Intake Take2
Taking the pain out of data access and distribution
Intake is an open-source package to:
describe your data declaratively
gather data sets into catalogs
search catalogs and services to find the right data you need
load, transform and output data in many formats
work with third party remote storage and compute platforms
This is the start of the documentation for the alpha version of Intake: Take2, a rewrite of Intake (henceforth referred to as legacy or V1). We will give an introduction to the ideas of Intake in general and specifically how to use this release. Go directly to the walkthrough and examples, or read the following motivation and declarations of scope.
Note
We are making Take2 as a full release. It is still “beta” in the sense that we will be adding many data types, readers and transformers, and are prepared to revisit the API in general. The reason not to use a pre-release or RC, is that users never see these.
Warning
Looking for Relationship to V1 documentation? You may have just installed Intake and found that Take2 broke things for you, so you might wish to pin to an older version. Or stick around and find out why you might wish to update your code. All old “sources”, whether still working or not, should be considered deprecated.