Awkward array backend?
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Just curious if anyone here has thoughts on this.
For more context: Awkward is like numpy but for arrays of very arbitrary (dynamic) structure.
I don't know much yet about that library (I've just seen this SciPy 2020 presentation), but now I could imagine using xarray for dealing with labelled collections of geometrical / geospatial objects like polylines or polygons.
At this stage, any integration between xarray and awkward arrays would be something highly experimental, but I think this might be an interesting case for flexible arrays (and possibly flexible indexes) mentioned in the roadmap. There is some discussion here: https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward-1.0/issues/27.
Does anyone see any other potential use case?
cc @pydata/xarray
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- numpy, python
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