html_url,issue_url,id,node_id,user,created_at,updated_at,author_association,body,reactions,performed_via_github_app,issue https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/5876#issuecomment-1008341982,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/5876,1008341982,IC_kwDOAMm_X848GhPe,2448579,2022-01-09T17:36:55Z,2022-01-09T17:36:55Z,MEMBER,"> As I've thought about this more, this feels nicer, because the types are consistent and ""season"" is a just a category label, and ""nan"" categorizes these values just as well as np.nan. I prefer this from a user perspective. It's nice not to have to deal with mixed types and object arrays.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,1030492705