I'm considering webscraping skysports website in order to get more data on the horses and possibly injuries. Under the website terms, scraping only breaks the website conditions if the data is used for a third-party sports betting website. I will make the data available to the other competitors, but would Kaggle disqualify me form the competition for web scraping in general?
", "messages": [ { "id": "2006850", "postDate": "10/27/2022 20:48:03", "content": "I'm considering webscraping skysports website in order to get more data on the horses and possibly injuries. Under the website terms, scraping only breaks the website conditions if the data is used for a third-party sports betting website. I will make the data available to the other competitors, but would Kaggle disqualify me form the competition for web scraping in general?
", "rawMarkdown": "I'm considering webscraping skysports website in order to get more data on the horses and possibly injuries. Under the website terms, scraping only breaks the website conditions if the data is used for a third-party sports betting website. I will make the data available to the other competitors, but would Kaggle disqualify me form the competition for web scraping in general?", "votes": null }, { "id": "2006883", "postDate": "10/27/2022 21:09:10", "content": "Hi there,
\nWe cannot interpret competition rules for you - but let me provide you with relevant sections of the rules for your review:
\n7. C. External Data. You may use data other than the Competition Data (“External Data”) to develop and test your Submissions. However, you will ensure the External Data is publicly available to use by all participants of the Competition for purposes of the competition at no cost to the other participants. The ability to use External Data under this Section 7.C (External Data) does not limit you other obligations under these Competition Rules, including but not limited to Section 11 (Winners Obligations).
\n(b) grant to the Competition Sponsor the license to the winning Submission stated in the Competition Specific Rules above, and represent that you have the unrestricted right to grant that license;
", "rawMarkdown": "Hi there,\n\nWe cannot interpret competition rules for you - but let me provide you with relevant sections of the rules for your review:\n\n*7. C. External Data. You may use data other than the Competition Data (“External Data”) to develop and test your Submissions. However, you will ensure the External Data is publicly available to use by all participants of the Competition for purposes of the competition at no cost to the other participants. The ability to use External Data under this Section 7.C (External Data) does not limit you other obligations under these Competition Rules, including but not limited to Section 11 (Winners Obligations).*\n\n11. (a) deliver to the Competition Sponsor the final model's software code as used to generate the winning Submission and associated documentation. The delivered software code should follow these documentation guidelines, must be capable of generating the winning Submission, and contain a description of resources required to build and/or run the executable code successfully. If the final model’s software code includes generally commercially available software that is not owned by you, but that can be procured by the Competition Sponsor without undue expense, then instead of delivering the code for that software to the Competition Sponsor, you must identify that software, method for procuring it, and any parameters or other information necessary to replicate the winning Submission;\n\n(b) grant to the Competition Sponsor the license to the winning Submission stated in the Competition Specific Rules above, and represent that you have the unrestricted right to grant that license;", "votes": null } ], "comments": [ { "id": 2006883, "author_name": "addisonhoward", "author_url": "", "post_date": "10/27/2022 21:09:10", "content": "Hi there,
\nWe cannot interpret competition rules for you - but let me provide you with relevant sections of the rules for your review:
\n7. C. External Data. You may use data other than the Competition Data (“External Data”) to develop and test your Submissions. However, you will ensure the External Data is publicly available to use by all participants of the Competition for purposes of the competition at no cost to the other participants. The ability to use External Data under this Section 7.C (External Data) does not limit you other obligations under these Competition Rules, including but not limited to Section 11 (Winners Obligations).
\n(b) grant to the Competition Sponsor the license to the winning Submission stated in the Competition Specific Rules above, and represent that you have the unrestricted right to grant that license;
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