How to Create Dummy Data in Python

Dummy data is randomly generated data that can be substituted for live data. Whether you are a Developer, Software Engineer, or Data Scientist, sometimes you need dummy data to test what you have built, it can be a web app, mobile app, or machine learning model. If you are using python language, you can use a faker python package to create dummy data of any type, for example, dates, transactions, names, texts, time, and others. Faker is a simple python package that generates fake data with different data types. Faker package is heavily inspired by PHP Faker, Perl Faker, and by Ruby Faker.