scripts/PARQUET_README.md

Genesis Parquet Pack

Developed by: Within Us AI
Generated: 2026-01-01

This pack includes:

• A converter script to turn JSONL splits into Parquet shards suitable for fast scanning/streaming.
• Recommended sharding conventions (train-00000.parquet, etc.).

Why Parquet:

• Faster scans
• Better compatibility with dataset viewers and downstream pipelines
• Easy sharding and parallel reads

Usage

pip install datasets pyarrow pandas
python jsonl_to_parquet_shards.py --jsonl train.jsonl --out_dir data --rows_per_shard 5000