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The complete Open Library catalog in clean, analysis-ready Parquet

The complete Open Library catalog in clean, analysis-ready Parquet

by tamnd·Mar 24, 2026·1 point·0 comments

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Clean Parquet dump of 55M Open Library rows saves weeks of data cleaning.

Strengths
  • Parquet format on Hugging Face means instant loading with Dask or Polars.
  • CC0 license removes legal friction for commercial machine learning projects.
  • Eleven subsets including authors and works, rather than just a flat list.
Weaknesses
  • No built-in search API, just raw data dumps for local processing.
  • Requires local compute to query; not a hosted search service.
Category
Target Audience

ML Engineers, Data Scientists

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