Cross-post the xvec blog post from Earthmover blog?

[TomNicholas]

I just saw the "Vector data cubes in xarray" blog post - awesome content!

Any chance this can be cross-posted to the xarray blog here too as a guest post? AFAIK most of the xvec development work was done independently of Earthmover, and this is certainly of interest to xarray users who don't use arraylake.

cc @dcherian @e-marshall

[dcherian]

I had suggested just making the last bit an Xvec example notebook.

[TomNicholas]

Sure, but this is effectively an xarray integration feature announcement, and we have a pattern of posting content like that to the xarray blog (e.g. the pint-xarray stuff) - it would be nice to continue doing that too.

[dcherian]

Oh I did not realize that we haven't had an xvec blogpost yet!

@martinfleis @benbovy : would you be OK with the cross-post here or would you prefer to add a separate post introducing Xvec.

[TomNicholas]

Oh I did not realize that we haven't had an xvec blogpost yet!

I don't think we have really had anything that shows off the flexible indexes stuff yet! (Only a mention of work in progess on @keewis ' work on the pint index in the pint-xarray blog post almost 2 years ago!).

[keewis]

we have a draft here: #597. We now have at least three examples of flexible indexes, so maybe it's time to finish that?

For reference, the ones that I'm aware of are the xvec index, PintIndex, and DGGSIndex.

[TomNicholas]

so maybe it's time to finish that?

I think so, but I don't think we should wait to do that before cross-posting the xvec blog post on the xarray blog.

[e-marshall]

I'd be very happy to cross-post on the Xarray blog if folks are interested in that!

[martinfleis]

I have "write xvec blog post" on my to-do for over a year and it hasn't happened yet. It eventually will but it may be wiser to just use this one for xarray blog.

[benbovy]

Good idea and agreed we shouldn't wait for a post on flexible indexes.

#597 has stalled (like other in-progress work on flexible indexes) but it will be resumed. I'll probably split it into several smaller posts.

[dcherian]

In that case I propose:

1. @e-marshall copies over the post,
2. we add @martinfleis and @benbovy as co-authors,
3. @martinfleis and @benbovy make edits/changes.
4. we merge and publish.

how does that sound?

It would make sense to add quite a bit more about Xvec too I think, with lots of links out to the docs on what you can do with it.

[martinfleis]

I can try to expand it to cover a bit more about Xvec.

[e-marshall]

I copied the blog post here, feel free to edit as needed and i'm happy to work on formatting/ wording changes as well

[martinfleis]

A bit more stuff added on top of @e-marshall's text in e-marshall#1.