Nick Hodgskin
Nick Hodgskin is a Research Software Engineer and Xarray maintainer working at Utrecht University, primarily on Parcels - a Lagrangian simulation framework used in physical oceanography. Here he has been leading a rewrite of Parcels to use Xarray as a core data structure, along the way improving Parcels interoperability with the Pangeo ecosystem of packages. A self proclaimed "Pangeo evangelist", Nick loves communicating the power of the Scientific Python stack with Xarray for geospatial analysis - which he does by organising fortnightly talks at his institute, as well as by giving tutorials. When he isn't coding, you can find Nick playing Ultimate frisbee, hiking in nature, reading, or learning languages.
Session
Xarray provides data structures for multi-dimensional labeled arrays and a toolkit for scalable data analysis on large, complex datasets. Many real-world datasets fit this structure. However, a common roadblock for users is knowing how to load the data in Xarray and then how to best use Xarray’s tools to represent the structure of the data. In this hands-on tutorial we will showcase how to work with Xarray, various ways to get real-world data into Xarray (with examples from geosciences and biology) and finally how to easily make complex selections on data using community developed custom indexes.
Installation Instructions: https://tutorial.xarray.dev/workshops/scipy2026/index.html