Hi everyone, I’ve been having this question a long time ago, and I’m not pretty sure about the answer. When indexing a dask array is it better to do it with a numpy array or a dask array? I have a code that calculates valid data → creates an array of True and False, True for those valid data, and F…

Welcome @miguelcarcamov ! Good question. Applying a “mask” (which is the formal term describing the array of booleans you are referring to as an index) is one of those exceptional operations where even when you know the structure (that is, the chunk-shapes) of the array and mask, it is still impos…

Indexing a dask array with a boolean array

Dask Array

ParticularMiner May 19, 2022, 6:48am 3

@miguelcarcamov

See this post for some crude benchmarks in a slightly different context.

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Indexing a dask array with a boolean array

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