Any chance your grandfather was born in the uk? My very Australian partner has never heard the phrase before...

It's a very good book! I don't even want to know how. Many hours of work people have put into that book...

Great writeup and examples! I'm trying to move my teaching to plotnine (seaborn is really messy) and polars as well, unfortunately some colleagues always want the students to also know pandas 🙄
What's your pet flaw concerning pandas?

Sure, but why did anyone start calling it a distance in the first place? I don't get it. But maybe I don't know enough deeper stuff done using it.

Hmm, switching sounds tiring... I'm gen y as I presume are you, so for my writing I prefer they:) but I do see the point of some "she" as above.

Historic default and fault! Isn't it exactly the point (for those writers) that it does briefly distract? (I remember @stephensenn.bsky.social often writing something along the lines of "image a physician doing... Then she...")

It's not the only weird bit in sklearn's documentation, but it's a contender for some award...

On a related note, I've also seen people use it alot directly from their favourite LLM. Lol.