Data set beyond a single state

[niranjan-sathindran]

Is there a reason why default is limited to a single state (MA)? Would it be possible to generate a data set that'll randomly generate data across the entire country?

[jawalonoski]

Historically, Synthea was used to create "SyntheticMass" -- a million synthetic patients in the state of Massachusetts. That is why Massachusetts remains the default state.

You can specify a different state and/or city on the command line (see Basic Setup and Running). You can also replace the demographics (see Other Areas, Demographics for Other Areas, and related wiki articles).

If you want to run multiple states, we recommend that users write a script that simply executes Synthea multiple times for each state desired. We do this ourselves when we want to generate a population for the entire United States.

[idhamari]

I think this would be a good feature to add, adding multiple states or special words example -p "state1, state2" or "All" for all states.