{
  "id": 20599,
  "title": "Previous competitions similar to this one?",
  "url": "/competitions/expedia-hotel-recommendations/discussion/20599",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2016-05-01T18:10:14.537Z",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 3,
  "views": 919,
  "content": "<p>Hi all,</p>\n\n<p>I'm still learning what the best ways to implement models / CV / feature selection are, and was wondering if anyone could list some previous competitions that had similar data to this one? Just wanted to post here to see if anyone had any that immediately came to mind before I go digging in the archives. Thanks!</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "117915",
      "postDate": "05/01/2016 18:10:14",
      "content": "<p>Hi all,</p>\n\n<p>I'm still learning what the best ways to implement models / CV / feature selection are, and was wondering if anyone could list some previous competitions that had similar data to this one? Just wanted to post here to see if anyone had any that immediately came to mind before I go digging in the archives. Thanks!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi all,\r\n\r\nI'm still learning what the best ways to implement models / CV / feature selection are, and was wondering if anyone could list some previous competitions that had similar data to this one? Just wanted to post here to see if anyone had any that immediately came to mind before I go digging in the archives. Thanks!",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "117934",
      "postDate": "05/01/2016 19:58:11",
      "content": "<p>This one is similar</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/coupon-purchase-prediction\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/coupon-purchase-prediction</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "This one is similar\r\n\r\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/c/coupon-purchase-prediction",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "117946",
      "postDate": "05/01/2016 23:31:29",
      "content": "<p>Thanks, that one does seem quite similar. I also found that the Airbnb bookings competition might be somewhat useful, as well as the Avazu CTR challenge. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks, that one does seem quite similar. I also found that the Airbnb bookings competition might be somewhat useful, as well as the Avazu CTR challenge.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "118035",
      "postDate": "05/02/2016 16:56:57",
      "content": "<p>I think in Airbnb competition, prediction had to be done on users not previously seen in training. Here the users are known and we have to predict repeat orders. However, the number of classes are much larger here...</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I think in Airbnb competition, prediction had to be done on users not previously seen in training. Here the users are known and we have to predict repeat orders. However, the number of classes are much larger here...",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 117934,
      "author_name": "pvlima",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "05/01/2016 19:58:11",
      "content": "<p>This one is similar</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/coupon-purchase-prediction\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/coupon-purchase-prediction</a></p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 117946,
      "author_name": "nitini",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "05/01/2016 23:31:29",
      "content": "<p>Thanks, that one does seem quite similar. I also found that the Airbnb bookings competition might be somewhat useful, as well as the Avazu CTR challenge. </p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 118035,
      "author_name": "hitoshinagano",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "05/02/2016 16:56:57",
      "content": "<p>I think in Airbnb competition, prediction had to be done on users not previously seen in training. Here the users are known and we have to predict repeat orders. However, the number of classes are much larger here...</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "117915": "Hi all,\r\n\r\nI'm still learning what the best ways to implement models / CV / feature selection are, and was wondering if anyone could list some previous competitions that had similar data to this one? Just wanted to post here to see if anyone had any that immediately came to mind before I go digging in the archives. Thanks!",
    "117934": "This one is similar\r\n\r\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/c/coupon-purchase-prediction",
    "117946": "Thanks, that one does seem quite similar. I also found that the Airbnb bookings competition might be somewhat useful, as well as the Avazu CTR challenge.",
    "118035": "I think in Airbnb competition, prediction had to be done on users not previously seen in training. Here the users are known and we have to predict repeat orders. However, the number of classes are much larger here..."
  },
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}