update docs a little more

README.md

@@ -40,8 +40,12 @@ nltk.download('stopwords')
 nltk.download('wordnet')
 ```
 
+## Import Recommendations: Virtual Environment and Pip
+
 **We strongly recommend using a virtual environment in Python to run the package.** We have several specific dependency requirements. One important one is that we are currently only compatible with numpy < 2.0.0 because [numpy 2.0.0 and above](https://numpy.org/devdocs/release/2.0.0-notes.html#changes) made significant changes that are not compatible with other dependencies of our package. As those dependencies are updated, we will support later versions of numpy.
 
+**We also strongly recommend using thet your version of pip is up-to-date (>=24.0).** There have been reports in which users have had trouble downloading dependencies (specifically, the Spacy package) with older versions of pip. If you get an error with downloading `en_core_web_sm`, we recommend updating pip.
+
 
 ## Using the FeatureBuilder
 After you import the package and install dependencies, you can then use our tool in your Python script as follows:

docs/source/examples.rst

@@ -31,8 +31,13 @@ Additionally, we require the following NLTK dependencies, which need to be downl
    nltk.download('stopwords')
    nltk.download('wordnet')
 
+Import Recommendations: Virtual Environment and Pip
+===================================================
+
 **We strongly recommend using a virtual environment in Python to run the package.** We have several specific dependency requirements. One important one is that we are currently only compatible with numpy < 2.0.0 because `numpy 2.0.0 and above <https://numpy.org/devdocs/release/2.0.0-notes.html#changes>`_ made significant changes that are not compatible with other dependencies of our package. As those dependencies are updated, we will support later versions of numpy.
 
+**We also strongly recommend that your version of pip is up-to-date (>=24.0).** There have been reports in which users have had trouble downloading dependencies (specifically, the Spacy package) with older versions of pip. If you get an error with downloading ``en_core_web_sm``, we recommend updating pip.
+
 Using the Package
 ******************
 

docs/source/index.rst

@@ -33,8 +33,13 @@ Additionally, we require the following NLTK dependencies, which need to be downl
    nltk.download('stopwords')
    nltk.download('wordnet')
 
+Import Recommendations: Virtual Environment and Pip
+===================================================
+
 **We strongly recommend using a virtual environment in Python to run the package.** We have several specific dependency requirements. One important one is that we are currently only compatible with numpy < 2.0.0 because `numpy 2.0.0 and above <https://numpy.org/devdocs/release/2.0.0-notes.html#changes>`_ made significant changes that are not compatible with other dependencies of our package. As those dependencies are updated, we will support later versions of numpy.
 
+**We also strongly recommend that your version of pip is up-to-date (>=24.0).** There have been reports in which users have had trouble downloading dependencies (specifically, the Spacy package) with older versions of pip. If you get an error with downloading ``en_core_web_sm``, we recommend updating pip.
+
 After you import the package and install dependencies, you can then use our tool in your Python script as follows:
 
 .. code-block:: python
@@ -43,6 +48,9 @@ After you import the package and install dependencies, you can then use our tool
 
 *Note*: PyPI treats hyphens and underscores equally, so "pip install team_comm_tools" and "pip install team-comm-tools" are equivalent. However, Python does NOT treat them equally, and **you should use underscores when you import the package, like this: from team_comm_tools import FeatureBuilder**.
 
+Using the Package
+******************
+
 Once you import the tool, you will be able to declare a FeatureBuilder object, which is the heart of our tool. Here is some sample syntax:
 
 .. code-block:: python