Generates pseudo-random timeseries data and saves to a csv file.

Random CSV Timeseries Generator.py

import random
import datetime
from datetime import timedelta
import csv

col_count = 5
num_items = 1000
cur_date = datetime.datetime.now()

with open('timeseries.csv', 'wb') as csvfile:
    csvwriter = csv.writer(csvfile)
    start_date = cur_date - timedelta(days=num_items)
    csvwriter.writerow(['datetime'] + ['value' + str(i) for i in range(col_count)])
    for idx in range(num_items):
        csvwriter.writerow([start_date] + [random.uniform(1, num_items) for i in range(1, col_count+1)])
        start_date += timedelta(days=1)