{
  "id": 8007,
  "title": "newbie q: what are benchmarks?",
  "url": "/competitions/acquire-valued-shoppers-challenge/discussion/8007",
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  "post_date": "2014-05-05T14:13:08.633Z",
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  "content": "<p>i am a newbie to kaggle. i was wondering what the benchmarks on the leaderboard mean.</p>\n\n<p>e.g. Prior (Brand &amp; Company &amp; Category) Benchmark 0.56619</p>\n<p>are they provided by the organizer or a contestant?</p>",
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      "id": "43717",
      "postDate": "05/05/2014 14:13:08",
      "content": "<p>i am a newbie to kaggle. i was wondering what the benchmarks on the leaderboard mean.</p>\n\n<p>e.g. Prior (Brand &amp; Company &amp; Category) Benchmark 0.56619</p>\n<p>are they provided by the organizer or a contestant?</p>",
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      "id": "43727",
      "postDate": "05/05/2014 16:00:00",
      "content": "<p>They are provided by the sponsoring company or by Kaggle. In some competitions the benchmarks are the &quot;state-of-the-art&quot; for the type of problem but usually they are just a simple/obvious algorithm applied to the data. Your goal should be to start at/above the highest benchmark and work your way up from there.</p>",
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      "id": 43727,
      "author_name": "sirguessalot",
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      "post_date": "05/05/2014 16:00:00",
      "content": "<p>They are provided by the sponsoring company or by Kaggle. In some competitions the benchmarks are the &quot;state-of-the-art&quot; for the type of problem but usually they are just a simple/obvious algorithm applied to the data. Your goal should be to start at/above the highest benchmark and work your way up from there.</p>",
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