"match-ups" tutorials

[jules32]

I wonder if it would be helpful to link to this in the Cookbook, describing why it's important. And is also a good thing to think about in planning workshops.

From Eli Holmes:

One of our big take-homes from Fish-PACE HackWeek last week, was that our users are struggling mightly with 'match-ups'. They have 100-10000 lat/lon/time points across a year and then want to get, say, PACE Rrs for 172 wavelengths, SST, and salinity for all those. We prepared a tutorial for them https://fish-pace.github.io/hackweek-2025/presentations/notebooks/matchups.html
But the real-world application was still too hard and mentors needed to help them write code so memory didn't explode and task didn't take 24 hours.

This reminds me of a real-life data match-up example I taught in 2018 that is still a go-to resource – it shows how dates-matchups can be a big barrier:

https://nceas.github.io/crescynt-training/tidy_coral