Brendan Collins (co-founder at makepath), who has created and/or contributed to libraries including Datashader, Bokeh and xarray-spatial, joins Matt Rocklin and Hugo Bowne-Anderson to discuss how to scale xarray-spatial with Dask. 

xarray-spatial is a Python library that implements common raster analysis functions using Numba and provides an easy-to-install, easy-to-extend codebase for raster analysis. It is free of GDAL / GEOS dependencies and was created for general-purpose spatial processing for the GIS community.

For large scale Geo projects, such as Natural Resource Management and Conservation efforts, a connection between the GIS and PyData communities goes a long way. With tools like xarray-spatial, coupled with Dask and Numba, GIS professionals can exponentially increase the computing power and scalability of their work for faster results. 

After attending, you’ll understand how:

• The xarray-spatial library works and how to scale it with Dask
• To apply xarray-spatial to domain specific use cases
• To generally use Python libraries for Geo applications, without being a software developer: by extracting over the stuff you don't need to know and interfacing with familiar APIs 

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