AI is really good at this sort of thing; I've been using an LLM with Faker for some time to load data for demos into SingleStore: https://github.com/jasonthorsness/loadit
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#13Feature request - make the URL for the OpenAI API configurable. That way one can swap it out with Anthropic or any other LLM provider of their choice that provides an OpenAI-compatible API.
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#14"Stack: OpenAI API (GPT-4o for data generation)" -- I wonder if someday we'll have a generic API like how it's done in Java (e.g., Servlet API implemented by Tomcat, JBoss etc), so everyone can use their favorite LLM instead of having to register each provider like streaming services e.g. Disney+, Netflix, etc.
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#15Feature request - make the URL for the OpenAI API configurable. That way one can swap it out with Anthropic or any other LLM provider of their choice that provides an OpenAI-compatible API.
I was actually thinking about this very feature in the shower this morning :)
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#16I used Anthropic's new Claude API integration with artifacts to make a probably-worse version that you can play with (after logging in of course).
https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/eb7d8256-6d21-4c85-af9b-c...
I used this GitHub repo as context and Claude Opus 4 to create this artifact
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#17I was tired of digging through Kaggle and writing prompts over and over just to get fake data for dashboards and demos. So I built a little tool to help me out. It uses GPT-4o to generate a detailed schema and business rules based on a few dropdowns (like business type, schema structure, and row count). Then Faker fills in the rows using those rules, which keeps it fast and cheap. You can preview the data, export as…
Congrats, thanks for shipping and open sourcing this! Cool to see Metabase is enabling contributions to the ecosystem this way! :)
No problem, thanks for taking a look!
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#18depending on what you're using the synthetic data for, it is sometimes called distillation. here is a robust example from some upenn students: https://datadreamer.dev/
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#19"Stack: OpenAI API (GPT-4o for data generation)" -- I wonder if someday we'll have a generic API like how it's done in Java (e.g., Servlet API implemented by Tomcat, JBoss etc), so everyone can use their favorite LLM instead of having to register each provider like streaming services e.g. Disney+, Netflix, etc.
I hope so. I'm already subscribed to every streaming service, and my wallet can't handle all these LLMs too.
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#20AI is really good at this sort of thing; I've been using an LLM with Faker for some time to load data for demos into SingleStore: https://github.com/jasonthorsness/loadit
Nice, I like the challenge video!