The NFL challenge stipulates a word limit of 2000, but for this competition none is given. Will there be a limit imposed at some point? If not then my next question is irrelevant, but if we intend to provide academic citations for our notebook, will these count towards any final word limit? In my experience, these are often around 20 words each and can easily add up.
\nIt might be helpful if there was a guideline for how long the evaluators are expecting a standard notebook to be - I'd rather not be the only person who manages to waffle on about their work for 10,000 words…
", "messages": [ { "id": "1062502", "postDate": "10/27/2020 22:48:42", "content": "The NFL challenge stipulates a word limit of 2000, but for this competition none is given. Will there be a limit imposed at some point? If not then my next question is irrelevant, but if we intend to provide academic citations for our notebook, will these count towards any final word limit? In my experience, these are often around 20 words each and can easily add up.
\nIt might be helpful if there was a guideline for how long the evaluators are expecting a standard notebook to be - I'd rather not be the only person who manages to waffle on about their work for 10,000 words…
", "rawMarkdown": "The NFL challenge stipulates a word limit of 2000, but for this competition none is given. Will there be a limit imposed at some point? If not then my next question is irrelevant, but if we intend to provide academic citations for our notebook, will these count towards any final word limit? In my experience, these are often around 20 words each and can easily add up.\n\nIt might be helpful if there was a guideline for how long the evaluators are expecting a standard notebook to be - I'd rather not be the only person who manages to waffle on about their work for 10,000 words...", "votes": null }, { "id": "1062518", "postDate": "10/27/2020 23:38:34", "content": "We have not included any character count limits in the competition rules (and I suspect that the new NFL competition is the only competition to have ever had that requirement). That being said, extremely lengthy notebooks may possibly obscure the main points that you are trying to make.
\nHere are some example notebooks to consider as representative examples of what a good analytics challenge solution might look like: https://www.kaggle.com/c/ds4g-environmental-insights-explorer/discussion/141822.
", "rawMarkdown": "We have not included any character count limits in the [competition rules](https://www.kaggle.com/c/cdp-unlocking-climate-solutions/rules) (and I suspect that the new NFL competition is the only competition to have ever had that requirement). That being said, extremely lengthy notebooks may possibly obscure the main points that you are trying to make. \n\nHere are some example notebooks to consider as representative examples of what a good analytics challenge solution might look like: https://www.kaggle.com/c/ds4g-environmental-insights-explorer/discussion/141822.", "votes": null }, { "id": "1063105", "postDate": "10/28/2020 14:05:07", "content": "Thank you for the clarification.
", "rawMarkdown": "Thank you for the clarification.", "votes": null } ], "comments": [ { "id": 1062518, "author_name": "paultimothymooney", "author_url": "", "post_date": "10/27/2020 23:38:34", "content": "We have not included any character count limits in the competition rules (and I suspect that the new NFL competition is the only competition to have ever had that requirement). That being said, extremely lengthy notebooks may possibly obscure the main points that you are trying to make.
\nHere are some example notebooks to consider as representative examples of what a good analytics challenge solution might look like: https://www.kaggle.com/c/ds4g-environmental-insights-explorer/discussion/141822.
", "votes": null, "replies": [ { "id": 1063105, "author_name": "bigironsphere", "author_url": "", "post_date": "10/28/2020 14:05:07", "content": "Thank you for the clarification.
", "votes": null, "replies": [] } ] } ], "raw_markdown_by_id": { "1062502": "The NFL challenge stipulates a word limit of 2000, but for this competition none is given. Will there be a limit imposed at some point? If not then my next question is irrelevant, but if we intend to provide academic citations for our notebook, will these count towards any final word limit? In my experience, these are often around 20 words each and can easily add up.\n\nIt might be helpful if there was a guideline for how long the evaluators are expecting a standard notebook to be - I'd rather not be the only person who manages to waffle on about their work for 10,000 words...", "1062518": "We have not included any character count limits in the [competition rules](https://www.kaggle.com/c/cdp-unlocking-climate-solutions/rules) (and I suspect that the new NFL competition is the only competition to have ever had that requirement). That being said, extremely lengthy notebooks may possibly obscure the main points that you are trying to make. \n\nHere are some example notebooks to consider as representative examples of what a good analytics challenge solution might look like: https://www.kaggle.com/c/ds4g-environmental-insights-explorer/discussion/141822.", "1063105": "Thank you for the clarification." }, "source": "meta" }