The Earthmover team is heading to the SciPy Conference on July 7-11 in Tacoma, Washington. We’ll be there to talk about our recent open-source work on Xarray, Zarr, and Icechunk – including leading a tutorial, giving talks and presenting posters – and to spread the word about the Earthmover Platform, our fully managed cloud data platform for multidimensional array / tensor data.

The SciPy conference is a great opportunity to learn how experts across industry, government, and academia are leveraging scientific Python tools to tackle significant global challenges. We’re excited to contribute our perspective, particularly around scalable, cloud-native data analysis.

Where You’ll Find Us

We’re involved in several sessions throughout the conference, focusing on our recent work on Xarray, Zarr, and Icechunk. We will also have a booth in the main conference lobby, so swing by and say hello, grab some swag and see a demo of the Earthmover Platform!

We’re also co-hosting an Open Science Happy Hour with Development Seed on Thursday, July 10th. Register for the happy hour here.

We hope to see you at our team’s talks:

• Hierarchical Data Analysis with Xarray DataTree & Zarr by Tom Nicholas, Joe Hamman, Ian Hunt-Isaak, Deepak Cherian, Eniola Awowale, and others (Tutorial, July 8)
• Cubed: Scalable array processing with bounded-memory in Python by Tom Nicholas, Tom White (July 9)
• Xarray across biology. Where are we and where are we going? by Ian Hunt-Isaak (July 10)
• VirtualiZarr and Icechunk: How to build a cloud-optimised datacube of archival files in 3 lines of xarray by Tom Nicholas (July 10)
• The brave new world of slicing and dicing Xarray objects by Deepak Cherian, Justus Magin, Benoît Bovy (July 10)

And be sure to check out our posters:

• Turbocharging Xarray GroupBy, oh my! By Deepak Cherian (July 9)
• Icechunk: Open-source, cloud-native transactional storage engine for multi-dimensional arrays by Joe Hamman (July 9)

Beyond our team, here are a few presentations that touch on Xarray, Zarr, or Icechunk that we’re excited to check out:

• Zarr-dragon-store: a distributed in-memory backend for high-performance data processing by Davin Potts (July 9)
• Fast and scalable general geospatial regridding by Justus Magin (July 9)
• Unthrottling I/O bottlenecks to accelerate data analysis and machine learning using GPUs and Zarr v3 by John Kirkham, Akshay Subramaniam, Mads R. B. Kristensen (July 9)
• Using Discrete Global Grid Systems in the Pangeo ecosystem by Tina Odaka, Jean-Marc Delouis, Justus Magin, Anne Fouiloux, Benoît Bovy, and Alexander Kmoch (July 9)

Come Say Hello! Beyond these sessions, you’ll find our team hanging out at the Earthmover booth. Look for Joe, Ryan, Deepak, Tom, Ian, and Margaret in the hallway track, attending talks, and joining discussions.

We’re always ready to chat about Zarr, Xarray, Icechunk, building scalable data pipelines, the future of scientific data analysis, or anything else Python-related. Don’t hesitate to introduce yourself – we’d love to connect!

See you in Tacoma!