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  "id": 7734,
  "title": "Customer made 2647164 transactions",
  "url": "/competitions/acquire-valued-shoppers-challenge/discussion/7734",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2014-04-17T06:39:56.047Z",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 4,
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  "content": "<p>Hi,</p>\n\n<p>is it correct that the customer with ID 378964359 made over 2.6M transactions? Compare with transaction.csv line 40990604-43637767.</p>\n\n<p>Greetings</p>",
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    {
      "id": "42148",
      "postDate": "04/17/2014 06:39:56",
      "content": "<p>Hi,</p>\n\n<p>is it correct that the customer with ID 378964359 made over 2.6M transactions? Compare with transaction.csv line 40990604-43637767.</p>\n\n<p>Greetings</p>",
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      "id": "42184",
      "postDate": "04/17/2014 12:05:57",
      "content": "<p>That's what I found in the data set. I can't speak to its accuracy, if that is what you are asking. It could be someone shopping for an institution of some sort.</p>",
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      "id": "42187",
      "postDate": "04/17/2014 12:14:46",
      "content": "<p>He was hungry.</p>\n<p>Seriously, though, I wonder if that is a &quot;catch all&quot; customer ID. &nbsp;Sometimes if I forget my &quot;frequent shopper&quot; card, the check-out person will swipe some other card they have. &nbsp;I'm sure they do this simply because they know it really messes up data scientists.</p>",
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      "id": "42243",
      "postDate": "04/17/2014 18:22:37",
      "content": "<p>The customer&nbsp;378964359 is present in the training history. If it was just an placeholder card used to swipe in case of customer's who had forgotten their &quot;frequent shopper&quot; card then the incentive offered is confusing me. It can't be right, because above all it is just an placeholder card used by check-out person.</p>\n<p>Because of the incentive availed it makes me think the shopper was some sort of an institution.</p>\n<p>Effect of this record on training:</p>\n<p>The offer availed by this customer is&nbsp;1208251 for the category 2202 and company&nbsp;104460040.</p>\n<p>I didn't check out of the 2.6M transactions how many belonged to this category and company. My guess is it might be more and if so, will he not be an outlier for this category and company?</p>",
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      "id": "42443",
      "postDate": "04/19/2014 19:49:35",
      "content": "<p>There are more big consumers (618764932 and 2255653295 are 2nd and 3rd). And there are lots of consumers with only a few buys. I wonder if those consumers can be predicted. Maybe such consumers should always get a &quot;f&quot; for repeating.</p>",
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      "id": 42184,
      "author_name": "jay12185259",
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      "post_date": "04/17/2014 12:05:57",
      "content": "<p>That's what I found in the data set. I can't speak to its accuracy, if that is what you are asking. It could be someone shopping for an institution of some sort.</p>",
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      "id": 42187,
      "author_name": "breakfastpirate",
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      "post_date": "04/17/2014 12:14:46",
      "content": "<p>He was hungry.</p>\n<p>Seriously, though, I wonder if that is a &quot;catch all&quot; customer ID. &nbsp;Sometimes if I forget my &quot;frequent shopper&quot; card, the check-out person will swipe some other card they have. &nbsp;I'm sure they do this simply because they know it really messes up data scientists.</p>",
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      "id": 42243,
      "author_name": "muthujothi",
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      "post_date": "04/17/2014 18:22:37",
      "content": "<p>The customer&nbsp;378964359 is present in the training history. If it was just an placeholder card used to swipe in case of customer's who had forgotten their &quot;frequent shopper&quot; card then the incentive offered is confusing me. It can't be right, because above all it is just an placeholder card used by check-out person.</p>\n<p>Because of the incentive availed it makes me think the shopper was some sort of an institution.</p>\n<p>Effect of this record on training:</p>\n<p>The offer availed by this customer is&nbsp;1208251 for the category 2202 and company&nbsp;104460040.</p>\n<p>I didn't check out of the 2.6M transactions how many belonged to this category and company. My guess is it might be more and if so, will he not be an outlier for this category and company?</p>",
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      "id": 42443,
      "author_name": "jost54",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/19/2014 19:49:35",
      "content": "<p>There are more big consumers (618764932 and 2255653295 are 2nd and 3rd). And there are lots of consumers with only a few buys. I wonder if those consumers can be predicted. Maybe such consumers should always get a &quot;f&quot; for repeating.</p>",
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