Here we use three sea star species: Pisaster ochraceusPycnopodia helianthiodes and Solaster dawsonii to demonstate how we can organize data that can be used to prototype an AI system. The species data is arranged into subfolders for each class of species that contain different images of the same species. The data is then uploaded as a folder to the platform that we are going to use. In our case we simply uploaded our data to google drive and were able to access this data from Google Colab by running the first line of code in the Jupyter notebook.