Part 2:An Overview of Synthetic Data for Machine Learning

In this part, you will be introduced to synthetic data. You will learn about the history and the main types of synthetic data. Then, you will explore its main advantages. You will understand why synthetic data is a promising solution for many complex issues, such as privacy, that hinder the progress of ML in certain fields. You will learn how synthetic data generation approaches can be utilized to generate data for rare scenarios that are usually expensive and dangerous to capture with real data.

This part has the following chapters:

• Chapter 4, An Introduction to Synthetic Data
• Chapter 5, Synthetic Data as a Solution