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  "id": 6271,
  "title": "How to deal with Position",
  "url": "/competitions/expedia-personalized-sort/discussion/6271",
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  "post_date": "2013-11-10T05:52:49.200Z",
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  "content": "<p>Hi Guys,</p>\n<p>I am new for data mining and I have a question about how we deal with position. It is obviously the better position is ,the more likely that query with be clicked. So how can we weaken the effect of position and find something more interesting?</p>",
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      "id": "33493",
      "postDate": "11/10/2013 05:52:49",
      "content": "<p>Hi Guys,</p>\n<p>I am new for data mining and I have a question about how we deal with position. It is obviously the better position is ,the more likely that query with be clicked. So how can we weaken the effect of position and find something more interesting?</p>",
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      "id": "33496",
      "postDate": "11/10/2013 06:24:41",
      "content": "<p>Dear&nbsp;Haobo SU,</p>\n<p>You could read my paper on ranking ! it is published in elsevier knowledge based systems! It is the Premier Journal for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases!&nbsp;</p>\n<p>As far my Expedia Experience is concerned I was not able to score since i submitted only 9 srch-ids and hotel-ids! So I could not &nbsp;score! I came to know this post the competition so i could not win!</p>\n<p>Anyway!&nbsp;</p>\n<p>I Used Local Search procedure &nbsp;based on Symmetrical Uncertainty for Ranking the Best Hotels as per the search query!</p>\n<p>Again Do you want to team with me! mail me stanfordssk@gmail.com</p>\n<p>With Best regards!</p>\n<p>Dr.Kannan</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": 33496,
      "author_name": "loveall",
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      "post_date": "11/10/2013 06:24:41",
      "content": "<p>Dear&nbsp;Haobo SU,</p>\n<p>You could read my paper on ranking ! it is published in elsevier knowledge based systems! It is the Premier Journal for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases!&nbsp;</p>\n<p>As far my Expedia Experience is concerned I was not able to score since i submitted only 9 srch-ids and hotel-ids! So I could not &nbsp;score! I came to know this post the competition so i could not win!</p>\n<p>Anyway!&nbsp;</p>\n<p>I Used Local Search procedure &nbsp;based on Symmetrical Uncertainty for Ranking the Best Hotels as per the search query!</p>\n<p>Again Do you want to team with me! mail me stanfordssk@gmail.com</p>\n<p>With Best regards!</p>\n<p>Dr.Kannan</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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