
The main advantages to using synthetic data instead of real world data is that it is more cost effective, can be private, and can be tested efficiently. An image consisting of a 3D model of a car driving through a 3D environment would be considered as entirely artificial, while a 3D model of a car placed in a photograph of a location would be a partially synthetic counterpart.

These data sets are used as a stand-in for testing production or operational data, to further corroborate mathematical models against the behaviour of the real world data and, with increasing rise in implementation, to train machine learning models.ĭatasets can be fully or partially synthetically generated. Synthetic data is a result of artificially manufacturing any sort of data – whether it be images, texts, or audio – algorithmically, rather than generating the data type by real world events.
