Dask for Parallel Computing in Python¶

In past lectures, we learned how to use numpy, pandas, and xarray to analyze various types of geoscience data. In this lecture, we address an incresingly common problem: what happens if the data we wish to analyze is "big data"

Aside: What is "Big Data"?¶

There is a lot of hype around the buzzword "big data" today. Some people may associate "big data" with specific sortware platforms (e.g. "Hadoop", "spark"), while, for others, "big data" means specific machine learning techniques. But I think wikipedia's definition more ...