{
  "id": 182091,
  "title": "Country field in train data: Is it safe to train only on USA data",
  "url": "/competitions/birdsong-recognition/discussion/182091",
  "author_name": "VSR",
  "post_date": "2020-09-11T08:40:13.654000",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 2,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Hello all,</p>\n<p>I see a  country field in the train data. USA is only 14000/21000 rows of data. <br>\nSince the test locations are only USA…is it safe to ignore the other locations, assuming country field indicates location of the bird</p>\n<p>I dont have much experience on this and have not worked much on this competition, so I am trying to save some training time<br>\nSorry if this has been discussed elsewhere</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 1006432,
      "postDate": "2020-09-11T08:40:13.653Z",
      "content": "<p>Hello all,</p>\n<p>I see a  country field in the train data. USA is only 14000/21000 rows of data. <br>\nSince the test locations are only USA…is it safe to ignore the other locations, assuming country field indicates location of the bird</p>\n<p>I dont have much experience on this and have not worked much on this competition, so I am trying to save some training time<br>\nSorry if this has been discussed elsewhere</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hello all,\n\nI see a  country field in the train data. USA is only 14000/21000 rows of data. \nSince the test locations are only USA...is it safe to ignore the other locations, assuming country field indicates location of the bird\n \nI dont have much experience on this and have not worked much on this competition, so I am trying to save some training time\nSorry if this has been discussed elsewhere",
      "votes": 1
    },
    {
      "id": 1007619,
      "postDate": "2020-09-12T10:26:39.487Z",
      "content": "<p>but 262 species belong to USA region</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "but 262 species belong to USA region"
    },
    {
      "id": 1006872,
      "postDate": "2020-09-11T15:48:44.657Z",
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1007619,
      "author_name": "Arunodhayan",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2020-09-12T10:26:39.487000",
      "content": "<p>but 262 species belong to USA region</p>",
      "votes": 0,
      "replies": []
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    {
      "id": 1006872,
      "author_name": "",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2020-09-11T15:48:44.657000",
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  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "1006432": "Hello all,\n\nI see a  country field in the train data. USA is only 14000/21000 rows of data. \nSince the test locations are only USA...is it safe to ignore the other locations, assuming country field indicates location of the bird\n \nI dont have much experience on this and have not worked much on this competition, so I am trying to save some training time\nSorry if this has been discussed elsewhere",
    "1007619": "but 262 species belong to USA region",
    "1006872": ""
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}