Why would you want synthetic data?
Is synthetic data the hot new thing or an act of desperation?
3 min readJul 21, 2023
First off, what is synthetic data and why should you care?
Synthetic data is, to put it bluntly, fake data. If you’re new to the topic, I’d recommend starting with my previous blog post about it. (Or continue here, YOLO.)
Synthetic data can be a collection of datapoints to fill a table or database, but these days there are plenty more complicated and interesting objects being simulated. Much of the current hype around…
