A Practical Guide to Anonymizing Datasets with Python & Faker

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

— George Orwell 1984

In order to learn (or teach) data science you need data (surprise!). The best libraries often come with a toy dataset to illustrate examples of how the code works. However, nothing can replace an actual, non-trivial dataset for a tutorial or lesson, because only that can provide for deep and meaningful exploration. Unfortunately, non-trivial datasets can be hard to find for a few reasons, one of wh...