GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk
Oct 2024 – Jan 2026
14 Months active
Languages Used
PythontextINIRSTTOMLreStructuredTextCSVJulia
Technical Skills
Backend DevelopmentCode RefactoringConfiguration ManagementData ModelingData ProcessingFile Handling
Kirsty Bayliss
PROFILE
Kirsty Bayliss
Kirsty Bayliss contributed to the GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk repository, delivering features and fixes that enhanced seismic hazard analysis workflows. She refactored core modules for maintainability, centralized configuration management, and improved data visualization pipelines using Python and Seaborn. Her work included implementing completeness-aware magnitude-frequency distribution plotting, expanding geospatial data handling, and introducing robust error handling for optional dependencies. Kirsty also modernized API surfaces, improved documentation, and ensured compatibility with evolving libraries. By addressing both backend logic and user-facing tools, she enabled more reliable, reproducible analyses and streamlined onboarding. The depth of her contributions strengthened data integrity and long-term code stability.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
63%Features
Repository Contributions
66Total
Bugs
14
Commits
66
Features
24
Lines of code
6,460
Activity Months14
Your Network
20 people
Work History
January 2026
7 Commits • 3 Features
Jan 1, 2026January 2026 (GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk): Delivered targeted features and critical stability fixes with a focus on data integrity, API usability, and documentation cleanliness. Key work spanned bug fixes, code refactors, and API enhancements that collectively improve reliability, maintainability, and developer productivity.
7 Commits • 3 Features
Jan 1, 2026January 2026 (GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk): Delivered targeted features and critical stability fixes with a focus on data integrity, API usability, and documentation cleanliness. Key work spanned bug fixes, code refactors, and API enhancements that collectively improve reliability, maintainability, and developer productivity.
January 2026
December 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2025Month 2025-12 – GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk: Focused delivery of geospatial visualization improvements and data accuracy enhancements, with underlying refactor to plotting and multipolygon handling to increase output reliability and visual clarity.
December 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Dec 1, 2025Month 2025-12 – GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk: Focused delivery of geospatial visualization improvements and data accuracy enhancements, with underlying refactor to plotting and multipolygon handling to increase output reliability and visual clarity.
November 2025
7 Commits • 3 Features
Nov 1, 2025November 2025 contributed substantial improvements to GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk, including data quality fixes, expanded geospatial coverage, and modernized site-generation workflows. Key business value includes enhanced regional analysis capability (Australia), more accurate site models for 2026 with updated paths and parameters, and broader CRS support for accurate geospatial calculations across latitudes. Also, data integrity improvements for country classification and NZ dataset corrections.
7 Commits • 3 Features
Nov 1, 2025November 2025 contributed substantial improvements to GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk, including data quality fixes, expanded geospatial coverage, and modernized site-generation workflows. Key business value includes enhanced regional analysis capability (Australia), more accurate site models for 2026 with updated paths and parameters, and broader CRS support for accurate geospatial calculations across latitudes. Also, data integrity improvements for country classification and NZ dataset corrections.
November 2025
October 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 20252025-10 monthly summary: Delivered and cleaned up the Cross-sections Map Plotting CLI for GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk, enabling config-driven earthquake cross-section visualizations using the existing plotting utility. Removed an erroneously added plotting script to reduce maintenance burden and user confusion. These changes enhance reproducibility of visualizations, streamline user workflows, and reinforce our plotting tooling strategy.
October 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 20252025-10 monthly summary: Delivered and cleaned up the Cross-sections Map Plotting CLI for GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk, enabling config-driven earthquake cross-section visualizations using the existing plotting utility. Removed an erroneously added plotting script to reduce maintenance burden and user confusion. These changes enhance reproducibility of visualizations, streamline user workflows, and reinforce our plotting tooling strategy.
September 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 monthly summary for GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk. Focused on robustness for optional dependencies and improving setup experience. Delivered guarded Pygmt import to prevent hard failures when pygmt is unavailable, with clear messaging. Updated installation instructions to include PSHAModelBuilder and GMT dependencies, streamlining onboarding and reducing setup friction. These changes improve reliability in diverse environments and support downstream modeling workflows.
2 Commits • 1 Features
Sep 1, 2025September 2025 monthly summary for GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk. Focused on robustness for optional dependencies and improving setup experience. Delivered guarded Pygmt import to prevent hard failures when pygmt is unavailable, with clear messaging. Updated installation instructions to include PSHAModelBuilder and GMT dependencies, streamlining onboarding and reducing setup friction. These changes improve reliability in diverse environments and support downstream modeling workflows.
September 2025
July 2025
6 Commits • 2 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk. Focused on delivering geospatial compatibility improvements, NRML source generation enhancements, and targeted bug fixes, with strengthened tests and code cleanliness to improve reliability and maintainability. These efforts reduce technical debt and enable smoother production workloads for geophysical data processing.
July 2025
6 Commits • 2 Features
Jul 1, 2025July 2025 monthly summary for GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk. Focused on delivering geospatial compatibility improvements, NRML source generation enhancements, and targeted bug fixes, with strengthened tests and code cleanliness to improve reliability and maintainability. These efforts reduce technical debt and enable smoother production workloads for geophysical data processing.
June 2025
2 Commits • 1 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025: Delivered plotting enhancements for magnitude-frequency distributions (MFDs) within GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk, introducing incremental MFD plotting with completeness-aware counts and saving capability. Upgraded plotting aesthetics by migrating to seaborn-v0_8, improving compatibility across plot_time_ranges and plot_histogram and aligning visuals with reporting standards. These changes enhance visualization fidelity, enable exportable plots for stakeholder reporting, and improve consistency and reproducibility across MFD analyses.
2 Commits • 1 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025: Delivered plotting enhancements for magnitude-frequency distributions (MFDs) within GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk, introducing incremental MFD plotting with completeness-aware counts and saving capability. Upgraded plotting aesthetics by migrating to seaborn-v0_8, improving compatibility across plot_time_ranges and plot_histogram and aligning visuals with reporting standards. These changes enhance visualization fidelity, enable exportable plots for stakeholder reporting, and improve consistency and reproducibility across MFD analyses.
June 2025
May 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk: Delivered a key feature upgrade to seismic plotting by migrating the PyGMT color parameter to fill, ensuring color data is applied as fill colors for plotted shapes. This change improves seismic source visualization accuracy and consistency across environments. Implemented in the code paths used for seismic plotting with targeted updates to tests. Commit 1e4a8d2650597282b15481c5a56051634988c48c. Modifications touched source_tests.py and get_profiles_from_slab2pt0.py. Overall impact: enhanced visual fidelity of seismic plots, clearer interpretation for end users, and improved reliability of plotting across platforms.
May 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 monthly summary for GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk: Delivered a key feature upgrade to seismic plotting by migrating the PyGMT color parameter to fill, ensuring color data is applied as fill colors for plotted shapes. This change improves seismic source visualization accuracy and consistency across environments. Implemented in the code paths used for seismic plotting with targeted updates to tests. Commit 1e4a8d2650597282b15481c5a56051634988c48c. Modifications touched source_tests.py and get_profiles_from_slab2pt0.py. Overall impact: enhanced visual fidelity of seismic plots, clearer interpretation for end users, and improved reliability of plotting across platforms.
April 2025
11 Commits • 3 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk: Key features delivered include Subduction Modeling Documentation Improvements, Plotting Improvements aligned with PyGMT, and Cross-section Coordinate Filtering by ID. Major bugs fixed include Decimal precision enhancements across seismic data handling to reduce rounding errors. Overall impact includes improved user onboarding and documentation clarity, more reliable visualizations, targeted data processing, and increased numerical stability and reproducibility. Technologies/skills demonstrated include Python Decimal usage for numeric precision, adapting plotting code to PyGMT API changes, implementing ID-based filtering, and documentation best practices.
11 Commits • 3 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 monthly summary for GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk: Key features delivered include Subduction Modeling Documentation Improvements, Plotting Improvements aligned with PyGMT, and Cross-section Coordinate Filtering by ID. Major bugs fixed include Decimal precision enhancements across seismic data handling to reduce rounding errors. Overall impact includes improved user onboarding and documentation clarity, more reliable visualizations, targeted data processing, and increased numerical stability and reproducibility. Technologies/skills demonstrated include Python Decimal usage for numeric precision, adapting plotting code to PyGMT API changes, implementing ID-based filtering, and documentation best practices.
April 2025
February 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 monthly summary for GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk focusing on a visual quality improvement in plotting used in source tests. A targeted, low-risk change refined point sizing for two plots to enhance readability and consistency, supporting QA reviews and stakeholder communications.
February 2025
1 Commits • 1 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 monthly summary for GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk focusing on a visual quality improvement in plotting used in source tests. A targeted, low-risk change refined point sizing for two plots to enhance readability and consistency, supporting QA reviews and stakeholder communications.
January 2025
3 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025: GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk – API stabilization and code quality improvements. Key features/bugs delivered: (1) API cleanup restoring minimal surface by removing deprecated 'use' parameter and source_conv metadata (commit bc233f626f94d4a00d84479d68e6e097ce6dc7a5); (2) Test suite cleanup for source_tests.py to improve readability and reliability (commit dc4a0993bbbd0aad0026a06a4d92492f7021e33d); (3) Documentation: added detailed descriptions for norm optimization functions in the completeness module (commit 036a83f48f2d31ec1a7542894c2579e8316a2e12). Overall impact: reduced API confusion, more reliable tests, and clearer maintenance guidance; accelerates onboarding and long-term maintainability. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Python API design, refactoring, test hygiene, and documentation discipline.
3 Commits • 1 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025: GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk – API stabilization and code quality improvements. Key features/bugs delivered: (1) API cleanup restoring minimal surface by removing deprecated 'use' parameter and source_conv metadata (commit bc233f626f94d4a00d84479d68e6e097ce6dc7a5); (2) Test suite cleanup for source_tests.py to improve readability and reliability (commit dc4a0993bbbd0aad0026a06a4d92492f7021e33d); (3) Documentation: added detailed descriptions for norm optimization functions in the completeness module (commit 036a83f48f2d31ec1a7542894c2579e8316a2e12). Overall impact: reduced API confusion, more reliable tests, and clearer maintenance guidance; accelerates onboarding and long-term maintainability. Technologies/skills demonstrated: Python API design, refactoring, test hygiene, and documentation discipline.
January 2025
December 2024
16 Commits • 3 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary for GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk: Delivered major MFD enhancements, depth data handling improvements, and completeness analysis refinements, enabling ArbitraryMFD types and richer visualization of hazard uncertainties. Fixed critical issues in completeness analysis, Poisson inputs, and data validation, while expanding test coverage and core refactors. Result: more accurate hazard characterization, robust data processing, and improved reliability for decision-making.
December 2024
16 Commits • 3 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 monthly summary for GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk: Delivered major MFD enhancements, depth data handling improvements, and completeness analysis refinements, enabling ArbitraryMFD types and richer visualization of hazard uncertainties. Fixed critical issues in completeness analysis, Poisson inputs, and data validation, while expanding test coverage and core refactors. Result: more accurate hazard characterization, robust data processing, and improved reliability for decision-making.
November 2024
6 Commits • 2 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 — GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk: Delivered feature enhancements and robustness improvements with a focus on clarity, stability, and maintainability. Implemented configurable uncertainty parameters for Weichert analysis, cleaned up generated source naming, strengthened edge-case handling in completeness norms, and improved SourceConverter usage during remove_buffer_around_faults refactor. These changes reduce user confusion, prevent runtime errors, and simplify future maintenance while enabling more interpretable outputs for stakeholders.
6 Commits • 2 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024 — GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk: Delivered feature enhancements and robustness improvements with a focus on clarity, stability, and maintainability. Implemented configurable uncertainty parameters for Weichert analysis, cleaned up generated source naming, strengthened edge-case handling in completeness norms, and improved SourceConverter usage during remove_buffer_around_faults refactor. These changes reduce user confusion, prevent runtime errors, and simplify future maintenance while enabling more interpretable outputs for stakeholders.
November 2024
October 2024
1 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2024October 2024 — Delivered a pivotal refactor to centralize SourceConverter configuration within the Seismicity Module of GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk. Introduced a default SourceConverter object and ensured it is passed as an argument to remove_buffer_around_faults, consolidating configuration for source conversion and improving consistency, testability, and maintainability. This change reduces misconfiguration risk, simplifies future enhancements to the source conversion pipeline, and strengthens the reliability of seismicity processing.
October 2024
1 Commits • 1 Features
Oct 1, 2024October 2024 — Delivered a pivotal refactor to centralize SourceConverter configuration within the Seismicity Module of GEMScienceTools/oq-mbtk. Introduced a default SourceConverter object and ensured it is passed as an argument to remove_buffer_around_faults, consolidating configuration for source conversion and improving consistency, testability, and maintainability. This change reduces misconfiguration risk, simplifies future enhancements to the source conversion pipeline, and strengthens the reliability of seismicity processing.
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Quality Metrics
Correctness86.6%
Maintainability87.0%
Architecture83.4%
Performance78.8%
AI Usage21.0%
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CSVINIJuliaPythonRSTTOMLreStructuredTexttext
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API DevelopmentAPI IntegrationBackend DevelopmentBug FixBug FixingClean CodeCode CleanupCode RefactoringCode refactoringCompleteness AnalysisConfiguration ManagementData AnalysisData ConfigurationData HandlingData Modeling
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