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  "id": 8291,
  "title": "I cannot understand the proper use of transaction.csv file",
  "url": "/competitions/acquire-valued-shoppers-challenge/discussion/8291",
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  "post_date": "2014-05-27T08:05:37.473Z",
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  "content": "<p>What is the use of the transaction.csv file? I know it contains the shoppers history through which we have to predict the customers behavior. But if you look at testingHistory.csv and sampleSubmission.csv files, there id columns are exactly the same, so the results should be based on the testingHistory file. Now where should I use transaction.csv?</p>\n<p>Please help me understand.</p>",
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      "postDate": "05/27/2014 08:05:37",
      "content": "<p>What is the use of the transaction.csv file? I know it contains the shoppers history through which we have to predict the customers behavior. But if you look at testingHistory.csv and sampleSubmission.csv files, there id columns are exactly the same, so the results should be based on the testingHistory file. Now where should I use transaction.csv?</p>\n<p>Please help me understand.</p>",
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      "postDate": "05/27/2014 08:30:04",
      "content": "<p>To predict, if the consumer will buy the offer again, you need some information about the consumer. Things like &quot;how much does the consumer spend on average&quot; or &quot;has he bought that offer before&quot;. That information can be gathered from the transaction-file.</p>",
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      "postDate": "05/27/2014 11:23:43",
      "content": "<p>transactions.csv file contains customers' transaction history. You need to use that file to extract features and you will be using those features to build statistical models. I suggest you to look at &#8220;Beating the Benchmark&#8221; code where you can get a very good idea about how to extract features from transactions.csv.</p>",
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      "postDate": "05/27/2014 11:29:24",
      "content": "<p>Where can I find &quot;beating the benchmark&quot; code?</p>",
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      "postDate": "05/27/2014 16:38:04",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Sami Atiq;47122]</p>\n<p>Where can I find &quot;beating the benchmark&quot; code?</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/acquire-valued-shoppers-challenge/forums/t/7688/feature-engineering-and-beat-the-benchmark-0-59347\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/acquire-valued-shoppers-challenge/forums/t/7688/feature-engineering-and-beat-the-benchmark-0-59347</a></p>\n<p>This is the discussion related to &quot;beat the benchmark code&quot;</p>",
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      "author_name": "jost54",
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      "post_date": "05/27/2014 08:30:04",
      "content": "<p>To predict, if the consumer will buy the offer again, you need some information about the consumer. Things like &quot;how much does the consumer spend on average&quot; or &quot;has he bought that offer before&quot;. That information can be gathered from the transaction-file.</p>",
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      "author_name": "upulbandara",
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      "post_date": "05/27/2014 11:23:43",
      "content": "<p>transactions.csv file contains customers' transaction history. You need to use that file to extract features and you will be using those features to build statistical models. I suggest you to look at &#8220;Beating the Benchmark&#8221; code where you can get a very good idea about how to extract features from transactions.csv.</p>",
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      "author_name": "samiatiq",
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      "post_date": "05/27/2014 11:29:24",
      "content": "<p>Where can I find &quot;beating the benchmark&quot; code?</p>",
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      "author_name": "upulbandara",
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      "post_date": "05/27/2014 16:38:04",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Sami Atiq;47122]</p>\n<p>Where can I find &quot;beating the benchmark&quot; code?</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/acquire-valued-shoppers-challenge/forums/t/7688/feature-engineering-and-beat-the-benchmark-0-59347\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/acquire-valued-shoppers-challenge/forums/t/7688/feature-engineering-and-beat-the-benchmark-0-59347</a></p>\n<p>This is the discussion related to &quot;beat the benchmark code&quot;</p>",
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