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rabernat

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About rabernat

Startup Founder, Scientist and Software Developer

- CEO and co-founder of Earthmover: https://earthmover.io/ - Associate professor in the Columbia University Department of Earth and Environmental Science and Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory: https://ocean-transport.github.io/ - Co-founder and community leader of the Pangeo Project: https://pangeo.io/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #40056515

    > It's possible but not very cost-effective to maintain separately-chunked versions of these large geospatial datasets. Like all things in tech, it's about tradeoffs. S3 storage co…

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    Comment #40055303

    True, but in fact, the Google ERA5 public data suffers from the exact chunking problem described in the post: it's optimized for spatial queries, not timeseries queries. I just ran…

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    Comment #40055220

    Great post! Hi Ali! I think what's missing here is an analysis of what is gained by moving the weather data into a RDBMS. The motivation is to speed up queries. But what's the base…

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    Comment #34314319

    The Zarr format is used in some genomics workflows (see https://github.com/zarr-developers/community/issues/19 ) and supports a wide range of modern compressors (e.g. Zstd, Zlib, B…

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    Comment #34008113

    PyTorch and JAX are used heavily in climate science on the ML side. For more general analytics, not so much. Many of our users like to use Xarray as a high-level API. There has bee…

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    Comment #34007598

    Agree 100%. This is big part of the motivation behind our new startup Earthmover: https://earthmover.io/ Our mission is to make it easier to work with scientific data at scale in t…