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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/issues/131#issuecomment-43282058 https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/131 43282058 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDQzMjgyMDU4 1217238 2014-05-16T00:29:26Z 2014-05-16T01:46:59Z MEMBER

Thanks for raising this as a separate issue. Yes, I agree it would be nice to add these summary methods! We can imagine DataArray methods on Datasets mapping over all variables in a somewhat similar way to how groupby methods map over each group.

These methods are very convenient for pandas.DataFrame objects, so it makes sense to have them for xray.Dataset, too.

The only unfortunate aspect that is that it is harder to see the values in a Dataset, because they aren't given in the standard string representation. In contrast, methods like DataFrame.describe() (or even just DataFrame.mean() are more convenient because they give you another DataFrame back, which shows all the relevant values. I'm not sure if the solution is come up with a better Dataset representation which shows more numbers, or to just encourage the use of to_dataframe().

 
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