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Discussion on: Production vs Synthetic Data for Testing

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Synthetic data is often generated to represent the production data.

It is normally used to protect privacy and confidentiality of production data, e.g. in testing and creating many different types of systems such fraud detection and churn prediction systems.

There is a number approaches to generate synthetic data described by the folks from Synthesized (synthesized.io/) in this blog post

blog.synthesized.io/2018/11/28/thr...