id,node_id,number,state,locked,title,user,body,created_at,updated_at,closed_at,merged_at,merge_commit_sha,assignee,milestone,draft,head,base,author_association,auto_merge,repo,url,merged_by
151477771,MDExOlB1bGxSZXF1ZXN0MTUxNDc3Nzcx,1702,closed,0,fix empty dataset from_dict,1530840," - [ ] Closes #xxxx
 - [x] Tests added / passed
 - [x] Passes ``git diff upstream/master **/*py | flake8 --diff``
 - [ ] Fully documented, including `whats-new.rst` for all changes and `api.rst` for new API

Not sure if you want an issue or a whats-new entry for a small fix like this.

Also not sure how xarray tends to handle `np.array([])`. One option that I did not take was to provide ndims to `as_compatible_data` in some fashion and make sure the result comes back as having shape `(0,)*ndim` instead of just `(0,)`.",2017-11-08T19:47:37Z,2018-05-15T04:51:11Z,2018-05-15T04:51:03Z,,2b220ea85d7b62c4c7737dc1446b37e8854c8f72,,,0,9f7e46fb04c31a58061f2fc9153a23f305b3f947,fb6e13ec15e85bbeceedbcd754e063f6e5696bf7,NONE,,13221727,https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/1702,