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[REVIEW]: Metasyn: Transparent Generation of Synthetic Tabular Data with Privacy Guarantees #7099

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editorialbot commented 3 months ago

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 Archive: Pending

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Software report:

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Commit count by author:

    95  qubixes
    34  Erik-Jan van Kesteren
    29  Samuwhale
    26  Samuel
    13  Raoul Schram
editorialbot commented 3 months ago

Paper file info:

📄 Wordcount for paper.md is 2230

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

editorialbot commented 3 months ago

License info:

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

editorialbot commented 3 months ago
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
crvernon commented 3 months ago

👋 @vankesteren, @PetrKorab, and @misken - This is the review thread for the paper. All of our communications will happen here from now on.

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crvernon commented 3 months ago

:wave: @vankesteren - please reduce the length of your paper to around 1000 words. Thanks!

misken commented 3 months ago

Review checklist for @misken

Conflict of interest

Code of Conduct

General checks

Functionality

Documentation

Software paper

vankesteren commented 3 months ago

:wave: @vankesteren - please reduce the length of your paper to around 1000 words. Thanks!

Short version of the paper is on its way, will commit this week!

vankesteren commented 3 months ago

Paper has now been shortened!

PetrKorab commented 3 months ago

Review checklist for @PetrKorab

Conflict of interest

Code of Conduct

General checks

Functionality

Documentation

Software paper

PetrKorab commented 2 months ago

@vankesteren please, update readme (#317). Thanks.

qubixes commented 2 months ago

@PetrKorab Thanks for spotting the broken link! I have fixed it now.

PetrKorab commented 2 months ago

@vankesteren Please be less technical in the second part of the paper. Instead, add examples and use cases across disciplines. Thanks!  (#321).

vankesteren commented 2 months ago

Thanks all for the progress on this review. Just a heads-up: I'll be on leave for the coming two weeks so I'll not be able to respond. Will do my best to pick this up soon after!

PetrKorab commented 2 months ago

@vankesteren Test folder contains python codes and a test titanic dataset. Please, add well-documented automated tests (Github Action, CI..) in line with the JOOS guidelines. Please, also prepare the tests for at least one other "real-world" dataset, except the titanic one. Thanks! #326

crvernon commented 1 month ago

:wave: @vankesteren, @PetrKorab, and @misken - Just checking in to see how things are going with this review. Could you each post an update to where you are currently in this review process? Thanks!

vankesteren commented 1 month ago

Hey @crvernon thanks for asking;

Until now, we have responded to several issues that have come out of this review (e.g., https://github.com/sodascience/metasyn/issues/317, https://github.com/sodascience/metasyn/issues/324) and we are working on changes based on the other issues. For example, we have included a medical example dataset in the package (https://github.com/sodascience/metasyn/pull/330) as a partial response to https://github.com/sodascience/metasyn/issues/321 and https://github.com/sodascience/metasyn/issues/326.

I have gotten in a bit of a time-crunch with teaching, but I'm committed to update the paper itself over the next weeks to include more examples and fewer technical details, for which we can refer to the documentation. In the meantime, we are also slightly updating the documentation to have a better flow through these technical details.

In summary, I haven't responded much over the past weeks but we have been hard at work! Let me know if you require something additional.

PetrKorab commented 1 month ago

@vankesteren The medical dataset is ok, but for the reviewer, it is complicated to evaluate Metasyn without well-documented GitHub actions or unit tests in other CI. Please place everything into a single folder. Thanks!

vankesteren commented 1 week ago

@PetrKorab I have now left a comment on your main issue on this, here: https://github.com/sodascience/metasyn/issues/326#issuecomment-2478601871

We have also updated the paper, making it more legible and with better examples based on reviewer feedback, while keeping it as short as possible. The new paper is available here: https://github.com/sodascience/metasyn/blob/develop/docs/paper/paper.pdf

We are currently in the process of updating the documentation once more and then we will release Metasyn version 1.1! I will ping this thread when we do our release, that would be a good moment to have another "round" of reviews (where hopefully we will check all the boxes 😉)

PetrKorab commented 1 week ago

@vankesteren Thanks for adding the tests, domain datasets and updating the paper!

vankesteren commented 11 hours ago

@crvernon @misken @PetrKorab We have now released version 1.1! This is a good time to get back to the review process 😄