AI Research Foundations · Capstone Datasets

Find the right dataset for your students' capstone.

A curated catalogue for AI Champions and their students — every dataset checked for licensing, open access, and African relevance, with Colab-ready starter code.

45 datasets · 30+ African languages · mapped to all 8 courses · browse by course

Yoruba Hausa Igbo Swahili Amharic isiZulu isiXhosa Twi Wolof Kinyarwanda Luganda Shona Somali Oromo Tigrinya Sotho Tswana Nigerian Pidgin Lingala Chichewa Bambara Ewe Fon Kenyan Sign Language Afrikaans Malagasy

Yoruba Hausa Igbo Swahili Amharic isiZulu isiXhosa Twi Wolof Kinyarwanda Luganda Shona Somali Oromo Tigrinya Sotho Tswana Nigerian Pidgin Lingala Chichewa Bambara Ewe Fon Kenyan Sign Language Afrikaans Malagasy

image-classification computer-vision 27,558 images (~339MB) Public Domain (NIH) beginner

English (Metadata)

topic-classification language-modeling ~20,000 articles CC-BY-4.0 beginner

Amharic Hausa Igbo Luganda +5 more

object-detection image-classification 16,552 images (~1.5GB) CC0 1.0 intermediate

English (Metadata)

machine-translation alignment ~5k-30k sentences per language CC-BY-4.0-NC intermediate

Bambara Ewe Fon Hausa +5 more

translation-evaluation embeddings 3,001 sentences per language CC-BY-SA 4.0 intermediate

20+ African languages including Dinka, Nuer, Kanuri

named-entity-recognition sequence-labeling ~9,000-10,000 sentences per language CC-BY-4.0-NC intermediate

Bambara Ewe Fon Hausa +12 more

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01 Build Your Own Small Language Model 5 datasets 02 Represent Your Language Data 6 datasets 03 Design and Train Neural Networks 12 datasets 04 Assemble Your Transformer Architecture 8 datasets 05 Finetune Your Model 7 datasets 06 Align Your Model 3 datasets 07 Accelerate Your Model 6 datasets 08 Capstone: Develop Your Model for Real-World Impact 18 datasets

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