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128: The Possibilities Are Endless for Synthetic Data with Alex Watson of Gretel.ai

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What's the Most Common Use Case for Synthetic Data?

Tabular data is any type of structured or semi structured data format. It could be anything from a CSV pile to use the formats again. More advanced data formats like parquet that are really efficient at encoding large amounts of data. Jason: The most common approach that you see out there is like, okay, I have, let's say, a user table right with like 1 million users. And I'd like to see like 2 million of these users having like would say similar characteristics or like the distribution of like the users. With a kind of information we capture already on this table. He says synthetic data allows developers to hammer away to investigate different records without worrying about privacy and things getting compromised

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