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:
- 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:
cookiecutter -c v1 https://github.com/drivendata/cookiecutter-data-science
New version of Cookiecutter Data Science
Cookiecutter data science is moving to v2 soon, which will entail using the command ccds ...
rather than cookiecutter ...
. The cookiecutter command will continue to work, and this version of the template will still be available. To use the legacy template, you will need to explicitly use -c v1
to select it. Please update any scripts/automation you have to append the -c v1
option (as above), which is available now.
The resulting directory structure
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.
│
├── docs <- A default Sphinx project; see sphinx-doc.org for details
│
├── 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
│
├── requirements.txt <- The requirements file for reproducing the analysis environment, e.g.
│ generated with `pip freeze > requirements.txt`
│
├── setup.py <- makes project pip installable (pip install -e .) so src can be imported
├── src <- Source code for use in this project.
│ ├── __init__.py <- Makes src a Python module
│ │
│ ├── data <- Scripts to download or generate data
│ │ └── make_dataset.py
│ │
│ ├── features <- Scripts to turn raw data into features for modeling
│ │ └── build_features.py
│ │
│ ├── models <- Scripts to train models and then use trained models to make
│ │ │ predictions
│ │ ├── predict_model.py
│ │ └── train_model.py
│ │
│ └── visualization <- Scripts to create exploratory and results oriented visualizations
│ └── visualize.py
│
└── tox.ini <- tox file with settings for running tox; see tox.readthedocs.io
Contributing
We welcome contributions! See the docs for guidelines.
Installing development requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt
Running the tests
py.test tests