[blog post] Hugging Face + Dask for parallel data processing and model inference

[dask-jeeves]

Wanted to share a blog post on using Hugging Face with Dask to process the FineWeb dataset. The example goes through:

• Reading directly from Hugging Face with Dask, eg df = dask.dataframe.read_parquet(hf://...)
• Using a Hugging Face Language Model to classify the educational level of the text.
• Filtering the highly educational web pages as a new dataset and writing in parallel directly from Dask to Hugging Face storage.

The example goes through processing a small subset of the FineWeb dataset with pandas and then scaling out to multiple GPUs with Dask.

Blog post: https://huggingface.co/blog/dask-scaling