{
  "id": 78568,
  "title": "Is target value by merchant not important?",
  "url": "/competitions/elo-merchant-category-recommendation/discussion/78568",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2019-01-25T12:31:14.223972400Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 1,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>I see that the training data is unique on the card number. This means, the target value has been calculated across all transactions on the card. Given the objective is to personalize the experience, giving the right offer at the right time, shouldn't the target value be at least at a merchant category level?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "461167",
      "postDate": "01/25/2019 12:31:14",
      "content": "<p>I see that the training data is unique on the card number. This means, the target value has been calculated across all transactions on the card. Given the objective is to personalize the experience, giving the right offer at the right time, shouldn't the target value be at least at a merchant category level?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I see that the training data is unique on the card number. This means, the target value has been calculated across all transactions on the card. Given the objective is to personalize the experience, giving the right offer at the right time, shouldn't the target value be at least at a merchant category level?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "464731",
      "postDate": "02/01/2019 11:44:38",
      "content": "<p>I would guess that the target value is rather a measure for whether a person wants to receive recommendations or not rather than a measure of how good the recommendations are (other than indirectly).</p>\n\n<p>The outlier -33 then would likely indicate people who have turned off recommendations completely, whereas the range for others is some type of measure of how likely they are to react positively/negatively to recommendations they get.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I would guess that the target value is rather a measure for whether a person wants to receive recommendations or not rather than a measure of how good the recommendations are (other than indirectly).\n\nThe outlier -33 then would likely indicate people who have turned off recommendations completely, whereas the range for others is some type of measure of how likely they are to react positively/negatively to recommendations they get.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 464731,
      "author_name": "reimersholme",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/01/2019 11:44:38",
      "content": "<p>I would guess that the target value is rather a measure for whether a person wants to receive recommendations or not rather than a measure of how good the recommendations are (other than indirectly).</p>\n\n<p>The outlier -33 then would likely indicate people who have turned off recommendations completely, whereas the range for others is some type of measure of how likely they are to react positively/negatively to recommendations they get.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
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    "461167": "I see that the training data is unique on the card number. This means, the target value has been calculated across all transactions on the card. Given the objective is to personalize the experience, giving the right offer at the right time, shouldn't the target value be at least at a merchant category level?",
    "464731": "I would guess that the target value is rather a measure for whether a person wants to receive recommendations or not rather than a measure of how good the recommendations are (other than indirectly).\n\nThe outlier -33 then would likely indicate people who have turned off recommendations completely, whereas the range for others is some type of measure of how likely they are to react positively/negatively to recommendations they get."
  },
  "source": "meta"
}