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435330735 MDU6SXNzdWU0MzUzMzA3MzU= 2909 docs questions from new user 2448579 closed 0     2 2019-04-19T23:29:35Z 2020-10-13T04:06:14Z 2020-10-13T04:06:14Z MEMBER      

A relatively new user here gave me an incomplete list of things they found to be confusing in the docs:

  • ~What is xarray's data model?~ opened #2913
  • [x] What is split-apply-combine?

  • [x] What are dummy dimensions and np.newaxis

  • [x] quick-overiew: Index so that you extract a subset!

  • [ ] too many references to pandas!

  • [x] do I need to know pandas to use xarray?
  • [ ] what is the difference between attrs and encoding? How do I use them properly/correctly?
  • [ ] why isnull and dropna: why dropna instead of dropnull
  • [x] compute docstring doesn't mention computation!
  • [x] compute vs persist vs load: what's the difference
  • [ ] do I get parallelization for free?
  • [ ] do I start a dask cluster first?
  • [x] dask page links to shoyers blog but that doesn't explicitly start a cluster.

I'm crossing out things that I've started to fix.

 
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