Ask HN: How often do you create fake data sets?
Trying to understand how often folks have to create fake or dummy data for product development, demos, proofs-of-concept, consulting, or other purposes.
What tools do you use?
What tools do you use?
It is trivial to write something where a tool takes a spec written in a way the tool understands (but possibly nothing else) and then spew out data without having to worry about, e.g., foreign key relationships.
If I have a choice, I wire together something Perl that does what I want.
Sometimes, I do not have a choice and have to use something like https://www.mockaroo.com/ or https://generatedata.com/ but then I have fiddle with stuff.
I am fond of David Golden's https://metacpan.org/pod/Data::Fake
I was thinking more of a virtual CSV file that you can query like a SQL table.
> Sometimes, I do not have a choice and have to use something like https://www.mockaroo.com/ or https://generatedata.com/ but then I have fiddle with stuff.
This is exactly the type of thing I was looking for, I will check them out. I do worry that each use case is too specific for a tool like this.
Thanks for the help.
https://tabulify.com/docs/getting_started/9_data_generation
When you got double column primary key, this is really hard to model it. May be one day, I would add this feature.