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  "id": 1708,
  "title": "Release of Test Data and Launch of Competition",
  "url": "/competitions/kddcup2012-track2/discussion/1708",
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  "post_date": "2012-04-11T08:43:29.483Z",
  "votes": null,
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  "content": "<p>We're excited to be able to fully launch this competition!</p>\r\n<p>The test data may now be downloaded from the <a href=\"https://www.kddcup2012.org/c/kddcup2012-track2/data\">\r\ndownload page</a>, along with some basic single-feature benchmarks and the corresponding code to create them.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Sample python code for the evaluation metric along with associated test cases has been provided as well. &nbsp;Note that the AUC metric (as implemented in the scoreClickAUC function) is the only one being used to evaluate this track.</p>\r\n<p>Also, note that the test set and submission files are sizeable (there are 20297594&nbsp;test samples). It may take several minutes to upload your submission, and an additional minute or two to evaluate it once it has been uploaded. &nbsp;We strongly encourage you\r\n to compress your submissions (.7z, .zip, .rar, or .gz) before uploading them.</p>\r\n<p>Please post any questions you may have on the data or the structure of the competition in the forums.</p>\r\n<p>Bon courage!</p>",
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    {
      "id": "10063",
      "postDate": "04/11/2012 08:43:29",
      "content": "<p>We're excited to be able to fully launch this competition!</p>\r\n<p>The test data may now be downloaded from the <a href=\"https://www.kddcup2012.org/c/kddcup2012-track2/data\">\r\ndownload page</a>, along with some basic single-feature benchmarks and the corresponding code to create them.&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Sample python code for the evaluation metric along with associated test cases has been provided as well. &nbsp;Note that the AUC metric (as implemented in the scoreClickAUC function) is the only one being used to evaluate this track.</p>\r\n<p>Also, note that the test set and submission files are sizeable (there are 20297594&nbsp;test samples). It may take several minutes to upload your submission, and an additional minute or two to evaluate it once it has been uploaded. &nbsp;We strongly encourage you\r\n to compress your submissions (.7z, .zip, .rar, or .gz) before uploading them.</p>\r\n<p>Please post any questions you may have on the data or the structure of the competition in the forums.</p>\r\n<p>Bon courage!</p>",
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      "id": "10087",
      "postDate": "04/12/2012 15:50:18",
      "content": "<p>Ben,</p>\r\n<pre><code>Will any userID or tokens ID files be released? Files with the data not present in the training ones privided...\n</code></pre>\r\n<p>Thanks!</p>",
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    {
      "id": "10128",
      "postDate": "04/15/2012 01:52:17",
      "content": "<p>Ben will any additional files be provided in the future? like meaning of new queryIDs, gender of new users, etc?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "10140",
      "postDate": "04/15/2012 22:14:09",
      "content": "<p>As far as I know, all the files have been provided. I'll let someone from Tencent confirm though.</p>",
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      "id": "10160",
      "postDate": "04/16/2012 12:45:47",
      "content": "<p>No more files will be provided.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "10429",
      "postDate": "04/27/2012 04:30:56",
      "content": "<p>could you provide the torrent links please?<br>\r\nI keep on having interrupted downloads with the data files.</p>",
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      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "10590",
      "postDate": "04/29/2012 08:17:16",
      "content": "<p>never mind, it was a wifi vs ethernet problem all along. Pardon</p>",
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      "id": 10087,
      "author_name": "leustagos",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/12/2012 15:50:18",
      "content": "<p>Ben,</p>\r\n<pre><code>Will any userID or tokens ID files be released? Files with the data not present in the training ones privided...\n</code></pre>\r\n<p>Thanks!</p>",
      "votes": null,
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    },
    {
      "id": 10128,
      "author_name": "leustagos",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/15/2012 01:52:17",
      "content": "<p>Ben will any additional files be provided in the future? like meaning of new queryIDs, gender of new users, etc?</p>",
      "votes": null,
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    {
      "id": 10140,
      "author_name": "benhamner",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/15/2012 22:14:09",
      "content": "<p>As far as I know, all the files have been provided. I'll let someone from Tencent confirm though.</p>",
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    {
      "id": 10160,
      "author_name": "ubiwang",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/16/2012 12:45:47",
      "content": "<p>No more files will be provided.</p>",
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    {
      "id": 10429,
      "author_name": "carter",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/27/2012 04:30:56",
      "content": "<p>could you provide the torrent links please?<br>\r\nI keep on having interrupted downloads with the data files.</p>",
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      "id": 10590,
      "author_name": "carter",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/29/2012 08:17:16",
      "content": "<p>never mind, it was a wifi vs ethernet problem all along. Pardon</p>",
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