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  "id": 3616,
  "title": "Training and Test Data",
  "url": "/competitions/flight/discussion/3616",
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  "post_date": "2013-01-17T08:57:14.053Z",
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  "content": "<p>Sorry if my question will seem a little stupid, but I joined just 2 days and will be happy if someone can help.</p>\r\n<p>1. First of all I want to understand what are out training and test datas. Am I right that we should develop our model based on &quot;Initial Training Set&quot; and than test it based on &quot;Public Leaderboard Set&quot;</p>\r\n<p>2. Whar the files &quot;cutoff_benchmark.csv&quot; &quot;scheduled_arrivel _benchmark.csv&quot; and &quot;estimated_arrival_benchmark_rev1.csv&quot; are showing? Why we need them?</p>",
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      "postDate": "01/17/2013 08:57:14",
      "content": "<p>Sorry if my question will seem a little stupid, but I joined just 2 days and will be happy if someone can help.</p>\r\n<p>1. First of all I want to understand what are out training and test datas. Am I right that we should develop our model based on &quot;Initial Training Set&quot; and than test it based on &quot;Public Leaderboard Set&quot;</p>\r\n<p>2. Whar the files &quot;cutoff_benchmark.csv&quot; &quot;scheduled_arrivel _benchmark.csv&quot; and &quot;estimated_arrival_benchmark_rev1.csv&quot; are showing? Why we need them?</p>",
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      "postDate": "01/17/2013 14:34:03",
      "content": "<p>1) yes, although you may now train your model using both the&nbsp;<span>InitialTrainingSet_rev1 and the&nbsp;</span><span>AugmentedTrainingSet1</span></p>\r\n<p>2) you don't necessarly need these files. It's three examples of how predictions should be submitted, based on if your prediction was that flights will all land off at cutoff time, all land off at their scheduled arrival, or all land off at the last estimated\r\n arrival received prior to cutoff, respectively. &nbsp;</p>",
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      "author_name": "jay670790",
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      "post_date": "01/17/2013 14:34:03",
      "content": "<p>1) yes, although you may now train your model using both the&nbsp;<span>InitialTrainingSet_rev1 and the&nbsp;</span><span>AugmentedTrainingSet1</span></p>\r\n<p>2) you don't necessarly need these files. It's three examples of how predictions should be submitted, based on if your prediction was that flights will all land off at cutoff time, all land off at their scheduled arrival, or all land off at the last estimated\r\n arrival received prior to cutoff, respectively. &nbsp;</p>",
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