{
  "id": 71994,
  "title": "This competition is a pain... BUT !",
  "url": "/competitions/ga-customer-revenue-prediction/discussion/71994",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2018-11-19T09:59:09.082233800Z",
  "votes": 29,
  "comment_count": 10,
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  "content": "<p>Hello everyone,</p>\n\n<p>I would like to share my experience on this first competition (even though it's not finished).. As a lot of people, I think this competition can be considered as a pain because : </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Date Leakage..</li>\n<li>The weird \"hit\" column..</li>\n<li>JSON..</li>\n<li>The huge dataset..</li>\n<li>The totalTransactionRevenue or transactionRevenue</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>BUT ! </p>\n\n<p>This competition is incredible to speed up the learning on a \"real-world\" Machine Learning scenario. : </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>This competiton has taught me how to set up an instance in Google cloud...</li>\n<li>This competiton has taught me how to handle huge amounts of data with chunks </li>\n<li>This competition has taught me.. to not get completly crazy when something doesn't work..</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>And for this my fellow kagglers, we should be grateful for this competition  </p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "423940",
      "postDate": "11/19/2018 09:59:09",
      "content": "<p>Hello everyone,</p>\n\n<p>I would like to share my experience on this first competition (even though it's not finished).. As a lot of people, I think this competition can be considered as a pain because : </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Date Leakage..</li>\n<li>The weird \"hit\" column..</li>\n<li>JSON..</li>\n<li>The huge dataset..</li>\n<li>The totalTransactionRevenue or transactionRevenue</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>BUT ! </p>\n\n<p>This competition is incredible to speed up the learning on a \"real-world\" Machine Learning scenario. : </p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>This competiton has taught me how to set up an instance in Google cloud...</li>\n<li>This competiton has taught me how to handle huge amounts of data with chunks </li>\n<li>This competition has taught me.. to not get completly crazy when something doesn't work..</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>And for this my fellow kagglers, we should be grateful for this competition  </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hello everyone,\n\nI would like to share my experience on this first competition (even though it's not finished).. As a lot of people, I think this competition can be considered as a pain because : \n\n - Date Leakage..\n - The weird \"hit\" column..\n - JSON..\n - The huge dataset..\n - The totalTransactionRevenue or transactionRevenue\n\nBUT ! \n\nThis competition is incredible to speed up the learning on a \"real-world\" Machine Learning scenario. : \n\n- This competiton has taught me how to set up an instance in Google cloud...\n- This competiton has taught me how to handle huge amounts of data with chunks \n- This competition has taught me.. to not get completly crazy when something doesn't work..\n\nAnd for this my fellow kagglers, we should be grateful for this competition",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "424382",
      "postDate": "11/20/2018 02:51:06",
      "content": "<p>Upvoted for the positive attitude :) </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Upvoted for the positive attitude :)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "424543",
      "postDate": "11/20/2018 09:40:54",
      "content": "<p>Thank you Yukiya ! </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you Yukiya !",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "424694",
      "postDate": "11/20/2018 14:39:32",
      "content": "<p>Hey!</p>\n\n<p>I'm having very similar feelings,  especially on the weird \"hit\" column. Still crazy because of the errors though!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hey!\n\nI'm having very similar feelings,  especially on the weird \"hit\" column. Still crazy because of the errors though!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "424752",
      "postDate": "11/20/2018 16:05:29",
      "content": "<p>Hello Firat,</p>\n\n<p>Look at this kernel, it helped me : <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/burritodan/gstore-pythonic-flatten-only-hits-column\">https://www.kaggle.com/burritodan/gstore-pythonic-flatten-only-hits-column</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hello Firat,\n\nLook at this kernel, it helped me : https://www.kaggle.com/burritodan/gstore-pythonic-flatten-only-hits-column",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "424842",
      "postDate": "11/20/2018 18:48:23",
      "content": "<p>agree!! </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "agree!!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "424856",
      "postDate": "11/20/2018 19:26:41",
      "content": "<p>Thanks a lot, definitely checking!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks a lot, definitely checking!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "428972",
      "postDate": "11/28/2018 06:49:37",
      "content": "<p>and lets also remember that  being able to understand and work with Google analytics data , especially at this large scale, is a useful real world skill</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "and lets also remember that  being able to understand and work with Google analytics data , especially at this large scale, is a useful real world skill",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "429656",
      "postDate": "11/29/2018 06:23:29",
      "content": "<p>Agreed. Having access to Google Analytics raw data is a huge benefit... so thanks Kaggle!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Agreed. Having access to Google Analytics raw data is a huge benefit... so thanks Kaggle!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "430709",
      "postDate": "11/30/2018 21:41:33",
      "content": "<p>Indeed, this competition gave me motivation to start using dask, which i'm very happy about</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Indeed, this competition gave me motivation to start using dask, which i'm very happy about",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "467762",
      "postDate": "02/07/2019 17:28:58",
      "content": "<p>agree</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "agree",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 424382,
      "author_name": "nyleve",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/20/2018 02:51:06",
      "content": "<p>Upvoted for the positive attitude :) </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 424543,
          "author_name": "xtelima",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "11/20/2018 09:40:54",
          "content": "<p>Thank you Yukiya ! </p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 424694,
      "author_name": "frtgnn",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/20/2018 14:39:32",
      "content": "<p>Hey!</p>\n\n<p>I'm having very similar feelings,  especially on the weird \"hit\" column. Still crazy because of the errors though!</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 424752,
          "author_name": "xtelima",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "11/20/2018 16:05:29",
          "content": "<p>Hello Firat,</p>\n\n<p>Look at this kernel, it helped me : <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/burritodan/gstore-pythonic-flatten-only-hits-column\">https://www.kaggle.com/burritodan/gstore-pythonic-flatten-only-hits-column</a></p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 424856,
          "author_name": "frtgnn",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "11/20/2018 19:26:41",
          "content": "<p>Thanks a lot, definitely checking!</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 424842,
      "author_name": "plover",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/20/2018 18:48:23",
      "content": "<p>agree!! </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 428972,
      "author_name": "alpapag",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/28/2018 06:49:37",
      "content": "<p>and lets also remember that  being able to understand and work with Google analytics data , especially at this large scale, is a useful real world skill</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 429656,
      "author_name": "dastoja",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/29/2018 06:23:29",
      "content": "<p>Agreed. Having access to Google Analytics raw data is a huge benefit... so thanks Kaggle!</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 430709,
      "author_name": "mlisovyi",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/30/2018 21:41:33",
      "content": "<p>Indeed, this competition gave me motivation to start using dask, which i'm very happy about</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 467762,
      "author_name": "mathnery",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "02/07/2019 17:28:58",
      "content": "<p>agree</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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    "423940": "Hello everyone,\n\nI would like to share my experience on this first competition (even though it's not finished).. As a lot of people, I think this competition can be considered as a pain because : \n\n - Date Leakage..\n - The weird \"hit\" column..\n - JSON..\n - The huge dataset..\n - The totalTransactionRevenue or transactionRevenue\n\nBUT ! \n\nThis competition is incredible to speed up the learning on a \"real-world\" Machine Learning scenario. : \n\n- This competiton has taught me how to set up an instance in Google cloud...\n- This competiton has taught me how to handle huge amounts of data with chunks \n- This competition has taught me.. to not get completly crazy when something doesn't work..\n\nAnd for this my fellow kagglers, we should be grateful for this competition",
    "424382": "Upvoted for the positive attitude :)",
    "424543": "Thank you Yukiya !",
    "424694": "Hey!\n\nI'm having very similar feelings,  especially on the weird \"hit\" column. Still crazy because of the errors though!",
    "424752": "Hello Firat,\n\nLook at this kernel, it helped me : https://www.kaggle.com/burritodan/gstore-pythonic-flatten-only-hits-column",
    "424842": "agree!!",
    "424856": "Thanks a lot, definitely checking!",
    "428972": "and lets also remember that  being able to understand and work with Google analytics data , especially at this large scale, is a useful real world skill",
    "429656": "Agreed. Having access to Google Analytics raw data is a huge benefit... so thanks Kaggle!",
    "430709": "Indeed, this competition gave me motivation to start using dask, which i'm very happy about",
    "467762": "agree"
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