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Ian Hunt-Isaak

Ian Hunt-Isaak

Xarray Community Developer

4 posts

Cursed venvs, Confident Releases: Testing Icechunk Across Major Versions

Cursed venvs, Confident Releases: Testing Icechunk Across Major Versions

tl;dr: Technical details of how we do surgery on python wheels in order to do cross version compatibility testing. We're getting ready to release Icechunk V2 — the next evolution of our tensor storage engine. People run real workloads on Icechunk V1. They're not all going to upgrade on the same day.

Ian Hunt-Isaak
Ian Hunt-Isaak

Xarray Community Developer

Ditch the Data Pipeline: A Snow Alert Bot in an Afternoon

Ditch the Data Pipeline: A Snow Alert Bot in an Afternoon

As a distributed team (of weather and climate geeks), we love finding ways to connect. So when a nationwide winter storm rolled through, we thought it would be fun to set up a Slack channel that tells us who it's snowing for right now. Here's how we built that in a single afternoon — without the pai

Ian Hunt-Isaak
Ian Hunt-Isaak

Xarray Community Developer

Matt Iannucci
Matt Iannucci

Engineering

Scientific Data Visualization with Xarray and Napari

Scientific Data Visualization with Xarray and Napari

This blog was also published on the xarray blog and the napari blog. TL;DR Making Napari and Xarray work better together will enhance data visualization for both biology and geosciences. This has been long desired by the community but has not yet been implemented. At the SciPy 2025 sprints we formed

Ian Hunt-Isaak
Ian Hunt-Isaak

Xarray Community Developer

Xarray for Biology

Xarray for Biology

This was originally published on the Xarray blog: https://xarray.dev/blog/xarray-biology Hi! I'm Ian, a multimodal microscopist, and the new "Xarray Community Developer." I am funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Institute to support the use of Xarray in biological and biomedical applications. I believe Xa

Ian Hunt-Isaak
Ian Hunt-Isaak

Xarray Community Developer