{
  "id": 268127,
  "title": "What does the gravitational wave look like?",
  "url": "/competitions/g2net-gravitational-wave-detection/discussion/268127",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2021-08-26T05:56:27.193321100Z",
  "votes": 4,
  "comment_count": 7,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>I tried to visualize the spectrogram either by MelSpectrogram or CQT, but cannot find obvious difference between positive and negtive samples, only some signals/noise at low freqence is common and obvious,  didn't see clear shapes/patterns on what's the target singal like in positive samples. </p>\n<p>I'm wondering if this gravitational wave is not visible by human eye, or my visualization code has some problem?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "1491063",
      "postDate": "08/26/2021 05:56:27",
      "content": "<p>I tried to visualize the spectrogram either by MelSpectrogram or CQT, but cannot find obvious difference between positive and negtive samples, only some signals/noise at low freqence is common and obvious,  didn't see clear shapes/patterns on what's the target singal like in positive samples. </p>\n<p>I'm wondering if this gravitational wave is not visible by human eye, or my visualization code has some problem?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I tried to visualize the spectrogram either by MelSpectrogram or CQT, but cannot find obvious difference between positive and negtive samples, only some signals/noise at low freqence is common and obvious,  didn't see clear shapes/patterns on what's the target singal like in positive samples. \n\nI'm wondering if this gravitational wave is not visible by human eye, or my visualization code has some problem?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1491075",
      "postDate": "08/26/2021 06:09:52",
      "content": "<p>you are right  this gravitational wave is not clearly visible by human eye because of noise and this is the main challenge in this competition - \"detecting gravitational waves from such noisy data\"</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "you are right  this gravitational wave is not clearly visible by human eye because of noise and this is the main challenge in this competition - \"detecting gravitational waves from such noisy data\"",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1491167",
      "postDate": "08/26/2021 07:43:47",
      "content": "<p>If you want to QC your preprocessing by eye, here are some easy examples:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>098a464da9</code> is a super clean signal you should be able to see in the raw data</li>\n<li><code>000a5b6e5c</code> is a signal that emerges nicely in spectrograms after some processing</li>\n</ul>",
      "rawMarkdown": "If you want to QC your preprocessing by eye, here are some easy examples:\n- `098a464da9` is a super clean signal you should be able to see in the raw data\n- `000a5b6e5c` is a signal that emerges nicely in spectrograms after some processing",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1491294",
      "postDate": "08/26/2021 09:31:22",
      "content": "<p>Thanks a lot <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/anjum48\" target=\"_blank\">@anjum48</a> , 098a464da9 is indeed very clean. And 000a5b6e5c is not so clean, only after I applied amplitude_to_db() then I can see it cleanly, may I ask if you are processing the same way, to_db is necessary here? Thanks.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Thanks a lot @anjum48 , 098a464da9 is indeed very clean. And 000a5b6e5c is not so clean, only after I applied amplitude_to_db() then I can see it cleanly, may I ask if you are processing the same way, to_db is necessary here? Thanks.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1491327",
      "postDate": "08/26/2021 09:59:01",
      "content": "<p>I'm not using <code>amplitude_to_db()</code> in my pipeline, but maybe I should be! I'll have to do some experiments :)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I'm not using `amplitude_to_db()` in my pipeline, but maybe I should be! I'll have to do some experiments :)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1492015",
      "postDate": "08/26/2021 19:34:10",
      "content": "<p>There are few cases where the wave is clearly visible, but in most of them it is faint.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "There are few cases where the wave is clearly visible, but in most of them it is faint.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1494991",
      "postDate": "08/29/2021 08:05:06",
      "content": "<p>As pointed by most, the signal isn't always visible indeed since the \"signal to noise\" ratio is small. <br>\nIn this <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/mistag/data-preprocessing-with-gwpy\" target=\"_blank\">notebook</a>, there is a very clear signal (file <code>0/0/2/0021f9dd71.npy</code>):</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://ibb.co/rsxMnMc\"><img src=\"https://i.ibb.co/zJXbKb7/results-29-0.png\" alt=\"results-29-0\"></a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "As pointed by most, the signal isn't always visible indeed since the \"signal to noise\" ratio is small. \nIn this [notebook](https://www.kaggle.com/mistag/data-preprocessing-with-gwpy), there is a very clear signal (file `0/0/2/0021f9dd71.npy`):\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https://ibb.co/rsxMnMc\"><img src=\"https://i.ibb.co/zJXbKb7/results-29-0.png\" alt=\"results-29-0\" border=\"0\"></a>",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1561064",
      "postDate": "10/27/2021 09:53:51",
      "content": "<p>Hey All,</p>\n<p>Thank you all for taking part in our competition. The participation has been overwhelmingly positive. We are currently conducting a survey to gauge the demographic and outreach achieved. Kindly spare 2min and fill in this survey <a href=\"https://forms.gle/QP9L16niPexozyhu5\" target=\"_blank\">https://forms.gle/QP9L16niPexozyhu5</a>.</p>\n<p>Thank you all,</p>\n<p>Regards,<br>\nChris</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hey All,\n\nThank you all for taking part in our competition. The participation has been overwhelmingly positive. We are currently conducting a survey to gauge the demographic and outreach achieved. Kindly spare 2min and fill in this survey https://forms.gle/QP9L16niPexozyhu5.\n\nThank you all,\n\nRegards,\nChris",
      "votes": null
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1491075,
      "author_name": "mobassir",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/26/2021 06:09:52",
      "content": "<p>you are right  this gravitational wave is not clearly visible by human eye because of noise and this is the main challenge in this competition - \"detecting gravitational waves from such noisy data\"</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1491167,
      "author_name": "anjum48",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/26/2021 07:43:47",
      "content": "<p>If you want to QC your preprocessing by eye, here are some easy examples:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>098a464da9</code> is a super clean signal you should be able to see in the raw data</li>\n<li><code>000a5b6e5c</code> is a signal that emerges nicely in spectrograms after some processing</li>\n</ul>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1491294,
          "author_name": "superchenhao",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "08/26/2021 09:31:22",
          "content": "<p>Thanks a lot <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/anjum48\" target=\"_blank\">@anjum48</a> , 098a464da9 is indeed very clean. And 000a5b6e5c is not so clean, only after I applied amplitude_to_db() then I can see it cleanly, may I ask if you are processing the same way, to_db is necessary here? Thanks.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 1491327,
          "author_name": "anjum48",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "08/26/2021 09:59:01",
          "content": "<p>I'm not using <code>amplitude_to_db()</code> in my pipeline, but maybe I should be! I'll have to do some experiments :)</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 1492015,
      "author_name": "cpmpml",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/26/2021 19:34:10",
      "content": "<p>There are few cases where the wave is clearly visible, but in most of them it is faint.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1494991,
      "author_name": "yassinealouini",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/29/2021 08:05:06",
      "content": "<p>As pointed by most, the signal isn't always visible indeed since the \"signal to noise\" ratio is small. <br>\nIn this <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/mistag/data-preprocessing-with-gwpy\" target=\"_blank\">notebook</a>, there is a very clear signal (file <code>0/0/2/0021f9dd71.npy</code>):</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://ibb.co/rsxMnMc\"><img src=\"https://i.ibb.co/zJXbKb7/results-29-0.png\" alt=\"results-29-0\"></a></p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1561064,
      "author_name": "zerafachris",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/27/2021 09:53:51",
      "content": "<p>Hey All,</p>\n<p>Thank you all for taking part in our competition. The participation has been overwhelmingly positive. We are currently conducting a survey to gauge the demographic and outreach achieved. Kindly spare 2min and fill in this survey <a href=\"https://forms.gle/QP9L16niPexozyhu5\" target=\"_blank\">https://forms.gle/QP9L16niPexozyhu5</a>.</p>\n<p>Thank you all,</p>\n<p>Regards,<br>\nChris</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
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    "1491063": "I tried to visualize the spectrogram either by MelSpectrogram or CQT, but cannot find obvious difference between positive and negtive samples, only some signals/noise at low freqence is common and obvious,  didn't see clear shapes/patterns on what's the target singal like in positive samples. \n\nI'm wondering if this gravitational wave is not visible by human eye, or my visualization code has some problem?",
    "1491075": "you are right  this gravitational wave is not clearly visible by human eye because of noise and this is the main challenge in this competition - \"detecting gravitational waves from such noisy data\"",
    "1491167": "If you want to QC your preprocessing by eye, here are some easy examples:\n- `098a464da9` is a super clean signal you should be able to see in the raw data\n- `000a5b6e5c` is a signal that emerges nicely in spectrograms after some processing",
    "1491294": "Thanks a lot @anjum48 , 098a464da9 is indeed very clean. And 000a5b6e5c is not so clean, only after I applied amplitude_to_db() then I can see it cleanly, may I ask if you are processing the same way, to_db is necessary here? Thanks.",
    "1491327": "I'm not using `amplitude_to_db()` in my pipeline, but maybe I should be! I'll have to do some experiments :)",
    "1492015": "There are few cases where the wave is clearly visible, but in most of them it is faint.",
    "1494991": "As pointed by most, the signal isn't always visible indeed since the \"signal to noise\" ratio is small. \nIn this [notebook](https://www.kaggle.com/mistag/data-preprocessing-with-gwpy), there is a very clear signal (file `0/0/2/0021f9dd71.npy`):\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https://ibb.co/rsxMnMc\"><img src=\"https://i.ibb.co/zJXbKb7/results-29-0.png\" alt=\"results-29-0\" border=\"0\"></a>",
    "1561064": "Hey All,\n\nThank you all for taking part in our competition. The participation has been overwhelmingly positive. We are currently conducting a survey to gauge the demographic and outreach achieved. Kindly spare 2min and fill in this survey https://forms.gle/QP9L16niPexozyhu5.\n\nThank you all,\n\nRegards,\nChris"
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