Talks

updated: 2025-03-04

HYTRADBOI 2025

Pangeo is a Database

Presenting "Pangeo is a Database" at hytradboi 2025

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In this talk, I argue that the Pangeo software collective is not merely an ecosystem for big data geoscience, but a new database system.

Geo For Good 2023

Fundamentals of Earth Engine import & export of satellite data

In this talk, I debuted Xee, an Xarray extension for Google Earth Engine. I also discussed my other open source data engineering projects, like weather-tools.

PyData NYC 2022

Apache Beam on Dask- Portable, Scalable, Scientific Python

In this introduction to Apache Beam, I discussed ongoing efforts to support Dask. I spoke about how both portability and scalability in data engineering are essential to help address the climate crisis.

PyCon 2018 (Lightning Talk)

Music from chaos: Audiofying the Lorenz Attractor

My lightning talk was accepted at my first PyCon! I presented a side project to synthesize electronic music with Python.