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  "id": 195522,
  "title": "External data in KPI calculation",
  "url": "/competitions/cdp-unlocking-climate-solutions/discussion/195522",
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  "post_date": "2020-11-05T22:23:56.202305Z",
  "votes": 4,
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  "content": "<p>Are we allowed to use external data, that doesn't come as part of current CDP survey, for KPI 'calculation'? I know it says 'Leverage external data sources'. But it doesn't mention, if that is only for literature purpose/discussions or if it can be included in methodology as well.  </p>",
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      "postDate": "11/05/2020 22:23:56",
      "content": "<p>Are we allowed to use external data, that doesn't come as part of current CDP survey, for KPI 'calculation'? I know it says 'Leverage external data sources'. But it doesn't mention, if that is only for literature purpose/discussions or if it can be included in methodology as well.  </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Are we allowed to use external data, that doesn't come as part of current CDP survey, for KPI 'calculation'? I know it says 'Leverage external data sources'. But it doesn't mention, if that is only for literature purpose/discussions or if it can be included in methodology as well.",
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      "id": "1070571",
      "postDate": "11/05/2020 22:33:53",
      "content": "<p>To be valid, a submission must be contained in one or more notebook, and made public on or before the submission deadline. Participants are free to use any datasets in addition to the <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/cdp-unlocking-climate-solutions\" target=\"_blank\">official Kaggle dataset</a>, but those datasets must be public and hosted on Kaggle for the submission to be valid.</p>\n<p>You can find a thread for discussing useful external datasets here: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/cdp-unlocking-climate-solutions/discussion/190884\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/cdp-unlocking-climate-solutions/discussion/190884</a></p>\n<p>Don't forget to review the <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/cdp-unlocking-climate-solutions/overview/evaluation\" target=\"_blank\">evaluation criteria</a>! </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "To be valid, a submission must be contained in one or more notebook, and made public on or before the submission deadline. Participants are free to use any datasets in addition to the [official Kaggle dataset](https://www.kaggle.com/c/cdp-unlocking-climate-solutions), but those datasets must be public and hosted on Kaggle for the submission to be valid.\n\nYou can find a thread for discussing useful external datasets here: https://www.kaggle.com/c/cdp-unlocking-climate-solutions/discussion/190884\n\nDon't forget to review the [evaluation criteria](https://www.kaggle.com/c/cdp-unlocking-climate-solutions/overview/evaluation)!",
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      "id": 1070571,
      "author_name": "paultimothymooney",
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      "post_date": "11/05/2020 22:33:53",
      "content": "<p>To be valid, a submission must be contained in one or more notebook, and made public on or before the submission deadline. Participants are free to use any datasets in addition to the <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/cdp-unlocking-climate-solutions\" target=\"_blank\">official Kaggle dataset</a>, but those datasets must be public and hosted on Kaggle for the submission to be valid.</p>\n<p>You can find a thread for discussing useful external datasets here: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/cdp-unlocking-climate-solutions/discussion/190884\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/cdp-unlocking-climate-solutions/discussion/190884</a></p>\n<p>Don't forget to review the <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/cdp-unlocking-climate-solutions/overview/evaluation\" target=\"_blank\">evaluation criteria</a>! </p>",
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    "1070568": "Are we allowed to use external data, that doesn't come as part of current CDP survey, for KPI 'calculation'? I know it says 'Leverage external data sources'. But it doesn't mention, if that is only for literature purpose/discussions or if it can be included in methodology as well.",
    "1070571": "To be valid, a submission must be contained in one or more notebook, and made public on or before the submission deadline. Participants are free to use any datasets in addition to the [official Kaggle dataset](https://www.kaggle.com/c/cdp-unlocking-climate-solutions), but those datasets must be public and hosted on Kaggle for the submission to be valid.\n\nYou can find a thread for discussing useful external datasets here: https://www.kaggle.com/c/cdp-unlocking-climate-solutions/discussion/190884\n\nDon't forget to review the [evaluation criteria](https://www.kaggle.com/c/cdp-unlocking-climate-solutions/overview/evaluation)!"
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