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  "id": 14378,
  "title": "Missing bidder information in both training and testing datasets",
  "url": "/competitions/facebook-recruiting-iv-human-or-bot/discussion/14378",
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  "post_date": "2015-05-24T19:34:23.723Z",
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  "content": "<p>Hello everyone,&nbsp;</p>\n<p>I just entered the competition. I found that in the training set, there are 29 bidders that have no corresponding bidding information in the bids.csv file. Also, there are 70 bidders that have no corresponding bidding information in the bids.csv file. Do you have any suggestions of what to do?&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Thanks in advance!</p>",
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      "id": "79928",
      "postDate": "05/24/2015 19:34:23",
      "content": "<p>Hello everyone,&nbsp;</p>\n<p>I just entered the competition. I found that in the training set, there are 29 bidders that have no corresponding bidding information in the bids.csv file. Also, there are 70 bidders that have no corresponding bidding information in the bids.csv file. Do you have any suggestions of what to do?&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Thanks in advance!</p>",
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      "id": "79929",
      "postDate": "05/24/2015 19:38:24",
      "content": "<p>Hi Leo, look into this thread: Rescore in progress</p>",
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    {
      "id": "79931",
      "postDate": "05/24/2015 20:10:34",
      "content": "<p>[quote=cdjb;79929]</p>\n<p>Hi Leo, look into this thread: Rescore in progress</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>Thanks for your prompt response!</p>",
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      "postDate": "06/02/2015 01:43:20",
      "content": "<p>Hi,</p>\n<p>I also found missing bidders. Are the data bases going to be updated?</p>\n<p>Cheers</p>\n<p>Alex</p>",
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      "postDate": "06/02/2015 08:05:30",
      "content": "<p>There's a small issue with bids:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>29 bidders in &quot;train.csv&quot; have no bids</li>\n<li>70 bidders in &quot;test.csv&quot; have no bids</li>\n<li>you must include the 70 bidders in your submissions, but they will be ignored in scoring</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>I would strongly suggest, as a &quot;best known method&quot; (esp. for recruiting competitions) to go back and at least skim all of the threads. Lots of useful information like this to be had.</p>\n<p>Just start with the first post (<a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/facebook-recruiting-iv-human-or-bot/forums/t/13818/time-obfuscation\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/facebook-recruiting-iv-human-or-bot/forums/t/13818/time-obfuscation</a>), skim, hit &quot;next post&quot;, repeat. Doesn't take long at all.</p>",
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      "id": 79929,
      "author_name": "cdjbee",
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      "post_date": "05/24/2015 19:38:24",
      "content": "<p>Hi Leo, look into this thread: Rescore in progress</p>",
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      "id": 79931,
      "author_name": "yuanhangliu1",
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      "post_date": "05/24/2015 20:10:34",
      "content": "<p>[quote=cdjb;79929]</p>\n<p>Hi Leo, look into this thread: Rescore in progress</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>Thanks for your prompt response!</p>",
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      "id": 80631,
      "author_name": "alex237445",
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      "post_date": "06/02/2015 01:43:20",
      "content": "<p>Hi,</p>\n<p>I also found missing bidders. Are the data bases going to be updated?</p>\n<p>Cheers</p>\n<p>Alex</p>",
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      "id": 80642,
      "author_name": "datamagic",
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      "post_date": "06/02/2015 08:05:30",
      "content": "<p>There's a small issue with bids:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>29 bidders in &quot;train.csv&quot; have no bids</li>\n<li>70 bidders in &quot;test.csv&quot; have no bids</li>\n<li>you must include the 70 bidders in your submissions, but they will be ignored in scoring</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>I would strongly suggest, as a &quot;best known method&quot; (esp. for recruiting competitions) to go back and at least skim all of the threads. Lots of useful information like this to be had.</p>\n<p>Just start with the first post (<a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/facebook-recruiting-iv-human-or-bot/forums/t/13818/time-obfuscation\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/facebook-recruiting-iv-human-or-bot/forums/t/13818/time-obfuscation</a>), skim, hit &quot;next post&quot;, repeat. Doesn't take long at all.</p>",
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