{
  "id": 73340,
  "title": "Nagative Purchase Amounts",
  "url": "/competitions/elo-merchant-category-recommendation/discussion/73340",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2018-12-02T06:09:24.724715600Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 4,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Hi All,\nHas anyone figured out why some amounts are negative .?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "431375",
      "postDate": "12/02/2018 06:09:24",
      "content": "<p>Hi All,\nHas anyone figured out why some amounts are negative .?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi All,\nHas anyone figured out why some amounts are negative .?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "431559",
      "postDate": "12/02/2018 13:46:14",
      "content": "<p>Normally I would've suspected data entry errors, but we are dealing with simulated data - so not-that-careful simulation procedure, I would say.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Normally I would've suspected data entry errors, but we are dealing with simulated data - so not-that-careful simulation procedure, I would say.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "431648",
      "postDate": "12/02/2018 17:14:39",
      "content": "<p>The negative values might be due to some kind of normalization.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The negative values might be due to some kind of normalization.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "431732",
      "postDate": "12/02/2018 20:32:25",
      "content": "<p>According to Data_Dictionary.xlsx <strong>purchase_amount</strong> is normalized purchase amount - thus, it can be negative.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "According to Data\\_Dictionary.xlsx **purchase\\_amount** is normalized purchase amount - thus, it can be negative.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "432065",
      "postDate": "12/03/2018 10:51:50",
      "content": "<p>Yeah , I suspected that. They may have applied log to the amounts which explains the negatives</p>\n\n<p>Thank you all</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yeah , I suspected that. They may have applied log to the amounts which explains the negatives\n\nThank you all",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 431559,
      "author_name": "konradb",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/02/2018 13:46:14",
      "content": "<p>Normally I would've suspected data entry errors, but we are dealing with simulated data - so not-that-careful simulation procedure, I would say.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 431648,
      "author_name": "robertkag",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/02/2018 17:14:39",
      "content": "<p>The negative values might be due to some kind of normalization.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 431732,
      "author_name": "kailex",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/02/2018 20:32:25",
      "content": "<p>According to Data_Dictionary.xlsx <strong>purchase_amount</strong> is normalized purchase amount - thus, it can be negative.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 432065,
      "author_name": "antonspartan",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/03/2018 10:51:50",
      "content": "<p>Yeah , I suspected that. They may have applied log to the amounts which explains the negatives</p>\n\n<p>Thank you all</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "431375": "Hi All,\nHas anyone figured out why some amounts are negative .?",
    "431559": "Normally I would've suspected data entry errors, but we are dealing with simulated data - so not-that-careful simulation procedure, I would say.",
    "431648": "The negative values might be due to some kind of normalization.",
    "431732": "According to Data\\_Dictionary.xlsx **purchase\\_amount** is normalized purchase amount - thus, it can be negative.",
    "432065": "Yeah , I suspected that. They may have applied log to the amounts which explains the negatives\n\nThank you all"
  },
  "source": "meta"
}