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Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-16 20:05 UTC

huggingface / datasets

🤗 The largest hub of ready-to-use datasets for AI models with fast, easy-to-use and efficient data manipulation tools

PythonApache-2.0★ 21,979 stars⑂ 3,432 forkssince Mar 2020View on GitHub ↗
KindCommand-line toolLibraryhow this is determined

huggingface/datasets holds a health index of 98 out of 100, placing it in the Exceptional band. It scores highest on Vitality (98/100) and lowest on AI Readiness (55/100). It was last updated 5 days ago. 2 contributors account for most of its recent work.

98
overall / 100
Exceptional

Software health index

Metrics are grouped into weighted categories on one standardized 1–100 scale. Overall starts as their weighted mean, calibrated against the distribution of the public record so bands carry percentile meaning; when public evidence triggers the High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy, the rating is adjusted and receives an At Risk ceiling of 34.

98
Exceptional93-100The record's top tier (≈ top 5%); essentially all checked criteria met
Excellent80-92Strong across the board; minor gaps
Good65-79Healthy; gaps are limited and manageable
Moderate50-64Acceptable with notable gaps; review recommended
Weak35-49Material weaknesses across several areas
At Risk20-34Significant weaknesses; adoption warrants caution
Critical1-19Severe problems (abandoned, single-maintainer, no hygiene)
VitalityCommunity &AdoptionSustainability &GovernanceEngineeringQualitySecurityAI Readiness

Score profile

Each axis is a category. The shape matters more than the average — a healthy subject fills the whole shape, while a spike-and-crater profile means strength in one dimension is masking risk in another.

The weighted overall 87 is calibrated to 98 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

Hugging FaceOrganization · verified domain
68,493 followers467 public repossince Feb 2017

This repository is backed by an organization — shared, accountable stewardship that can outlive any single maintainer.

Package ecosystems

RegistryPackageVersionDownloads / moVersionsLast publishTags
PyPIdatasets5.0.1101,261,99711950 days agodatasetsmachinelearning

Metrics by category

Vitality

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping?

98Exceptional · 21% of overall
How it's scored
36/36Push recency — last push 5 days ago
31.8/36Commit cadence — 46/52 weeks with commits
18/18Commit volume — 239 commits in the last year
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 6 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
commits_last_year239
human_commit_share1
days_since_last_push5
active_weeks_last_year46

Release discipline

100Exceptional
How it's scored
27/27Ships releases — 100 releases published
36/36Release recency — latest release 50 days ago
27/27Release cadence — a release every ~16.7 days
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data
Inputs used
releases_count100
latest_release_tag5.0.1
releases_from_tagsno
days_since_latest_release50
mean_days_between_releases16.7
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

Community & Adoption

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?

94Exceptional · 17% of overall
How it's scored
60/60Stars — 21,979 stars
25/25Forks — 3,432 forks
13.6/15Watchers — 283 watchers
Inputs used
forks3,432
stars21,979
watchers283
growth_stateunverified
growth_factor_pct100
growth_unverified_reasonno_history

Community health

85Excellent
How it's scored
22.5/22.5README
22.5/22.5License — recognized license (Apache-2.0)
18/18CONTRIBUTING guide
13.5/13.5Code of conduct
0/7.2Issue template
0/6.3PR template
Inputs used
has_readmeyes
has_licenseyes
readme_badges6
has_contributingyes
has_issue_templateno
has_code_of_conductyes
readme_badge_servicesgithub.com, shields.io
has_pull_request_templateno
How it's scored
80/80Monthly downloads — 101,261,997 downloads/month across pypi
0/20Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem
Inputs used
packagesdatasets
dependents—
ecosystemspypi
total_downloads—
monthly_downloads101,261,997
unverified_packages_excluded—
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Registry dependents. Remaining weights renormalized.

Sustainability & Governance

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?

84Excellent · 23% of overall
How it's scored
25.2/54Bus factor — 2 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
14.7/22.5Commit distribution — top contributor authored 34% of commits
13.5/13.5Contributor breadth — 100 contributors
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 31 contributing companies or organizations
Inputs used
bus_factor2
contributors_sampled100
top_contributor_share0.345
How it's scored
30.4/42Issue resolution — 72% of issues closed
25.6/30PR acceptance — 3,916/4,593 decided PRs merged
10.1/13Newcomer PR acceptance — 14/18 first-time contributors' PRs merged in 30d
13.5/15OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 27/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 9
Inputs used
merged_prs3,916
open_issues930
closed_issues2,437
prs_merged_7d17
prs_decided_7d18
prs_merged_30d26
prs_decided_30d35
issue_closed_ratio0.724
closed_unmerged_prs677
first_time_authors_30d10
first_time_prs_merged_30d14
first_time_prs_decided_30d18
How it's scored
30/30Ownership backing — organization-owned
20/20Verified domain
25/25Owner reach — 68,493 followers of huggingface
25/25Track record — 467 public repos, account ~9 yr old
Inputs used
followers68,493
owner_typeOrganization
is_verifiedyes
owner_loginhuggingface
public_repos467
account_age_days3,503

Package maintenance

100Exceptional
How it's scored
25/25Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on pypi
35/35Publish recency — latest publish 50 days ago
20/20Version history — 119 published versions
20/20Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked
Inputs used
packagesdatasets
ecosystemspypi
any_deprecatedno
min_days_since_publish50

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

94Exceptional · 19% of overall
How it's scored
24/24CI workflows — 7 workflow(s)
24/24Tests present
16/16Linter config — pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff])
9.6/9.6Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4.editorconfig
16/20OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 25 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 8
Inputs used
has_ciyes
has_testsyes
has_editorconfigno
has_linter_configyes
has_precommit_configyes

Documentation

100Exceptional
How it's scored
30/30README
25/25Documentation directory
15/15Documentation / homepage site — https://huggingface.co/docs/datasets
10/10Repository description
10/10Topics — 16 topics
10/10Wiki
Inputs used
topicsnlp, datasets, pytorch, tensorflow, pandas, numpy, natural-language-processing, computer-vision, machine-learning, deep-learning, speech, ai, artificial-intelligence, llm, dataset-hub, huggingface
has_wikiyes
homepagehttps://huggingface.co/docs/datasets
docs_sitehttps://huggingface.co/docs/datasets
has_readmeyes
has_docs_diryes
has_descriptionyes

Security

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?

70Good · 16% of overall
How it's scored
7.5/7.5Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5Branch-Protection — no data
2/2.5CI-Tests — 25 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 8
0/2.5CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
6.8/7.5Code-Review — Found 27/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 9
2.5/2.5Contributors — project has 31 contributing companies or organizations
10/10Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
0/7.5Dependency-Update-Tool — no update tool detected
0/5Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5License — license file detected
7.5/7.5Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 6 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
0/5Packaging — no data
2.5/5Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 5
0/5SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
5/5Security-Policy — security policy file detected
0/7.5Signed-Releases — no data
0/7.5Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
7.5/7.5Vulnerabilities — 0 existing vulnerabilities detected
Inputs used
sourceopenssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated15
scorecard_versionv5.5.0
checks_inconclusive3
scorecard_aggregate6.3
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Branch-Protection, Packaging, Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

Dependency advisories

100Exceptional
How it's scored
35/35Direct dependencies free of known advisories — no direct dependency carries a known advisory
25/25Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — no indirect dependency carries a known advisory
0/40No advisories left outstanding — no advisory carries a publication date
Inputs used
sourceosv
advisories0
affected_packages0
assessed_packages34
unassessed_packages0
affected_by_severitynone
direct_affected_packages0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched the pypi:datasets@5.0.1 runtime dependency closure — what installing the published package pulls in — 34 packages. Reachability is not analyzed.

AI Readiness

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight (4%): agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but a repository with none can still reach 100/100.

55Moderate · 4% of overall
How it's scored
0/45Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
40/40Legible commit history — 98 of 100 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)
Inputs used
has_llms_txtno
llms_txt_url—
legible_history_share0.98
agent_instruction_files—
agent_instruction_max_bytes—
How it's scored
18/18One-command bootstrap — Makefile
22/22Automated tests
11/11Lint / format config — pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff])
0/11Static type checking
0/10Reproducible environment
10/10Demonstrated agent practice — 8 of the last 100 commits agent-authored or agent-credited
0/8Automated maintenance — no automated dependency updates observed
5/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 5
Inputs used
has_nixno
has_testsyes
lockfiles—
has_dockerfileno
typed_languageno
bootstrap_filesMakefile
has_devcontainerno
has_linter_configyes
typecheck_configs—
agent_commit_share0.08
toolchain_manifests—
dependency_bot_commit_share0
How it's scored
0/45Type-checkable code — Python without a type-check config
52.6/55Manageable file sizes — 11/255 source files over 60KB
Inputs used
primary_languagePython
largest_source_bytes343,269
source_files_sampled255
oversized_source_files11

Key facts

21,979GitHub stars
100contributors
239commits, last 12 months
5days since last push
100releases
2bus factor
930open issues
PyPIpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

  • Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
  • First-time contributor figures cover 12 of 22 authors (cap 12)

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 3,432 ⇿
0Stars
3,432Forks
35Releases

When each star and fork was added, collected from GitHub and bucketed by day. Cumulative growth sits directly above the daily additions it is made of, so the two read against each other: steady organic accretion looks nothing like an abrupt, short-lived burst. Where that difference is measurable, it is reported as growth authenticity.

Only the most recent history is shown — this repository exceeds the collection window, so the earliest history is not captured.

2,0002,5003,0003,5003,432252024-062025-072026-09
Major 3Minor 16Patch 16

Each point covers 3 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 6.3 / 10
6.3aggregate

Independent, tool-agnostic security assessment from the open-source OpenSSF Scorecard. Each check rewards a security practice, not a specific vendor's tool. Checks Scorecard could not determine are marked n/a and excluded from the security score (never counted as zero).Scorecard v5.5.0 · 2026-09-16 20:04 UTC

10Binary-Artifactsno binaries found in the repo
n/aBranch-Protectioninternal error: error during branchesHandler.setup: internal error: some github tokens can't read classic branch protection rules: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard-action/blob/main/docs/authentication/fine-grained-auth-token.md
8CI-Tests25 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 8
0CII-Best-Practicesno effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
9Code-ReviewFound 27/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 9
10Contributorsproject has 31 contributing companies or organizations
10Dangerous-Workflowno dangerous workflow patterns detected
0Dependency-Update-Toolno update tool detected
0Fuzzingproject is not fuzzed
10Licenselicense file detected
10Maintained30 commit(s) and 6 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
n/aPackagingpackaging workflow not detected
5Pinned-Dependenciesdependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 5
0SASTSAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
10Security-Policysecurity policy file detected
n/aSigned-Releasesno releases found
0Token-Permissionsdetected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
10Vulnerabilities0 existing vulnerabilities detected
All dependencies 16

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 0 direct and 16 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

RegistryPackageVersionRelation
PyPIdill—indirect
PyPIfilelock—indirect
PyPIfsspec—indirect
PyPIgitpython3.1.27indirect
PyPIhuggingface-hub—indirect
PyPImultiprocess—indirect
PyPInumpy—indirect
PyPIpackaging—indirect
PyPIpandas—indirect
PyPIpyarrow—indirect
PyPIpython-dotenv0.19.2indirect
PyPIpyyaml—indirect
PyPIrequests2.25.1indirect
PyPItqdm—indirect
PyPItqdm4.62.3indirect
PyPIxxhash—indirect
Dependency advisories 0

Installing pypi:datasets@5.0.1 pulls in 34 packages, direct and transitive: 0 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct dependencies.

No known advisories affect the assessed dependencies.

An advisory means the version recorded in the dependency graph falls inside an advisory’s affected range. Reachability is not analysed, and the graph includes development and test pins — a finding may concern tooling rather than shipped software.

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Scores are signals, not warranties. They reflect publicly visible practices on GitHub — not a code audit, and not a security guarantee.

Missing data is excluded and weights renormalized, never scored as zero. Methodology is versioned and open: metrics v2.10.0, schema v0.34.0 — full methodology · metrics wiki.

How one result sits in the wider record: aggregate statistics — PyPI.