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# Data & datasets for beginner learners

[Beginner](/data-datasets/beginner/index.md) [Intermediate](/data-datasets/intermediate/index.md) [Advanced](/data-datasets/advanced/index.md) [Expert](/data-datasets/expert/index.md)

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### [AI9Stars model and dataset registry](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/ai9stars-model-and-dataset-registry/index.md)

by [AI9Stars](https://huggingface.co/ai9stars)

AI9Stars Hugging Face organisation: compact G9 language models and datasets.

entity org International; domicile unverified en 

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### [AMLSim](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/amlsim/index.md)

by [International Business Machines](https://www.ibm.com/opensource/)

IBM AMLSim GitHub repo: multi-agent simulator generating synthetic bank transaction data for anti-money-laundering research.

entity repo US/global en 

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### [Argilla](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/argilla-repo/index.md)

by [Argilla](https://argilla.io)

Argilla GitHub repo: collaboration tool for building datasets with human feedback and annotation.

entity repo Spain/EU en 

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### [ColBERT](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/colbert/index.md)

by [Future Data Systems](https://github.com/stanford-futuredata)

Stanford ColBERT GitHub repo: late-interaction neural retrieval model and library.

entity repo US en 

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### [Common Crawl](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/common-crawl/index.md)

by [Common Crawl](https://commoncrawl.org/)

Common Crawl: nonprofit maintaining an open repository of web crawl data, a common source of model training data.

entity lab US en 

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### [data engineering / RAG pipelines](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/data-engineering-rag-pipelines/index.md)

by [InfiniFlow](https://ragflow.io/)

InfiniFlow RAGFlow GitHub repo: open-source retrieval-augmented generation engine with document parsing.

entity repo US en 

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### [datatrove](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/datatrove/index.md)

by [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/)

Hugging Face datatrove GitHub repo: large-scale text data processing library, used to build FineWeb.

entity repo France en 

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### [DatologyAI](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/datologyai/index.md)

by [DatologyAI](https://www.datologyai.com/)

DatologyAI: company offering automated curation of model training data.

entity lab US en 

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### [Docling (IBM)](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/docling-ibm/index.md)

by [Docling Project](https://github.com/docling-project)

IBM Docling GitHub repo: converts PDFs and other documents into structured formats for generative AI.

entity repo US en 

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### [FathomNet](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/fathomnet/index.md)

by [FathomNet](https://fathomnet.org/)

FathomNet: labelled database of underwater images with ML tools for analysing ocean visual data.

entity dataset US (MBARI) en 

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### [FineWeb](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/fineweb/index.md)

by [FineData](https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceFW)

Hugging Face FineWeb dataset: about 15 trillion tokens of filtered English web text for LLM pretraining.

entity dataset US en 

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### [Global Fishing Watch](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/global-fishing-watch/index.md)

by [Global Fishing Watch](https://globalfishingwatch.org/)

Global Fishing Watch: uses machine learning on satellite and vessel data to map human activity at sea.

entity org Global en|es 

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### [HF datasets](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/hf-datasets/index.md)

by [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/)

Hugging Face Datasets hub: searchable catalogue of public machine-learning datasets.

entity lab US en 

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### [LightOn HF](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/lighton-hf/index.md)

by [LightOn AI](https://huggingface.co/lightonai)

LightOn Hugging Face organisation: retrieval, OCR and language models.

entity lab EU-FR en 

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### [OtterTune wiki: An End-To-End Tuning Example](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/machine-learning-database-configuration-tuning-an-end-to-end-tuning-example-veri/index.md)

by [CMU Database Group](https://db.cs.cmu.edu)

OtterTune wiki page on GitHub (CMU): end-to-end example of machine-learning database configuration tuning.

entity repo US en 

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### [Marker (Datalab)](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/marker-datalab/index.md)

by [Datalab](https://www.datalab.to)

Datalab Marker GitHub repo: converts PDF documents to Markdown and JSON.

entity repo US en 

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### [MinerU (OpenDataLab)](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/mineru-opendatalab/index.md)

by [OpenDataLab](https://opendatalab.org.cn)

OpenDataLab MinerU GitHub repo: converts PDFs and Office documents into Markdown and JSON.

entity repo CN en 

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### [Multimodal Universe](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/multimodal-universe/index.md)

by [Multimodal Universe Collaboration](https://github.com/MultimodalUniverse)

Multimodal Universe GitHub repo: large dataset of astronomical images, spectra and light curves for training ML models.

entity dataset Global en 

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### [MVTec Anomaly Detection dataset](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/mvtec-anomaly-detection-dataset/index.md)

by [MVTec Software](https://www.mvtec.com/)

MVTec AD dataset page: over 5,000 high-resolution images for industrial anomaly detection and localisation.

entity dataset EU (DE) en 

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### [Qwen-Agent](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/qwen-agent/index.md)

by [Qwen](https://qwen.ai/)

QwenLM Qwen-Agent GitHub repo: agent framework with function calling, MCP and code interpreter for Qwen models.

entity repo China zh 

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### [RAG_Techniques](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/rag-techniques/index.md)

by [Nir Diamant](https://newsletter.diamant-ai.com)

RAG_Techniques GitHub repo (Nir Diamant): notebooks demonstrating many retrieval-augmented generation techniques.

entity repo Israel en 

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### [circuit_training: Ariane RISC-V example](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/reinforcement-learning-chip-floorplanning-circuit-training-at-scale-with-ariane-/index.md)

by [Google Research](https://research.google)

Ariane documentation in Google's circuit_training repo: RL chip floorplanning on the Ariane RISC-V design.

entity repo US en 

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### [Vera C. Rubin Observatory](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/vera-c-rubin-observatory/index.md)

by [Vera C. Rubin Observatory](https://rubinobservatory.org/)

Vera C. Rubin Observatory: NSF–DOE telescope running the LSST survey, whose alert stream requires ML triage.

entity org US/CL en|es 

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### [xView2 / xBD](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/xview2-xbd/index.md)

by [Defense Innovation Unit (xView2)](https://www.diu.mil/)

xView2 challenge site: xBD satellite imagery dataset for assessing building damage after natural disasters.

entity benchmark US (DIU) en 

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### [Yambda dataset](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/yambda-dataset/index.md)

by [Yandex](https://huggingface.co/yandex)

Yandex Yambda dataset on Hugging Face: large music-streaming interaction dataset for recommender-system research.

entity dataset Russia en 

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### [Postman: Write scripts to test API response data](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/api-response-assertion-and-contract-test-authoring-write-scripts-to-test-api-res/index.md)

by [Postman](https://www.postman.com/)

Postman documentation on writing test scripts that assert API response data.

Beginner–Intermediate learning_resource course en 

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### [DataTalksClub LLM Zoomcamp](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/datatalksclub-llm-zoomcamp/index.md)

by [DataTalksClub](https://datatalks.club)

DataTalksClub LLM Zoomcamp GitHub repo: free course on building LLM and RAG applications.

Beginner–Intermediate learning_resource course Germany/Global en 

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### [Summarize incidents with Microsoft Copilot in Microsoft Defender](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/defensive-soc-incident-summarization-and-triage-summarize-incidents-with-microso/index.md)

by [Microsoft](https://www.microsoft.com/)

Microsoft Learn page on generating incident summaries with Microsoft Copilot in Microsoft Defender.

Beginner–Intermediate learning_resource course US en 

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### [Getting started with Pulumi Neo](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/infrastructure-as-code-maintenance-and-upgrade-planning-getting-started-with-pul/index.md)

by [Pulumi](https://www.pulumi.com/)

Pulumi documentation on setting up Pulumi Neo, an AI agent for infrastructure-as-code tasks.

Beginner learning_resource docs en 

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### [How to Shape a Strong AI Testing and Evaluation Ecosystem (Scale AI)](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/scale-ai-building-trust-at-the-frontier/index.md)

by [Scale AI](https://scale.com/)

Scale AI policy post on building an AI testing and evaluation ecosystem for the United States.

Beginner learning_resource blog US en 

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### [Screen annotators with Exams for higher-quality data (Toloka)](/context-engineering/retrieval-and-rag/toloka-screen-annotators-with-exams/index.md)

by [Toloka](https://toloka.ai/)

Toloka post on screening data annotators with training and exams to improve label quality.

Beginner learning_resource guide Netherlands (RU-origin) en 

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