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  "id": 5823,
  "title": "Weird price_usd values",
  "url": "/competitions/expedia-personalized-sort/discussion/5823",
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  "post_date": "2013-09-20T05:43:46.853Z",
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  "content": "<p>Please help me to understand price_usd values.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">For example, search&nbsp;</span><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">365560 in the training set returned 8 hotels with prices ranging from $3M to $9M. Well, even if we assume for a moment that such hotel prices exist and are sold from .com site, it still makes no sense: the customer booked one of these rooms (the cheapest one, for $3076364 per night)&nbsp;for 2 nights and paid total of 773 dollars (gross_bookings_usd). It looks like the last three digits (364) could be the right price per night and some columns got merged in the original dataset.</span></p>\n<p>And this is not the only one - the top 100 values of price_usd are above $1.5M. One has to go down to almost 4000 rows to get to room prices in single thousands.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Is this a problem with the data or am I interpreting it incorrectly?</p>",
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      "id": "31232",
      "postDate": "09/20/2013 05:43:46",
      "content": "<p>Please help me to understand price_usd values.&nbsp;</p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">For example, search&nbsp;</span><span style=\"line-height: 1.4\">365560 in the training set returned 8 hotels with prices ranging from $3M to $9M. Well, even if we assume for a moment that such hotel prices exist and are sold from .com site, it still makes no sense: the customer booked one of these rooms (the cheapest one, for $3076364 per night)&nbsp;for 2 nights and paid total of 773 dollars (gross_bookings_usd). It looks like the last three digits (364) could be the right price per night and some columns got merged in the original dataset.</span></p>\n<p>And this is not the only one - the top 100 values of price_usd are above $1.5M. One has to go down to almost 4000 rows to get to room prices in single thousands.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Is this a problem with the data or am I interpreting it incorrectly?</p>",
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      "id": "31238",
      "postDate": "09/20/2013 07:04:27",
      "content": "<p>This is a problem with data. I would consider these values of price_usd as outliers.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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    {
      "id": 31238,
      "author_name": "adamwoz",
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      "post_date": "09/20/2013 07:04:27",
      "content": "<p>This is a problem with data. I would consider these values of price_usd as outliers.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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