dummy data generator

[Jonathon Paarlberg]

Just a nice little tip. If you want to generate data to play around with or demonstrate a concept, or if you want to provide testers or forum do-gooders with an example but can't use real data, then try the following website to quickly generate up to 100 rows of dummy data.

http://www.generatedata.com/

[Jonathon Paarlberg]

Even better, check out Mockaroo.com.

http://mockaroo.com/

[Tom Morris]

Thanks for the tips.  

Is random data generation something that folks would find useful in OpenRefine?  It seems like there enough dirty example data sets around to last a long time :-) but perhaps there are usecases where synthetic data is better.

Tom

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[qi cui]

Interesting. but the http://www.generatedata.com/ is open source and the mockaroo.com is not(It's more powerful and have more date types though).

[Jonathon Paarlberg]

Yeah, there's plenty of dirt out there, but it might not be exemplary of your data set -- it might not be the right kind of dirt. :-) So custom dirt can be useful from time to time.