How to upload my dataset into Google Colab?

Question

I have my dataset on my local device. Is there any way to upload this dataset into google colab directly.

Note:

I tried this code :

from google.colab import files
uploaded = files.upload()

But it loads file by file. I want to upload the whole dataset directly

Answer 1

Here's the workflow I used to upload a zip file and create a local data directory:

1. zip the file locally. Something like: $zip -r data.zip data
2. upload zip file of your data directory to colab using their (Google's) instructions.

from google.colab import files

uploaded = files.upload()

3. Once zip file is uploaded, perform the following operations:

import zipfile
import io

zf = zipfile.ZipFile(io.BytesIO(uploaded['data.zip']), "r")
zf.extractall()

Your data directory should now be in colab's working directory under a 'data' directory.

Answer 2

Zip or tar the files first, and then use tarfile or zipfile to unpack them.