Merge pull request #1 from apoorvalal/module

package this into a usable library

Author: apoorvalal

.gitignore

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+*/**/__pycache__/*
+*.csv
+*.dta
+*.xlsx
+*.ipynb_checkpoints
+.vscode/*
+*.log
+*.bbl
+*.bcf
+*.fls
+*.bcf
+*.run.xml
+**/*_cache/*
+*.shp
+*.shx
+*.qpj
+*.dbf
+*.RData
+*.Rds
+*.tab
+*.swp
+*.spq
+*.pqt
+*.geojson
+*.gpkg
+*.aux
+*.blg
+*.out
+*.synctex.gz