{
  "id": 20906,
  "title": "Oversampling?",
  "url": "/competitions/avito-duplicate-ads-detection/discussion/20906",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2016-05-12T14:45:20.067Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 1,
  "views": 442,
  "content": "<p>Can we ask the people at Avito who developed this contest whether they used oversampling to choose more ads that were duplicates than there were in the overall population of ads? </p>\n\n<p>How could we ask other questions?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "119739",
      "postDate": "05/12/2016 14:45:20",
      "content": "<p>Can we ask the people at Avito who developed this contest whether they used oversampling to choose more ads that were duplicates than there were in the overall population of ads? </p>\n\n<p>How could we ask other questions?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Can we ask the people at Avito who developed this contest whether they used oversampling to choose more ads that were duplicates than there were in the overall population of ads? \r\n\r\nHow could we ask other questions?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "120473",
      "postDate": "05/18/2016 14:47:52",
      "content": "<p>The training set has a <code>generationMethod</code> variable which is explained here: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-duplicate-ads-detection/data\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-duplicate-ads-detection/data</a></p>\n\n<p>It is my understand that they have <em>not</em> artificially created synthetic examples.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The training set has a `generationMethod` variable which is explained here: https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-duplicate-ads-detection/data\r\n\r\nIt is my understand that they have *not* artificially created synthetic examples.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 120473,
      "author_name": "rpmcruz",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "05/18/2016 14:47:52",
      "content": "<p>The training set has a <code>generationMethod</code> variable which is explained here: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-duplicate-ads-detection/data\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-duplicate-ads-detection/data</a></p>\n\n<p>It is my understand that they have <em>not</em> artificially created synthetic examples.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "119739": "Can we ask the people at Avito who developed this contest whether they used oversampling to choose more ads that were duplicates than there were in the overall population of ads? \r\n\r\nHow could we ask other questions?",
    "120473": "The training set has a `generationMethod` variable which is explained here: https://www.kaggle.com/c/avito-duplicate-ads-detection/data\r\n\r\nIt is my understand that they have *not* artificially created synthetic examples."
  },
  "source": "meta"
}