Terms and files

  • README.md is what contains a description of the project, it also has instructions and necessary information
  • _notebooks has all of the notebook files that can contian both markdown and code cells. all these notebooks files are dependent on jekyll to convert them into HTML
  • _posts: Directory holding Markdown (.md) files containing content for the website
  • index.md contains all the content for the project’s home page
  • _data has repository for data files
  • images contain all the images that are used in the _posts or _notebooks directories
  • config.yml contains the key-value pairs that Jekyll needs to build the website
  • .gitignore specifies exclusions from version control