From the course: Advanced Python: Top Tools for Data Science and Engineering
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Generating text data
From the course: Advanced Python: Top Tools for Data Science and Engineering
Generating text data
- [Instructor] The Faker Library can generate text data in a variety of flexible and customizable ways, just like it can with numeric data. Let's open up text Faker here. Let's first take a look at some of the ways to generate basic text information. So I'll generate a fake word and I can specify how many words I want by using the words function, and then choose the number of words I want. I can do the same thing with a sentence, and in this case, it's NB words. I can also generate multiple sentences, and let's create two sentences there. All right, let's go ahead and run that. And you can see when I run this code, we've generated text in different amounts and forms. So I have the single word, a list of words, a single sentence and a list of sentences. And of course, it changes each time. Let's try some longer form stuff. So we can generate longer form text, such as paragraphs and text. So let's use the fake paragraph. And for that, we can choose the number of sentences. We'll make…
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