{
  "id": 72891,
  "title": "Final output getting negative anyone know why this happens?",
  "url": "/competitions/elo-merchant-category-recommendation/discussion/72891",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2018-11-28T05:22:55.155995700Z",
  "votes": 5,
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  "content": "<p>Final output getting negative anyone know why this happens?</p>",
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      "id": "428937",
      "postDate": "11/28/2018 05:22:55",
      "content": "<p>Final output getting negative anyone know why this happens?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Final output getting negative anyone know why this happens?",
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    {
      "id": "429031",
      "postDate": "11/28/2018 08:59:55",
      "content": "<p>Could you provide some details? At this level of generality, it's kind of hard to answer - are all values negative (that would be weird) or only some of them (might happen - we are evaluating error across the entire sample, so a few negative values might still be in line with excellent predictions elsewhere).</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Could you provide some details? At this level of generality, it's kind of hard to answer - are all values negative (that would be weird) or only some of them (might happen - we are evaluating error across the entire sample, so a few negative values might still be in line with excellent predictions elsewhere).",
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    {
      "id": "429377",
      "postDate": "11/28/2018 19:09:03",
      "content": "<p>getting all negative target values as well... target between -1.833 and -0.083 ... awkward. I was blaming my very naive model.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "getting all negative target values as well... target between -1.833 and -0.083 ... awkward. I was blaming my very naive model.",
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    {
      "id": "430289",
      "postDate": "11/30/2018 06:03:59",
      "content": "<p>It is negatively skewed and the average value is coming out to be  -0.39 in my case while the values range from -21 to 3.41.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "It is negatively skewed and the average value is coming out to be  -0.39 in my case while the values range from -21 to 3.41.",
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      "id": 429031,
      "author_name": "konradb",
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      "post_date": "11/28/2018 08:59:55",
      "content": "<p>Could you provide some details? At this level of generality, it's kind of hard to answer - are all values negative (that would be weird) or only some of them (might happen - we are evaluating error across the entire sample, so a few negative values might still be in line with excellent predictions elsewhere).</p>",
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        {
          "id": 430289,
          "author_name": "ashirwadsangwan",
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          "post_date": "11/30/2018 06:03:59",
          "content": "<p>It is negatively skewed and the average value is coming out to be  -0.39 in my case while the values range from -21 to 3.41.</p>",
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    {
      "id": 429377,
      "author_name": "njean78",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/28/2018 19:09:03",
      "content": "<p>getting all negative target values as well... target between -1.833 and -0.083 ... awkward. I was blaming my very naive model.</p>",
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    "428937": "Final output getting negative anyone know why this happens?",
    "429031": "Could you provide some details? At this level of generality, it's kind of hard to answer - are all values negative (that would be weird) or only some of them (might happen - we are evaluating error across the entire sample, so a few negative values might still be in line with excellent predictions elsewhere).",
    "429377": "getting all negative target values as well... target between -1.833 and -0.083 ... awkward. I was blaming my very naive model.",
    "430289": "It is negatively skewed and the average value is coming out to be  -0.39 in my case while the values range from -21 to 3.41."
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