Share Paper: Generating Realistic Data for an Educational Simulation

  1. John Hansen, Saginaw Valley State University, United States
  2. Eliuzabeth Hansen, Saginaw Valley State University, United States
  3. Anne Tapp, Saginaw Valley State University, United States
Wednesday, March 7 1:30 PM-2:30 PM Terrace South

Abstract: Generating reasonable example data is a non-trivial task, and generating example data that can be used for a successful educational simulation demonstration is significantly harder. This paper explores the process and presents a few guidelines for reasonable data generation when the intent is to fill a database for an educational simulation. A computer science class wrote programs to complete this generation, and they were used to generate data for a course taught by the advanced educational studies department.