Practical Synthetic Data Generation

Khaled El Emam & Lucy Mosquera & Richard Hoptroff

Language: English

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Published: May 18, 2020

Description:

Building and testing machine learning models requires access to large and diverse data. But where can you find usable datasets without running into privacy issues? This practical book introduces techniques for generating synthetic data—fake data generated from real data—so you can perform secondary analysis to do research, understand customer behaviors, develop new products, or generate new revenue.