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  "title": "Sum(log(transactionRevenue)) as target variable",
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  "post_date": "2018-09-18T06:09:46.788764700Z",
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  "content": "<p>While I have read the discussion about Sum(log(transactionRevenue))  or log(sum(transactionRevenue)), but I am left wondering why sum(transactionRevenue)) was not chosen as the target variable? Is it because doing a log transformation helps to capture the variability in the variable or due to some other reason behind explaining the business metric?</p>",
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      "content": "<p>While I have read the discussion about Sum(log(transactionRevenue))  or log(sum(transactionRevenue)), but I am left wondering why sum(transactionRevenue)) was not chosen as the target variable? Is it because doing a log transformation helps to capture the variability in the variable or due to some other reason behind explaining the business metric?</p>",
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      "postDate": "09/18/2018 06:22:45",
      "content": "<p>Refer to this discussion :</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/google-analytics-customer-revenue-prediction/discussion/66067\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/google-analytics-customer-revenue-prediction/discussion/66067</a></p>",
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      "author_name": "suchith0312",
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      "post_date": "09/18/2018 06:22:45",
      "content": "<p>Refer to this discussion :</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/google-analytics-customer-revenue-prediction/discussion/66067\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/google-analytics-customer-revenue-prediction/discussion/66067</a></p>",
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