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  "id": 10804,
  "title": "Holiday in Client Country",
  "url": "/competitions/avazu-ctr-prediction/discussion/10804",
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  "post_date": "2014-10-30T22:53:41.447Z",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 4,
  "views": 1415,
  "content": "<p>I believe this is very fair question to ask, especially because device_geo_country is anonymized:</p>\n<p>Can we know whether any of the 11 train and test dates are holiday in any of the countries? What are the codes for those countries?</p>\n<p>Because think about this. People behaviors are so different on Weekend/Holidays and Business days. We can find out day of week with no problem but how useful it is if the Weekday turns out to be holiday?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "57078",
      "postDate": "10/30/2014 22:53:41",
      "content": "<p>I believe this is very fair question to ask, especially because device_geo_country is anonymized:</p>\n<p>Can we know whether any of the 11 train and test dates are holiday in any of the countries? What are the codes for those countries?</p>\n<p>Because think about this. People behaviors are so different on Weekend/Holidays and Business days. We can find out day of week with no problem but how useful it is if the Weekday turns out to be holiday?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "57079",
      "postDate": "10/30/2014 23:37:07",
      "content": "<p>You might want to plot clicks over time per country code and see the pattern.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>I can see the dips on weekends for the data overall &nbsp;</p>\n<p>if there is no certain patterns in certain countries, does that mean that those are click farms? :)</p>",
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    {
      "id": "57080",
      "postDate": "10/30/2014 23:42:08",
      "content": "<p>October 1-7 was a major national holiday week in China.</p>\n<p>Note also that Avazu is a Chinese company.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "57104",
      "postDate": "10/31/2014 11:27:18",
      "content": "<p>yes,&nbsp;October 1-7 was a major national holiday week in China</p>",
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    {
      "id": "57121",
      "postDate": "10/31/2014 17:03:52",
      "content": "<p>And October 4 and 9 in Israel.</p>\n<p>BTW, Friday in a Muslim country is a Weekend, if I am not mistaken.</p>",
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    {
      "id": 57079,
      "author_name": "parvez2",
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      "post_date": "10/30/2014 23:37:07",
      "content": "<p>You might want to plot clicks over time per country code and see the pattern.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>I can see the dips on weekends for the data overall &nbsp;</p>\n<p>if there is no certain patterns in certain countries, does that mean that those are click farms? :)</p>",
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    {
      "id": 57080,
      "author_name": "davidmsmith",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/30/2014 23:42:08",
      "content": "<p>October 1-7 was a major national holiday week in China.</p>\n<p>Note also that Avazu is a Chinese company.</p>",
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    {
      "id": 57104,
      "author_name": "stevewang0",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/31/2014 11:27:18",
      "content": "<p>yes,&nbsp;October 1-7 was a major national holiday week in China</p>",
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    {
      "id": 57121,
      "author_name": "tovtov",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/31/2014 17:03:52",
      "content": "<p>And October 4 and 9 in Israel.</p>\n<p>BTW, Friday in a Muslim country is a Weekend, if I am not mistaken.</p>",
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