Datasets

Datasets enable you to securely upload and update datasets in Anaconda’s cloud storage. You can then provide access to other users, as well as import your datasets to a separate workbook to continue your data analysis from any machine, anytime.

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Understanding datasets

Let’s take a look at the different elements and tabs within Datasets.

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Creating a project

When you first access Datasets, you are prompted to create a new project. You can think of projects as folders for storing your datasets. Create a project at any time using the following steps:

1. From the Cloud tab, click + New Project.
   
2. Enter a unique title for your project and an optional description.
3. Designate the project owner(s) for your project. By default, you are set as the only project owner.
   Administrators and project owners are the only users allowed to edit projects. Anaconda.com organization administrators have full permissions for any projects owned by their organization.
4. (Optional) Provide access to your project by inviting users from one of your organizations.
5. Click Save.

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Sharing a project with other users

You can share a project to collaborate with others in your organization when creating a new project, or at any time using the following steps:

1. From the Cloud tab, click actions beside a project for which you have edit permissions, then click Edit.
2. Provide access to your project by inviting users from one of your organizations.
   1. Under Your Organizations, select an organization.
   2. Under Organization Users, select a user to share your project with.
   3. Choose whether the user should have read or write access to your project.
3. Click Save.

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Permissions

Access to projects and the actions you can perform in them are determined by your permission level for the project. By default, you as the owner of your project have admin permissions; for projects owned by an organization, the admins of that organization have admin permissions for that project.

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Uploading data

Protect your local datasets and increase their accessibility by saving them in cloud storage. If you experience hardware failure, or need to work on a different device, your projects will be right where you left them! Upload sheets and tables to your projects using the following steps:

1. From the Cloud tab, click + New Dataset.
   
2. Under Data, choose a range of data manually, a specific table, or an entire sheet.
3. Under Project, select a project to house your dataset.
4. Under Dataset Title, provide a title for your dataset.
5. Complete the upload by clicking Save to Cloud.

You can now see the established connection between your dataset and Anaconda’s cloud storage on the Connections tab. When you make changes to the dataset, re-upload it to update the dataset stored in the cloud.

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Downloading data

If another user shares a project with you, or if you’ve uploaded a dataset in another workbook or Anaconda Notebook, download appears beside that dataset. Datasets can be downloaded as either an Excel range reference or as an Anaconda Code object.

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Understanding status icons

Status icons appear by each dataset. Click the icons to perform the following functions: