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  "id": 5808,
  "title": "Position Benchmark",
  "url": "/competitions/expedia-personalized-sort/discussion/5808",
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  "post_date": "2013-09-19T09:34:15.570Z",
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  "content": "<p>Hi</p>\n<p>What is the meaning of &quot;Position Benchmark&quot; on Leaderboard&nbsp;page?</p>\n<p>As explaineded as &quot;Properties ranked according to the position they were shown on Expedia.com&quot;, does this mean that these positions are the same ones with positions found in the test.csv file?</p>\n<p>striki</p>",
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      "postDate": "09/19/2013 09:34:15",
      "content": "<p>Hi</p>\n<p>What is the meaning of &quot;Position Benchmark&quot; on Leaderboard&nbsp;page?</p>\n<p>As explaineded as &quot;Properties ranked according to the position they were shown on Expedia.com&quot;, does this mean that these positions are the same ones with positions found in the test.csv file?</p>\n<p>striki</p>",
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      "postDate": "09/19/2013 10:16:26",
      "content": "<p>The order of hotels per each impression is randomized in test.csv. &quot;Position Benchmark&quot; is based on positions of hotels (this information is removed from test.csv).</p>",
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      "id": "31393",
      "postDate": "09/23/2013 12:09:50",
      "content": "<p>Sorry for my mistake writing the question, my intention was to point to train.csv file, not test.csv.</p>\n<p>So, question is: Is the order of properties per search in train.csv file&nbsp;same as they are shown on Expedia site, of course&nbsp;when random_bool parameter&nbsp;is 0?</p>",
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      "postDate": "09/23/2013 12:21:04",
      "content": "<p>The order of hotels is always given in the &quot;position&quot; column.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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      "postDate": "09/23/2013 12:26:14",
      "content": "<p>Can you explain the meaning of Position Benchmark show&nbsp;on Leaderboard page?</p>\n<p>How this score of &nbsp;0.49990 is achieved?</p>",
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      "id": "31398",
      "postDate": "09/23/2013 12:44:58",
      "content": "<p>Position benchmark assumes that the order of hotels in the test data is the one that was displayed on the Expedia webpage; the order of hotels in the test data is not public.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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      "author_name": "adamwoz",
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      "post_date": "09/19/2013 10:16:26",
      "content": "<p>The order of hotels per each impression is randomized in test.csv. &quot;Position Benchmark&quot; is based on positions of hotels (this information is removed from test.csv).</p>",
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      "author_name": "striki",
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      "post_date": "09/23/2013 12:09:50",
      "content": "<p>Sorry for my mistake writing the question, my intention was to point to train.csv file, not test.csv.</p>\n<p>So, question is: Is the order of properties per search in train.csv file&nbsp;same as they are shown on Expedia site, of course&nbsp;when random_bool parameter&nbsp;is 0?</p>",
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      "author_name": "adamwoz",
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      "post_date": "09/23/2013 12:21:04",
      "content": "<p>The order of hotels is always given in the &quot;position&quot; column.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": 31395,
      "author_name": "striki",
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      "post_date": "09/23/2013 12:26:14",
      "content": "<p>Can you explain the meaning of Position Benchmark show&nbsp;on Leaderboard page?</p>\n<p>How this score of &nbsp;0.49990 is achieved?</p>",
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      "post_date": "09/23/2013 12:44:58",
      "content": "<p>Position benchmark assumes that the order of hotels in the test data is the one that was displayed on the Expedia webpage; the order of hotels in the test data is not public.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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