{
  "id": 608965,
  "title": "Undo Z-Score",
  "url": "/competitions/brain-to-text-25/discussion/608965",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2025-09-22T22:51:04.824497100Z",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Hello,</p>\n<p>I was wondering if I could get the zscore parameters used to normalize the data or the raw data itself?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "3293017",
      "postDate": "09/22/2025 22:51:04",
      "content": "<p>Hello,</p>\n<p>I was wondering if I could get the zscore parameters used to normalize the data or the raw data itself?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hello,\n\nI was wondering if I could get the zscore parameters used to normalize the data or the raw data itself?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3299046",
      "postDate": "10/07/2025 04:25:51",
      "content": "<p>Hi, this is a good point. We had originally preprocessed and normalized the data as so to simplify the decoding problem, but maybe normalizing it a different way could help. However, the competition is already more than halfway over and many people have already made submissions, so in fairness to them we will wait until the competition is over to release the non-z-scored data.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi, this is a good point. We had originally preprocessed and normalized the data as so to simplify the decoding problem, but maybe normalizing it a different way could help. However, the competition is already more than halfway over and many people have already made submissions, so in fairness to them we will wait until the competition is over to release the non-z-scored data.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3398736",
      "postDate": "01/29/2026 16:05:57",
      "content": "<p>Hi! Following up on this, is there a timeline for releasing the raw threshold crossing and spike power traces?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi! Following up on this, is there a timeline for releasing the raw threshold crossing and spike power traces?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "3398915",
      "postDate": "01/29/2026 22:27:34",
      "content": "<p>Probably in February or March.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Probably in February or March.",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 3299046,
      "author_name": "notnickc",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/07/2025 04:25:51",
      "content": "<p>Hi, this is a good point. We had originally preprocessed and normalized the data as so to simplify the decoding problem, but maybe normalizing it a different way could help. However, the competition is already more than halfway over and many people have already made submissions, so in fairness to them we will wait until the competition is over to release the non-z-scored data.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 3398736,
          "author_name": "jaivardhankapoor",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "01/29/2026 16:05:57",
          "content": "<p>Hi! Following up on this, is there a timeline for releasing the raw threshold crossing and spike power traces?</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": [
            {
              "id": 3398915,
              "author_name": "notnickc",
              "author_url": "",
              "post_date": "01/29/2026 22:27:34",
              "content": "<p>Probably in February or March.</p>",
              "votes": null,
              "replies": []
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "3293017": "Hello,\n\nI was wondering if I could get the zscore parameters used to normalize the data or the raw data itself?",
    "3299046": "Hi, this is a good point. We had originally preprocessed and normalized the data as so to simplify the decoding problem, but maybe normalizing it a different way could help. However, the competition is already more than halfway over and many people have already made submissions, so in fairness to them we will wait until the competition is over to release the non-z-scored data.",
    "3398736": "Hi! Following up on this, is there a timeline for releasing the raw threshold crossing and spike power traces?",
    "3398915": "Probably in February or March."
  },
  "source": "meta"
}