alzheimers-synthetic-data

Code to generate synthetic data following the pattern of research datasets in Alzheimer's Disease

Code contents

This module generates a list of .csv files relating to different tables of a synthetic dataset from Alzheimer's Disease research. The output folder for the .csv files is inst/mockup_data/. The list of generated tables is:

• apoe.csv
• cdr.csv
• csf.csv
• dot_counting.csv
• flanker.csv
• four_mountains.csv
• rbans.csv
• socio_demographics.csv
• vital_signs.csv
• volumetric.csv

Executing the code

Clone the repo using: git clone git@github:aridhia/alzheimers-synthetic-data

Using R-Studio

1. Open up R-Studio (available at https://rstudio.com/)
2. Use the open project button in the top-right-hand corner
3. Open up the alzheimers-synthetic-data.Rproj in the root folder of the repo.
4. Navigate to the Build tab in R-Studio.
5. Click Install and Restart to install the library and restart the R Console.
6. Execute inst/scripts/create_data.R to generate data.
   • The number of synthetic data entries in the dataset can be modified by altering the N variable in inst/scripts/create_data.R.
   • Different datasets can be produced by modifying the random seed at the beginning of inst/scripts/create_data.R.
7. The data appears in the inst/mockup_data/ folder as various .csv files relating to different tables in the dataset.