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license: odc-by
language:
- en
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# The Dump

**The Dump** is a diverse, general-purpose collection of English-language text datasets released under permissive licenses. Its primary purpose is to aggregate a wide variety of content types to support flexible language model training and experimentation.

## Dataset Composition

To ensure a balanced sample, **110 000 rows** were extracted from each source dataset using the configuration below:

| Dataset | Subset | Split | Column |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [`HuggingFaceFW/fineweb`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb) | default | train | text |
| [`HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/fineweb-edu) | default | train | text |
| [`allenai/c4`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/c4) | en | train | text |
| [`agentlans/common-crawl-sample`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/agentlans/common-crawl-sample) | en | train | text |
| [`agentlans/LLM360-TxT360-sample`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/agentlans/LLM360-TxT360-sample) | eng_Latn | train | text |
| [`HuggingFaceFW/finepdfs`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/HuggingFaceFW/finepdfs) | eng_Latn | train | text |
| [`agentlans/PleIAs-common_corpus-sample`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/agentlans/PleIAs-common_corpus-sample) | English | train | text |
| [`EleutherAI/the_pile_deduplicated`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/EleutherAI/the_pile_deduplicated) | *none* | train | text |
| [`DKYoon/SlimPajama-6B`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/DKYoon/SlimPajama-6B) | *none* | train | text |
| [`tiiuae/falcon-refinedweb`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/tiiuae/falcon-refinedweb) | *none* | train | content |
| [`agentlans/dolma-1m`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/agentlans/dolma-1m) | *none* | train | text |
| [`agentlans/allenai-dolma3_mix-6T-sample`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/agentlans/allenai-dolma3_mix-6T-sample) | *none* | train | text |
| [`agentlans/BAAI-IndustryCorpus2-sample`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/agentlans/BAAI-IndustryCorpus2-sample) | *none* | train | text |
| [`agentlans/m-a-p-FineFineWeb-sample`](https://huggingface.co/datasets/agentlans/m-a-p-FineFineWeb-sample) | *none* | train | text |

## Preprocessing & Cleaning

The data underwent the following preprocessing steps:

* **PII Removal:** Stripping of common personally identifiable information (PII) such as email addresses and URLs.
* **Normalization:** Unicode normalization applied to NFC format.
* **Whitespace Cleanup:** Leading and trailing spaces stripped.
* **Deduplication:** Texts were deduplicated via exact match.

## Data Structure

The dataset is provided in **JSONLines** format, with each record structured as follows:

* `id`: Unique UUID for the entry.
* `text`: The raw text content.
* `source`: The originating Hugging Face dataset name.

## Limitations & Considerations

* **Variable Quality & Formatting:** Because these datasets originate from open web crawls, formatting, length, and text quality vary significantly.
* **Unfiltered Content:** As is typical with web text collections, the corpus may occasionally contain offensive or biased language. Users are advised to perform downstream filtering based on their specific use case.

## Licence

Released under the **ODC-BY (Open Data Commons Attribution)** licence. If you have specific compliance requirements, please consult the individual source datasets linked above.