People sometimes ask me if I have advice on how learn all these data science tools. Here goes; read the documentation cover to cover.
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I was backpacking when I was teaching myself python. At some point I knew that I was going to have a moment with no wifi while on a boat for 24 hours. I would have power but no wifi.
So I used this app called sitesucker to pull in all of the pandas documentation and I started reading it. I took plenty of breaks to enjoy the view but I got a lot of reading done.
The benefit is that, while you certainly do not memorise a tool this way, you do get that 6th sense that tells you "there's a function that will handle this usecase, I should not write my own implementation here".
It's this 6th sense that will prevent a whole lot of random copying/pasting from stackoverflow and it will have you come back to the docs until you've memorised the tool.
