{
  "id": 445308,
  "title": "Should data from periods when the child is off the clock be deleted as an outlier?",
  "url": "/competitions/child-mind-institute-detect-sleep-states/discussion/445308",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2023-10-06T11:21:57.976509700Z",
  "votes": 3,
  "comment_count": 1,
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  "content": "<p>I understand that there is a period of time when the child is off the clock, how should I process the data for that period of time?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "2469470",
      "postDate": "10/06/2023 11:21:57",
      "content": "<p>I understand that there is a period of time when the child is off the clock, how should I process the data for that period of time?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I understand that there is a period of time when the child is off the clock, how should I process the data for that period of time?",
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      "id": "2473739",
      "postDate": "10/08/2023 14:36:34",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/daichi1412\" target=\"_blank\">@daichi1412</a> : Deleting such data observations could be one option to go. However, it should be justified against the testing set - if the testing records have the series fragments with the child(s) to be off the clock, it would mean the trained models may mis-score the events under such a condition.</p>\n<p>Another option, as per the suggestion of <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/carlmcbrideellis\" target=\"_blank\">@carlmcbrideellis</a> ,  it to turn the contest problem into a multi-class tabular classification problem. You can see Carl's rationale behind it in the <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/child-mind-institute-detect-sleep-states/discussion/438438\" target=\"_blank\">respective discussion thread</a>. On a separate note, Carl prepared and the publicly contributed a new preprocessed <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/carlmcbrideellis/zzzs-lightweight-training-dataset-target\" target=\"_blank\">dataset</a> for the multi-class classification setup.</p>\n<p>As for me, I have not tried the multi-class prediction yet. However, it sounds promising to me to give it a try down the road.</p>\n<p>I hope it is helpful.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "daichi1412 : Deleting such data observations could be one option to go. However, it should be justified against the testing set - if the testing records have the series fragments with the child(s) to be off the clock, it would mean the trained models may mis-score the events under such a condition.\n\nAnother option, as per the suggestion of @carlmcbrideellis ,  it to turn the contest problem into a multi-class tabular classification problem. You can see Carl's rationale behind it in the [respective discussion thread](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/child-mind-institute-detect-sleep-states/discussion/438438). On a separate note, Carl prepared and the publicly contributed a new preprocessed [dataset](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/carlmcbrideellis/zzzs-lightweight-training-dataset-target) for the multi-class classification setup.\n\nAs for me, I have not tried the multi-class prediction yet. However, it sounds promising to me to give it a try down the road.\n\nI hope it is helpful.",
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 2473739,
      "author_name": "gvyshnya",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/08/2023 14:36:34",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/daichi1412\" target=\"_blank\">@daichi1412</a> : Deleting such data observations could be one option to go. However, it should be justified against the testing set - if the testing records have the series fragments with the child(s) to be off the clock, it would mean the trained models may mis-score the events under such a condition.</p>\n<p>Another option, as per the suggestion of <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/carlmcbrideellis\" target=\"_blank\">@carlmcbrideellis</a> ,  it to turn the contest problem into a multi-class tabular classification problem. You can see Carl's rationale behind it in the <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/child-mind-institute-detect-sleep-states/discussion/438438\" target=\"_blank\">respective discussion thread</a>. On a separate note, Carl prepared and the publicly contributed a new preprocessed <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/carlmcbrideellis/zzzs-lightweight-training-dataset-target\" target=\"_blank\">dataset</a> for the multi-class classification setup.</p>\n<p>As for me, I have not tried the multi-class prediction yet. However, it sounds promising to me to give it a try down the road.</p>\n<p>I hope it is helpful.</p>",
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    "2469470": "I understand that there is a period of time when the child is off the clock, how should I process the data for that period of time?",
    "2473739": "daichi1412 : Deleting such data observations could be one option to go. However, it should be justified against the testing set - if the testing records have the series fragments with the child(s) to be off the clock, it would mean the trained models may mis-score the events under such a condition.\n\nAnother option, as per the suggestion of @carlmcbrideellis ,  it to turn the contest problem into a multi-class tabular classification problem. You can see Carl's rationale behind it in the [respective discussion thread](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/child-mind-institute-detect-sleep-states/discussion/438438). On a separate note, Carl prepared and the publicly contributed a new preprocessed [dataset](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/carlmcbrideellis/zzzs-lightweight-training-dataset-target) for the multi-class classification setup.\n\nAs for me, I have not tried the multi-class prediction yet. However, it sounds promising to me to give it a try down the road.\n\nI hope it is helpful."
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