Minimal Project Structure
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How to setup a data science project in python.

Date: February 10, 2019

TLDR
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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.

```
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.

```
pip install -e .
```

consider using **cookiecutter <https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter>