I see a lot of post,but I still confused at the situation of this competition.Could anyone tell me?
", "messages": [ { "id": 408607, "postDate": "2018-10-23T06:30:34.607Z", "content": "This official comment from the competition organizer could also be of help:
\n\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/c/ga-customer-revenue-prediction/discussion/68353#404989
", "rawMarkdown": "This official comment from the competition organizer could also be of help:\n\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/c/ga-customer-revenue-prediction/discussion/68353#404989", "votes": 1 }, { "id": 407154, "postDate": "2018-10-20T13:47:34.823Z", "content": "I see a lot of post,but I still confused at the situation of this competition.Could anyone tell me?
", "rawMarkdown": "I see a lot of post,but I still confused at the situation of this competition.Could anyone tell me?", "votes": 1 }, { "id": 407188, "postDate": "2018-10-20T15:11:54.163Z", "content": "Ultimately this is a personal decision for you. The nature of the competition will change as you won't have session information available for the private part of the leaderboard from Dec 1st 2018 to 31st Jan 2019. This means you will be predicting revenue for past visitors when you don't even know if they will visit again.
", "rawMarkdown": "Ultimately this is a personal decision for you. The nature of the competition will change as you won't have session information available for the private part of the leaderboard from Dec 1st 2018 to 31st Jan 2019. This means you will be predicting revenue for past visitors when you don't even know if they will visit again.", "votes": 2, "replies": [ { "id": 407193, "postDate": "2018-10-20T15:20:33.833Z", "content": "I got it. Thanks.
", "rawMarkdown": "I got it. Thanks." }, { "id": 407198, "postDate": "2018-10-20T15:38:18.170Z", "content": "\n\n\nMichaelP wrote
\n \n\n\n... This means you will be predicting revenue for past visitors when you don't even know if they will visit again.
\n
That is not quite true. You do know that the ones that will determine your score did visit again, and that changes the expected score.
", "rawMarkdown": "\n> **MichaelP wrote**\n> \n> > ... This means you will be predicting revenue for past visitors when you don't even know if they will visit again.\n\n\nThat is not quite true. You do know that the ones that will determine your score did visit again, and that changes the expected score. ", "votes": 2 }, { "id": 407210, "postDate": "2018-10-20T16:10:19.337Z", "content": "EDIT I have asked Kaggle to confirm the below here
\n\nThanks for the clarification I hadn't noticed that in the update thread. So what you are saying is that for any given past visitor we don't know if they will visit again and we predict on all of those. However, the private leaderboard score is only calculated on those that do visit again, regardless of whether they make a purchase. Past visitors that do not visit again are excluded from the scoring. Is that correct?
\n\nTo clarify I am just talking about the private leaderboard. My understanding is that the public leaderboard is based on an earlier period where due to the Google Analytics Demo Account people could get access to the session information.
", "rawMarkdown": "***EDIT*** I have asked Kaggle to confirm the below [here][1]\n\nThanks for the clarification I hadn't noticed that in the update thread. So what you are saying is that for any given past visitor we don't know if they will visit again and we predict on all of those. However, the private leaderboard score is only calculated on those that do visit again, regardless of whether they make a purchase. Past visitors that do not visit again are excluded from the scoring. Is that correct?\n\nTo clarify I am just talking about the private leaderboard. My understanding is that the public leaderboard is based on an earlier period where due to the Google Analytics Demo Account people could get access to the session information.\n\n\n [1]: https://www.kaggle.com/c/ga-customer-revenue-prediction/discussion/68353#407232" } ] }, { "id": 407192, "postDate": "2018-10-20T15:20:18.847Z", "rawMarkdown": "", "isDeleted": true } ], "comments": [ { "id": 408607, "author_name": "Ilya Khristoforov", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2018-10-23T06:30:34.607000", "content": "This official comment from the competition organizer could also be of help:
\n\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/c/ga-customer-revenue-prediction/discussion/68353#404989
", "votes": 1, "replies": [] }, { "id": 407188, "author_name": "MichaelP", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2018-10-20T15:11:54.163000", "content": "Ultimately this is a personal decision for you. The nature of the competition will change as you won't have session information available for the private part of the leaderboard from Dec 1st 2018 to 31st Jan 2019. This means you will be predicting revenue for past visitors when you don't even know if they will visit again.
", "votes": 2, "replies": [ { "id": 407193, "author_name": "champion", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2018-10-20T15:20:33.833000", "content": "I got it. Thanks.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 407198, "author_name": "MrOoijer", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2018-10-20T15:38:18.170000", "content": "\n\n\nMichaelP wrote
\n \n\n\n... This means you will be predicting revenue for past visitors when you don't even know if they will visit again.
\n
That is not quite true. You do know that the ones that will determine your score did visit again, and that changes the expected score.
", "votes": 2, "replies": [] }, { "id": 407210, "author_name": "MichaelP", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2018-10-20T16:10:19.337000", "content": "EDIT I have asked Kaggle to confirm the below here
\n\nThanks for the clarification I hadn't noticed that in the update thread. So what you are saying is that for any given past visitor we don't know if they will visit again and we predict on all of those. However, the private leaderboard score is only calculated on those that do visit again, regardless of whether they make a purchase. Past visitors that do not visit again are excluded from the scoring. Is that correct?
\n\nTo clarify I am just talking about the private leaderboard. My understanding is that the public leaderboard is based on an earlier period where due to the Google Analytics Demo Account people could get access to the session information.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] } ] }, { "id": 407192, "author_name": "", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2018-10-20T15:20:18.847000", "content": "", "votes": 0, "replies": [] } ], "raw_markdown_by_id": { "408607": "This official comment from the competition organizer could also be of help:\n\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/c/ga-customer-revenue-prediction/discussion/68353#404989", "407154": "I see a lot of post,but I still confused at the situation of this competition.Could anyone tell me?", "407188": "Ultimately this is a personal decision for you. The nature of the competition will change as you won't have session information available for the private part of the leaderboard from Dec 1st 2018 to 31st Jan 2019. This means you will be predicting revenue for past visitors when you don't even know if they will visit again.", "407192": "" } }