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  "id": 21431,
  "title": "Help please on uploading my file",
  "url": "/competitions/draper-satellite-image-chronology/discussion/21431",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2016-06-04T18:57:24.780Z",
  "votes": null,
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  "content": "<p>Hello All, </p>\n\n<p>I am no IT guru or anything close and i am having great difficulty i.e. cannot upload my first submission. I am a retired Image Analyst so this exercise is extremely interesting and challenging especially with no software bar a monitor and a half brain.</p>\n\n<p>I have tried every way i can think to resolve the error the message i receive, see below:</p>\n\n<p>ERROR: Column '1,' was not expected (Line 1, Column 1) ERROR: Required column 'setId' could not be found ERROR: Required column 'day' could not be found.</p>\n\n<p>What should i put for my ID??</p>\n\n<p>My submission created in Excel, then saved as a csv file.</p>\n\n<p>Eg of what i have  tried to upload, all in one column</p>\n\n<p>setId,sat\n1,\n2,1 2 4 3 5\n3,\n6,</p>\n\n<p>Can someone please in layman terms show me exactly what i should put in the first line of the csv file so i can upload it. i.e. spaces, all data in one column...</p>\n\n<p>Thank you so much in advance.</p>",
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      "id": "122517",
      "postDate": "06/04/2016 18:57:24",
      "content": "<p>Hello All, </p>\n\n<p>I am no IT guru or anything close and i am having great difficulty i.e. cannot upload my first submission. I am a retired Image Analyst so this exercise is extremely interesting and challenging especially with no software bar a monitor and a half brain.</p>\n\n<p>I have tried every way i can think to resolve the error the message i receive, see below:</p>\n\n<p>ERROR: Column '1,' was not expected (Line 1, Column 1) ERROR: Required column 'setId' could not be found ERROR: Required column 'day' could not be found.</p>\n\n<p>What should i put for my ID??</p>\n\n<p>My submission created in Excel, then saved as a csv file.</p>\n\n<p>Eg of what i have  tried to upload, all in one column</p>\n\n<p>setId,sat\n1,\n2,1 2 4 3 5\n3,\n6,</p>\n\n<p>Can someone please in layman terms show me exactly what i should put in the first line of the csv file so i can upload it. i.e. spaces, all data in one column...</p>\n\n<p>Thank you so much in advance.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hello All, \r\n\r\nI am no IT guru or anything close and i am having great difficulty i.e. cannot upload my first submission. I am a retired Image Analyst so this exercise is extremely interesting and challenging especially with no software bar a monitor and a half brain.\r\n\r\nI have tried every way i can think to resolve the error the message i receive, see below:\r\n\r\nERROR: Column '1,' was not expected (Line 1, Column 1) ERROR: Required column 'setId' could not be found ERROR: Required column 'day' could not be found.\r\n\r\nWhat should i put for my ID??\r\n\r\nMy submission created in Excel, then saved as a csv file.\r\n\r\nEg of what i have  tried to upload, all in one column\r\n\r\nsetId,sat\r\n1,\r\n2,1 2 4 3 5\r\n3,\r\n6,\r\n\r\nCan someone please in layman terms show me exactly what i should put in the first line of the csv file so i can upload it. i.e. spaces, all data in one column...\r\n\r\nThank you so much in advance.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "122537",
      "postDate": "06/04/2016 22:40:27",
      "content": "<p>Have you looked at the sample_submission.csv file under the 'Data' link on the left?</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/draper-satellite-image-chronology/download/sample_submission.csv\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/draper-satellite-image-chronology/download/sample_submission.csv</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Have you looked at the sample_submission.csv file under the 'Data' link on the left?\r\n\r\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/c/draper-satellite-image-chronology/download/sample_submission.csv",
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    {
      "id": "122562",
      "postDate": "06/05/2016 04:39:42",
      "content": "<p>Thank you Itod for the reply,</p>\n\n<p>'Yes' is the answer. I even just copied in the exact top line 'setId, day' and still the same message after upload, i then started to take character spaces out, using no capitals, you name it i have tried it resulting in using the exact line as supplied in the 'example'.</p>\n\n<p>I cannot find any contact details with organisers to clear up the simple problem.</p>\n\n<p>This morning at work will have another go at trying to upload my first submission.</p>\n\n<p>In short i am perplexed what i am doing wrong.</p>\n\n<p>Sean</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thank you Itod for the reply,\r\n\r\n'Yes' is the answer. I even just copied in the exact top line 'setId, day' and still the same message after upload, i then started to take character spaces out, using no capitals, you name it i have tried it resulting in using the exact line as supplied in the 'example'.\r\n\r\nI cannot find any contact details with organisers to clear up the simple problem.\r\n\r\nThis morning at work will have another go at trying to upload my first submission.\r\n\r\nIn short i am perplexed what i am doing wrong.\r\n\r\nSean",
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      "id": "122578",
      "postDate": "06/05/2016 10:27:07",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Sean Mckenzie;122562]</p>\n\n<p>In short i am perplexed what i am doing wrong.</p>\n\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n\n<p>A more concrete example for the submission file is on the following link: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/draper-satellite-image-chronology/details/evaluation\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/draper-satellite-image-chronology/details/evaluation</a></p>\n\n<p>You just have to do this for each set of images in the test set.</p>\n\n<pre><code>setId,day\n1,1 2 3 4 5\n2,1 2 3 4 5\n3,1 2 3 4 5\netc.\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>In case you really still don't manage to overcome this issue, you can always fire up Excel / OpenOffice, import CSV, and do:</p>\n\n<pre><code>G1: =A1&amp;&quot;,&quot;&amp;B1\nG2: =A2&amp;&quot;,&quot;&amp;B2&amp;&quot; &quot;&amp;C2&amp;&quot; &quot;&amp;D2&amp;&quot; &quot;&amp;E2&amp;&quot; &quot;&amp;F2\n(copy and paste down until last line)\n(copy G1:last line)\n(paste as values in column A)\n(delete all columns (B:G) except A)\n(export as CSV)\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>It supposes you use a delimited CSV in a correct form at the beginning of the import: {set, order1, order2, order3, order4, order5}.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "[quote=Sean Mckenzie;122562]\r\n\r\nIn short i am perplexed what i am doing wrong.\r\n\r\n[/quote]\r\n\r\nA more concrete example for the submission file is on the following link: https://www.kaggle.com/c/draper-satellite-image-chronology/details/evaluation\r\n\r\nYou just have to do this for each set of images in the test set.\r\n\r\n    setId,day\r\n    1,1 2 3 4 5\r\n    2,1 2 3 4 5\r\n    3,1 2 3 4 5\r\n    etc.\r\n\r\nIn case you really still don't manage to overcome this issue, you can always fire up Excel / OpenOffice, import CSV, and do:\r\n\r\n    G1: =A1&\",\"&B1\r\n    G2: =A2&\",\"&B2&\" \"&C2&\" \"&D2&\" \"&E2&\" \"&F2\r\n    (copy and paste down until last line)\r\n    (copy G1:last line)\r\n    (paste as values in column A)\r\n    (delete all columns (B:G) except A)\r\n    (export as CSV)\r\n\r\nIt supposes you use a delimited CSV in a correct form at the beginning of the import: {set, order1, order2, order3, order4, order5}.",
      "votes": null
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    {
      "id": "122589",
      "postDate": "06/05/2016 15:12:47",
      "content": "<p>Hello Laurae,</p>\n\n<p>Thank you so much for the reply.</p>\n\n<p>I thankfully managed with a colleague to resolve the matter a few hours ago yet ironically not as suggested. No fault of your suggestion. How we finally it after about 20 different adaptations to the formatting was as follows:</p>\n\n<p>Using Excel and saving as a .csv file:</p>\n\n<p>In column 1 removed all the 'commas' from everything such as</p>\n\n<p>setId\n1\n2\n3 and so on</p>\n\n<p>And in the next column entered the values</p>\n\n<p>day\n1 2 3 4 5\n2 3 4 5 1\n5 4 3 1 2 and so on.</p>\n\n<p>As not an IT bod, you can see how the supplied .csv file completely through me as tried to replicate it exactly within one column.  Additionally also entered even wrong values into each line to populate the whole table.</p>\n\n<p>All a learning curve.</p>\n\n<p>Thank you again,</p>\n\n<p>Sean</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hello Laurae,\r\n\r\nThank you so much for the reply.\r\n\r\nI thankfully managed with a colleague to resolve the matter a few hours ago yet ironically not as suggested. No fault of your suggestion. How we finally it after about 20 different adaptations to the formatting was as follows:\r\n\r\nUsing Excel and saving as a .csv file:\r\n\r\nIn column 1 removed all the 'commas' from everything such as\r\n\r\nsetId\r\n1\r\n2\r\n3 and so on\r\n\r\nAnd in the next column entered the values\r\n\r\nday\r\n1 2 3 4 5\r\n2 3 4 5 1\r\n5 4 3 1 2 and so on.\r\n\r\nAs not an IT bod, you can see how the supplied .csv file completely through me as tried to replicate it exactly within one column.  Additionally also entered even wrong values into each line to populate the whole table.\r\n\r\nAll a learning curve.\r\n\r\nThank you again,\r\n\r\nSean",
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      "id": "122590",
      "postDate": "06/05/2016 15:12:51",
      "content": "<p>Hello Laurae,</p>\n\n<p>Thank you so much for the reply.</p>\n\n<p>I thankfully managed with a colleague to resolve the matter a few hours ago yet ironically not as suggested. No fault of your suggestion. How we finally it after about 20 different adaptations to the formatting was as follows:</p>\n\n<p>Using Excel and saving as a .csv file:</p>\n\n<p>In column 1 removed all the 'commas' and did as follows</p>\n\n<p>In Row 1: setId</p>\n\n<p>In Row 2: 1</p>\n\n<p>In Row 3: 2 </p>\n\n<p>In Row 4: 3 and so on</p>\n\n<p>And in the next column, column 2 entered the values\nIn Row 1:  day</p>\n\n<p>In Row 2:  1 2 3 4 5</p>\n\n<p>In Row 3:  2 3 4 5 1</p>\n\n<p>In Row 4:  5 4 3 1 2 and so on.</p>\n\n<p>As I am not an IT bod, you can see how the supplied .csv file completely through me as tried to replicate it exactly within Excel down one column.  Additionally also entered needed to enter a 1-5 value in all rows as the system rejected it if i left parts of column to empty.</p>\n\n<p>All a learning curve.</p>\n\n<p>Thank you again,</p>\n\n<p>Sean</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hello Laurae,\r\n\r\nThank you so much for the reply.\r\n\r\nI thankfully managed with a colleague to resolve the matter a few hours ago yet ironically not as suggested. No fault of your suggestion. How we finally it after about 20 different adaptations to the formatting was as follows:\r\n\r\nUsing Excel and saving as a .csv file:\r\n\r\nIn column 1 removed all the 'commas' and did as follows\r\n\r\nIn Row 1: setId\r\n\r\nIn Row 2: 1\r\n\r\nIn Row 3: 2 \r\n\r\nIn Row 4: 3 and so on\r\n\r\nAnd in the next column, column 2 entered the values\r\nIn Row 1:  day\r\n\r\nIn Row 2:  1 2 3 4 5\r\n\r\nIn Row 3:  2 3 4 5 1\r\n\r\nIn Row 4:  5 4 3 1 2 and so on.\r\n\r\nAs I am not an IT bod, you can see how the supplied .csv file completely through me as tried to replicate it exactly within Excel down one column.  Additionally also entered needed to enter a 1-5 value in all rows as the system rejected it if i left parts of column to empty.\r\n\r\nAll a learning curve.\r\n\r\nThank you again,\r\n\r\nSean",
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    {
      "id": 122537,
      "author_name": "itodorovic",
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      "post_date": "06/04/2016 22:40:27",
      "content": "<p>Have you looked at the sample_submission.csv file under the 'Data' link on the left?</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/draper-satellite-image-chronology/download/sample_submission.csv\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/draper-satellite-image-chronology/download/sample_submission.csv</a></p>",
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    {
      "id": 122562,
      "author_name": "seanmlv",
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      "post_date": "06/05/2016 04:39:42",
      "content": "<p>Thank you Itod for the reply,</p>\n\n<p>'Yes' is the answer. I even just copied in the exact top line 'setId, day' and still the same message after upload, i then started to take character spaces out, using no capitals, you name it i have tried it resulting in using the exact line as supplied in the 'example'.</p>\n\n<p>I cannot find any contact details with organisers to clear up the simple problem.</p>\n\n<p>This morning at work will have another go at trying to upload my first submission.</p>\n\n<p>In short i am perplexed what i am doing wrong.</p>\n\n<p>Sean</p>",
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      "id": 122578,
      "author_name": "laurae2",
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      "post_date": "06/05/2016 10:27:07",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Sean Mckenzie;122562]</p>\n\n<p>In short i am perplexed what i am doing wrong.</p>\n\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n\n<p>A more concrete example for the submission file is on the following link: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/draper-satellite-image-chronology/details/evaluation\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/draper-satellite-image-chronology/details/evaluation</a></p>\n\n<p>You just have to do this for each set of images in the test set.</p>\n\n<pre><code>setId,day\n1,1 2 3 4 5\n2,1 2 3 4 5\n3,1 2 3 4 5\netc.\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>In case you really still don't manage to overcome this issue, you can always fire up Excel / OpenOffice, import CSV, and do:</p>\n\n<pre><code>G1: =A1&amp;&quot;,&quot;&amp;B1\nG2: =A2&amp;&quot;,&quot;&amp;B2&amp;&quot; &quot;&amp;C2&amp;&quot; &quot;&amp;D2&amp;&quot; &quot;&amp;E2&amp;&quot; &quot;&amp;F2\n(copy and paste down until last line)\n(copy G1:last line)\n(paste as values in column A)\n(delete all columns (B:G) except A)\n(export as CSV)\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>It supposes you use a delimited CSV in a correct form at the beginning of the import: {set, order1, order2, order3, order4, order5}.</p>",
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      "id": 122589,
      "author_name": "seanmlv",
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      "post_date": "06/05/2016 15:12:47",
      "content": "<p>Hello Laurae,</p>\n\n<p>Thank you so much for the reply.</p>\n\n<p>I thankfully managed with a colleague to resolve the matter a few hours ago yet ironically not as suggested. No fault of your suggestion. How we finally it after about 20 different adaptations to the formatting was as follows:</p>\n\n<p>Using Excel and saving as a .csv file:</p>\n\n<p>In column 1 removed all the 'commas' from everything such as</p>\n\n<p>setId\n1\n2\n3 and so on</p>\n\n<p>And in the next column entered the values</p>\n\n<p>day\n1 2 3 4 5\n2 3 4 5 1\n5 4 3 1 2 and so on.</p>\n\n<p>As not an IT bod, you can see how the supplied .csv file completely through me as tried to replicate it exactly within one column.  Additionally also entered even wrong values into each line to populate the whole table.</p>\n\n<p>All a learning curve.</p>\n\n<p>Thank you again,</p>\n\n<p>Sean</p>",
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      "id": 122590,
      "author_name": "seanmlv",
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      "post_date": "06/05/2016 15:12:51",
      "content": "<p>Hello Laurae,</p>\n\n<p>Thank you so much for the reply.</p>\n\n<p>I thankfully managed with a colleague to resolve the matter a few hours ago yet ironically not as suggested. No fault of your suggestion. How we finally it after about 20 different adaptations to the formatting was as follows:</p>\n\n<p>Using Excel and saving as a .csv file:</p>\n\n<p>In column 1 removed all the 'commas' and did as follows</p>\n\n<p>In Row 1: setId</p>\n\n<p>In Row 2: 1</p>\n\n<p>In Row 3: 2 </p>\n\n<p>In Row 4: 3 and so on</p>\n\n<p>And in the next column, column 2 entered the values\nIn Row 1:  day</p>\n\n<p>In Row 2:  1 2 3 4 5</p>\n\n<p>In Row 3:  2 3 4 5 1</p>\n\n<p>In Row 4:  5 4 3 1 2 and so on.</p>\n\n<p>As I am not an IT bod, you can see how the supplied .csv file completely through me as tried to replicate it exactly within Excel down one column.  Additionally also entered needed to enter a 1-5 value in all rows as the system rejected it if i left parts of column to empty.</p>\n\n<p>All a learning curve.</p>\n\n<p>Thank you again,</p>\n\n<p>Sean</p>",
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    "122517": "Hello All, \r\n\r\nI am no IT guru or anything close and i am having great difficulty i.e. cannot upload my first submission. I am a retired Image Analyst so this exercise is extremely interesting and challenging especially with no software bar a monitor and a half brain.\r\n\r\nI have tried every way i can think to resolve the error the message i receive, see below:\r\n\r\nERROR: Column '1,' was not expected (Line 1, Column 1) ERROR: Required column 'setId' could not be found ERROR: Required column 'day' could not be found.\r\n\r\nWhat should i put for my ID??\r\n\r\nMy submission created in Excel, then saved as a csv file.\r\n\r\nEg of what i have  tried to upload, all in one column\r\n\r\nsetId,sat\r\n1,\r\n2,1 2 4 3 5\r\n3,\r\n6,\r\n\r\nCan someone please in layman terms show me exactly what i should put in the first line of the csv file so i can upload it. i.e. spaces, all data in one column...\r\n\r\nThank you so much in advance.",
    "122537": "Have you looked at the sample_submission.csv file under the 'Data' link on the left?\r\n\r\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/c/draper-satellite-image-chronology/download/sample_submission.csv",
    "122562": "Thank you Itod for the reply,\r\n\r\n'Yes' is the answer. I even just copied in the exact top line 'setId, day' and still the same message after upload, i then started to take character spaces out, using no capitals, you name it i have tried it resulting in using the exact line as supplied in the 'example'.\r\n\r\nI cannot find any contact details with organisers to clear up the simple problem.\r\n\r\nThis morning at work will have another go at trying to upload my first submission.\r\n\r\nIn short i am perplexed what i am doing wrong.\r\n\r\nSean",
    "122578": "[quote=Sean Mckenzie;122562]\r\n\r\nIn short i am perplexed what i am doing wrong.\r\n\r\n[/quote]\r\n\r\nA more concrete example for the submission file is on the following link: https://www.kaggle.com/c/draper-satellite-image-chronology/details/evaluation\r\n\r\nYou just have to do this for each set of images in the test set.\r\n\r\n    setId,day\r\n    1,1 2 3 4 5\r\n    2,1 2 3 4 5\r\n    3,1 2 3 4 5\r\n    etc.\r\n\r\nIn case you really still don't manage to overcome this issue, you can always fire up Excel / OpenOffice, import CSV, and do:\r\n\r\n    G1: =A1&\",\"&B1\r\n    G2: =A2&\",\"&B2&\" \"&C2&\" \"&D2&\" \"&E2&\" \"&F2\r\n    (copy and paste down until last line)\r\n    (copy G1:last line)\r\n    (paste as values in column A)\r\n    (delete all columns (B:G) except A)\r\n    (export as CSV)\r\n\r\nIt supposes you use a delimited CSV in a correct form at the beginning of the import: {set, order1, order2, order3, order4, order5}.",
    "122589": "Hello Laurae,\r\n\r\nThank you so much for the reply.\r\n\r\nI thankfully managed with a colleague to resolve the matter a few hours ago yet ironically not as suggested. No fault of your suggestion. How we finally it after about 20 different adaptations to the formatting was as follows:\r\n\r\nUsing Excel and saving as a .csv file:\r\n\r\nIn column 1 removed all the 'commas' from everything such as\r\n\r\nsetId\r\n1\r\n2\r\n3 and so on\r\n\r\nAnd in the next column entered the values\r\n\r\nday\r\n1 2 3 4 5\r\n2 3 4 5 1\r\n5 4 3 1 2 and so on.\r\n\r\nAs not an IT bod, you can see how the supplied .csv file completely through me as tried to replicate it exactly within one column.  Additionally also entered even wrong values into each line to populate the whole table.\r\n\r\nAll a learning curve.\r\n\r\nThank you again,\r\n\r\nSean",
    "122590": "Hello Laurae,\r\n\r\nThank you so much for the reply.\r\n\r\nI thankfully managed with a colleague to resolve the matter a few hours ago yet ironically not as suggested. No fault of your suggestion. How we finally it after about 20 different adaptations to the formatting was as follows:\r\n\r\nUsing Excel and saving as a .csv file:\r\n\r\nIn column 1 removed all the 'commas' and did as follows\r\n\r\nIn Row 1: setId\r\n\r\nIn Row 2: 1\r\n\r\nIn Row 3: 2 \r\n\r\nIn Row 4: 3 and so on\r\n\r\nAnd in the next column, column 2 entered the values\r\nIn Row 1:  day\r\n\r\nIn Row 2:  1 2 3 4 5\r\n\r\nIn Row 3:  2 3 4 5 1\r\n\r\nIn Row 4:  5 4 3 1 2 and so on.\r\n\r\nAs I am not an IT bod, you can see how the supplied .csv file completely through me as tried to replicate it exactly within Excel down one column.  Additionally also entered needed to enter a 1-5 value in all rows as the system rejected it if i left parts of column to empty.\r\n\r\nAll a learning curve.\r\n\r\nThank you again,\r\n\r\nSean"
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