============ pseudopeople

pseudopeople is a Python package that generates realistic simulated data about a fictional United States population, designed for use in testing entity resolution (record linkage) methods or other data science algorithms at scale.

pseudopeople requires Python 3.10-3.12 to run

You can install pseudopeople from PyPI with pip:

> pip install pseudopeople

or build it from source with

> git clone https://github.com/ihmeuw/pseudopeople.git

> cd pseudopeople

> python setup.py install

Documentation

You can view documentation at https://pseudopeople.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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