From Data to Discovery

Most researchers are sitting on data goldmines without realising it. Traditional analysis software shows you what you expect to see. AI-assisted vibe coding can reveal what you didn't know was there.

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What Is Vibe Coding?

Vibe coding isn't about replacing your expertise - it's about amplifying it. It's the practice of building lightweight, bespoke and yet robust tools with AI that process and analyse research data in ways that would be too time-intensive to do manually, or too nuanced for standard software packages.

Example: Instead of spending weeks manually indexing X-ray diffraction patterns, I used AI to build a workflow that processes hundreds of patterns in minutes, flagging anomalies and correlations that would take months to spot by eye. The AI doesn't make the scientific judgments - it surfaces the patterns so I can make better decisions faster.

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Why This Matters

Time Recovery: Analysis that took 3 weeks now takes 2 hours
Pattern Recognition: Find correlations across datasets that manual analysis would miss
Reproducibility: Every step is documented and repeatable
Cost Efficiency: £15k commercial software replaced with free AI tools and custom workflows

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Real Results From My Materials Lab

• Discovered unexpected phase transitions in battery materials by AI-flagging subtle peak shifts across hundreds of XRD patterns

• Identified contamination sources in 6 months of Raman data by teaching AI to spot spectral signatures I might have easily missed

• Reduced analysis bottlenecks from 2-3 weeks to within-the-hour results for standard characterisation

These weren't lucky finds - they're the result of systematic AI integration into real research workflows.

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What's Coming

We will be sharing step-by-step guides for building your own research AI tools:

• Processing diffraction data with Claude, Gemini and Python - even if you can't code a line

• Teaching AI to spot patterns in spectroscopic data

• Building automated quality control for large datasets

• Extending these methods to non-materials research

Real code, real prompts, real examples from actual research projects - not toy demonstrations.

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