---
title: "Minimal Project Structure"
description: "How to setup a data science project in python."
date: 2019-02-10
published: false
template: blog-post
---


## TLDR

Use **[.gitignore.io](https://www.gitignore.io)** and consider adding an alias to your terminal to quickly add a .gitignore to any project missing one.

```bash
alias gitignore='curl https://www.gitignore.io/api/vim,emacs,python,pycharm,sublimetext,visualstudio,visualstudiocode,data > .gitignore'
```

Add a minimal **setup.py** to the root of your project, and use the following command to install it.

```bash
pip install -e .
```

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