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  "id": 2467,
  "title": "External Data",
  "url": "/competitions/predict-closed-questions-on-stack-overflow/discussion/2467",
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  "post_date": "2012-08-27T21:13:02.413Z",
  "votes": null,
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  "content": "<p>As the <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/predict-closed-questions-on-stack-overflow/details/rules\">\r\nrules </a>state,</p>\r\n<p>[quote]</p>\r\n<p>You are free to use publicly available dictionaries and text corpora in this competition. If you would like to use any other external data source, verify that this is permissible by posting in the forums.</p>\r\n<p>[/quote]</p>\r\n<p>Please use this forum thread to check whether additional external data is permissible. Also, feel free to let other competitors know what text corpora or dictionaries you have found useful here!</p>",
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      "id": "13528",
      "postDate": "08/27/2012 21:13:02",
      "content": "<p>As the <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/predict-closed-questions-on-stack-overflow/details/rules\">\r\nrules </a>state,</p>\r\n<p>[quote]</p>\r\n<p>You are free to use publicly available dictionaries and text corpora in this competition. If you would like to use any other external data source, verify that this is permissible by posting in the forums.</p>\r\n<p>[/quote]</p>\r\n<p>Please use this forum thread to check whether additional external data is permissible. Also, feel free to let other competitors know what text corpora or dictionaries you have found useful here!</p>",
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      "id": "13534",
      "postDate": "08/27/2012 22:18:13",
      "content": "<p>Also, keep in mind that any external data you use should be submitted with your model prior to the collection / release of the final evaluation data set (so you should not be using external data to incorporate future information into the problem).</p>",
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      "id": "14407",
      "postDate": "09/17/2012 17:10:18",
      "content": "<p>We can use the Stackoverflow API to get some extra data about the user? </p>",
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      "votes": null
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      "id": "14408",
      "postDate": "09/17/2012 17:15:26",
      "content": "<p>No, any external data should be fixed (ie. unchanging).</p>\r\n<p>As per-user data would require additional work be done for the final submission (it wouldn't be the same data as submissions against the leaderboard), it's not acceptable.</p>",
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      "id": 13534,
      "author_name": "benhamner",
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      "post_date": "08/27/2012 22:18:13",
      "content": "<p>Also, keep in mind that any external data you use should be submitted with your model prior to the collection / release of the final evaluation data set (so you should not be using external data to incorporate future information into the problem).</p>",
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    },
    {
      "id": 14407,
      "author_name": "alessandrosena",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "09/17/2012 17:10:18",
      "content": "<p>We can use the Stackoverflow API to get some extra data about the user? </p>",
      "votes": null,
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    },
    {
      "id": 14408,
      "author_name": "kevinmontrose",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "09/17/2012 17:15:26",
      "content": "<p>No, any external data should be fixed (ie. unchanging).</p>\r\n<p>As per-user data would require additional work be done for the final submission (it wouldn't be the same data as submissions against the leaderboard), it's not acceptable.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
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