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  "id": 71260,
  "title": "totalTransactionRevenue vs transactionRevenue",
  "url": "/competitions/ga-customer-revenue-prediction/discussion/71260",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2018-11-12T03:47:15.799293900Z",
  "votes": 9,
  "comment_count": 5,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>What's the difference between this two columns? And which one is the real target?</p>\n\n<p>From <a href=\"https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3437719?hl=en\">Google Analytics Help</a>:</p>\n\n<p>totals.totalTransactionRevenue: Total transaction revenue, expressed as the value passed to Analytics multiplied by 10^6 (e.g., 2.40 would be given as 2400000).</p>\n\n<p>totals.transactionRevenue: This field is deprecated. Use \"totals.totalTransactionRevenue\" instead (see above).</p>",
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    {
      "id": "419482",
      "postDate": "11/12/2018 03:47:15",
      "content": "<p>What's the difference between this two columns? And which one is the real target?</p>\n\n<p>From <a href=\"https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3437719?hl=en\">Google Analytics Help</a>:</p>\n\n<p>totals.totalTransactionRevenue: Total transaction revenue, expressed as the value passed to Analytics multiplied by 10^6 (e.g., 2.40 would be given as 2400000).</p>\n\n<p>totals.transactionRevenue: This field is deprecated. Use \"totals.totalTransactionRevenue\" instead (see above).</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "What's the difference between this two columns? And which one is the real target?\n\n\nFrom [Google Analytics Help](https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3437719?hl=en):\n\ntotals.totalTransactionRevenue: Total transaction revenue, expressed as the value passed to Analytics multiplied by 10^6 (e.g., 2.40 would be given as 2400000).\n\ntotals.transactionRevenue: This field is deprecated. Use \"totals.totalTransactionRevenue\" instead (see above).",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "419491",
      "postDate": "11/12/2018 04:08:35",
      "content": "<p>\bI also have such puzzle. Look forward to further discussion.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "\bI also have such puzzle. Look forward to further discussion.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "419572",
      "postDate": "11/12/2018 08:16:59",
      "content": "<p>Hello Aguiar,</p>\n\n<p>You can find the description of each columns here : <a href=\"https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3437719?hl=en\">https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3437719?hl=en</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hello Aguiar,\n\nYou can find the description of each columns here : https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3437719?hl=en",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "419925",
      "postDate": "11/12/2018 19:30:00",
      "content": "<p>Even though <code>totals.transactionRevenue</code> has been deprecated, I think this is the TARGET field, because it is the same name as before the competition relaunch. Would like confirmation on this, though.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Even though `totals.transactionRevenue` has been deprecated, I think this is the TARGET field, because it is the same name as before the competition relaunch. Would like confirmation on this, though.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "422231",
      "postDate": "11/15/2018 23:55:23",
      "content": "<p>I have the same question.  Can any make a clarification?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I have the same question.  Can any make a clarification?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "422608",
      "postDate": "11/16/2018 13:51:02",
      "content": "<p>I have actually laid out my thoughts on this in a different thread:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/ga-customer-revenue-prediction/discussion/71779\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/ga-customer-revenue-prediction/discussion/71779</a></p>\n\n<p>Apparently the meaningful thing to look at and to predict is totals.totalTransactionRevenue since it represents the total revenue for the whole session whereas totals.transactionRevenue is just the revenue from one certain transaction during the session.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I have actually laid out my thoughts on this in a different thread:\n\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/c/ga-customer-revenue-prediction/discussion/71779\n\n\nApparently the meaningful thing to look at and to predict is totals.totalTransactionRevenue since it represents the total revenue for the whole session whereas totals.transactionRevenue is just the revenue from one certain transaction during the session.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 419491,
      "author_name": "chending71",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/12/2018 04:08:35",
      "content": "<p>\bI also have such puzzle. Look forward to further discussion.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 419572,
      "author_name": "xtelima",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/12/2018 08:16:59",
      "content": "<p>Hello Aguiar,</p>\n\n<p>You can find the description of each columns here : <a href=\"https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3437719?hl=en\">https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3437719?hl=en</a></p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 419925,
      "author_name": "returnofsputnik",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/12/2018 19:30:00",
      "content": "<p>Even though <code>totals.transactionRevenue</code> has been deprecated, I think this is the TARGET field, because it is the same name as before the competition relaunch. Would like confirmation on this, though.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 422231,
      "author_name": "lawson1225",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/15/2018 23:55:23",
      "content": "<p>I have the same question.  Can any make a clarification?</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 422608,
      "author_name": "antoniorossi",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/16/2018 13:51:02",
      "content": "<p>I have actually laid out my thoughts on this in a different thread:</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/ga-customer-revenue-prediction/discussion/71779\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/ga-customer-revenue-prediction/discussion/71779</a></p>\n\n<p>Apparently the meaningful thing to look at and to predict is totals.totalTransactionRevenue since it represents the total revenue for the whole session whereas totals.transactionRevenue is just the revenue from one certain transaction during the session.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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    "419482": "What's the difference between this two columns? And which one is the real target?\n\n\nFrom [Google Analytics Help](https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3437719?hl=en):\n\ntotals.totalTransactionRevenue: Total transaction revenue, expressed as the value passed to Analytics multiplied by 10^6 (e.g., 2.40 would be given as 2400000).\n\ntotals.transactionRevenue: This field is deprecated. Use \"totals.totalTransactionRevenue\" instead (see above).",
    "419491": "\bI also have such puzzle. Look forward to further discussion.",
    "419572": "Hello Aguiar,\n\nYou can find the description of each columns here : https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3437719?hl=en",
    "419925": "Even though `totals.transactionRevenue` has been deprecated, I think this is the TARGET field, because it is the same name as before the competition relaunch. Would like confirmation on this, though.",
    "422231": "I have the same question.  Can any make a clarification?",
    "422608": "I have actually laid out my thoughts on this in a different thread:\n\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/c/ga-customer-revenue-prediction/discussion/71779\n\n\nApparently the meaningful thing to look at and to predict is totals.totalTransactionRevenue since it represents the total revenue for the whole session whereas totals.transactionRevenue is just the revenue from one certain transaction during the session."
  },
  "source": "meta"
}