Studio can open Zip archives. Each file in the archive will be extracted and an attempt will be made to load it. A single Zip file can thus generate many datasets.

## Zipped Shapefiles

Zip files are a convenient way to package up multi-file datasets, like [Shapefiles](https://docs.foursquare.com/analytics-products/docs/data-formats-shapefile). A zipped Shapefile would contain one or more `.shp` and `.dbf` files with the same base names, together with other optional files with the same base names.