Duck, Duck, Data
I have been on the hunt recently for some good test data, specifically, personal data. Like fake names, fake addresses, fake emails, fake phone numbers, and fake credit cards. I had resorted to many different tactics such as creating names from baby name lists, adding random numbers to to a standard set of a few street names. Oak St. seems to be my old stand by street name. But one thing that I could never recreate in a timely manner is international addresses & International phone numbers & fake credit card numbers, but I guess that is why the interWEB was created and sites like Fake name generator & generatedata.com exist. Fake name generator is just a great site, the international data that it generated was very high quality and helped enormously on a project I am currently working on. The other site generatedata.com was great for random selections of number ranges and ids also enums the only bummer is that it limits you to 200 rows of data where as fake name generator allows you to be emailed up to 40000 rows. The upside is that generatedata.com has opened up their source code so you can download the code that runs the site and remove that pesky 200 row limit. But all in all very high praise for both of these useful sites, although now that I look around they don’t seem to be that new so as always I am a little late to the party.
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