diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c77a27e..b8f995c 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -11,3 +11,5 @@ my_*
 datasets/words
 datasets/flowers
 datasets/spam
+*.gz
+datasets/mnist/train-labels-idx1-ubyte
diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d930bee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+name: handson-ml
+dependencies:
+- python=3.5
+- jupyter
+- matplotlib
+- numexpr
+- numpy
+- pandas
+- Pillow
+- psutil
+- scikit-learn
+- scipy
+- sympy
+- pip:
+  - tensorflow
+  - watermark