DOC: added cookbook.rst to main docs

Author: jreback

RELEASE.rst

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ pandas 0.11.0
 **New features**
 
   - New documentation section, ``10 Minutes to Pandas``
+  - New documentation section, ``Cookbook``
   - Allow mixed dtypes (e.g ``float32/float64/int32/int16/int8``) to coexist in
     DataFrames and propogate in operations
   - Add function to pandas.io.data for retrieving stock index components from

doc/source/cookbook.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+.. _cookbook:
+
+.. currentmodule:: pandas
+
+.. ipython:: python
+   :suppress:
+
+   import numpy as np
+   import random
+   import os
+   np.random.seed(123456)
+   from pandas import *
+   import pandas as pd
+   randn = np.random.randn
+   randint = np.random.randint
+   np.set_printoptions(precision=4, suppress=True)
+
+********
+Cookbook
+********
+
+This is a respository for *short and sweet* example and links for useful pandas recipes.
+We encourage users to add to this documentation. This is a great *First Pull Request*.
+
+Selection
+---------
+
+`Extending a panel along the minor axis
+<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15364050/extending-a-pandas-panel-frame-along-the-minor-axis>`__
+
+Grouping
+--------
+
+`Basic grouping with apply
+<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15322632/python-pandas-df-groupy-agg-column-reference-in-agg>`__
+
+`TimeGrouping of values grouped across time
+<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15297053/how-can-i-divide-single-values-of-a-dataframe-by-monthly-averages>`__
+
+Merge
+-----
+
+Join
+~~~~
+
+`Joining a DataFrame to itself
+<https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/2996>`__
+
+Data In/Out
+-----------
+
+CSV
+~~~
+
+HDF5
+~~~~
+
+Managing heteregenous data using a linked multiple table hierarchy. 
+See `here <https://github.com/pydata/pandas/issues/3032>`__.

doc/source/index.rst

@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ See the package overview for more detail about what's in the library.
     faq
     overview
     10min
+    cookbook
     dsintro
     basics
     indexing

doc/source/v0.11.0.txt

@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ pay close attention to.
 There is a new section in the documentation, :ref:`10 Minutes to Pandas <10min>`,
 primarily geared to new users.
 
+There is a new section in the documentation, :ref:`Cookbook <cookbook>`, a collection
+of useful recipes in pandas (and that we want contributions!).
+
 There are several libraries that are now :ref:`Recommended Dependencies <install.recommended_dependencies>`
 
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