{
  "id": 250286,
  "title": "External Data",
  "url": "/competitions/google-smartphone-decimeter-challenge/discussion/250286",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2021-07-02T01:57:29.263172600Z",
  "votes": 3,
  "comment_count": 1,
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  "content": "<p>One idea I have been playing around with is the use of external datasets (data not provided in the competition dataset). I think this can be useful to generate new features and possibly create a grid for some sort of “snap to road.”<br>\nI realized this was allowed according to Rule 7c: external data is allowed as long as it is publicly available.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/ravishah1/google-gps-external-data-via-reverse-geocoders\" target=\"_blank\">Linked is the notebook I made showing off reverse geocoding.</a><br>\n<a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/kuto0633/road-detection-and-creating-grid-points\" target=\"_blank\">Linked is another notebook by user kuto showing how to generate a grid</a></p>",
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    {
      "id": "1372756",
      "postDate": "07/02/2021 01:57:29",
      "content": "<p>One idea I have been playing around with is the use of external datasets (data not provided in the competition dataset). I think this can be useful to generate new features and possibly create a grid for some sort of “snap to road.”<br>\nI realized this was allowed according to Rule 7c: external data is allowed as long as it is publicly available.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/ravishah1/google-gps-external-data-via-reverse-geocoders\" target=\"_blank\">Linked is the notebook I made showing off reverse geocoding.</a><br>\n<a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/kuto0633/road-detection-and-creating-grid-points\" target=\"_blank\">Linked is another notebook by user kuto showing how to generate a grid</a></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "One idea I have been playing around with is the use of external datasets (data not provided in the competition dataset). I think this can be useful to generate new features and possibly create a grid for some sort of “snap to road.”\nI realized this was allowed according to Rule 7c: external data is allowed as long as it is publicly available.\n\n[Linked is the notebook I made showing off reverse geocoding.](https://www.kaggle.com/ravishah1/google-gps-external-data-via-reverse-geocoders)\n[Linked is another notebook by user kuto showing how to generate a grid](https://www.kaggle.com/kuto0633/road-detection-and-creating-grid-points)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1373307",
      "postDate": "07/02/2021 11:52:25",
      "content": "<p>It's so cool</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "It's so cool",
      "votes": null
    }
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1373307,
      "author_name": "kimisailingonareed",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "07/02/2021 11:52:25",
      "content": "<p>It's so cool</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
  ],
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    "1372756": "One idea I have been playing around with is the use of external datasets (data not provided in the competition dataset). I think this can be useful to generate new features and possibly create a grid for some sort of “snap to road.”\nI realized this was allowed according to Rule 7c: external data is allowed as long as it is publicly available.\n\n[Linked is the notebook I made showing off reverse geocoding.](https://www.kaggle.com/ravishah1/google-gps-external-data-via-reverse-geocoders)\n[Linked is another notebook by user kuto showing how to generate a grid](https://www.kaggle.com/kuto0633/road-detection-and-creating-grid-points)",
    "1373307": "It's so cool"
  },
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}