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22 changes: 7 additions & 15 deletions doc/source/getting_started/10min.rst
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pd.concat(pieces)

.. note::
Adding a column to a DataFrame is relatively fast. Adding a row, however,
requires a full copy of the data and a construction of a new Index, which
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use double-backticks around DataFrame. Also let's make this shorter / simpler.

first part do something like

Adding a column to a DataFrame is relatively fast, However, adding a row requires a copy, and may be expensive.

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@jreback Done. Let me know if any more changes are required.

may be expensive. Rather than iteratively building a DataFrame by
appending records, we recommend passing the pre-built list of records
to the DataFrame constructor. See :ref:`Appending to dataframe <merging.concatenation>` for more.

Join
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right
pd.merge(left, right, on='key')


Append
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Append rows to a dataframe. See the :ref:`Appending <merging.concatenation>`
section.

.. ipython:: python

df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(8, 4), columns=['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'])
df
s = df.iloc[3]
df.append(s, ignore_index=True)


Grouping
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