Proposal: Xarray user stories

[jhamman]

Xarray is used in a wide range of scientific and applied research domains but many have the impression that Xarray is just for geospatial data. One way we could counter this misconception is by developing a series of user stories that highlights the complete range of Xarray applications. I'm thinking of a list of at least 10 stories that could be highlighted on this website (either as stand-alone pages or a special blog post category).

Domains:

• Neuroscience (e.g. Allen Brain Atlas / SDK) (see [User story proposal] Xarray for Electrophysiology #345)
• Bioimaging (see [User story proposal] Xarray for Bioimaging #344)
• Genomics (see [User story proposal] Xarray for Genomics #346)
• Climate model analysis (see [User story proposal] Xarray for climate model analysis #349)
• Remote sensing analysis (see [User story proposal] Xarray for Remote Sensing  #350)
• Machine learning and/or statistics (e.g. pymc, arviz) (see [User story proposal] Xarray for Bayesian modeling (PyMC, ArviZ) #348)
• Finance
• Economics (see [User story proposal] Xarray for Economics (Econ-ARK) #347)
• Physics (see [User story proposal] Xarray for Plasma Physics #352)
• Energy sector analytics (see [User story proposal] Xarray for energy analytics #358)
• [more here]

If folks think this is a good idea and we can settle on a basic format for the stories, I'll volunteer to solicit and edit the stories.

cc xarray-devs (@alexamici, @rabernat, @shoyer, @dcherian, @benbovy, @max-sixty, @spencerkclark, @fujiisoup, @fmaussion, @mathause, @andersy005, @Illviljan, @keewis, @TomNicholas)

ps, I'll create the xarray-core-team in this org so we don't have to tag individuals in the future

[fmaussion]

Good idea - I think they should be short and illustrate one specific use case in each of the disciplines listed here. I can think of contributing an example with a nD cube of model output / parameters resulting of an international model intercomparison experiment, but this may take some time.

[dcherian]

I agree fully!

On a related note, I started adding links to domain-specific tutorials on the tutorial website: xarray-contrib/xarray-tutorial#133 . When you contact people to write these, it'd be nice to ask them for similar tutorial/workshop resources in their field we could link to.