[PRE REVIEW]: Metasyn: Transparent Generation of Synthetic Tabular Data with Privacy Guarantees

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Submitting author: !--author-handle-->@vankesteren<!--end-author-handle-- (Erik-Jan van Kesteren) Repository: https://github.com/sodascience/metasyn Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): Version: v1.0.2 Editor: !--editor-->@crvernon<!--end-editor-- Reviewers: @PetrKorab, @misken Managing EiC: Chris Vernon

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- 10.5281/zenodo.7697217 is OK
- 10.18637/jss.v059.i10 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- No DOI given, and none found for title: ONS methodology working paper series number 16—Syn...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Differential privacy
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Statistical disclosure control
- No DOI given, and none found for title: k-anonymity: A model for protecting privacy
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Guidelines for Output Checking. Eurostat
- 10.29012/jpc.v1i2.570 may be a valid DOI for title: Differential privacy for statistics: What we know ...
- 10.1007/bf02985802 may be a valid DOI for title: The elements of statistical learning: data mining,...
- 10.1007/978-1-4612-0919-5_38 may be a valid DOI for title: Information theory and an extension of the maximum...
- 10.1002/wics.199 may be a valid DOI for title: The Bayesian information criterion: background, de...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: synthpop: Bespoke creation of synthetic data in R
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Simulation of synthetic complex data: The R packag...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Datasynthesizer: Privacy-preserving synthetic data...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: To democratize research with sensitive data, we sh...

INVALID DOIs

- None

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Software report:

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make                             1              6              7             11
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Commit count by author:

    95  qubixes
    34  Erik-Jan van Kesteren
    29  Samuwhale
    26  Samuel
    13  Raoul Schram

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Paper file info:

📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 2230

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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License info:

✅ License found: MIT License (Valid open source OSI approved license)

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[crvernon]

:wave: @vankesteren - thanks for your submission to JOSS. While I find you a topic editor, please reduce the word count of your paper to at or under 1000 words. Thanks!

[vankesteren]

Ah sorry, in editing the paper further I forgot about the word count limit! I'll do my best to do this by next week.

[crvernon]

@editorialbot assign me as editor

I think I'll just manage this review myself. Let me get you two reviewers and we will kick things off.

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Assigned! @crvernon is now the editor

[crvernon]

👋 @PetrKorab - Would you be willing to review this submission to JOSS? We carry out our checklist-driven reviews here in GitHub issues and follow these guidelines: https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/review_criteria.html

[crvernon]

👋 @KennethEnevoldsen - Would you be willing to review this submission to JOSS? We carry out our checklist-driven reviews here in GitHub issues and follow these guidelines: https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/review_criteria.html

[PetrKorab]

@crvernon Yes, sure👍

[crvernon]

@editorialbot add @PetrKorab as reviewer

Thanks @PetrKorab! I will kick this off once we confirm one more reviewer.

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@PetrKorab added to the reviewers list!

[vankesteren]

In case you still need it, I looked up a few people on the JOSS reviewer list and these suggestions came up:

• misken
• prdm0

[KennethEnevoldsen]

@crvernon, sadly, I have a lot on my plate until mid-September, but after that, I am open to doing this review.

[crvernon]

Thanks for the fast notice @KennethEnevoldsen!

[crvernon]

👋 @misken - Would you be willing to review this submission to JOSS? We carry out our checklist-driven reviews here in GitHub issues and follow these guidelines: https://joss.readthedocs.io/en/latest/review_criteria.html

[misken]

Yep, I can review this submission.

[crvernon]

@editorialbot add @misken as reviewer

Thanks @misken!

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@misken added to the reviewers list!

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@editorialbot start review

👋 - Alright @vankesteren, @PetrKorab, and @misken - I am going to close this Pre-Review and kick off the full review which you should receive a notification for. Thanks!

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OK, I've started the review over in https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/7099.