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.. _user_guide:

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User Guide
==========

The User Guide covers all of pandas by topic area. Each of the subsections
introduces a topic (such as "working with missing data"), and discusses how
pandas approaches the problem, with many examples throughout.

Users brand-new to pandas should start with :ref:`10min`.

For a high level summary of the pandas fundamentals, see :ref:`dsintro` and :ref:`basics`.

Further information on any specific method can be obtained in the
:ref:`api`.

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.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2

    10min
    dsintro
    basics
    io
    indexing
    advanced
    merging
    reshaping
    text
    missing_data
    categorical
    integer_na
    boolean
    visualization
    computation
    groupby
    timeseries
    timedeltas
    style
    options
    enhancingperf
    scale
    sparse
    gotchas
    cookbook
