{
  "id": 80716,
  "title": "Stage 2 Update",
  "url": "/competitions/ga-customer-revenue-prediction/discussion/80716",
  "author_name": "Julia Elliott",
  "post_date": "2019-02-15T18:51:54.207000",
  "votes": 0,
  "comment_count": 21,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Due to some hiccups in retrieval of our Stage 2 dataset, we are delaying the rescore and release of the competition's private leaderboard by 1 week. We've pushed out the competition close date to February 22nd. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this causes.</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 472399,
      "postDate": "2019-02-15T20:26:13.310Z",
      "content": "<p>Haha, this competition has created history for itself  !!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Haha, this competition has created history for itself  !!",
      "votes": 8
    },
    {
      "id": 472402,
      "postDate": "2019-02-15T20:32:43.513Z",
      "content": "<p>I was eagerly waiting ok 5 more hours, now 168 more hrs ;)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I was eagerly waiting ok 5 more hours, now 168 more hrs ;)",
      "votes": 6
    },
    {
      "id": 472350,
      "postDate": "2019-02-15T18:51:54.207Z",
      "content": "<p>Due to some hiccups in retrieval of our Stage 2 dataset, we are delaying the rescore and release of the competition's private leaderboard by 1 week. We've pushed out the competition close date to February 22nd. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this causes.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Due to some hiccups in retrieval of our Stage 2 dataset, we are delaying the rescore and release of the competition's private leaderboard by 1 week. We've pushed out the competition close date to February 22nd. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this causes.",
      "votes": -1
    },
    {
      "id": 474502,
      "postDate": "2019-02-19T13:09:49.083Z",
      "content": "<p>Hi, Julia</p>\n\n<p>The competition close date seems to overlap with kaggle downtime.</p>\n\n<p>Noice is <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/elo-merchant-category-recommendation/discussion/81042\">here</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Is there no re-postpoment of the competition close date?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi, Julia\n\nThe competition close date seems to overlap with kaggle downtime.\n\nNoice is [here](https://www.kaggle.com/c/elo-merchant-category-recommendation/discussion/81042).\n\nIs there no re-postpoment of the competition close date?",
      "votes": 3,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 474695,
          "postDate": "2019-02-19T18:02:21.277Z",
          "content": "<p>Our plan is still to release the results prior to the downtime beginning. We will notify the forum if this changes.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Our plan is still to release the results prior to the downtime beginning. We will notify the forum if this changes.",
          "votes": 5
        },
        {
          "id": 474700,
          "postDate": "2019-02-19T18:05:17.240Z",
          "content": "<p>Thanks, you can release earlier also. If possible</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Thanks, you can release earlier also. If possible"
        },
        {
          "id": 474897,
          "postDate": "2019-02-20T00:40:39.507Z",
          "content": "<p>Thanks.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Thanks."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 472545,
      "postDate": "2019-02-16T06:16:33.587Z",
      "content": "<p>Thanks for your commitment to doing it right, even if it may be unpleasant to have to post such an update.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks for your commitment to doing it right, even if it may be unpleasant to have to post such an update.",
      "votes": 2
    },
    {
      "id": 472416,
      "postDate": "2019-02-15T21:15:00.203Z",
      "content": "<p>How is this still going on?  Haha I gave up months ago when there was the first issue.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "How is this still going on?  Haha I gave up months ago when there was the first issue.",
      "votes": 1
    },
    {
      "id": 472695,
      "postDate": "2019-02-16T13:35:07.130Z",
      "content": "<p>After the announcement from Julia Elliott, Is there any way that we could get the dataset, now? If not how could we get the dataset for stage 1? We are not getting in the competition but we wanted to use the data set for our course project this semester at UMass, however this does not allow to complete the project before the semester ends, we only need the dataset. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "\nAfter the announcement from Julia Elliott, Is there any way that we could get the dataset, now? If not how could we get the dataset for stage 1? We are not getting in the competition but we wanted to use the data set for our course project this semester at UMass, however this does not allow to complete the project before the semester ends, we only need the dataset. ",
      "votes": 2
    },
    {
      "id": 472607,
      "postDate": "2019-02-16T09:33:38.360Z",
      "content": "<p>Thanks all your effort to update the stage 2 rank</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks all your effort to update the stage 2 rank",
      "votes": 1
    },
    {
      "id": 472398,
      "postDate": "2019-02-15T20:24:14.273Z",
      "content": "<p>Thanks for the update. But still, hope to release the final rank soon, my resume needs a project ranking </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks for the update. But still, hope to release the final rank soon, my resume needs a project ranking ",
      "votes": -3
    },
    {
      "id": 472376,
      "postDate": "2019-02-15T19:34:01.103Z",
      "content": "<p>Delay is preferable to error. </p>\n\n<p>Thomas Jefferson</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Delay is preferable to error. \n\nThomas Jefferson\n",
      "votes": -3
    },
    {
      "id": 476260,
      "postDate": "2019-02-21T22:00:48.933Z",
      "content": "<p>Hi Julia,\nIs the private LB ranking is definitive or the update is still in progress please?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi Julia,\nIs the private LB ranking is definitive or the update is still in progress please?",
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 476275,
          "postDate": "2019-02-21T22:39:35.450Z",
          "content": "<p>Ok it's done!\nSo congratulations to the winner Konstantin, to the Pikachu BIG team, and the novice zxasd131 ;) !!</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Ok it's done!\nSo congratulations to the winner Konstantin, to the Pikachu BIG team, and the novice zxasd131 ;) !!",
          "votes": 1
        },
        {
          "id": 476306,
          "postDate": "2019-02-22T00:08:21.507Z",
          "content": "<p>congrats</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "congrats\n"
        },
        {
          "id": 476376,
          "postDate": "2019-02-22T03:32:49.077Z",
          "content": "<p><a href=\"/emorej\">@emorej</a>  Please refer to the post I just made. The leaderboard is nearly final, but just pending the completion of our algorithms to remove multiple accounts violators (as reflected in the disclaimer message on the leaderboard page). Our scheduled downtime tomorrow may cause this process to be delayed.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "@emorej  Please refer to the post I just made. The leaderboard is nearly final, but just pending the completion of our algorithms to remove multiple accounts violators (as reflected in the disclaimer message on the leaderboard page). Our scheduled downtime tomorrow may cause this process to be delayed."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 476212,
      "postDate": "2019-02-21T19:35:56.623Z",
      "rawMarkdown": "",
      "isDeleted": true
    },
    {
      "id": 476048,
      "postDate": "2019-02-21T14:48:55.553Z",
      "rawMarkdown": "",
      "votes": 1,
      "isDeleted": true
    },
    {
      "id": 472400,
      "postDate": "2019-02-15T20:28:36.210Z",
      "rawMarkdown": "",
      "votes": -3,
      "isDeleted": true
    },
    {
      "id": 472351,
      "postDate": "2019-02-15T18:52:41.347Z",
      "content": "<p>Thanks for the update</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks for the update",
      "votes": 2
    },
    {
      "id": 472651,
      "postDate": "2019-02-16T11:44:33.220Z",
      "content": "<p>Thanks for the update</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks for the update",
      "votes": 1
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 472399,
      "author_name": "Manoj",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2019-02-15T20:26:13.310000",
      "content": "<p>Haha, this competition has created history for itself  !!</p>",
      "votes": 8,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 472402,
      "author_name": "Manoj",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2019-02-15T20:32:43.513000",
      "content": "<p>I was eagerly waiting ok 5 more hours, now 168 more hrs ;)</p>",
      "votes": 6,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 474502,
      "author_name": "Yoshi",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2019-02-19T13:09:49.083000",
      "content": "<p>Hi, Julia</p>\n\n<p>The competition close date seems to overlap with kaggle downtime.</p>\n\n<p>Noice is <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/elo-merchant-category-recommendation/discussion/81042\">here</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Is there no re-postpoment of the competition close date?</p>",
      "votes": 3,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 474695,
          "author_name": "Julia Elliott",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2019-02-19T18:02:21.277000",
          "content": "<p>Our plan is still to release the results prior to the downtime beginning. We will notify the forum if this changes.</p>",
          "votes": 5,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 474700,
          "author_name": "Manoj",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2019-02-19T18:05:17.240000",
          "content": "<p>Thanks, you can release earlier also. If possible</p>",
          "votes": 0,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 474897,
          "author_name": "Yoshi",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2019-02-20T00:40:39.507000",
          "content": "<p>Thanks.</p>",
          "votes": 0,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 472545,
      "author_name": "Dmitriy Guller",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2019-02-16T06:16:33.587000",
      "content": "<p>Thanks for your commitment to doing it right, even if it may be unpleasant to have to post such an update.</p>",
      "votes": 2,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 472416,
      "author_name": "mtodisco10",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2019-02-15T21:15:00.203000",
      "content": "<p>How is this still going on?  Haha I gave up months ago when there was the first issue.</p>",
      "votes": 1,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 472695,
      "author_name": "David LM",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2019-02-16T13:35:07.130000",
      "content": "<p>After the announcement from Julia Elliott, Is there any way that we could get the dataset, now? If not how could we get the dataset for stage 1? We are not getting in the competition but we wanted to use the data set for our course project this semester at UMass, however this does not allow to complete the project before the semester ends, we only need the dataset. </p>",
      "votes": 2,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 472607,
      "author_name": "0xFunky",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2019-02-16T09:33:38.360000",
      "content": "<p>Thanks all your effort to update the stage 2 rank</p>",
      "votes": 1,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 472398,
      "author_name": "Jianhua Ma",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2019-02-15T20:24:14.273000",
      "content": "<p>Thanks for the update. But still, hope to release the final rank soon, my resume needs a project ranking </p>",
      "votes": -3,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 472376,
      "author_name": "Eric Vos",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2019-02-15T19:34:01.103000",
      "content": "<p>Delay is preferable to error. </p>\n\n<p>Thomas Jefferson</p>",
      "votes": -3,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 476260,
      "author_name": "Jerome Vallet",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2019-02-21T22:00:48.933000",
      "content": "<p>Hi Julia,\nIs the private LB ranking is definitive or the update is still in progress please?</p>",
      "votes": 0,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 476275,
          "author_name": "Jerome Vallet",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2019-02-21T22:39:35.450000",
          "content": "<p>Ok it's done!\nSo congratulations to the winner Konstantin, to the Pikachu BIG team, and the novice zxasd131 ;) !!</p>",
          "votes": 1,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 476306,
          "author_name": "Jianhua Ma",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2019-02-22T00:08:21.507000",
          "content": "<p>congrats</p>",
          "votes": 0,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 476376,
          "author_name": "Julia Elliott",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2019-02-22T03:32:49.077000",
          "content": "<p><a href=\"/emorej\">@emorej</a>  Please refer to the post I just made. The leaderboard is nearly final, but just pending the completion of our algorithms to remove multiple accounts violators (as reflected in the disclaimer message on the leaderboard page). Our scheduled downtime tomorrow may cause this process to be delayed.</p>",
          "votes": 0,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 476212,
      "author_name": "",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2019-02-21T19:35:56.623000",
      "content": "",
      "votes": 0,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 476048,
      "author_name": "",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2019-02-21T14:48:55.553000",
      "content": "",
      "votes": 1,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 472400,
      "author_name": "",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2019-02-15T20:28:36.210000",
      "content": "",
      "votes": -3,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 472351,
      "author_name": "Allen",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2019-02-15T18:52:41.347000",
      "content": "<p>Thanks for the update</p>",
      "votes": 2,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 472651,
      "author_name": "ruchibahl",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2019-02-16T11:44:33.220000",
      "content": "<p>Thanks for the update</p>",
      "votes": 1,
      "replies": []
    }
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    "472399": "Haha, this competition has created history for itself  !!",
    "472402": "I was eagerly waiting ok 5 more hours, now 168 more hrs ;)",
    "472350": "Due to some hiccups in retrieval of our Stage 2 dataset, we are delaying the rescore and release of the competition's private leaderboard by 1 week. We've pushed out the competition close date to February 22nd. I'm sorry for any inconvenience this causes.",
    "474502": "Hi, Julia\n\nThe competition close date seems to overlap with kaggle downtime.\n\nNoice is [here](https://www.kaggle.com/c/elo-merchant-category-recommendation/discussion/81042).\n\nIs there no re-postpoment of the competition close date?",
    "472545": "Thanks for your commitment to doing it right, even if it may be unpleasant to have to post such an update.",
    "472416": "How is this still going on?  Haha I gave up months ago when there was the first issue.",
    "472695": "\nAfter the announcement from Julia Elliott, Is there any way that we could get the dataset, now? If not how could we get the dataset for stage 1? We are not getting in the competition but we wanted to use the data set for our course project this semester at UMass, however this does not allow to complete the project before the semester ends, we only need the dataset. ",
    "472607": "Thanks all your effort to update the stage 2 rank",
    "472398": "Thanks for the update. But still, hope to release the final rank soon, my resume needs a project ranking ",
    "472376": "Delay is preferable to error. \n\nThomas Jefferson\n",
    "476260": "Hi Julia,\nIs the private LB ranking is definitive or the update is still in progress please?",
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    "476048": "",
    "472400": "",
    "472351": "Thanks for the update",
    "472651": "Thanks for the update"
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