diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 68bc17f9..bac04883 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -158,3 +158,83 @@ cython_debug/
 #  and can be added to the global gitignore or merged into this file.  For a more nuclear
 #  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
 #.idea/
+
+# Covers JetBrains IDEs: IntelliJ, RubyMine, PhpStorm, AppCode, PyCharm, CLion, Android Studio, WebStorm and Rider
+# Reference: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/articles/206544839
+
+# User-specific stuff
+.idea/**/workspace.xml
+.idea/**/tasks.xml
+.idea/**/usage.statistics.xml
+.idea/**/dictionaries
+.idea/**/shelf
+
+# AWS User-specific
+.idea/**/aws.xml
+
+# Generated files
+.idea/**/contentModel.xml
+
+# Sensitive or high-churn files
+.idea/**/dataSources/
+.idea/**/dataSources.ids
+.idea/**/dataSources.local.xml
+.idea/**/sqlDataSources.xml
+.idea/**/dynamic.xml
+.idea/**/uiDesigner.xml
+.idea/**/dbnavigator.xml
+
+# Gradle
+.idea/**/gradle.xml
+.idea/**/libraries
+
+# Gradle and Maven with auto-import
+# When using Gradle or Maven with auto-import, you should exclude module files,
+# since they will be recreated, and may cause churn.  Uncomment if using
+# auto-import.
+# .idea/artifacts
+# .idea/compiler.xml
+# .idea/jarRepositories.xml
+# .idea/modules.xml
+# .idea/*.iml
+# .idea/modules
+# *.iml
+# *.ipr
+
+# CMake
+cmake-build-*/
+
+# Mongo Explorer plugin
+.idea/**/mongoSettings.xml
+
+# File-based project format
+*.iws
+
+# IntelliJ
+out/
+
+# mpeltonen/sbt-idea plugin
+.idea_modules/
+
+# JIRA plugin
+atlassian-ide-plugin.xml
+
+# Cursive Clojure plugin
+.idea/replstate.xml
+
+# SonarLint plugin
+.idea/sonarlint/
+
+# Crashlytics plugin (for Android Studio and IntelliJ)
+com_crashlytics_export_strings.xml
+crashlytics.properties
+crashlytics-build.properties
+fabric.properties
+
+# Editor-based Rest Client
+.idea/httpRequests
+
+# Android studio 3.1+ serialized cache file
+.idea/caches/build_file_checksums.ser
+
+
diff --git a/.idea/.gitignore b/.idea/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..26d33521
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Default ignored files
+/shelf/
+/workspace.xml
diff --git a/.idea/Model.iml b/.idea/Model.iml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d0876a78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/Model.iml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<module type="PYTHON_MODULE" version="4">
+  <component name="NewModuleRootManager">
+    <content url="file://$MODULE_DIR$" />
+    <orderEntry type="inheritedJdk" />
+    <orderEntry type="sourceFolder" forTests="false" />
+  </component>
+</module>
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diff --git a/.idea/inspectionProfiles/Project_Default.xml b/.idea/inspectionProfiles/Project_Default.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9d66ac63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/inspectionProfiles/Project_Default.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+<component name="InspectionProjectProfileManager">
+  <profile version="1.0">
+    <option name="myName" value="Project Default" />
+    <inspection_tool class="GrazieInspection" enabled="false" level="GRAMMAR_ERROR" enabled_by_default="false" />
+    <inspection_tool class="LanguageDetectionInspection" enabled="false" level="WARNING" enabled_by_default="false" />
+    <inspection_tool class="PyCompatibilityInspection" enabled="true" level="WARNING" enabled_by_default="true">
+      <option name="ourVersions">
+        <value>
+          <list size="1">
+            <item index="0" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="3.10" />
+          </list>
+        </value>
+      </option>
+    </inspection_tool>
+    <inspection_tool class="PyPackageRequirementsInspection" enabled="true" level="WARNING" enabled_by_default="true">
+      <option name="ignoredPackages">
+        <value>
+          <list size="48">
+            <item index="0" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="click" />
+            <item index="1" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="lxml" />
+            <item index="2" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="requests" />
+            <item index="3" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="schema" />
+            <item index="4" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="levenshtein" />
+            <item index="5" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="decorator" />
+            <item index="6" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="environs" />
+            <item index="7" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="scikit-learn" />
+            <item index="8" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="tabulate" />
+            <item index="9" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="python-dateutil" />
+            <item index="10" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="python-dotenv" />
+            <item index="11" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="marshmallow" />
+            <item index="12" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="pycodestyle" />
+            <item index="13" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="cycler" />
+            <item index="14" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="numpy" />
+            <item index="15" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="currency-symbols" />
+            <item index="16" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="flake8" />
+            <item index="17" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="patsy" />
+            <item index="18" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="yfinance" />
+            <item index="19" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="contextlib2" />
+            <item index="20" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="pytest-cov" />
+            <item index="21" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="certifi" />
+            <item index="22" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="gevent" />
+            <item index="23" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="pycountry" />
+            <item index="24" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="xgboost" />
+            <item index="25" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="coverage" />
+            <item index="26" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="scipy" />
+            <item index="27" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="botocore" />
+            <item index="28" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="pytest" />
+            <item index="29" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="prospector" />
+            <item index="30" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="pandas" />
+            <item index="31" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="pyyaml" />
+            <item index="32" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="tqdm" />
+            <item index="33" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="boto3" />
+            <item index="34" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="s3transfer" />
+            <item index="35" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="scikit-optimize" />
+            <item index="36" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="pyaml" />
+            <item index="37" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="future" />
+            <item index="38" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="pylint" />
+            <item index="39" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="matplotlib" />
+            <item index="40" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="statsmodels" />
+            <item index="41" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="isort" />
+            <item index="42" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="pytz" />
+            <item index="43" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="idna" />
+            <item index="44" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="scikeras" />
+            <item index="45" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="nose" />
+            <item index="46" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="sphinx" />
+            <item index="47" class="java.lang.String" itemvalue="pydantic" />
+          </list>
+        </value>
+      </option>
+    </inspection_tool>
+    <inspection_tool class="SpellCheckingInspection" enabled="false" level="TYPO" enabled_by_default="false">
+      <option name="processCode" value="true" />
+      <option name="processLiterals" value="true" />
+      <option name="processComments" value="true" />
+    </inspection_tool>
+  </profile>
+</component>
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diff --git a/.idea/inspectionProfiles/profiles_settings.xml b/.idea/inspectionProfiles/profiles_settings.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..105ce2da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/inspectionProfiles/profiles_settings.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<component name="InspectionProjectProfileManager">
+  <settings>
+    <option name="USE_PROJECT_PROFILE" value="false" />
+    <version value="1.0" />
+  </settings>
+</component>
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diff --git a/.idea/misc.xml b/.idea/misc.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d56657ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/misc.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="ProjectRootManager" version="2" project-jdk-name="Python 3.9" project-jdk-type="Python SDK" />
+</project>
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diff --git a/.idea/modules.xml b/.idea/modules.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..62dd107c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/modules.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="ProjectModuleManager">
+    <modules>
+      <module fileurl="file://$PROJECT_DIR$/.idea/Model.iml" filepath="$PROJECT_DIR$/.idea/Model.iml" />
+    </modules>
+  </component>
+</project>
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diff --git a/.idea/toolchains.xml b/.idea/toolchains.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..45814209
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/toolchains.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="NimToolchainService">
+    <option name="rootPaths">
+      <list />
+    </option>
+  </component>
+</project>
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diff --git a/.idea/vcs.xml b/.idea/vcs.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..94a25f7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.idea/vcs.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project version="4">
+  <component name="VcsDirectoryMappings">
+    <mapping directory="$PROJECT_DIR$" vcs="Git" />
+  </component>
+</project>
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..629b9b28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# Model Repository
+
+This repository contains the code pertaining to the development
+of the data science and machine learning products being utilised by
+Hestia.
+
+The different folders in this repository relate to services
+that can be used independently, or can be imported and used as
+part of a larger application
+
+# Folders
+
+### epc_data/
+This folder contains related to the reading and preparation of
+epc data
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diff --git a/epc_data/requirements.txt b/epc_data/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b