Faker

Last week, we got DuckDB running with three hardcoded rows. That got us started—but three rows? You can eyeball that. Let’s generate hundreds of realistic customers and build a dataset worth exploring. Python has the perfect tool: faker. It’s a library that generates realistic fake data—names, emails, addresses, dates—anything you’d find in a real database. Let’s use it to build a dataset we can explore for the rest of this series. ...