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shoyer opened this issue Dec 12, 2014 · 0 comments · Fixed by #325
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Use "coordinate variables"/"data variables" instead of "coordinates"/"variables"? #293

shoyer opened this issue Dec 12, 2014 · 0 comments · Fixed by #325

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shoyer commented Dec 12, 2014

Recently, we introduced a distinction between "coordinates" and "variables" (see #197).

CF conventions make an analogous distinction between "coordinate variables" and "data variables":
http://cfconventions.org/Data/cf-conventions/cf-conventions-1.6/build/cf-conventions.html

Would it be less confusing to use the CF terminology? I am leaning toward making this shift, because netCDF already has defined the term "variable", and xray's code still uses that internally. From a practical perspective, this would mean renaming Dataset.vars to Dataset.data_vars.

CC @akleeman @ToddSmall

@shoyer shoyer added this to the 0.3.2 milestone Dec 12, 2014
@shoyer shoyer changed the title Use "coordinate variables"/"data variables" instead of "coordinates"/"data"? Use "coordinate variables"/"data variables" instead of "coordinates"/"variables"? Dec 12, 2014
@shoyer shoyer modified the milestones: 0.3.2, 0.4 Dec 29, 2014
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