Nesta Data Science Cookiecutter

A standard project structure for reproducible and collaborative data science projects @ Nesta.

High-level aims

• Get going on a new project quickly (but not too quickly!)
• Nudge users to using a common structure and best-practices to:
  • Enable data scientists @ Nesta to work with each other
  • Increase reliability of data science @ Nesta
  • Make our projects more reproducible
  • Increase the value of codebases, and accompanying documentation/reports to stakeholders
  • Make code easier to understand
• Conceptual/structural overlap with production systems allows data scientists to get code into production faster/easier
• Teams/projects empowered to build on foundation