{
  "id": 80414,
  "title": "About External Data",
  "url": "/competitions/elo-merchant-category-recommendation/discussion/80414",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2019-02-13T11:45:10.920299Z",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Hi guys, I have a silly question. The rules section says:</p>\n\n<p>\"The following provision supersedes General Rules Section 7.C. below: “You may use data, other than the Competition Data, as allowed on the Competition Website to develop and test your models and Submissions; provided, you have the right and authority to use such external data for the purposes of the Competition, and to share such data with Sponsor and Kaggle as may be required.\"</p>\n\n<p>Publicly, freely available external data is permitted. The source of <strong>any</strong> external data must be posted to the official competition forum prior to the Entry Deadline. \"</p>\n\n<p>I created a private dataset in here which is include my previous scores to use them for blending and post-processing. And I used this dataset in a kernel. My question is,  is this a kind of external data that I have to write it in disclosure topic? </p>\n\n<p>Thanks.</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "470692",
      "postDate": "02/13/2019 11:45:10",
      "content": "<p>Hi guys, I have a silly question. The rules section says:</p>\n\n<p>\"The following provision supersedes General Rules Section 7.C. below: “You may use data, other than the Competition Data, as allowed on the Competition Website to develop and test your models and Submissions; provided, you have the right and authority to use such external data for the purposes of the Competition, and to share such data with Sponsor and Kaggle as may be required.\"</p>\n\n<p>Publicly, freely available external data is permitted. The source of <strong>any</strong> external data must be posted to the official competition forum prior to the Entry Deadline. \"</p>\n\n<p>I created a private dataset in here which is include my previous scores to use them for blending and post-processing. And I used this dataset in a kernel. My question is,  is this a kind of external data that I have to write it in disclosure topic? </p>\n\n<p>Thanks.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi guys, I have a silly question. The rules section says:\n\n\"The following provision supersedes General Rules Section 7.C. below: “You may use data, other than the Competition Data, as allowed on the Competition Website to develop and test your models and Submissions; provided, you have the right and authority to use such external data for the purposes of the Competition, and to share such data with Sponsor and Kaggle as may be required.\"\n\nPublicly, freely available external data is permitted. The source of **any** external data must be posted to the official competition forum prior to the Entry Deadline. \"\n\nI created a private dataset in here which is include my previous scores to use them for blending and post-processing. And I used this dataset in a kernel. My question is,  is this a kind of external data that I have to write it in disclosure topic? \n\nThanks.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "470740",
      "postDate": "02/13/2019 13:37:16",
      "content": "<p>What's the 'private dataset'? Is it the derived from this competition dataset? If so, you do not need to disclose it</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "What's the 'private dataset'? Is it the derived from this competition dataset? If so, you do not need to disclose it",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "470756",
      "postDate": "02/13/2019 14:00:28",
      "content": "<p>Yeah, it contains my submission.csv files that I submitted to competition. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yeah, it contains my submission.csv files that I submitted to competition.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "470757",
      "postDate": "02/13/2019 14:05:56",
      "content": "<p>Hi Murst,</p>\n\n<p>No, this type of external data does not require disclosure.</p>\n\n<p>Thanks!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi Murst,\n\nNo, this type of external data does not require disclosure.\n\nThanks!",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 470740,
      "author_name": "lftuwujie",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/13/2019 13:37:16",
      "content": "<p>What's the 'private dataset'? Is it the derived from this competition dataset? If so, you do not need to disclose it</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 470756,
          "author_name": "fatall",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "02/13/2019 14:00:28",
          "content": "<p>Yeah, it contains my submission.csv files that I submitted to competition. </p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 470757,
      "author_name": "addisonhoward",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/13/2019 14:05:56",
      "content": "<p>Hi Murst,</p>\n\n<p>No, this type of external data does not require disclosure.</p>\n\n<p>Thanks!</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "470692": "Hi guys, I have a silly question. The rules section says:\n\n\"The following provision supersedes General Rules Section 7.C. below: “You may use data, other than the Competition Data, as allowed on the Competition Website to develop and test your models and Submissions; provided, you have the right and authority to use such external data for the purposes of the Competition, and to share such data with Sponsor and Kaggle as may be required.\"\n\nPublicly, freely available external data is permitted. The source of **any** external data must be posted to the official competition forum prior to the Entry Deadline. \"\n\nI created a private dataset in here which is include my previous scores to use them for blending and post-processing. And I used this dataset in a kernel. My question is,  is this a kind of external data that I have to write it in disclosure topic? \n\nThanks.",
    "470740": "What's the 'private dataset'? Is it the derived from this competition dataset? If so, you do not need to disclose it",
    "470756": "Yeah, it contains my submission.csv files that I submitted to competition.",
    "470757": "Hi Murst,\n\nNo, this type of external data does not require disclosure.\n\nThanks!"
  },
  "source": "meta"
}