{
  "id": 585173,
  "title": "Question regarding test set time span",
  "url": "/competitions/drw-crypto-market-prediction/discussion/585173",
  "author_name": "Justin",
  "post_date": "2025-06-18T13:05:44.888000",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 0,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>I know for the test dataset \"To prevent future peeking, all timestamps are masked, shuffled, and replaced with a unique ID.\" but is there any information regarding the actual time span for the test set? For example we know the train data ranges from 2023-03-01 00:00 to 2024-02-29 23:59, I did not find it mentions anywhere if the test set actually starts from 2024-03-01 00:00. Test data includes approximately a year, ideally it should be between 2024-03-01 to 2025-03-01 but it also can be from 2024-05-01 to 2024-06-01. Is my understanding correct or am I missing something? Thank you in advance.</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 3227075,
      "postDate": "2025-06-18T13:05:44.890Z",
      "content": "<p>I know for the test dataset \"To prevent future peeking, all timestamps are masked, shuffled, and replaced with a unique ID.\" but is there any information regarding the actual time span for the test set? For example we know the train data ranges from 2023-03-01 00:00 to 2024-02-29 23:59, I did not find it mentions anywhere if the test set actually starts from 2024-03-01 00:00. Test data includes approximately a year, ideally it should be between 2024-03-01 to 2025-03-01 but it also can be from 2024-05-01 to 2024-06-01. Is my understanding correct or am I missing something? Thank you in advance.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I know for the test dataset \"To prevent future peeking, all timestamps are masked, shuffled, and replaced with a unique ID.\" but is there any information regarding the actual time span for the test set? For example we know the train data ranges from 2023-03-01 00:00 to 2024-02-29 23:59, I did not find it mentions anywhere if the test set actually starts from 2024-03-01 00:00. Test data includes approximately a year, ideally it should be between 2024-03-01 to 2025-03-01 but it also can be from 2024-05-01 to 2024-06-01. Is my understanding correct or am I missing something? Thank you in advance.",
      "votes": 2
    }
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  "comments": [],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "3227075": "I know for the test dataset \"To prevent future peeking, all timestamps are masked, shuffled, and replaced with a unique ID.\" but is there any information regarding the actual time span for the test set? For example we know the train data ranges from 2023-03-01 00:00 to 2024-02-29 23:59, I did not find it mentions anywhere if the test set actually starts from 2024-03-01 00:00. Test data includes approximately a year, ideally it should be between 2024-03-01 to 2025-03-01 but it also can be from 2024-05-01 to 2024-06-01. Is my understanding correct or am I missing something? Thank you in advance."
  }
}