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type: podcast
authors:
  - alex-patterson
episode: 38
guests:
  - omed-habib
recording_date: September 7, 2021 7:00 PM
season: 1
published: published
podcast: CodingCat.dev
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devto: https://dev.to/codingcatdev/1-38-creating-fake-data-with-tonic-4kg1
excerpt: We sit down with the VP of Marketing at Tonic.ai to talk about how you can use Tonic to create fake data.
hashnode: https://hashnode.codingcat.dev/podcast-1-38-creating-fake-data-with-tonic
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    { author: 'omed-habib', name: 'Camo', site: 'https://reincubate.com/camo/' },
    { author: 'omed-habib', name: 'Ospera', site: 'https://www.opsera.io/' },
    { author: 'alex-patterson', name: 'NuxtLabs', site: 'https://nuxtlabs.com/' },
    { author: 'alex-patterson', name: 'Clickbait', site: 'https://www.netflix.com/title/80991754' }
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start: September 29, 2021
title: Creating Fake Data with Tonic
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJbBcqKQ710
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## Questions

1. What is fake data exactly and how is it used in the development process?
2. What are some of the risks that fake data can mitigate? Do you have specific examples?
3. How does [Tonic.ai](http://tonic.ai) help with Continuous Marketing?
4. What kind of companies get the most value out of tonic’s fake data?
5. How can you work with PII/PHI identification, obfuscation, and transformation?
6. If you strip apart all of the data how can you guarantee something like a primary key still works?
