cookiecutter-machine-learning

A cookiecutter template for machine learning projects in Python.

Getting started

To create a new project structure from this cookiecutter template, first make sure your system meets the requirements.

Next, run the cruft create command in your terminal, and follow the prompts.

cd /path/to/parent/of/project
cruft create https://github.com/ESKYoung/cookiecutter-machine-learning.git

For SSH connections, run the following command instead:

cd /path/to/parent/of/project
cruft create git@github.com:ESKYoung/cookiecutter-machine-learning.git

Once the project has been created, navigate to it, and initialise Git.

cd /path/to/project
git init

Next, set up your project by following the requirements set out in its CONTRIBUTING.md. Now, stage all the files in Git, and make the project's first commit.

cd /path/to/project
git add .
git commit

On your first commit, some pre-commit hooks may fail due to formatting issues caused by your answers to the cruft create prompts. This is expected, so fix the issues as normal if it occurs (see CONTRIBUTING.md).

Finally, create an empty GitHub repository without any optional files, or create a blank project on GitLab without any optional files and follow the instructions to push your first commit.

Note that CI/CD workflows are built with GitHub Actions; GitLab CI/CD is not currently supported.

Requirements

To get started, your system should meet the following requirements:

• Git 2.36+ installed
• Python 3.9+ installed
• cruft 2.15.0+ installed; for macOS users, this is also available from Homebrew

  brew install cruft

The cruft package is used so that future changes to this template can be integrated into any projects created from this template.

Once you have created a project from this cookiecutter template, read the newly-created project's README.md for project-specific requirements as well.

Licence

Unless stated otherwise, the codebase is released under the MIT License.

Documentation

The documentation for this project can be found at https://ESKYoung.github.io/cookiecutter-machine-learning.

Contributing

If you want to help us build, and improve this project, view our contributing guidelines.