diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 24815fd..cca3b40 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,17 @@ categories = ["algorithms", "science", "game-development"]
 # without `license` (or `license-file`), and without one the source carries no
 # stated terms. The Rust convention is `license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"` plus the
 # matching LICENSE-MIT / LICENSE-APACHE files.
-exclude = ["/docs", "/benches/*.txt", "/temp", "/.gitea"]
+# `examples/atp.csv` is a 48 MB tennis dataset — 99% of the packaged crate,
+# for a library whose source is 312 KB. `examples/atp.rs` opens it by
+# relative path at runtime, so excluding the data still compiles; the
+# example just needs the file fetched from the repo to run.
+exclude = [
+    "/docs",
+    "/benches/*.txt",
+    "/temp",
+    "/.gitea",
+    "/examples/atp.csv",
+]
 
 [lib]
 bench = false