Sometimes I want to test out Python statistical libraries, but I can't find any datasets. Fortunately, it's easy to get around that by generating some of my own. Here's how I do it.

If you were a developer, scientist, engineer, computer engineer, or even a college student in the 1980s and early 1990s, you would have spent a lot of time in front of a Unix machine. Here are some reasons that it might have been like living in the future, given how workstations pioneered many computing features we take for granted.