Local Data Studio: Inspect Private Datasets Without Hugging Face Pro

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-08-27 · Open on X

Topics: Evaluation (Evals) & Testing, AI Dev Tools & Productivity · Level: beginner

Summary

Hosting private datasets on Hugging Face needs a Pro subscription. As a free alternative, Melvin Vivas uses Local Data Studio, which Codex found for him. It is an open-source local tool for previewing and exploring JSONL, JSON, CSV, TSV and Parquet data.

Key points

• Private datasets on Hugging Face require a Pro subscription.
• Local Data Studio lets you preview and explore datasets on your own machine for free.
• Supports JSONL, JSON, CSV, TSV and Parquet files.
• Features: scalable previews, image inspection, DuckDB SQL queries, exploratory data analysis (EDA), and Embedding Atlas.
• Coding agents like Codex can help you discover useful tools.

Resources mentioned

• Onely7/local_data_studio · repo · github.com · free
  A local data studio for JSONL/JSON/CSV/TSV/Parquet with scalable previews, image inspection, DuckDB SQL, EDA and Embedding Atlas.
• Hugging Face · website · x.com · free · recommended by both Bashiri Smith & Melvin Vivas
  Platform for hosting and finding ML models, datasets and papers. The quoted post says LocateAnything was trending there.
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Try this

• Try Local Data Studio to explore eval datasets locally.