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  "id": 20803,
  "title": "SVC magic? Can I do it in R?",
  "url": "/competitions/digit-recognizer/discussion/20803",
  "author_name": "AndreaCaleo",
  "post_date": "2016-05-08T09:42:34.733000",
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  "content": "<p>Hi everyone,\nThis is the first competition I've been doing without copying someone else's solution. My xgboost algorithm with a score of 0.98029 is outperformed by a method called SVC (Support Vector Clustering) used by a lot of people, but I am not familiar with it.</p>\n\n<p>I found some literature on it but mostly in the form of proper papers rather than simpler discussions. I would have tried to emulate it, but I mostly use R while the scripts with it are all in Python. My questions are: (a) is this a very famous technique? (b) is there a famous R package everyone uses for it?</p>",
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      "content": "<p>Hi everyone,\nThis is the first competition I've been doing without copying someone else's solution. My xgboost algorithm with a score of 0.98029 is outperformed by a method called SVC (Support Vector Clustering) used by a lot of people, but I am not familiar with it.</p>\n\n<p>I found some literature on it but mostly in the form of proper papers rather than simpler discussions. I would have tried to emulate it, but I mostly use R while the scripts with it are all in Python. My questions are: (a) is this a very famous technique? (b) is there a famous R package everyone uses for it?</p>",
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    "119233": "Hi everyone,\r\nThis is the first competition I've been doing without copying someone else's solution. My xgboost algorithm with a score of 0.98029 is outperformed by a method called SVC (Support Vector Clustering) used by a lot of people, but I am not familiar with it.\r\n\r\nI found some literature on it but mostly in the form of proper papers rather than simpler discussions. I would have tried to emulate it, but I mostly use R while the scripts with it are all in Python. My questions are: (a) is this a very famous technique? (b) is there a famous R package everyone uses for it?"
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