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Section 1: Overview of What Arrow Is, its Capabilities, Benefits, and Goals

This section is an introduction to Apache Arrow as a format specification, the benefits it claims, and the goals it's trying to achieve, along with a high-level overview of basic use cases and examples.

This section comprises the following chapters:

Chapter 1, Getting Started with Apache Arrow
Chapter 2, Working with Key Arrow Specifications
Chapter 3, Data Science with Apache Arrow

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