{
  "id": 16995,
  "title": "Is Random Forest enough to hit 98% on LB?",
  "url": "/competitions/dato-native/discussion/16995",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2015-10-14T11:05:58.163Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 9,
  "views": 1344,
  "content": "<p>I am new to kaggle, i am actively participating all kaggle competitions. In less time i learned many new things from kaggle competitions and kaggle forums.Really kaggle forum very supportive. Thanks to everyone. In this competition what should i concentrate more on feature selection or algorithms?\ncan anyone explain? </p>\n\n<p>Thanks in Advance.</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "96093",
      "postDate": "10/14/2015 11:05:58",
      "content": "<p>I am new to kaggle, i am actively participating all kaggle competitions. In less time i learned many new things from kaggle competitions and kaggle forums.Really kaggle forum very supportive. Thanks to everyone. In this competition what should i concentrate more on feature selection or algorithms?\ncan anyone explain? </p>\n\n<p>Thanks in Advance.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I am new to kaggle, i am actively participating all kaggle competitions. In less time i learned many new things from kaggle competitions and kaggle forums.Really kaggle forum very supportive. Thanks to everyone. In this competition what should i concentrate more on feature selection or algorithms?\r\ncan anyone explain? \r\n\r\nThanks in Advance.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "96096",
      "postDate": "10/14/2015 11:35:10",
      "content": "<p>Yes.</p>\n\n<p>(As long as you manage to fit your features into your memory!)</p>\n\n<p>Logistic regression is also more than enough for 0.98</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yes.\r\n\r\n(As long as you manage to fit your features into your memory!)\r\n\r\nLogistic regression is also more than enough for 0.98",
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    },
    {
      "id": "96098",
      "postDate": "10/14/2015 11:43:50",
      "content": "<p>Thanks  @&#924;&#945;&#961;&#953;&#959;&#962; &#924;&#953;&#967;&#945;&#951;&#955;&#953;&#948;&#951;&#962; KazAnova</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks  @Μαριος Μιχαηλιδης KazAnova",
      "votes": null
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    {
      "id": "96099",
      "postDate": "10/14/2015 11:56:44",
      "content": "<p>can you tell me to apply Logistic Regression, do i need to normalize data(z-score or min-max) or directly apply logistic regression.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "can you tell me to apply Logistic Regression, do i need to normalize data(z-score or min-max) or directly apply logistic regression.",
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    },
    {
      "id": "96100",
      "postDate": "10/14/2015 12:00:21",
      "content": "<p>that depends on your input data. To my experience, normalization quite often improves the scores. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "that depends on your input data. To my experience, normalization quite often improves the scores.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "96102",
      "postDate": "10/14/2015 12:12:42",
      "content": "<p>[deleted]</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "[deleted]",
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    },
    {
      "id": "96103",
      "postDate": "10/14/2015 12:19:19",
      "content": "<p>I cannot tell you which one works better , because it depends on your input data! I do not want to mislead you! If you do not have time for cv ...try the z-score one., but there is no guarantee that works better than the other...From my experience it seems to be working slightly better in general. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I cannot tell you which one works better , because it depends on your input data! I do not want to mislead you! If you do not have time for cv ...try the z-score one., but there is no guarantee that works better than the other...From my experience it seems to be working slightly better in general.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "96104",
      "postDate": "10/14/2015 12:22:30",
      "content": "<p>ok thanks @&#924;&#945;&#961;&#953;&#959;&#962; &#924;&#953;&#967;&#945;&#951;&#955;&#953;&#948;&#951;&#962; KazAnova . and 'All the best' to you and your team.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "ok thanks @Μαριος Μιχαηλιδης KazAnova . and 'All the best' to you and your team.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "96105",
      "postDate": "10/14/2015 12:23:08",
      "content": "<p>May the Force be with you too my friend.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "May the Force be with you too my friend.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "96107",
      "postDate": "10/14/2015 12:31:58",
      "content": "<p>And also with you too my friend.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "And also with you too my friend.",
      "votes": null
    }
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 96096,
      "author_name": "kazanova",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/14/2015 11:35:10",
      "content": "<p>Yes.</p>\n\n<p>(As long as you manage to fit your features into your memory!)</p>\n\n<p>Logistic regression is also more than enough for 0.98</p>",
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      "id": 96098,
      "author_name": "niranjanmudhiraj",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/14/2015 11:43:50",
      "content": "<p>Thanks  @&#924;&#945;&#961;&#953;&#959;&#962; &#924;&#953;&#967;&#945;&#951;&#955;&#953;&#948;&#951;&#962; KazAnova</p>",
      "votes": null,
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    {
      "id": 96099,
      "author_name": "niranjanmudhiraj",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/14/2015 11:56:44",
      "content": "<p>can you tell me to apply Logistic Regression, do i need to normalize data(z-score or min-max) or directly apply logistic regression.</p>",
      "votes": null,
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    },
    {
      "id": 96100,
      "author_name": "kazanova",
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      "post_date": "10/14/2015 12:00:21",
      "content": "<p>that depends on your input data. To my experience, normalization quite often improves the scores. </p>",
      "votes": null,
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    },
    {
      "id": 96102,
      "author_name": "niranjanmudhiraj",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/14/2015 12:12:42",
      "content": "<p>[deleted]</p>",
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    {
      "id": 96103,
      "author_name": "kazanova",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/14/2015 12:19:19",
      "content": "<p>I cannot tell you which one works better , because it depends on your input data! I do not want to mislead you! If you do not have time for cv ...try the z-score one., but there is no guarantee that works better than the other...From my experience it seems to be working slightly better in general. </p>",
      "votes": null,
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    {
      "id": 96104,
      "author_name": "niranjanmudhiraj",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/14/2015 12:22:30",
      "content": "<p>ok thanks @&#924;&#945;&#961;&#953;&#959;&#962; &#924;&#953;&#967;&#945;&#951;&#955;&#953;&#948;&#951;&#962; KazAnova . and 'All the best' to you and your team.</p>",
      "votes": null,
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    },
    {
      "id": 96105,
      "author_name": "kazanova",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/14/2015 12:23:08",
      "content": "<p>May the Force be with you too my friend.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 96107,
      "author_name": "niranjanmudhiraj",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/14/2015 12:31:58",
      "content": "<p>And also with you too my friend.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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    "96093": "I am new to kaggle, i am actively participating all kaggle competitions. In less time i learned many new things from kaggle competitions and kaggle forums.Really kaggle forum very supportive. Thanks to everyone. In this competition what should i concentrate more on feature selection or algorithms?\r\ncan anyone explain? \r\n\r\nThanks in Advance.",
    "96096": "Yes.\r\n\r\n(As long as you manage to fit your features into your memory!)\r\n\r\nLogistic regression is also more than enough for 0.98",
    "96098": "Thanks  @Μαριος Μιχαηλιδης KazAnova",
    "96099": "can you tell me to apply Logistic Regression, do i need to normalize data(z-score or min-max) or directly apply logistic regression.",
    "96100": "that depends on your input data. To my experience, normalization quite often improves the scores.",
    "96102": "[deleted]",
    "96103": "I cannot tell you which one works better , because it depends on your input data! I do not want to mislead you! If you do not have time for cv ...try the z-score one., but there is no guarantee that works better than the other...From my experience it seems to be working slightly better in general.",
    "96104": "ok thanks @Μαριος Μιχαηλιδης KazAnova . and 'All the best' to you and your team.",
    "96105": "May the Force be with you too my friend.",
    "96107": "And also with you too my friend."
  },
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