Potential generators

[noamross]

Some potential generator ideas for scientific users. Many being convenience wrappers.

Geographic:

• lat/long in bounds
• place names generated by selecting location names a given type closest to lat/lon coordinates
• Countries, U.S. states, etc.

Numeric

• Value in range for integers and doubles
• Values from a distribution
• Multiple values from a multiple distribution (e.g., multivariate normal)

Categorial

• Samples from set of categorial values
• UUIDs

Biological

• Gene sequences

Literature-based

• DOIs (both real and fake/non-resolving)

[sckott]

thanks @noamross

i think most can be done easily

[sckott]

changes in 0057a47 adding some of the above

[sckott]

Geographic:

• lat/long in bounds
• place names generated by selecting location names a given type closest to lat/lon coordinates - not clear what this means
• Countries, U.S. states, etc.

Numeric

• Value in range for integers and doubles
• Values from a distribution
• Multiple values from a multiple distribution (e.g., multivariate normal) - which distribution to use?

Categorial

• Samples from set of categorial values - not sure what this means
• UUIDs - there's a cran package to do this, i guess could just import that, but maybe just point people to that if they want uuids

Biological

• Gene sequences

Literature-based

• DOIs (both real and fake/non-resolving)

[iembry-USGS]

I am suggesting fake data for business transactional data:

• order ID
• location ID
• Product ID
• Purchase Date
• Price Paid
• Product Type (Types of Clothing, Types of Electronics, etc.)
• Company Name - specific for industries (Clothing, Sports, Books, etc.)

Thank you.

Irucka

[sckott]

thanks @iembry-USGS - out of curiosity, would you use these for work/personal use - and just in english or other languages as well?

[iembry-USGS]

@sckott You're welcome. I would use them for work and just in English.

Thank you.

Irucka

[sckott]

thanks @iembry-USGS

opening a new issue to discuss your ideas - continue in #52

[sckott]

closing, not sure i'll get to the other ones here