Analytical Modeling of a Synthetic VMS Deposit Data: a Proxy Tool for Education and Initial Research

Use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in Educational Technology Research

“…It has also been verified that this type of procedure has significant potential to improve available real datasets, both in terms of anonymization and in terms of increasing the sample size and the quality of the initial data, without altering the distributional characteristics of the values of the variables involved (recreating the data structure). These advantages are relevant to current open science movements, as they ensure secure and transparent ways to share research and datasets (Kyritsi et al, 2019;Lishchuk et al, 2021).…”

“…Furthermore, the artificial creation of data has an interesting consequence for the current movements in favor of open science in the field of education. The guarantee of data security can encourage availability so that the data is released and analytical techniques can be performed without the constraints that data collection implies (Dorodchi et al, 2019), as is happening in other disciplines (Lin et al, 2020;Yale et al, 2020), encouraging the exchange of datasets or libraries that are useful both for the learning of new students and for the testing of analytical and novel methodological techniques by experienced researchers (Kyritsi et al, 2019;Lishchuk et al, 2021).…”

“…GANs can be considered a type of machine learning framework composed of two competing neural networks. These networks have been applied to a variety of formats such as the generation of images or videos (Burlina, Joshi, Pacheco, Liu, & Bressler, 2019;Vallez, Mata, Cotorro, & Deniz, 2019), music, text conversion or data generation synthetics (Bautista & Inventado, 2021;Goodfellow et al, 2014) and in different fields of knowledge such as in the diagnosis of diseases such as cancer in preventive medicine (Burlina et al, 2019;Vilardell et al, 2020), dissemination of synthetic data from patients with diabetes (Kaur et al, 2020) and the provision of freely accessible geological information for educational and research purposes (Lishchuk, Haller, Martinsson, & Bauer, 2021), among many other uses that nourish specialized academic literature.…”