Overview

The SDMetrics library provides a set of dataset-agnostic tools for evaluating the quality of a synthetic database by comparing it to the real database that it is modeled after.

Important Links
💻 Website	Check out the SDV Website for more information about the project.
📙 SDV Blog	Regular publshing of useful content about Synthetic Data Generation.
📖 Documentation	Quickstarts, User and Development Guides, and API Reference.
Repository	The link to the Github Repository of this library.
📜 License	The entire ecosystem is published under the MIT License.
⌨️ Development Status	This software is in its Pre-Alpha stage.
Community	Join our Slack Workspace for announcements and discussions.
Tutorials	Run the SDV Tutorials in a Binder environment.

Features

It supports multiple data modalities:

• Single Columns: Compare 1 dimensional numpy arrays representing individual columns.
• Column Pairs: Compare how columns in a pandas.DataFrame relate to each other, in groups of 2.
• Single Table: Compare an entire table, represented as a pandas.DataFrame.
• Multi Table: Compare multi-table and relational datasets represented as a python dict with multiple tables passed as pandas.DataFrames.
• Time Series: Compare tables representing ordered sequences of events.

It includes a variety of metrics such as:

• Statistical metrics which use statistical tests to compare the distributions of the real and synthetic distributions.
• Detection metrics which use machine learning to try to distinguish between real and synthetic data.
• Efficacy metrics which compare the performance of machine learning models when run on the synthetic and real data.
• Bayesian Network and Gaussian Mixture metrics which learn the distribution of the real data and evaluate the likelihood of the synthetic data belonging to the learned distribution.
• Privacy metrics which evaluate whether the synthetic data is leaking information about the real data.

Install

SDMetrics is part of the SDV project and is automatically installed alongside it. For details about this process please visit the SDV Installation Guide

Optionally, SDMetrics can also be installed as a standalone library using the following commands:

Using pip:

pip install sdmetrics

Using conda:

conda install -c conda-forge -c pytorch sdmetrics

For more installation options please visit the SDMetrics installation Guide

Usage

SDMetrics is included as part of the framework offered by SDV to evaluate the quality of your synthetic dataset. For more details about how to use it please visit the corresponding User Guide:

• Evaluating Synthetic Data

Standalone usage

SDMetrics can also be used as a standalone library to run metrics individually.

In this short example we show how to use it to evaluate a toy multi-table dataset and its synthetic replica by running all the compatible multi-table metrics on it:

import sdmetrics

# Load the demo data, which includes:
# - A dict containing the real tables as pandas.DataFrames.
# - A dict containing the synthetic clones of the real data.
# - A dict containing metadata about the tables.
real_data, synthetic_data, metadata = sdmetrics.load_demo()

# Obtain the list of multi table metrics, which is returned as a dict
# containing the metric names and the corresponding metric classes.
metrics = sdmetrics.multi_table.MultiTableMetric.get_subclasses()

# Run all the compatible metrics and get a report
sdmetrics.compute_metrics(metrics, real_data, synthetic_data, metadata=metadata)

The output will be a table with all the details about the executed metrics and their score:

What's next?

If you want to read more about each individual metric, please visit the following folders:

• Single Column Metrics: sdmetrics/single_column
• Single Table Metrics: sdmetrics/single_table
• Multi Table Metrics: sdmetrics/multi_table
• Time Series Metrics: sdmetrics/timeseries

The Synthetic Data Vault Project was first created at MIT's Data to AI Lab in 2016. After 4 years of research and traction with enterprise, we created DataCebo in 2020 with the goal of growing the project. Today, DataCebo is the proud developer of SDV, the largest ecosystem for synthetic data generation & evaluation. It is home to multiple libraries that support synthetic data, including:

• 🔄 Data discovery & transformation. Reverse the transforms to reproduce realistic data.
• 🧠 Multiple machine learning models -- ranging from Copulas to Deep Learning -- to create tabular, multi table and time series data.
• 📊 Measuring quality and privacy of synthetic data, and comparing different synthetic data generation models.

Get started using the SDV package -- a fully integrated solution and your one-stop shop for synthetic data. Or, use the standalone libraries for specific needs.