Michael Chow · Jul 9, 2025
User Guides: engaging new users, delighting old ones (SciPy 2025)
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This is an annotated version of a talk I gave at SciPy 2025 in Tacoma, WA, in July 2025. You can watch the video or view the original slides. The talk is about user guides—what they do that API references can’t, and the two key pieces to focus on for getting one right: onboarding and grazing.
The takeaway: an API reference alone strands newcomers in a sea of 40+ functions, and a user…
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