Hugging Face Datasets
Community-driven library providing easy access to thousands of ML datasets.
ML and data science PyPI Apache 2.0
Used in agent projects
22
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in ml and data science
#25 of 28
by use in those projects
Downloads
15.6M
PyPI, last 7 days, datasets
GitHub stars
22K
last push Oct 8, 2026
How Hugging Face Datasets is used
Hugging Face Datasets is a dependency in 22 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #25 of 28 in ml and data science. The most used alternative there is NumPy. Projects that use it most often also use PyTorch (68.2%), pandas (68.2%), Hugging Face Transformers (63.6%).
Often used with Hugging Face Datasets
| PyTorch | 68.2% of Hugging Face Datasets projects · 79.4× more than average |
|---|---|
| pandas | 68.2% of Hugging Face Datasets projects · 22.6× more than average |
| Hugging Face Transformers | 63.6% of Hugging Face Datasets projects · 101.0× more than average |
| NumPy | 54.5% of Hugging Face Datasets projects · 14.2× more than average |
| Pydantic | 50.0% of Hugging Face Datasets projects · 9.8× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 50.0% of Hugging Face Datasets projects · 7.7× more than average |
| PyYAML | 50.0% of Hugging Face Datasets projects · 16.5× more than average |
| scikit-learn | 50.0% of Hugging Face Datasets projects · 39.7× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Hugging Face Datasets as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install datasets |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (22) |
| Example projects | Beneficial-AI-Foundation/vericoding, Parad0x-Labs/vool, nihilistau/CosySim, brandoz2255/Harvis, gupta29470/codewalk |
Alternatives to Hugging Face Datasets
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NumPy pypi Fundamental Python library for numerical computing with arrays and matrices. |
487 (3.8%) | 21M | 33K | — |
| pandas pypi Data manipulation and analysis library with DataFrames for structured data. |
383 (3.0%) | 143M | 50K | — |
| scikit-learn pypi Python machine learning library with classification, regression and clustering algorithms. |
160 (1.3%) | 44.3M | 67.5K | — |
| SciPy pypi Fundamental algorithms for scientific computing with optimized numerical routines. |
141 (1.1%) | 72.2M | 15.1K | — |
| PyTorch pypi Deep learning framework with tensors and dynamic neural networks with GPU support. |
109 (0.9%) | 13.2M | 104K | — |
| Sentence Transformers pypi Pre-trained models for semantic embeddings, retrieval and reranking. |
83 (0.7%) | 5.1M | 19.2K | — |
| Hugging Face Transformers pypi State-of-the-art NLP and multimodal models for inference and training. |
80 (0.6%) | 24.8M | 167K | Apache 2.0 License |
| NetworkX pypi Python package for creating, analyzing and manipulating complex networks and graphs. |
73 (0.6%) | 50.2M | 17.3K | — |