diff --git a/.dockerignore b/.dockerignore
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2c34db66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.dockerignore
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+.DS_Store
+.cache
+.eggs
+.git
+.gitignore
+.ipynb_checkpoints
+.travis.yml
+build
+*.spec
+*.egg-info
+dist
+scratchpad
+venv
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 22f7a699..cf8578ee 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 build-metadata.json
 datasets.json
 
+scratchpad
+
 # SQLite databases
 *.db
 *.sqlite