sjsrey/stars — Issue #10: Hirearchical indexing in pandas
Author: darribas
Created: 2012-02-09 00:50:53+00:00
State: open

One feature I've just come across pandas I did not mention last tuesday and could potentially be of great interest for STARS is the availability of hierarchical indexing. Basically, this means that you can assign several indices that follow a hierarchy to one axis. See the full tutorial [here](http://pandas.sourceforge.net/indexing.html#hierarchical-indexing-multiindex) but to give you an idea, we could use to get rid of the time dimension. Basically, we would have one index being the time (year) and another index being the spatial units that repeat for every time period. It might be worth exploring.