{
  "id": 74816,
  "title": "You give us comma-delimited data with commas in the fields!?!?",
  "url": "/competitions/NFL-Punt-Analytics-Competition/discussion/74816",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2018-12-16T04:20:02.586803500Z",
  "votes": -4,
  "comment_count": 2,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Thanks a lot, this is entirely screwing me up. I now have to trawl through every single data row and delete the commas that are there in the weather descriptions. Thanks a lot.</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "439679",
      "postDate": "12/16/2018 04:20:02",
      "content": "<p>Thanks a lot, this is entirely screwing me up. I now have to trawl through every single data row and delete the commas that are there in the weather descriptions. Thanks a lot.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks a lot, this is entirely screwing me up. I now have to trawl through every single data row and delete the commas that are there in the weather descriptions. Thanks a lot.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "439762",
      "postDate": "12/16/2018 09:47:46",
      "content": "<p>For what I can see from your topics, this competition is really being a pain for you. I am sorry about that.</p>\n\n<p>However, receiving data with poor formatting like the one you just described is the reason why, of all data scientists I know (myself included), 70% of a project goes to data cleaning. </p>\n\n<p>Is it annoying? Is it unfortunate? Yes, but it is not something they do on purpose to screw your holidays over. </p>\n\n<p>Chill, learn how to catch these issues as soon as possible, and learn how to clean the data without ruining your day.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "For what I can see from your topics, this competition is really being a pain for you. I am sorry about that.\n\nHowever, receiving data with poor formatting like the one you just described is the reason why, of all data scientists I know (myself included), 70% of a project goes to data cleaning. \n\nIs it annoying? Is it unfortunate? Yes, but it is not something they do on purpose to screw your holidays over. \n\nChill, learn how to catch these issues as soon as possible, and learn how to clean the data without ruining your day.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "439874",
      "postDate": "12/16/2018 15:08:54",
      "content": "<p>The <code>fread</code> function in R can read these rows in with commas. You can check out my kernel or someone else's (if you use Python). There should be no need to manually delete commas </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The `fread` function in R can read these rows in with commas. You can check out my kernel or someone else's (if you use Python). There should be no need to manually delete commas",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 439762,
      "author_name": "lucabasa",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/16/2018 09:47:46",
      "content": "<p>For what I can see from your topics, this competition is really being a pain for you. I am sorry about that.</p>\n\n<p>However, receiving data with poor formatting like the one you just described is the reason why, of all data scientists I know (myself included), 70% of a project goes to data cleaning. </p>\n\n<p>Is it annoying? Is it unfortunate? Yes, but it is not something they do on purpose to screw your holidays over. </p>\n\n<p>Chill, learn how to catch these issues as soon as possible, and learn how to clean the data without ruining your day.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 439874,
      "author_name": "returnofsputnik",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "12/16/2018 15:08:54",
      "content": "<p>The <code>fread</code> function in R can read these rows in with commas. You can check out my kernel or someone else's (if you use Python). There should be no need to manually delete commas </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "439679": "Thanks a lot, this is entirely screwing me up. I now have to trawl through every single data row and delete the commas that are there in the weather descriptions. Thanks a lot.",
    "439762": "For what I can see from your topics, this competition is really being a pain for you. I am sorry about that.\n\nHowever, receiving data with poor formatting like the one you just described is the reason why, of all data scientists I know (myself included), 70% of a project goes to data cleaning. \n\nIs it annoying? Is it unfortunate? Yes, but it is not something they do on purpose to screw your holidays over. \n\nChill, learn how to catch these issues as soon as possible, and learn how to clean the data without ruining your day.",
    "439874": "The `fread` function in R can read these rows in with commas. You can check out my kernel or someone else's (if you use Python). There should be no need to manually delete commas"
  },
  "source": "meta"
}