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  "id": 700,
  "title": "Tip: consider using \"compressed submissions\" for this competition",
  "url": "/competitions/ClaimPredictionChallenge/discussion/700",
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  "post_date": "2011-07-13T03:37:45.117Z",
  "votes": 4,
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  "content": "<p>Due to the relatively large submission files associated with this competition, you're all encouraged to use the new &quot;compressed submissions&quot; feature described in this post:&nbsp;<a href=\"/forums/t/699/compressed-submissions/4559#post4559\">http://www.kaggle.com/forums/t/699/compressed-submissions</a>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>I included two example submissions: a normal one and a &quot;compressed&quot; one. Using the compressed submissions should notably decrease your upload times.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "4560",
      "postDate": "07/13/2011 03:37:45",
      "content": "<p>Due to the relatively large submission files associated with this competition, you're all encouraged to use the new &quot;compressed submissions&quot; feature described in this post:&nbsp;<a href=\"/forums/t/699/compressed-submissions/4559#post4559\">http://www.kaggle.com/forums/t/699/compressed-submissions</a>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>I included two example submissions: a normal one and a &quot;compressed&quot; one. Using the compressed submissions should notably decrease your upload times.</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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    {
      "id": "4672",
      "postDate": "07/21/2011 01:06:53",
      "content": "<p>Hi Jeff, I just signed up for this competition. Do the two example entry files provide the format for the submitting predictions against the test set? For the uncompressed entry, I see it's just two columns, as per the following R code.</p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>head( claims )<br>\r\nRow<em>ID Claim</em>Amount<br>\r\n1 13184291 0<br>\r\n2 13184292 0<br>\r\n3 13184293 0<br>\r\n4 13184294 0<br>\r\n5 13184295 0<br>\r\n6 13184296 0</p>\r\n<p>nrow( claims )<br>\r\n[1] 4314865</p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<p>Best,</p>\r\n<p>Jan</p>",
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      "postDate": "07/21/2011 02:07:12",
      "content": "<p>[quote=janko;4672]</p>\r\n<p>Hi Jeff, I just signed up for this competition. Do the two example entry files provide the format for the submitting predictions against the test set?&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>[/quote]</p>\r\n<p>Yes. You can use two columns (in which the first column is ignored) or you can use a single column (which is assumed to be the second column with the predictions) with or without a header (as well as optionally compressing that file)</p>",
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    {
      "id": "4954",
      "postDate": "08/05/2011 16:32:38",
      "content": "<p>How do I get access to the tools that you added to Kaggle aaaaaaaaaaaand sniffing&quot; code that looks at our submitted CSV.</p>",
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      "postDate": "08/05/2011 17:16:16",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Dodi;4954]</p>\r\n<p>How do I get access to the tools that you added to Kaggle aaaaaaaaaaaand sniffing&quot; code that looks at our submitted CSV.</p>\r\n<p>[/quote]</p>\r\n<p>It's quite basic at the moment. I plan on rewriting this from scratch sometime this month to deal with a lot of different formatting issues I've seen over the months.</p>",
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      "id": 4672,
      "author_name": "janko6362",
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      "post_date": "07/21/2011 01:06:53",
      "content": "<p>Hi Jeff, I just signed up for this competition. Do the two example entry files provide the format for the submitting predictions against the test set? For the uncompressed entry, I see it's just two columns, as per the following R code.</p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>head( claims )<br>\r\nRow<em>ID Claim</em>Amount<br>\r\n1 13184291 0<br>\r\n2 13184292 0<br>\r\n3 13184293 0<br>\r\n4 13184294 0<br>\r\n5 13184295 0<br>\r\n6 13184296 0</p>\r\n<p>nrow( claims )<br>\r\n[1] 4314865</p>\r\n</blockquote>\r\n<p>Best,</p>\r\n<p>Jan</p>",
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      "id": 4673,
      "author_name": "jeffmoser",
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      "post_date": "07/21/2011 02:07:12",
      "content": "<p>[quote=janko;4672]</p>\r\n<p>Hi Jeff, I just signed up for this competition. Do the two example entry files provide the format for the submitting predictions against the test set?&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>[/quote]</p>\r\n<p>Yes. You can use two columns (in which the first column is ignored) or you can use a single column (which is assumed to be the second column with the predictions) with or without a header (as well as optionally compressing that file)</p>",
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      "id": 4957,
      "author_name": "jeffmoser",
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      "post_date": "08/05/2011 17:16:16",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Dodi;4954]</p>\r\n<p>How do I get access to the tools that you added to Kaggle aaaaaaaaaaaand sniffing&quot; code that looks at our submitted CSV.</p>\r\n<p>[/quote]</p>\r\n<p>It's quite basic at the moment. I plan on rewriting this from scratch sometime this month to deal with a lot of different formatting issues I've seen over the months.</p>",
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