|  | ## Obfuscate

#### Synopsis

Replaces all nominal values and attribute names by random strings.

#### Description

This operator takes an `ExampleSet` as input and maps all nominal values to randomly created strings. The names and the construction descriptions of all attributes will also replaced by random strings. This operator can be used to anonymize your data. It is possible to save the obfuscating map into a file which can be used to remap the old values and names. Please use the operator `Deobfuscator` for this purpose. The new example set can be written with an `ExampleSetWriter`.

#### Input

- example set input: expects: ExampleSetMetaData: #examples: = 0; #attributes: 0

#### Output

- example set output:
- original:

#### Parameters

- obfuscation map file: File where the obfuscator map should be written to.
- use local random seed: Indicates if a local random seed should be used.
- local random seed: Specifies the local random seed

#### ExampleProcess