{
  "id": 131417,
  "title": "FAQ: When do I have to make my notebook public?",
  "url": "/competitions/march-madness-analytics-2020/discussion/131417",
  "author_name": "Addison Howard",
  "post_date": "2020-02-19T19:00:36.414000",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 0,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>The rules state that notebooks must be made public at the end of the competition. This is primarily to make them available for our team to judge (we don't see your private notebooks), but also to add to the collaborative nature of the Kaggle community in learning data science.</p>\n\n<p>However, nobody wants to share their \"secret sauce\" too early! So you can flip your notebook from \"private\" to \"public\" at the competition end. </p>\n\n<p>In analytics competitions, we receive a flood of submissions at the very end, primarily because people do not want to make their notebook public until the last possible moment.</p>\n\n<p>I'm not going to be a stickler about the notebook being turned public at 11:59pm UTC or 12:01am UTC, but it should be done immediately after submission. We will check to make sure that no additional edits were made after the 11:59pm deadline.</p>\n\n<p>Thanks and Happy Modeling!</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 750873,
      "postDate": "2020-02-19T19:00:36.413Z",
      "content": "<p>The rules state that notebooks must be made public at the end of the competition. This is primarily to make them available for our team to judge (we don't see your private notebooks), but also to add to the collaborative nature of the Kaggle community in learning data science.</p>\n\n<p>However, nobody wants to share their \"secret sauce\" too early! So you can flip your notebook from \"private\" to \"public\" at the competition end. </p>\n\n<p>In analytics competitions, we receive a flood of submissions at the very end, primarily because people do not want to make their notebook public until the last possible moment.</p>\n\n<p>I'm not going to be a stickler about the notebook being turned public at 11:59pm UTC or 12:01am UTC, but it should be done immediately after submission. We will check to make sure that no additional edits were made after the 11:59pm deadline.</p>\n\n<p>Thanks and Happy Modeling!</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The rules state that notebooks must be made public at the end of the competition. This is primarily to make them available for our team to judge (we don't see your private notebooks), but also to add to the collaborative nature of the Kaggle community in learning data science.\n\nHowever, nobody wants to share their \"secret sauce\" too early! So you can flip your notebook from \"private\" to \"public\" at the competition end. \n\nIn analytics competitions, we receive a flood of submissions at the very end, primarily because people do not want to make their notebook public until the last possible moment.\n\nI'm not going to be a stickler about the notebook being turned public at 11:59pm UTC or 12:01am UTC, but it should be done immediately after submission. We will check to make sure that no additional edits were made after the 11:59pm deadline.\n\nThanks and Happy Modeling!",
      "votes": 1
    }
  ],
  "comments": [],
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    "750873": "The rules state that notebooks must be made public at the end of the competition. This is primarily to make them available for our team to judge (we don't see your private notebooks), but also to add to the collaborative nature of the Kaggle community in learning data science.\n\nHowever, nobody wants to share their \"secret sauce\" too early! So you can flip your notebook from \"private\" to \"public\" at the competition end. \n\nIn analytics competitions, we receive a flood of submissions at the very end, primarily because people do not want to make their notebook public until the last possible moment.\n\nI'm not going to be a stickler about the notebook being turned public at 11:59pm UTC or 12:01am UTC, but it should be done immediately after submission. We will check to make sure that no additional edits were made after the 11:59pm deadline.\n\nThanks and Happy Modeling!"
  }
}