# Regarding Flower Datasets

**URL:** <https://discuss.flower.ai/t/regarding-flower-datasets/780>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [March 5, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/regarding-flower-datasets/780 "2025-03-05T21:24:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![aish25](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@aish25](https://discuss.flower.ai/u/aish25)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/regarding-flower-datasets/780/1 "2025-03-05T21:24:06Z")

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I would like to know if other open source datasets can be loaded for generating flower datasets?Please help me on this. I would like to work on different open source datasets.

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**Author:** ![javier](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/discuss.flower.ai/javier/32/116_2.png) [@javier](https://discuss.flower.ai/u/javier)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/regarding-flower-datasets/780/2 "2025-03-05T21:28:55Z")

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Hi @aish25 , thanks for your question and welcome to Flower Discuss!

To answer your question directly: yes! you can load pretty much any dataset you want, even your own dataset. Because [Flower Datasets](https://flower.ai/docs/datasets/) leverages how [huggingface datasets](https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets/en/index) work, most of the utilities it provides (i.e. partitioners, etc) expect that your dataset is of type `dataset`. This directly gives you access to pretty much all datasets available in [Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.](https://huggingface.co/datasets) (which as of today account for over 300K!)

If you have a dataset that’s not in HF, it recommended that you first convert it to a `dataset` object. You can follow this guide in the Flower Datasets documentation: [Use with Local Data - Flower Datasets 0.5.0](https://flower.ai/docs/datasets/how-to-use-with-local-data.html)

Let us know if this helped!

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**Author:** ![system](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/flower/original/1X/bc7fe36843c391cbd0b4e8b6f48275961d356abc.png) [@system](https://discuss.flower.ai/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://discuss.flower.ai/t/regarding-flower-datasets/780/3 "2025-04-24T17:24:59Z")

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