Review of the application of big data and artificial intelligence in geology

We bring to the attention of our readers a slightly abridged and adapted translation of the report by primarily Indian geological and geotechnical engineers “Digging deeper: the role of big data analytics in geotechnical investigations” (Vani et al., 2024), which was presented at the 3rd International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering (ICS-MEE) held on 2–3 May 2024 in the Indian city of Kottayam, Kerala. That event was organized by the Mangalam College of Engineering, received financial support from the Ministry of Science and Technology of India, and gathered more than 1,000 participants from all over the world. In the same year, the proceedings of that conference were published in peer-reviewed conference proceedings series “E3S Web of Conferences” issued by the French publishing house “EDP Sciences” (“Edition Diffusion Presse Sciences”). The paper on the basis of that report by Indian specialists is available in open access under the CC BY 4.0 license that allows it to be distributed, translated, adapted, and supplemented, provided that the types of changes, original source, and DOI are noted. In our case, the full reference to the original paper (Chen et al., 2020), which was used for the presented translation, is given in the end.