Making Data Useful
What is synthetic data?
A field guide to the various species of fake data: Part 1
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5 min readJun 30, 2023
Synthetic data is, to put it bluntly, fake data. As in, data that’s not actually from the population you’re interested in. (Population is a technical term in data science, which I explain here.) It’s data that you’re planning to treat as if it came from the place/group you wish it came from. (It didn’t.)
Synthetic data is, to put it bluntly, fake data.
