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add design document for "named-array" #8073

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This PR contains the design document for "named-array" a proposed new package aimed at providing a lightweight, efficient array structure with named dimensions. the main objective of named-array is to provide a more accessible version of Xarray's Variable class without the heavy dependencies like Pandas.

## proposed name

The "Xarray-lite" name is a placeholder for the time being. we have considered two main candidates for the package's name: "narray" and "yarray." feedback on the proposed names or other suggestions is welcome.

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could be removed if we generate the methods using generate_aggregations.py

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Pytorch seems to be rolling out their own version of this, see https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/named_tensor.html

@andersy005 andersy005 changed the title add design document for "Xarray-lite": a more accessible version of Xarray's Variable without the heavy dependencies add design document for "named-array": a more accessible version of Xarray's Variable without the heavy dependencies Aug 16, 2023
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@dcherian dcherian changed the title add design document for "named-array": a more accessible version of Xarray's Variable without the heavy dependencies add design document for "named-array" Aug 17, 2023
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I'm merging so we can advertise in whats-new.rst.

Thanks @andersy005 !

@dcherian dcherian merged commit 06a756c into pydata:main Aug 17, 2023
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