Anderson Banihirwe

@wachsylon, Thank you for your patience and putting this PR together! Since it's been a while since you submitted this PR, I was wondering if this is something you are...

Examples: - https://blog.ouseful.info/2016/12/29/simple-view-controls-for-pandas-dataframes-using-ipython-widgets/ - intake-gui: https://intake.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gui.html

Thank you for chiming in, @martindurant! I had forgotten about the `intake.gui` interface. We'll definitely look into intake's approach with holoviz Panel widget set.

@jbusecke, Yes, I think this is doable. We could make this an optional setting that the user could opt-in. To be sure that this doesn't happen silently, we could raise...

I took a stab at this. My current approach is similar to Matt's in that I'm keeping track of derived variable's info in a registry attached to the `intake_esm` catalog...

@wachsylon, I concur with you. This is a bug in `_fetch_catalog` function, and we should relax some of the assumptions made in this function https://github.com/intake/intake-esm/blob/3092400e7797975ba22795e880385514529ba9ce/intake_esm/utils.py#L64 I am happy to look...

I think a notebook in `docs/source/user-guide` would suffice for the time being. We shall figure out where this belongs when we rearrange the docs...

Just realized @wachsylon's [tutorials](https://data-infrastructure-services.gitlab-pages.dkrz.de/tutorials-and-use-cases/index.html) cover topics that are worth including in intake-esm's proper documentation. Therefore, i'm re-opening this issue

@mgrover1, do you plan on covering the remaining tasks in this list? i'd be happy to help... just want make sure there's no duplication of efforts > Based on conversations...

@wachsylon, could i interest you in contribute a PR with some of the contents from your amazing tutorials? :) No pressure if you don't have time. i can help with...