Jonathan Stewart has a new open-source tool:
Wait, what? Didn’t you already build one of these?
I built a data generator, yes. But when I realized what profiling the data could open up, the ideas just kept coming. “With this data I could do this.” Then something else. Then something else.
The generator was only half the picture. Before I could make data behave the way I needed, I had to understand how it behaved in the first place.
Your schema tells you column names and types. It doesn’t tell you that December might bring in nearly three times February’s orders, that a small group of customers might place most of them, or that a field’s null rate might jump between two captures.
Click through for the intro article and check out the GitHub repo as well as a playground where you can try it in your browser.