{
  "id": 22459,
  "title": "Weather forecasts/Farmer's Almanac as external data",
  "url": "/competitions/grupo-bimbo-inventory-demand/discussion/22459",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2016-07-24T13:31:55.177Z",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 549,
  "content": "<p>I couldn't find a thread about this: external data is disallowed, but given that we have the geographic locations of each location, can we use either weather data or general weather information about that location in our predictions?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "128830",
      "postDate": "07/24/2016 13:31:55",
      "content": "<p>I couldn't find a thread about this: external data is disallowed, but given that we have the geographic locations of each location, can we use either weather data or general weather information about that location in our predictions?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I couldn't find a thread about this: external data is disallowed, but given that we have the geographic locations of each location, can we use either weather data or general weather information about that location in our predictions?",
      "votes": null
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    {
      "id": "128937",
      "postDate": "07/25/2016 09:50:57",
      "content": "<p>Interesting thought but since we don't know when the weeks occurred, we wouldn't be able to tie to specific conditions.  Thus we'd have to rely on average conditions across Mexico... I wonder if there would be enough variability to work with...</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Interesting thought but since we don't know when the weeks occurred, we wouldn't be able to tie to specific conditions.  Thus we'd have to rely on average conditions across Mexico... I wonder if there would be enough variability to work with...",
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    {
      "id": "128938",
      "postDate": "07/25/2016 09:56:19",
      "content": "<p>Hey aren't you that famous spurious correlations guy?!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hey aren't you that famous spurious correlations guy?!",
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    },
    {
      "id": "128945",
      "postDate": "07/25/2016 11:42:29",
      "content": "<p>[quote=crimeprophet;128937]</p>\n\n<p>Interesting thought but since we don't know when the weeks occurred, we wouldn't be able to tie to specific conditions.  Thus we'd have to rely on average conditions across Mexico... I wonder if there would be enough variability to work with...</p>\n\n<p>[/quote]\nI hadn't looked at the data closely enough to realize that.  Good point!</p>\n\n<p>[quote=crimeprophet;128938]</p>\n\n<p>Hey aren't you that famous spurious correlations guy?!</p>\n\n<p>[/quote]\nYup. :)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "[quote=crimeprophet;128937]\r\n\r\nInteresting thought but since we don't know when the weeks occurred, we wouldn't be able to tie to specific conditions.  Thus we'd have to rely on average conditions across Mexico... I wonder if there would be enough variability to work with...\r\n\r\n[/quote]\r\nI hadn't looked at the data closely enough to realize that.  Good point!\r\n\r\n[quote=crimeprophet;128938]\r\n\r\nHey aren't you that famous spurious correlations guy?!\r\n\r\n[/quote]\r\nYup. :)",
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 128937,
      "author_name": "crimeprophet",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/25/2016 09:50:57",
      "content": "<p>Interesting thought but since we don't know when the weeks occurred, we wouldn't be able to tie to specific conditions.  Thus we'd have to rely on average conditions across Mexico... I wonder if there would be enough variability to work with...</p>",
      "votes": null,
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    },
    {
      "id": 128938,
      "author_name": "crimeprophet",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/25/2016 09:56:19",
      "content": "<p>Hey aren't you that famous spurious correlations guy?!</p>",
      "votes": null,
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    },
    {
      "id": 128945,
      "author_name": "tylervigen",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/25/2016 11:42:29",
      "content": "<p>[quote=crimeprophet;128937]</p>\n\n<p>Interesting thought but since we don't know when the weeks occurred, we wouldn't be able to tie to specific conditions.  Thus we'd have to rely on average conditions across Mexico... I wonder if there would be enough variability to work with...</p>\n\n<p>[/quote]\nI hadn't looked at the data closely enough to realize that.  Good point!</p>\n\n<p>[quote=crimeprophet;128938]</p>\n\n<p>Hey aren't you that famous spurious correlations guy?!</p>\n\n<p>[/quote]\nYup. :)</p>",
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    "128830": "I couldn't find a thread about this: external data is disallowed, but given that we have the geographic locations of each location, can we use either weather data or general weather information about that location in our predictions?",
    "128937": "Interesting thought but since we don't know when the weeks occurred, we wouldn't be able to tie to specific conditions.  Thus we'd have to rely on average conditions across Mexico... I wonder if there would be enough variability to work with...",
    "128938": "Hey aren't you that famous spurious correlations guy?!",
    "128945": "[quote=crimeprophet;128937]\r\n\r\nInteresting thought but since we don't know when the weeks occurred, we wouldn't be able to tie to specific conditions.  Thus we'd have to rely on average conditions across Mexico... I wonder if there would be enough variability to work with...\r\n\r\n[/quote]\r\nI hadn't looked at the data closely enough to realize that.  Good point!\r\n\r\n[quote=crimeprophet;128938]\r\n\r\nHey aren't you that famous spurious correlations guy?!\r\n\r\n[/quote]\r\nYup. :)"
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