File organization

Create a folder for your project in some suitable location on your computer

Create relevant subfolders according to some best-practice outline.

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my_project
|─ bin
|- doc
|- data
|  |- raw
|     |- 2016-04-30
|  |- clean
|     |- 2016-11-16
|- results
|- src

Create a README.txt (or README.md) file in each directory that describes the purpose of the directory.

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# results
Results directory for tracking computational experiments peformed on data. Keep results from different runs in date-stamped directories.