{
  "id": 44233,
  "title": "Train \"OnPromotion\" values are all NA",
  "url": "/competitions/favorita-grocery-sales-forecasting/discussion/44233",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2017-11-25T17:50:09.410297700Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 2,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Anyone else has this issue? I used R to import the data, but even looking at the mere csv file from a text app or excel I find there are no values for On Promotion. Whats up with that?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "248331",
      "postDate": "11/25/2017 17:50:09",
      "content": "<p>Anyone else has this issue? I used R to import the data, but even looking at the mere csv file from a text app or excel I find there are no values for On Promotion. Whats up with that?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Anyone else has this issue? I used R to import the data, but even looking at the mere csv file from a text app or excel I find there are no values for On Promotion. Whats up with that?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "248334",
      "postDate": "11/25/2017 18:12:44",
      "content": "<p>Sounds weird: i used R as well, data.table::fread and it worked ok. Plenty of NAs, but defo not all.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Sounds weird: i used R as well, data.table::fread and it worked ok. Plenty of NAs, but defo not all.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "248382",
      "postDate": "11/25/2017 22:22:07",
      "content": "<p>The \"On Promotion\" field is blank for a large chunk of time in the beginning of the data. The point at which the field is filled out is past the number of rows excel will typically open, but when you import into R checking the last few rows should confirm that the elements exist. </p>\n\n<p>I count 1230 unique dates with an OnPromotion field filled out. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The \"On Promotion\" field is blank for a large chunk of time in the beginning of the data. The point at which the field is filled out is past the number of rows excel will typically open, but when you import into R checking the last few rows should confirm that the elements exist. \n\nI count 1230 unique dates with an OnPromotion field filled out.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 248334,
      "author_name": "konradb",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/25/2017 18:12:44",
      "content": "<p>Sounds weird: i used R as well, data.table::fread and it worked ok. Plenty of NAs, but defo not all.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 248382,
      "author_name": "vannak",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/25/2017 22:22:07",
      "content": "<p>The \"On Promotion\" field is blank for a large chunk of time in the beginning of the data. The point at which the field is filled out is past the number of rows excel will typically open, but when you import into R checking the last few rows should confirm that the elements exist. </p>\n\n<p>I count 1230 unique dates with an OnPromotion field filled out. </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "248331": "Anyone else has this issue? I used R to import the data, but even looking at the mere csv file from a text app or excel I find there are no values for On Promotion. Whats up with that?",
    "248334": "Sounds weird: i used R as well, data.table::fread and it worked ok. Plenty of NAs, but defo not all.",
    "248382": "The \"On Promotion\" field is blank for a large chunk of time in the beginning of the data. The point at which the field is filled out is past the number of rows excel will typically open, but when you import into R checking the last few rows should confirm that the elements exist. \n\nI count 1230 unique dates with an OnPromotion field filled out."
  },
  "source": "meta"
}