diff --git a/doc/source/user_guide/basics.rst b/doc/source/user_guide/basics.rst
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@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 ==============================
 
 Here we discuss a lot of the essential functionality common to the pandas data
-structures. Here's how to create some of the objects used in the examples from
-the previous section:
+structures. To begin, let's create some example objects like we did in
+the :ref:`10 minutes to pandas <10min>` section:
 
 .. ipython:: python