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An Introduction to Synthetic Data
In this chapter, we will define and introduce synthetic data. We will briefly explore the history and evolution of synthetic data. Then, we will introduce the main types of synthetic data and the basic data augmentation approaches and techniques.
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:
- What is synthetic data?
- History of synthetic data
- Synthetic data types
- Data augmentation
Technical requirements
The code used in this chapter will be available under the corresponding chapter folder in the book’s GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Synthetic-Data-for-Machine-Learning.
What is synthetic data?
Synthetic data is artificially generated data: the data is not captured, ...
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