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209561985 MDU6SXNzdWUyMDk1NjE5ODU= 1282 description of xarray assumes knowledge of pandas 1197350 closed 0     4 2017-02-22T19:52:54Z 2019-02-26T19:01:47Z 2019-02-26T19:01:46Z MEMBER      

The first sentence a potential new user reads about xarray is

xarray (formerly xray) is an open source project and Python package that aims to bring the labeled data power of pandas to the physical sciences, by providing N-dimensional variants of the core pandas data structures.

Now imagine you had never heard of pandas (like most new Ph.D. students in physical sciences). You would have no idea how useful and powerful xarray was.

I would propose modifying these top-level descriptions to remove the assumption that the user understands pandas. Of course we can still refer to pandas, but a more self-contained description would serve us well.

 
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