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  "id": 569423,
  "title": "Colab Notebook path issue",
  "url": "/competitions/byu-locating-bacterial-flagellar-motors-2025/discussion/569423",
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  "post_date": "2025-03-21T18:37:29.446258500Z",
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  "content": "<p>Anyone tried to work on google colab? when i use open in colab and start to run the code, for some reason i cant find the directory of data and the regular directory provided by kaggle for colab gives nothing</p>",
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      "postDate": "03/21/2025 18:37:29",
      "content": "<p>Anyone tried to work on google colab? when i use open in colab and start to run the code, for some reason i cant find the directory of data and the regular directory provided by kaggle for colab gives nothing</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Anyone tried to work on google colab? when i use open in colab and start to run the code, for some reason i cant find the directory of data and the regular directory provided by kaggle for colab gives nothing",
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      "id": "3158774",
      "postDate": "03/24/2025 21:36:19",
      "content": "<p>You can use the Kaggle API to download the data into your colab environment.  This will need to be run everytime a new instance of the notebook is created because data is not permanently stored in colab.  You need your kaggle.json file to do this and there are a lot of documentation from kaggle that explain how to download a competition dataset using their api.  I hope this helped :)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "You can use the Kaggle API to download the data into your colab environment.  This will need to be run everytime a new instance of the notebook is created because data is not permanently stored in colab.  You need your kaggle.json file to do this and there are a lot of documentation from kaggle that explain how to download a competition dataset using their api.  I hope this helped :)",
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      "id": "3158991",
      "postDate": "03/25/2025 06:11:22",
      "content": "<p>the problem is that after downloading, i cant find the path of data</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "the problem is that after downloading, i cant find the path of data",
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      "postDate": "03/25/2025 20:49:54",
      "content": "<p>Check out my notebook here from another competition. It should help you figure out the process: </p>\n<p><a href=\"https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1TRncqVposNN14P9kyHTxyOHkWQXLYRv2#scrollTo=EnXaS59HIBsn\" target=\"_blank\">https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1TRncqVposNN14P9kyHTxyOHkWQXLYRv2#scrollTo=EnXaS59HIBsn</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Check out my notebook here from another competition. It should help you figure out the process: \n\nhttps://colab.research.google.com/drive/1TRncqVposNN14P9kyHTxyOHkWQXLYRv2#scrollTo=EnXaS59HIBsn",
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      "id": 3158774,
      "author_name": "connorjd",
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      "post_date": "03/24/2025 21:36:19",
      "content": "<p>You can use the Kaggle API to download the data into your colab environment.  This will need to be run everytime a new instance of the notebook is created because data is not permanently stored in colab.  You need your kaggle.json file to do this and there are a lot of documentation from kaggle that explain how to download a competition dataset using their api.  I hope this helped :)</p>",
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          "author_name": "umar47",
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          "post_date": "03/25/2025 06:11:22",
          "content": "<p>the problem is that after downloading, i cant find the path of data</p>",
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      "id": 3159713,
      "author_name": "andrewjdarley",
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      "post_date": "03/25/2025 20:49:54",
      "content": "<p>Check out my notebook here from another competition. It should help you figure out the process: </p>\n<p><a href=\"https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1TRncqVposNN14P9kyHTxyOHkWQXLYRv2#scrollTo=EnXaS59HIBsn\" target=\"_blank\">https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1TRncqVposNN14P9kyHTxyOHkWQXLYRv2#scrollTo=EnXaS59HIBsn</a></p>",
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    "3156120": "Anyone tried to work on google colab? when i use open in colab and start to run the code, for some reason i cant find the directory of data and the regular directory provided by kaggle for colab gives nothing",
    "3158774": "You can use the Kaggle API to download the data into your colab environment.  This will need to be run everytime a new instance of the notebook is created because data is not permanently stored in colab.  You need your kaggle.json file to do this and there are a lot of documentation from kaggle that explain how to download a competition dataset using their api.  I hope this helped :)",
    "3158991": "the problem is that after downloading, i cant find the path of data",
    "3159713": "Check out my notebook here from another competition. It should help you figure out the process: \n\nhttps://colab.research.google.com/drive/1TRncqVposNN14P9kyHTxyOHkWQXLYRv2#scrollTo=EnXaS59HIBsn"
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