Hi bigtop. Are we interested in maintaining our own infra for generating fake data , rather than relying on and downloading external data sources for smokes? Fake data is great for testing I think...
In bigpetstore I'm generating fake data , written a lot of code to do this in the custom input formats.... but I just found : http://codearte.github.io/jfairy/ Which is a groovy tool for doing the same.... I wonder wether generating fake data for testing big data should be a first-class part of bigtop ? Would others use a utility or just me ? It might be another useful artifact for the community especially for bigpetstore but also for testing a variety of other machine learning related projects.... I think it's bad to rely on external websites for our tests, maybe in time we could move over to our in internally curated/generated data sets , and a data generation tool like the above moves us in that direction.
