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overviews per topic together with some other information (what's new,
installation, etc).

- The docstrings follow the **Numpy Docstring Standard**, which is used widely
in the Scientific Python community. This standard specifies the format of
the different sections of the docstring. See `this document
<https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/HOWTO_DOCUMENT.rst.txt>`_
for a detailed explanation, or look at some of the existing functions to
extend it in a similar manner.
- The docstrings follow a pandas convention, based on the **Numpy Docstring
Standard**. Follow the :ref:`pandas docstring guide <docstring>` for detailed
instructions on how to write a correct docstring.

- The tutorials make heavy use of the `ipython directive
<http://matplotlib.org/sampledoc/ipython_directive.html>`_ sphinx extension.
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