diff --git a/docs/guide/graphs.rst b/docs/guide/graphs.rst
index e59122c..bdfc502 100644
--- a/docs/guide/graphs.rst
+++ b/docs/guide/graphs.rst
@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@ Handling the data-flow this way brings the following properties:
the order existing at the divergence point wont stay true at the convergence
point.
-- **Parallelism**: each node run in parallel (by default, using independant
+- **Parallelism**: each node run in parallel (by default, using independent
threads). This is useful as you don't have to worry about blocking calls.
If a thread waits for, let's say, a database, or a network service, the other
nodes will continue handling data, as long as they have input rows available.
-- **Independance**: the rows are independant from each other, making this way
+- **Independence**: the rows are independent from each other, making this way
of working with data flows good for line-by-line data processing, but
also not ideal for "grouped" computations (where an output depends on more
than one line of input data). You can overcome this with rolling windows if
@@ -299,4 +299,3 @@ the CLI, and reading the source you should be able to figure out its usage quite
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-
diff --git a/docs/guide/introduction.rst b/docs/guide/introduction.rst
index 2e18fa3..7662485 100644
--- a/docs/guide/introduction.rst
+++ b/docs/guide/introduction.rst
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ can understand if it could be a good fit for your use cases.
How it works?
:::::::::::::
-**Bonobo** is an **Extract Transform Load** framework aimed at coders, hackers, or any other person who's at ease with
+**Bonobo** is an **Extract Transform Load** framework aimed at coders, hackers, or any other people who are at ease with
terminals and source code files.
-It is a **data streaming** solution, that treat datasets as ordered collections of independant rows, allowing to process
+It is a **data streaming** solution, that treat datasets as ordered collections of independent rows, allowing to process
them "first in, first out" using a set of transformations organized together in a directed graph.
Let's take a few examples.
@@ -101,16 +101,16 @@ What is it not?
|bonobo| is not:
* A data science, or statistical analysis tool, which need to treat the dataset as a whole and not as a collection of
- independant rows. If this is your need, you probably want to look at `pandas `_.
+ independent rows. If this is your need, you probably want to look at `pandas `_.
-* A workflow or scheduling solution for independant data-engineering tasks. If you're looking to manage your sets of
- data processing tasks as a whole, you probably want to look at `airflow `_.
+* A workflow or scheduling solution for independent data-engineering tasks. If you're looking to manage your sets of
+ data processing tasks as a whole, you probably want to look at `Airflow `_.
Although there is no |bonobo| extension yet that handles that, it does make sense to integrate |bonobo| jobs in an
airflow (or other similar tool) workflow.
-* A big data solution, `as defined by wikipedia `_. We're aiming at "small
+* A big data solution, `as defined by Wikipedia `_. We're aiming at "small
scale" data processing, which can be still quite huge for humans, but not for computers. If you don't know whether or
- not this is sufficient for your needs, it probably means you're not in the "big data" land.
+ not this is sufficient for your needs, it probably means you're not in "big data" land.
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diff --git a/docs/tutorial/0.5/tut01.rst b/docs/tutorial/0.5/tut01.rst
index 97181ac..df26a33 100644
--- a/docs/tutorial/0.5/tut01.rst
+++ b/docs/tutorial/0.5/tut01.rst
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Create a transformation graph
Amongst other features, Bonobo will mostly help you there with the following:
-* Execute the transformations in independant threads
+* Execute the transformations in independent threads
* Pass the outputs of one thread to other(s) thread(s) inputs.
To do this, it needs to know what data-flow you want to achieve, and you'll use a :class:`bonobo.Graph` to describe it.
@@ -200,4 +200,3 @@ Next
::::
Time to jump to the second part: :doc:`tut02`.
-