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Datasets Server

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Datasets Server

Datasets Server is a lightweight web API for visualizing and exploring all types of datasets - computer vision, speech, text, and tabular - stored on the Hugging Face Hub. As datasets increase in size and data type richness, the cost of preprocessing (storage and compute) these datasets can be challenging and time-consuming. To help users access these modern datasets, Datasets Server runs a server behind the scenes to generate the API responses ahead of time and stores it in a database so they are instantly returned when you make a query through the API.

Let Datasets Server take care of the heavy lifting so you can:

  • Get instantaneous responses to information, such as the dataset splits, column and data types, about a dataset through a simple REST API.
  • Download and preview the first 100 rows of any dataset.
  • Access the dataset as parquet files.

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