Private/sensitive data
Hi @MFreidank, you should already be able to load a dataset from local sources, indeed. (ping @lhoestq and @jplu)

We're also thinking about the ability to host private datasets on a hosted bucket with permission management, but that's further down the road. Hi @MFreidank, it is possible to load a dataset from your local storage, but only CSV/TSV and JSON are supported. To load a dataset in JSON format:

```
nlp.load_dataset(path="json", data_files={nlp.Split.TRAIN: ["path/to/train.json"], nlp.Split.TEST: ["path/to/test.json"]})
```

For CSV/TSV datasets, you have to replace `json` by `csv`. Hi @julien-c @jplu,
Thanks for sharing this solution with me, it helps, this is what I was looking for. 
If not already there and only missed by me, this could be a great addition in the docs.

Closing my issue as resolved, thanks again.
Hi all,
Thanks for this fantastic library, it makes it very easy to do prototyping for NLP projects interchangeably between TF/Pytorch. 

Unfortunately, there is data that cannot easily be shared publicly as it may contain sensitive information. 
Is there support/a plan to support such data with NLP, e.g. by reading it from local sources?

Use case flow could look like this: use NLP to prototype an approach on similar, public data and apply the resulting prototype on sensitive/private data without the need to rethink data processing pipelines. 

Many thanks for your responses ahead of time and kind regards,
MFreidank