John Myers of Gretel puts on his apron and rolls up his sleeves to show Dan and Chris how to cook up some synthetic data for automated data labeling, differential privacy, and other purposes. His military and intelligence community background give him an interesting perspective that piqued the interest of our intrepid hosts.

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Featuring:

• John Myers – LinkedIn
• Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Gretel | Website
• Gretel | LinkedIn
• Gretel | Twitter
• Gretel | Slack
• Gretel Synthetics | GitHub
• Gretel Blueprints | GitHub
• Gretel | Improving massively imbalanced datasets in machine learning with synthetic data
• Gretel | Deep dive on generating synthetic data for Healthcare

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!