{
  "id": 266789,
  "title": "user info allowed?",
  "url": "/competitions/bigdata2021-rl-recsys/discussion/266789",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2021-08-20T13:22:19.670420900Z",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>I notice that one user actually can have multiple records in trainset.csv and track1_test.csv (inferred from click history.)</p>\n<p>Is it allowed to use this information? </p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "1483147",
      "postDate": "08/20/2021 13:22:19",
      "content": "<p>I notice that one user actually can have multiple records in trainset.csv and track1_test.csv (inferred from click history.)</p>\n<p>Is it allowed to use this information? </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I notice that one user actually can have multiple records in trainset.csv and track1_test.csv (inferred from click history.)\n\nIs it allowed to use this information?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1483409",
      "postDate": "08/20/2021 16:07:59",
      "content": "<p>The rules for this competition are pretty vague, but it kind of sounds like you've discovered a hidden feature in the dataset. I assume that if it's in the provided dataset, its fair-game to use it to train your model. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The rules for this competition are pretty vague, but it kind of sounds like you've discovered a hidden feature in the dataset. I assume that if it's in the provided dataset, its fair-game to use it to train your model.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1483954",
      "postDate": "08/21/2021 02:27:36",
      "content": "<p>yep, however this is kind of like a data hacking behavior, and I am hoping the organizers can clarify the validity of using it. <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/sword10086\" target=\"_blank\">@sword10086</a> </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "yep, however this is kind of like a data hacking behavior, and I am hoping the organizers can clarify the validity of using it. @sword10086",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1486797",
      "postDate": "08/23/2021 08:15:42",
      "content": "<p>The userid is anonymized. There are no overlap users between the test set and the train set.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The userid is anonymized. There are no overlap users between the test set and the train set.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1483409,
      "author_name": "josephhorton",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/20/2021 16:07:59",
      "content": "<p>The rules for this competition are pretty vague, but it kind of sounds like you've discovered a hidden feature in the dataset. I assume that if it's in the provided dataset, its fair-game to use it to train your model. </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1483954,
          "author_name": "lzhbrian",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "08/21/2021 02:27:36",
          "content": "<p>yep, however this is kind of like a data hacking behavior, and I am hoping the organizers can clarify the validity of using it. <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/sword10086\" target=\"_blank\">@sword10086</a> </p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 1486797,
      "author_name": "sword10086",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/23/2021 08:15:42",
      "content": "<p>The userid is anonymized. There are no overlap users between the test set and the train set.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "1483147": "I notice that one user actually can have multiple records in trainset.csv and track1_test.csv (inferred from click history.)\n\nIs it allowed to use this information?",
    "1483409": "The rules for this competition are pretty vague, but it kind of sounds like you've discovered a hidden feature in the dataset. I assume that if it's in the provided dataset, its fair-game to use it to train your model.",
    "1483954": "yep, however this is kind of like a data hacking behavior, and I am hoping the organizers can clarify the validity of using it. @sword10086",
    "1486797": "The userid is anonymized. There are no overlap users between the test set and the train set."
  },
  "source": "meta"
}