Overview

The how-to guides offer a more comprehensive overview of all the tools 🤗 Datasets offers and how to use them. This will help you tackle messier real-world datasets where you may need to manipulate the dataset structure or content to get it ready for training.

The guides assume you are familiar and comfortable with the 🤗 Datasets basics. We recommend newer users check out our tutorials first.

[!TIP] Interested in learning more? Take a look at Chapter 5 of the Hugging Face course!

The guides are organized into six sections:

• <span class="underline decoration-sky-400 decoration-2 font-semibold">General usage</span>: Functions for general dataset loading and processing. The functions shown in this section are applicable across all dataset modalities.
• <span class="underline decoration-pink-400 decoration-2 font-semibold">Audio</span>: How to load, process, and share audio datasets.
• <span class="underline decoration-yellow-400 decoration-2 font-semibold">Vision</span>: How to load, process, and share image and video datasets.
• <span class="underline decoration-green-400 decoration-2 font-semibold">Text</span>: How to load, process, and share text datasets.
• <span class="underline decoration-orange-400 decoration-2 font-semibold">Tabular</span>: How to load, process, and share tabular datasets.
• <span class="underline decoration-indigo-400 decoration-2 font-semibold">Dataset repository</span>: How to share and upload a dataset to the <a href="https://huggingface.co/datasets">Hub</a>.

If you have any questions about 🤗 Datasets, feel free to join and ask the community on our forum.