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  "id": 228887,
  "title": "Floors as a Feature",
  "url": "/competitions/indoor-location-navigation/discussion/228887",
  "author_name": "Ravi Shah",
  "post_date": "2021-03-27T02:33:05.738000",
  "votes": 13,
  "comment_count": 0,
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  "content": "<p>One feature that I have been using that has surprisingly significantly increased my score is floors. While at first I did not use this feature because it is one of the outputs I am predicting, after reading discussions and notebooks, I gave it a try. It definitely helps.</p>\n<p>Here is the notebook that produces the floor predictions I use: <a href=\"url\" target=\"_blank\"></a><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/nigelhenry/simple-99-accurate-floor-model\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/nigelhenry/simple-99-accurate-floor-model</a> </p>\n<p>Here is an example of a rnn that uses floors as a feature: <a href=\"url\" target=\"_blank\"></a><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/therocket290/lstm-unified-wi-fi-training-x-and-y-with-floor\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/therocket290/lstm-unified-wi-fi-training-x-and-y-with-floor</a> <br>\nHere is an example of a lgbm that uses floors as a feature: <a href=\"url\" target=\"_blank\"></a><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/oxzplvifi/indoor-gbm-postprocessing-xy-prediction\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/oxzplvifi/indoor-gbm-postprocessing-xy-prediction</a> </p>\n<p>Did using floors as a feature improve your results? What other unexpected features should we try?</p>",
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      "content": "<p>One feature that I have been using that has surprisingly significantly increased my score is floors. While at first I did not use this feature because it is one of the outputs I am predicting, after reading discussions and notebooks, I gave it a try. It definitely helps.</p>\n<p>Here is the notebook that produces the floor predictions I use: <a href=\"url\" target=\"_blank\"></a><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/nigelhenry/simple-99-accurate-floor-model\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/nigelhenry/simple-99-accurate-floor-model</a> </p>\n<p>Here is an example of a rnn that uses floors as a feature: <a href=\"url\" target=\"_blank\"></a><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/therocket290/lstm-unified-wi-fi-training-x-and-y-with-floor\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/therocket290/lstm-unified-wi-fi-training-x-and-y-with-floor</a> <br>\nHere is an example of a lgbm that uses floors as a feature: <a href=\"url\" target=\"_blank\"></a><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/oxzplvifi/indoor-gbm-postprocessing-xy-prediction\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/oxzplvifi/indoor-gbm-postprocessing-xy-prediction</a> </p>\n<p>Did using floors as a feature improve your results? What other unexpected features should we try?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "One feature that I have been using that has surprisingly significantly increased my score is floors. While at first I did not use this feature because it is one of the outputs I am predicting, after reading discussions and notebooks, I gave it a try. It definitely helps.\n\nHere is the notebook that produces the floor predictions I use: [https://www.kaggle.com/nigelhenry/simple-99-accurate-floor-model ](url)\n\nHere is an example of a rnn that uses floors as a feature: [https://www.kaggle.com/therocket290/lstm-unified-wi-fi-training-x-and-y-with-floor ](url)\nHere is an example of a lgbm that uses floors as a feature: [https://www.kaggle.com/oxzplvifi/indoor-gbm-postprocessing-xy-prediction ](url)\n\nDid using floors as a feature improve your results? What other unexpected features should we try?",
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    "1253759": "One feature that I have been using that has surprisingly significantly increased my score is floors. While at first I did not use this feature because it is one of the outputs I am predicting, after reading discussions and notebooks, I gave it a try. It definitely helps.\n\nHere is the notebook that produces the floor predictions I use: [https://www.kaggle.com/nigelhenry/simple-99-accurate-floor-model ](url)\n\nHere is an example of a rnn that uses floors as a feature: [https://www.kaggle.com/therocket290/lstm-unified-wi-fi-training-x-and-y-with-floor ](url)\nHere is an example of a lgbm that uses floors as a feature: [https://www.kaggle.com/oxzplvifi/indoor-gbm-postprocessing-xy-prediction ](url)\n\nDid using floors as a feature improve your results? What other unexpected features should we try?"
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