# Unable to Load Dataset Using \`load\_dataset\` **URL:** \ **Category:** 🤗Datasets\ **Created:** [March 7, 2025, 8:28am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/unable-to-load-dataset-using-load-dataset/144579 "2025-03-07T08:28:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/John6666)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2025, 12:55pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/unable-to-load-dataset-using-load-dataset/144579/5 "2025-03-07T12:55:40Z")
Hmm… Maybe it would be better to shard the data set. > [@How to load a large hf dataset efficiently?](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-to-load-a-large-hf-dataset-efficiently/69288): > > I am trying to load a dataset [axiong/pmc\_oa · Datasets at Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/datasets/axiong/pmc_oa) The dataset size is around 22 gb and I have ram ~10 GB, the dataset object is stuck at extracting file point I also tried streaming mode but that’s giving another error. from datasets import load\_dataset dataset = load\_dataset("axiong/pmc\_oa", 'pmc\_oa', split='train', streaming=True) print(next(iter(dataset))) Any suggestion on how to deal with… > [@How to load a large hf dataset efficiently?](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/how-to-load-a-large-hf-dataset-efficiently/69288): > > I am trying to load a dataset [axiong/pmc\_oa · Datasets at Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/datasets/axiong/pmc_oa) The dataset size is around 22 gb and I have ram ~10 GB, the dataset object is stuck at extracting file point I also tried streaming mode but that’s giving another error. from datasets import load\_dataset dataset = load\_dataset("axiong/pmc\_oa", 'pmc\_oa', split='train', streaming=True) print(next(iter(dataset))) Any suggestion on how to deal with… --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/unable-to-load-dataset-using-load-dataset/144579)._