> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.bdb.ai/data-science-lab/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.bdb.ai/data-science-lab/project/tabs-for-a-data-science-lab-project/tabs-for-pyspark-environment/dataset/adding-data-sets.md).

# Adding Data Sets

​The Dataset tab offers a list of uploaded Datasets which can be added to a Data Science Project. The user can get a list of uploaded Data Sandbox from the under this tab. 

The **Add Datasets** page supports only the **Data Sandbox** as data source with txt, csv, json and xlsx file types.

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*<mark style="color:green;">Pre-requites:</mark>* *The user must configure the* [*Sandbox Settings*](https://docs.bdb.ai/7.6/core-platform/platform-administration/admin-panel-options/configurations/sandbox-settings) *to access the Data Sandbox option under the Data Science Lab.*
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* Open the **Dataset** tab from a specific project.
* Click the **Add Datasets** option.

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* The user gets redirected to the **Add Datasets** page.
* Select the ***Data Sandbox*** option from the Data Service drop-down menu.
* Click the ***Upload*** option to upload a Data Sandbox file.

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* The user gets redirected to the ***Upload Data Sandbox*** page.

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* Provide a ***Sandbox Name***.
* Provide ***Description*** about the Data Sandbox.
* Click the ***Choose File*** option to select a file.
* Click the ***Save*** option.

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* It will indicate the ***loaded data*** from the selected file in percentage after clicking the ***Save*** option. E.g., the following image suggests that 37% data is uploaded from the file.

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* A notification message appears to indicate that the file has been uploaded (after the data gets loaded 100%).
* The user gets redirected to the ***Add Datasets*** tab.

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* Select the ***Data Sandbox*** option from the ***Data Source*** drop-down menu.
* The uploaded Data Sandbox file appears in the list below.

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* Select a Data Sandbox file using the checkbox given next to the Sandbox entry.
* Click the Add option.

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* A notification message appears to inform that the selected Dataset (in this case, the selected Data Sandbox file) has been updated.
* The user gets redirected to the ***Dataset*** tab where the added dataset file gets listed.

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*<mark style="color:green;">Please Note:</mark>*&#x20;

* *The user can get a **Search bar** to search across the multiple Datasets options on the **Add Datasets** page.*
* *Refer the **Data Science Lab Quick Start Flow** page to get an overview of the **Data Science Lab** module in nutshell.* [***Click here***](https://docs.bdb.ai/data-science-lab/data-science-lab-quick-start-flow) *to get redirected to the quick start flow page.*
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