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  "id": 4990,
  "title": "Final data release and deadline extension",
  "url": "/competitions/cause-effect-pairs/discussion/4990",
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  "post_date": "2013-07-01T22:04:04.647Z",
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  "content": "<p>We released the final version of the training, validation and test set and extended the challenge deadline to\r\n<strong>August 19, 2013</strong>.</p>\r\n<p>The new data include both artificial and real data, formatted in a way that avoids the bias previously noted by a participant. The\r\n<strong>data are available from the download page</strong>.</p>\r\n<p>The new solution file for the vaiidation set was uploaded to the Kaggle system.<strong> Please resubmit a new entry</strong> with predictions on the new validation set to see your results updated.</p>\r\n<p>We apologize for the inconvenience that these changes are causing and thank you for your participation.&nbsp;Good luck to all. You are contributing to advance a very important scientific problem and hopefully several of you will make a breakthrough!</p>\r\n<p>===</p>\r\n<p>PS: We remind you that you may train your system on any other data you want, you are not limited to CEfinal_train data. In particular, we made available SUP1data, SUP2data and SUP3 data.</p>",
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      "id": "26546",
      "postDate": "07/01/2013 22:04:04",
      "content": "<p>We released the final version of the training, validation and test set and extended the challenge deadline to\r\n<strong>August 19, 2013</strong>.</p>\r\n<p>The new data include both artificial and real data, formatted in a way that avoids the bias previously noted by a participant. The\r\n<strong>data are available from the download page</strong>.</p>\r\n<p>The new solution file for the vaiidation set was uploaded to the Kaggle system.<strong> Please resubmit a new entry</strong> with predictions on the new validation set to see your results updated.</p>\r\n<p>We apologize for the inconvenience that these changes are causing and thank you for your participation.&nbsp;Good luck to all. You are contributing to advance a very important scientific problem and hopefully several of you will make a breakthrough!</p>\r\n<p>===</p>\r\n<p>PS: We remind you that you may train your system on any other data you want, you are not limited to CEfinal_train data. In particular, we made available SUP1data, SUP2data and SUP3 data.</p>",
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      "id": "26560",
      "postDate": "07/02/2013 00:46:57",
      "content": "<p>Isabelle,</p>\r\n<p></p>\r\n<p>I see the split-formatted data for SUP3 but not for the final_train, final_valid and final_test data. Am I missing something, or are these to be expected shortly?</p>\r\n<p></p>\r\n<p>Thanks</p>\r\n<p>BLC</p>",
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      "id": "26596",
      "postDate": "07/02/2013 15:50:17",
      "content": "<p>Kaggle thoughts it was confusing to have too many formats so I relegated the split data to:&nbsp;http://www.causality.inf.ethz.ch/CEdata/.</p>\r\n<p>I forgot to upload some files, but everything should be there now.</p>\r\n<p>Isabelle</p>\r\n<p></p>",
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    {
      "id": "26603",
      "postDate": "07/02/2013 21:16:36",
      "content": "<p>Hi,</p>\r\n<p>Is this competition still open to new participants?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "26604",
      "postDate": "07/02/2013 22:04:24",
      "content": "<p>Yes</p>",
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    {
      "id": "28394",
      "postDate": "08/07/2013 18:54:54",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Isabelle;26546]</p>\n<p>We released the final version of the training, validation and test set and extended the challenge deadline to <strong>August 19, 2013</strong>.</p>\n<p>The new data include both artificial and real data, formatted in a way that avoids the bias previously noted by a participant. The <strong>data are available from the download page</strong>.</p>\n<p>The new solution file for the vaiidation set was uploaded to the Kaggle system.<strong> Please resubmit a new entry</strong> with predictions on the new validation set to see your results updated.</p>\n<p>We apologize for the inconvenience that these changes are causing and thank you for your participation.&nbsp;Good luck to all. You are contributing to advance a very important scientific problem and hopefully several of you will make a breakthrough!</p>\n<p>===</p>\n<p>PS: We remind you that you may train your system on any other data you want, you are not limited to CEfinal_train data. In particular, we made available SUP1data, SUP2data and SUP3 data.</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>How to get decryption key for test data</p>",
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    {
      "id": "28418",
      "postDate": "08/08/2013 07:57:26",
      "content": "<p>See the timeline for the competition:</p>\n<p>https://www.kaggle.com/c/cause-effect-pairs/details/timeline</p>\n<p>We submit our models to Kaggle before 19 August. Then on 23 August the decryption keys are released.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Eoin</p>",
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      "id": 26560,
      "author_name": "bcragin",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/02/2013 00:46:57",
      "content": "<p>Isabelle,</p>\r\n<p></p>\r\n<p>I see the split-formatted data for SUP3 but not for the final_train, final_valid and final_test data. Am I missing something, or are these to be expected shortly?</p>\r\n<p></p>\r\n<p>Thanks</p>\r\n<p>BLC</p>",
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      "id": 26596,
      "author_name": "iguyon",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/02/2013 15:50:17",
      "content": "<p>Kaggle thoughts it was confusing to have too many formats so I relegated the split data to:&nbsp;http://www.causality.inf.ethz.ch/CEdata/.</p>\r\n<p>I forgot to upload some files, but everything should be there now.</p>\r\n<p>Isabelle</p>\r\n<p></p>",
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      "id": 26603,
      "author_name": "naokazumizuta",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/02/2013 21:16:36",
      "content": "<p>Hi,</p>\r\n<p>Is this competition still open to new participants?</p>",
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    {
      "id": 26604,
      "author_name": "benhamner",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/02/2013 22:04:24",
      "content": "<p>Yes</p>",
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      "id": 28394,
      "author_name": "thakurrajanand",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/07/2013 18:54:54",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Isabelle;26546]</p>\n<p>We released the final version of the training, validation and test set and extended the challenge deadline to <strong>August 19, 2013</strong>.</p>\n<p>The new data include both artificial and real data, formatted in a way that avoids the bias previously noted by a participant. The <strong>data are available from the download page</strong>.</p>\n<p>The new solution file for the vaiidation set was uploaded to the Kaggle system.<strong> Please resubmit a new entry</strong> with predictions on the new validation set to see your results updated.</p>\n<p>We apologize for the inconvenience that these changes are causing and thank you for your participation.&nbsp;Good luck to all. You are contributing to advance a very important scientific problem and hopefully several of you will make a breakthrough!</p>\n<p>===</p>\n<p>PS: We remind you that you may train your system on any other data you want, you are not limited to CEfinal_train data. In particular, we made available SUP1data, SUP2data and SUP3 data.</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>How to get decryption key for test data</p>",
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    {
      "id": 28418,
      "author_name": "eoinlawless",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/08/2013 07:57:26",
      "content": "<p>See the timeline for the competition:</p>\n<p>https://www.kaggle.com/c/cause-effect-pairs/details/timeline</p>\n<p>We submit our models to Kaggle before 19 August. Then on 23 August the decryption keys are released.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Eoin</p>",
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