j-petit / cookiecutter-data-science

A logical, reasonably standardized, but flexible project structure for doing and sharing data science work.

Cookiecutter Data Science

A logical, reasonably standardized, but flexible project structure for doing and sharing data science work.

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Requirements to use the cookiecutter template:

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• Python 2.7 or 3.5
• Cookiecutter Python package >= 1.4.0: This can be installed with pip by or conda depending on how you manage your Python packages:

$ pip install cookiecutter

or

$ conda config --add channels conda-forge
$ conda install cookiecutter

To start a new project, run:

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cookiecutter https://github.com/drivendata/cookiecutter-data-science

The resulting directory structure

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The directory structure of your new project looks like this:

├── LICENSE
├── Makefile           <- Makefile with commands like `make data` or `make train`
├── README.md          <- The top-level README for developers using this project.
├── data
│   ├── external       <- Data from third party sources.
│   ├── interim        <- Intermediate data that has been transformed.
│   ├── processed      <- The final, canonical data sets for modeling.
│   └── raw            <- The original, immutable data dump.
│
├── models             <- Trained and serialized models, model predictions, or model summaries
│
├── notebooks          <- Jupyter notebooks. Naming convention is a number (for ordering),
│                         the creator's initials, and a short `-` delimited description, e.g.
│                         `1.0-jqp-initial-data-exploration`.
│
├── references         <- Data dictionaries, manuals, and all other explanatory materials.
│
├── reports            <- Generated analysis as HTML, PDF, LaTeX, etc.
│   └── figures        <- Generated graphics and figures to be used in reporting
│
└── src                <- Source code for use in this project.
    ├── __init__.py    <- Makes src a Python module
    │
    ├── run_experiment.py   
    └── preprocess.py  

Installing development requirements

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conda create -n "repo_name" -f environments.yml

Running the tests

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py.test tests