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I'm looking forward to being easily able to create sparse xarray objects from pandas: #3206
Are there other xarray APIs that could make good use of sparse arrays, or could make sparse arrays easier to use?
Some ideas:
to_sparse()
/to_dense()
methods for converting to/from sparse without requiring using.data
to_dataframe()
/to_series()
could grow options for skipping the fill-value in sparse arrays, so they can round-trip MultiIndex data back to pandas- Serialization to/from netCDF files, using some custom convention (see Sparse arrays #1375 (comment))