Replace scipy.sparse with PyData/sparse? about clearwater-riverine HOT 1 OPEN

@sjordan29, if this enables us to more easily leverage Dask, then it may be connected to

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That said, there really does appear to be substantially less development activity at https://github.com/pydata/sparse compared to https://github.com/scipy/scipy, especially given that scipy v1.11 introduced "A new public base class scipy.sparse.sparray was introduced, allowing further extension of the sparse array API.". See https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/release/1.11.0-notes.html#scipy-sparse-improvements

Given that Dask implements numpy.ndarray under the hood, then it may be that Dask would work perfectly well with the new scipy.sparse.sparray.

This person is wondering the same thing: https://dask.discourse.group/t/confused-about-working-with-sparse-arrays/1762

from clearwater-riverine.