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Data Discovery overview - Beta 🧪

Streamline your data preparation process using Data Discovery in Label Studio.

In machine learning, the quality and relevance of the data used for training directly affects model performance. However, sifting through extensive unstructured datasets to find relevant items can be cumbersome and time-consuming.

Label Studio’s Data Discovery simplifies this by allowing users to perform targeted, AI-powered searches within their data. This is incredibly beneficial for projects where specific data subsets are required for training specialized models.

For example, imagine a scenario in a retail context where a company wants to develop an AI model to recognize and categorize various products in their inventory. Using Label Studio’s Data Discovery functionality, they can quickly gather images of specific product types from their extensive database, significantly reducing the time and effort needed for manual data labeling and sorting. This efficiency not only speeds up the model development process, but also enhances the model’s accuracy by ensuring a well-curated training dataset.

This targeted approach to data gathering not only saves valuable time but also contributes to the development of more accurate and reliable machine learning models.

Tip

You can use the label distribution charts on a project's dashboard to identify areas within the project that are underrepresented. You can then use Data Discovery to identify the appropriate dataset records to add to your project for more uniform coverage.

Process overview

  1. Create a dataset by connecting your cloud environment to Label Studio and importing your data. See Create datasets.
  2. Use our AI-powered search to sort and filter the dataset. See Search and filter datasets.
  3. Select the data you want to use and add it to a labeling project. See Manage datasets.
  4. Start labeling data!

Terminology

Term Description
Dataset In general terms, a dataset is a collection of data.
When referred to here, it means a collection of data created using the Datasets page in Label Studio.
Data discovery In general terms, data discovery is the process of gathering, refining, and classifying data. A data discovery tool helps teams find relevant data for labeling. This covers a full spectrum of tasks, from finding data to include in your initial ground truth dataset to finding very specific data points to remedy underperforming classes or address edge cases.
Natural language search

Semantic search
These two terms are used interchangeably and, in simple terms, mean using text as the search query.
Similarity search Similarity search is when you select one or more records and then sort the dataset by similarity to your selections.
Record An item in a dataset. Each record can be added to a Label Studio project as a task.

Features, requirements, and constraints

Feature Support
Supported file types .txt

.png

.jpg/.jpeg
Indexable/searchable data Image and text
Supported storage for import Google Cloud storage

AWS S3

Azure blob storage
Number of storage sources per dataset One
Maximum number of records per dataset 1 million
Maximum number of records returned per search 16,384
Number of datasets per org 10
Supported search types Natural language search

Similarity search
Supported filter types Similarity score
Required permissions Owners and Administrators – Can create datasets and have full administrative access to any existing datasets

Managers – Must be invited to a dataset. Once invited, they can view the dataset and export records as project tasks. Managers cannot create new datasets or perform administrative tasks on existing ones.

Reviewers and Annotators – No access to datasets and cannot be added as dataset members.
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