Hey, I’m Andrew đź‘‹

My 10-second elevator pitch is that I use words and data to guide users where they need to be in digital and physical environments. Right now, I’m the one and only content strategist & UX writer at SpotOn, where I promote content IS design to a team of 20+ designers and write for high-priority products.

Creating Synthetic Data with Python Using Faker

Let’s start from the very beginning. What is synthetic data, and why do we even need it? In simple words, synthetic data is just that—synthetic or fake data created to make some task easier. Common use cases include masking sensitive data so that it can be shared, simulating events like fraudulent transactions, using dummy data to help with quality assurance, and many more. In my case, I needed dummy data to test a database I was developing and Faker is my go to python library for that....

April 4, 2024