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  "id": 1324,
  "title": "id on matlab files",
  "url": "/competitions/benchmark-bond-trade-price-challenge/discussion/1324",
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  "post_date": "2012-02-01T04:25:42.747Z",
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  "content": "<p>Is the ID column on the matlab(.mat) files correct?&nbsp; The order of the ids seem scrambled.&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "8382",
      "postDate": "02/01/2012 04:25:42",
      "content": "<p>Is the ID column on the matlab(.mat) files correct?&nbsp; The order of the ids seem scrambled.&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "8417",
      "postDate": "02/02/2012 20:36:16",
      "content": "<p>Yogurt,</p>\r\n<p>I apologize for that. For the CSV files and solution file, I randomized the order of the rows, and re-assigned the row ID's based on the new order.&nbsp;For the Matlab files, I randomized the row order, but accidentally did not reassign the row ID's.</p>\r\n<p>So it's my fault that the row ID's in the Matlab file are wrong. The correct ID's would be the row number (based on the order of the rows).</p>\r\n<p>We'll fix this in the upcoming release of new data (see <a href=\"http://www.kaggle.com/c/benchmark-bond-trade-price-challenge/forums/t/1330/modification-of-competition-data-and-format\">\r\nthis post</a>).</p>\r\n<p>Thanks, and sorry.</p>\r\n<p>-David</p>",
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    {
      "id": 8417,
      "author_name": "dchudz",
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      "post_date": "02/02/2012 20:36:16",
      "content": "<p>Yogurt,</p>\r\n<p>I apologize for that. For the CSV files and solution file, I randomized the order of the rows, and re-assigned the row ID's based on the new order.&nbsp;For the Matlab files, I randomized the row order, but accidentally did not reassign the row ID's.</p>\r\n<p>So it's my fault that the row ID's in the Matlab file are wrong. The correct ID's would be the row number (based on the order of the rows).</p>\r\n<p>We'll fix this in the upcoming release of new data (see <a href=\"http://www.kaggle.com/c/benchmark-bond-trade-price-challenge/forums/t/1330/modification-of-competition-data-and-format\">\r\nthis post</a>).</p>\r\n<p>Thanks, and sorry.</p>\r\n<p>-David</p>",
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