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docs questions from new user #2909

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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 Document xarray data model #2913

  • What is split-apply-combine?

  • What are dummy dimensions and np.newaxis

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

  • too many references to pandas!

  • 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

  • compute docstring doesn't mention computation!

  • compute vs persist vs load: what's the difference

  • do I get parallelization for free?

    • do I start a dask cluster first?
    • 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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