Cookiecutter data science

Main documentation is available here.

Setup

Requirements

For the purpose of these instructions we will assume the following are installed: - Python 3.9.0 - virtualenv

A new venv can be created with virtualenv env¹ and activated with source venv/bin/activate. Once the environment is active we can install the cookiecutter package using pip install cookiecutter.

The create of the cookiecutter project can be done with

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

For the remainder of this text we will call the of the project you’ve just created as $PROJ.

Footnotes

1. More details at Python.