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docs: Move readme content to new User Guide section#2464
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| **BigQuery DataFrames** (``bigframes``) provides a Pythonic interface for data analysis that scales to petabytes. It gives you the best of both worlds: the familiar API of **pandas** and **scikit-learn**, powered by the distributed computing engine of **BigQuery**. | ||
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Could we pull in some of the content from my go/why-bigframes draft? One of the missing elements here is enabling collaboration.
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ok, new revision has more content from your doc
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| * **Collaboration & Extensibility:** Bridge the gap between Python and SQL. Deploy custom Python functions to BigQuery, making your logic accessible to SQL-based teammates and data analysts. | ||
| * **Production-Ready Pipelines:** Move seamlessly from interactive notebooks to production. BigFrames simplifies data engineering by integrating with tools like **dbt** and **Airflow**, offering a simpler operational model than Spark. | ||
| * **Security & Governance:** Keep your data within the BigQuery perimeter. Benefit from enterprise-grade security, auditing, and data governance throughout your entire Python workflow. | ||
| * **Familiarity:** Use ``read_gbq``, ``merge``, ``groupby``, and ``pivot_table`` just like you do in pandas. |
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Might be nice to make these into links.
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PR created by the Librarian CLI to initialize a release. Merging this PR will auto trigger a release. Librarian Version: v0.8.3 Language Image: us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/cloud-sdk-librarian-prod/images-prod/python-librarian-generator@sha256:160860d189ff1c2f7515638478823712fa5b243e27ccc33a2728669fa1e2ed0c <details><summary>bigframes: v2.37.0</summary> ## [v2.37.0](v2.36.0...v2.37.0) (2026-03-03) ### Features * Add cloud_function_cpus option to remote_function (#2475) ([4caf74c](4caf74cc)) * add display.render_mode to control DataFrame/Series visualization (#2413) ([7813eaa](7813eaa6)) * Support pd.col expressions with .loc and getitem (#2473) ([ae5c8b3](ae5c8b32)) * add support for Python 3.14 (#2232) ([c25a6d0](c25a6d01)) * Support pd.col simple aggregates (#2480) ([cb00daa](cb00daab)) * add dt.tz_localize() (#2469) ([f70f93a](f70f93a1)) * Update bigquery.ai.generate_table output_schema to allow Mapping type (#2463) ([f7fd189](f7fd1895)) ### Bug Fixes * upload local data through write API if nested JSONs detected (#2478) ([01dc5a3](01dc5a34)) * allow IsInOp with same dtypes regardless nullable (#2466) ([1d81b41](1d81b414)) ### Documentation * Add code examples to configuration docstrings (#2352) ([3c21993](3c21993e)) * Move readme content to new User Guide section (#2464) ([61a9484](61a94845)) * add code sample and docstring for bpd.options.experiments.sql_compiler (#2474) ([867951b](867951bc)) * use direct API for image (#2465) ([8a1a82f](8a1a82f7)) * Fix recall_score doc example (#2477) ([a6f499c](a6f499c1)) * Skip inherited methods, use autosummary only for big classes (#2470) ([a951249](a9512498)) * add bigframes default connection warning (#2471) ([f1bbba2](f1bbba23)) </details>
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