Field note · February 26, 2025
Randomised trial results, in one paragraph
A synthetic two-arm trial: 900 subjects, baseline and week-12 scores, adverse events, and a real but modest treatment effect that is easy to overstate if you analyse it badly..
clinical-trial in one paragraph, for anyone deciding whether it is worth downloading.
900 rows, 11 columns, one row per enrolled subject. A synthetic two-arm trial: 900 subjects, baseline and week-12 scores, adverse events, and a real but modest treatment effect that is easy to overstate if you analyse it badly.
Every dataset here is synthetic, which is a deliberate trade. It costs realism and buys three things: we can ship it CC0 with no licence trap, we can bake in the exact quirk a lesson needs, and nobody's real records end up in a tutorial.
Something to try: Run the intention-to-treat analysis and compare it with complete-case. The SQL playground has it loaded already, and the data explorer will profile every column in one pass if you would rather look before you query.
select *
from clinical_trial
limit 20;The file is generated from a fixed seed, so the CSV you download today is byte-identical to the one from last year. That matters more than it sounds: it means a lesson can say "row 412 is the interesting one" and still be right in eighteen months.
Download it, break it, keep it. CC0 — no attribution required, no account, no email.