Fake It Till You Make It: Generating Realistic Synthetic Customer Datasets - KDnuggets

Being able to create and use synthetic data in projects has become a must-have skill for data scientists. I have written in the past about using the Python library Faker for creating your own synthetic datasets. Instead of repeating anything in that article, let's treat this as the second in a series of generating synthetic data for your own data science projects. This time around, let's generate some fake customer order data. If you don't know anything about Faker, how it is used, or what you can do with it, I suggest that you check out the previous article first.