Webinar: Synthetic Data – Coarsening, Mimicking and Simulation
1 Jun 2021 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Online
Training
Data skills
Webinar
In this free webinar series, we cover the advantages and disadvantages of synthetic data. We explore the variety of methods available to generate synthetic data. Finally, we discuss the nuanced definitions comprising synthetic data itself.
In this third webinar, we explore three categories of data synthesis methods:
- Coarsening - Reducing the precision of data to protect privacy
- Mimicking - Generating a dataset that closely matches the real dataset
- Simulation - Generating data similar in essential ways to real data, but is different with regard to sensitive information
Presenter: Joe Allen, UK Data Service
The webinar will last for 1 hour with time for questions and answers at the end.
In the first webinar we introduce synthetic data and explore some reasons why we want to use it.
In the second webinar, we explore two categories of data synthesis methods: Masking and Redaction.
In the code demonstration we will showcase some data synthesis tooling.
Recordings of UK Data Service webinars are made available on our YouTube channel and, together with the slides, on our past events pages soon after the webinar has taken place.