Ask HN: What are the top uses for synthetic data in data science?

by madelyn-goodmanon 2/3/2023, 4:43 PMwith 1 comments

Obviously synthetic data can improve machine learning model training by providing more data and de-biasing datasets, but what other uses have people found for synthetic data when it comes to data science applications?

by jonathanlbon 2/3/2023, 4:49 PM

One use case for synthetic data is the ability to work on datasets that would otherwise contain PII.