＊ Address

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Address data represents physical locations around the world, for example an office or personal mailing address. Addresses are usually structured, requiring several columns.

Addresses are also a type of PII data. A key consideration is that you do not want the precise address locations of your dataset to leak such as the exact street address and building number. However, you may want to create realistic, broader regions such as the city, postal code or country.

Key Features

🌎 Create random, realistic regions from anywhere in the world. When you do this, the combinations of all your address columns will make sense when put together. For example a city, state, country combination such as Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

🔓 You can also use the the Contextual Anonymization technique on addresses. Preserve the real regions from your data while anonymizing precise locations only, such as the street address and building number.

Supported sdtypes

An address comprises of multiple columns, each with specific concept such as a city.

Below are the supported sdtypes. You can supply one or more of these in combination to form an address.

sdtype	Definition
country_code	A 2-character ISO country code such as "US" or "BE". For a full list of ISO country codes, view the ISO guide.
administrative_unit, state	The full name of the broader regions in a country. In some countries, these are called states. The general name of the term is administrative unit. For example "Massachusetts" or "California".
state_abbr	The shortened abbreviation for the administrative unit. These are determined by the country. For example Massachusetts is "MA" and California is "CA".
city	The full name of the city, for example "Boston" or "San Francisco".
postcode	The internationally-recognized, 5-digit postal service code such as "02116" or "94103".
street_address	The building number and street such as "229 Berkeley St" or "77 Massachusetts Ave".
secondary_address	An optional, second line of the address that further specifies the unit or apartment number. For example "Apt #4" or "Building 204".

Browse Transformers

＊ RandomLocationGenerator

Create a realistic combination of address columns from random, worldwide locations.

＊ RegionalAnonymizer

Anonymize precise addresses while preserving the overall regional information.

AnonymizedFaker

Create anonymize columns without considering the context of the overall address.