diff --git a/{{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/.gitignore b/{{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/.gitignore
index 9aa581e..c062195 100644
--- a/{{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/.gitignore	
+++ b/{{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/.gitignore	
@@ -70,5 +70,5 @@ target/
 .ipynb_checkpoints/
 
 # exclude data from source control by default
-data/
+/data/
 
diff --git a/{{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/src/data/.gitkeep b/{{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/src/data/.gitkeep
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/{{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/src/data/make_dataset.py b/{{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/src/data/make_dataset.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..65f3985
--- /dev/null
+++ b/{{ cookiecutter.repo_name }}/src/data/make_dataset.py	
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+import click
+import logging
+
+
+@click.command()
+@click.argument('input_filepath', type=click.Path(exists=True))
+@click.argument('output_filepath', type=click.Path())
+def main(input_filepath, output_filepath):
+    logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+    logger.info('making final data set from raw data')
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    log_fmt = '%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s'
+    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format=log_fmt)
+
+    project_dir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), os.pardir)
+    dotenv_path = os.path.join(project_dir, '.env')
+    dotenv.load_dotenv(dotenv_path)
+
+    main()
+