WESAD Dataset

Table of contents

1. Overview
2. Importing the data into MATLAB

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Overview

Item	Details
Links	Dataset, Publication
Signals	PPG, ECG, resp, accel, others
No. Subjs	15
Protocol	Recordings at baseline and during amusement, stress and meditation

Importing the data into MATLAB

I took the following steps to import the WESAD dataset to MATLAB:

1. Download the data from here (as stated here).
2. Download the convert_subject_pickle_files_to_mat.py python script.
3. Copy the subject’s .pkl file to the same folder as this python script.
4. Run the python script to convert the .pkl file into a MATLAB file. (I used Spyder - a Python program - through Anaconda-Navigator.)
5. Copy this MATLAB file back to the same folder as the .pkl file was obtained from.
6. Download the collate_ppg_dalia_dataset.m MATLAB script.
7. Modify the MATLAB script by inserting the up.paths.root_folder and up.paths.save_folder into the setup_up function.
8. Run the MATLAB script to collate all the individual MATLAB files into a single MATLAB data file, ready for analysis.