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-A user-friendly library for Data Science in Python.
+A user-friendly library for Data Science (DS) in Python.
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+Our goal is to make DS more accessible to a wider audience by providing a simple and intuitive interface to common tasks on small to moderately sized datasets. As such, we focus mostly on DS novices.
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+We do not implement DS methods from scratch but instead offer a consistent interface to commonly used functionality from existing libraries like
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+* [pandas](https://pandas.pydata.org) for data manipulation,
+* [scikit-learn](https://scikit-learn.org) for machine learning, and
+* [seaborn](https://seaborn.pydata.org) for visualization.
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+ For more specialized tasks, we recommend using these or other DS libraries directly.
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+Note that this library is still in development and not yet ready for production. Expect breaking changes in the future without a major version bump (while in the `0.x.y` version range). Feedback is very welcome! If you have a suggestion or find a bug, please [open an issue](https://github.com/Safe-DS/Stdlib/issues/new/choose). If you have a question, please [use our discussion forum](https://github.com/orgs/Safe-DS/discussions).
 
 ## Documentation