What Is Synthetic Data? The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. (arXiv:2303.01230v1 [cs.CR])

Sharing data can often enable compelling applications and analytics. However,
more often than not, valuable datasets contain information of sensitive nature,
and thus sharing them can endanger the privacy of users and organizations. A
possible alternative gaining momentum in the research community is to share
synthetic data instead. The idea is to release artificially generated datasets
that resemble the actual data -- more precisely, having similar statistical
properties.

So how do you generate synthetic data? What is that useful for? …

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