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

1 points by madelyn-goodman 3 years ago | 1 comment

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?

jonathanlb 3 years ago |

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