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  "id": 6106,
  "title": "Activities While Generating Data",
  "url": "/competitions/accelerometer-biometric-competition/discussion/6106",
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  "post_date": "2013-10-25T00:16:41.433Z",
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  "content": "<p>Hello,</p>\n<p>I had a couple questions relating to the activities that the users were performing when the data was generated.</p>\n<p>1) Are all of the users performing the same activity when the data is generated? Or does the &quot;backgroundness&quot; of the data mean that the users could be performing any activity?</p>\n<p>2) For each device, are the training and testing data generated from the same activity? By this I mean is it safe to assume that the data in the training set for one device is generated in the same activity that the data generated for the device in the testing set was?&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "32651",
      "postDate": "10/25/2013 00:16:41",
      "content": "<p>Hello,</p>\n<p>I had a couple questions relating to the activities that the users were performing when the data was generated.</p>\n<p>1) Are all of the users performing the same activity when the data is generated? Or does the &quot;backgroundness&quot; of the data mean that the users could be performing any activity?</p>\n<p>2) For each device, are the training and testing data generated from the same activity? By this I mean is it safe to assume that the data in the training set for one device is generated in the same activity that the data generated for the device in the testing set was?&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "32677",
      "postDate": "10/25/2013 14:15:28",
      "content": "<p>No. Users performed regular device usage activity during collection of both train &amp; test data sets.</p>",
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      "id": 32677,
      "author_name": "geoff3",
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      "post_date": "10/25/2013 14:15:28",
      "content": "<p>No. Users performed regular device usage activity during collection of both train &amp; test data sets.</p>",
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