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---
license: other
pretty_name: TabLib
size_categories:
- 1M<n<10M
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Note that this access request is for the TabLib sample, not [the full TabLib dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/approximatelabs/tablib-v1-full).
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# TabLib Sample
**NOTE**: This is a 0.1% sample of [the full TabLib dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/approximatelabs/tablib-v1-full).
TabLib is a minimally-preprocessed dataset of 627M tables (69 TiB) extracted from HTML, PDF, CSV, TSV, Excel, and SQLite files from GitHub and Common Crawl.
This includes 867B tokens of "context metadata": each table includes provenance information and table context such as filename, text before/after, HTML metadata, etc.
For more information, read the [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07875) & [announcement blog](https://approximatelabs.com/blog/tablib).
# Dataset Details
## Sources
* **GitHub**: nearly all public GitHub repositories
* **Common Crawl**: the `CC-MAIN-2023-23` crawl
## Reading Tables
Tables are stored as serialized Arrow bytes in the `arrow_bytes` column. To read these, you will need to deserialize the bytes:
```python
import datasets
import pyarrow as pa
# load a single file of the dataset
ds = datasets.load_dataset(
'approximatelabs/tablib-v1-sample',
token='...',
)
df = ds['train'].to_pandas()
tables = [pa.RecordBatchStreamReader(b).read_all() for b in df['arrow_bytes']]
```
## Licensing
This dataset is intended for research use only.
For specific licensing information, refer to the license of the specific datum being used.
# Contact
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about licensing, pii, etc. please contact using [this form](https://forms.gle/C74VTWP7L78QDVR67).
# Approximate Labs
TabLib is a project from Approximate Labs. Find us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/approximatelabs), [Github](https://github.com/approximatelabs), [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/approximate-labs), and [Discord](https://discord.gg/kW9nBQErGe).
# Citations
If you use TabLib for any of your research, please cite the TabLib paper:
```
@misc{eggert2023tablib,
title={TabLib: A Dataset of 627M Tables with Context},
author={Gus Eggert and Kevin Huo and Mike Biven and Justin Waugh},
year={2023},
eprint={2310.07875},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
```