External tool test

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The Generalization Team wants to reach a decision on what to work on in the remaining time of the time series sprint. As a preparation for the meeting of Tuesday 23 March 2021 11:00. we will try to test if the three tools Time Blender, TSynth and Tsgluon can mimic the same functionality as Florian's time series generator

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Links to the three tools:

• https://github.com/paulosalem/time-blender
• https://github.com/awslabs/gluon-ts/ (see: Documentation/Synthetic Data Generation Tutorial)
• https://github.com/TimeSynth/TimeSynth

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Summary of Time-Bender:

• written in Python
• with example notebooks
• modeled basic time period is day
• models: moving average (ma), autorecessive (ar), combinations (arma, arima), others
• examples in fields banking and ecology
• 👍 noise is an extension of signal
• 👍 extensible: possible to define other signal shapes with Python code by user
• 💔 models one channel at a time (workaround for multi-channel signals requires Python code by user)

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Issue migrated to sequgen/sequgen#7