{
  "id": 74764,
  "title": "Is it worth the time?",
  "url": "/competitions/NFL-Punt-Analytics-Competition/discussion/74764",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2018-12-15T06:55:12.734897700Z",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 1,
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  "content": "<p>I have explored the titanic dataset on Kaggle and participated in the data cleaning challenges hosted by Rachael Tatman. Apart from these, I took up an EDA project using R.</p>\n\n<p>I am not sure if I have to get into this competition as I don't know what the data type is. As it does not have prediction modelling involved, based on my intuition, this is really interesting for me to take up. I want to hear what the community got to say. Is it suggestive to put in time and figure out everything from scratch or choose another suitable competition or challenge suitable for my level? What are the immediate skills, knowledge to required to participate in this competition?</p>",
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      "id": "439329",
      "postDate": "12/15/2018 06:55:12",
      "content": "<p>I have explored the titanic dataset on Kaggle and participated in the data cleaning challenges hosted by Rachael Tatman. Apart from these, I took up an EDA project using R.</p>\n\n<p>I am not sure if I have to get into this competition as I don't know what the data type is. As it does not have prediction modelling involved, based on my intuition, this is really interesting for me to take up. I want to hear what the community got to say. Is it suggestive to put in time and figure out everything from scratch or choose another suitable competition or challenge suitable for my level? What are the immediate skills, knowledge to required to participate in this competition?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I have explored the titanic dataset on Kaggle and participated in the data cleaning challenges hosted by Rachael Tatman. Apart from these, I took up an EDA project using R.\n\nI am not sure if I have to get into this competition as I don't know what the data type is. As it does not have prediction modelling involved, based on my intuition, this is really interesting for me to take up. I want to hear what the community got to say. Is it suggestive to put in time and figure out everything from scratch or choose another suitable competition or challenge suitable for my level? What are the immediate skills, knowledge to required to participate in this competition?",
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    {
      "id": "439520",
      "postDate": "12/15/2018 17:44:32",
      "content": "<p>If you have a job at all, there is no way you would have time for this. Plus it's in the middle of the holiday season, do you want to spend your Christmas and New Years hunched in front of a screen staring at datasets and hacking at code, instead of spending time with your family? What kind of people are Kaggle even expecting to sacrifice their holidays and all of their weekends between now and Jan 9 for this?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "If you have a job at all, there is no way you would have time for this. Plus it's in the middle of the holiday season, do you want to spend your Christmas and New Years hunched in front of a screen staring at datasets and hacking at code, instead of spending time with your family? What kind of people are Kaggle even expecting to sacrifice their holidays and all of their weekends between now and Jan 9 for this?",
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 439520,
      "author_name": "arjunbhalla675",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/15/2018 17:44:32",
      "content": "<p>If you have a job at all, there is no way you would have time for this. Plus it's in the middle of the holiday season, do you want to spend your Christmas and New Years hunched in front of a screen staring at datasets and hacking at code, instead of spending time with your family? What kind of people are Kaggle even expecting to sacrifice their holidays and all of their weekends between now and Jan 9 for this?</p>",
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    "439329": "I have explored the titanic dataset on Kaggle and participated in the data cleaning challenges hosted by Rachael Tatman. Apart from these, I took up an EDA project using R.\n\nI am not sure if I have to get into this competition as I don't know what the data type is. As it does not have prediction modelling involved, based on my intuition, this is really interesting for me to take up. I want to hear what the community got to say. Is it suggestive to put in time and figure out everything from scratch or choose another suitable competition or challenge suitable for my level? What are the immediate skills, knowledge to required to participate in this competition?",
    "439520": "If you have a job at all, there is no way you would have time for this. Plus it's in the middle of the holiday season, do you want to spend your Christmas and New Years hunched in front of a screen staring at datasets and hacking at code, instead of spending time with your family? What kind of people are Kaggle even expecting to sacrifice their holidays and all of their weekends between now and Jan 9 for this?"
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