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The England/Wales names are weird too, lots of unusual first names. Also, Wales seems way over-represented. It has a population that's tiny compared to England, but half the names generated seem to be Welsh names such as Cerys.
Also, I don't know any English/Welsh people who drive a 1992 Pontiac Sunbird.
Well that's creepy: The address of my randomly generated person is 1 block from an place I stayed at (same street name, just one block down).
How very coincidental. This afternoon I was talking to my cofounders about test data generation - and names were one of them. Here are other resources that we found that were helpful: - http://www.generatedata.com/ - http://databasetestdata.com - http://randomuser.me (useful for frontends) - http://gedis-studio.com/ (not free) Also, TIL that Hipchat doesn't always pull all the links
http://golems.herokuapp.com/person/random.json
If anyone's interested in learning more let me know.
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The England/Wales names are weird too, lots of unusual first names. Also, Wales seems way over-represented. It has a population that's tiny compared to England, but half the names generated seem to be Welsh names such as Cerys.
Also, I don't know any English/Welsh people who drive a 1992 Pontiac Sunbird.
Random name factoid: In England, J is a valid first name and A is a valid surname. So someone's full name could be J A.
I wonder how many databases would accept that.
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For profile pics: http://randomuser.me/
Is this legal? Unless those faces are fictional drawings, using someone else's face for a fake profile seems way over the line.