (Revision)
2023-06-26T06:02:13

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

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Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

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Keywords

ARF - Australia’s Resources Framework EFTF – Exploring for the Future National Geochemical Framework
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
Inorganic Geochemistry

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