openclimatefix/uk_pv · Proposal: Delete legacy files

Open Climate Fix org Apr 28

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The proposal is to delete all the legacy files, specifically:

File(s)	Reason for deletion
`uk_pv.py`	HuggingFace says "The viewer is disabled because this dataset repo requires arbitrary Python code execution. Please consider removing the loading script and relying on automated data support". Also, `uk_pv.py` loads `pv.netcdf`, and `pv.netcdf` is likely to be deleted. And comment #9 shows that `uk_pv.py` is no longer working.
`pv.netcdf`	We have switched to Parquet files instead of NetCDF because Parquet files can be more compact, and are supported by more readers. `pv.netcdf` hasn't been updated for 3 years.
`{2,5,30}min.parquet`	These haven't been updated for 2 years. The 5 minutely data and 30 minutely data exists in the `data/` folder. We could consider keeping the `2min.parquet` data because the 2-minutely data isn't stored in the `data/` folder. But, if I understand correctly, the 2 minutely data is super-noisy because these are instantaneous readings, so folks are almost always going to be better off using the resampled 5 minutely data, anyway.
The yearly parquet files in `data/`	These files are redundant because the exact same data is stored in monthly files. It's super-easy to lazily open all the monthly files in `polars` like this: `pl.scan_parquet(PV_DATA_PATH / "data" / "" / "" / "*_30min.parquet")`. Users can't currently rely on the yearly files because not all years have yearly files. And it's a maintenance burden for OCF to create the yearly files.

Please let us know ASAP if you have any concerns about us deleting these files! (Of course, because this dataset is stored as a git repo, you'll still be able to access the old data via the git command line interface).

Jack-Kelly

Open Climate Fix org May 1

Closed with 44e875654a7273dcf53d9694a05d111531e3783c

Jack-Kelly changed discussion status to closed May 1