Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Synthetic Data

You don’t need to have unanswered questions anymore

Arunn Thevapalan
Towards AI
Published in
6 min readMay 25, 2022

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“So this package creates huge amounts of fake data from this actual data?”

“You can say that — but it’s called synthetic data.”

“But what’s the point? It’ll be noise. Why don’t you use the actual data itself?”

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