[jacquesm]

> every data scientist I know who uses pandas says they are constantly having to google how to do things due to a somewhat confusing and inconsistent API.

That's a design error, not necessarily something that money will fix for you. This is why you need to think really long and hard before deploying a public API, it is very hard to change those.

[Barrin92]

well one could at least hope that some additional funding would improve the chance that these design errors are addressed, although I agree that it is no panacea