{
  "id": 2617,
  "title": "train-sample.csv odd data.",
  "url": "/competitions/predict-closed-questions-on-stack-overflow/discussion/2617",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2012-09-09T01:06:26.650Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 5,
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  "content": "<p>Hi all I recently downloaded the train-sample.csv file and the first line looks correct:&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>PostId,PostCreationDate,OwnerUserId,OwnerCreationDate,ReputationAtPostCreation,OwnerUndeletedAnswerCountAtPostTime,Title,BodyMarkdown,Tag1,Tag2,Tag3,Tag4,Tag5,PostClosedDate,OpenStatus</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>but at line 4 it looks strange to me:&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>I suppose it's a compromise between:<br>\r\n<br>\r\n&nbsp;- ease of referencing the Language<br>\r\n&nbsp;- object in that collection<br>\r\n&nbsp;- speed in doing queries where the sentence has a certain language<br>\r\n&nbsp;- the size of the data on disk</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Is that actually what is supposed to be in the csv file?&nbsp; I am curious because the entire file is over 2 million lines long and nothing in there looks like data.&nbsp; The last few lines look like this:&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>The story starts with an idea to automatically attach unlimited amounts of PDF's to an emial, ussing the Acrobat program.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nQuickly you begin to understand that Adobe can only ever attch the one PDF to an email at the one time, no more Pdf's can be attached.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nthen the idea qickly circum navigats to creating a VBA form that displays all the attachments collected throughout the PDF by a copy move .bat extension that places the selected files in a temporary folder.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nnevermind as complex as it sounds it works execpt now that the administrator has blocked (so says adobe) acrobat from executing files from linked buttons. in otherwords what im doing works but i havent got the security clearance to initiate it.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nwhat i would like to know is either of two things.<br>\r\n<br>\r\ndose anybody know a kosher logical way around the buttons triggering the bat extension files.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nOR....</p>",
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    {
      "id": "14116",
      "postDate": "09/09/2012 01:06:26",
      "content": "<p>Hi all I recently downloaded the train-sample.csv file and the first line looks correct:&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>PostId,PostCreationDate,OwnerUserId,OwnerCreationDate,ReputationAtPostCreation,OwnerUndeletedAnswerCountAtPostTime,Title,BodyMarkdown,Tag1,Tag2,Tag3,Tag4,Tag5,PostClosedDate,OpenStatus</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>but at line 4 it looks strange to me:&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>I suppose it's a compromise between:<br>\r\n<br>\r\n&nbsp;- ease of referencing the Language<br>\r\n&nbsp;- object in that collection<br>\r\n&nbsp;- speed in doing queries where the sentence has a certain language<br>\r\n&nbsp;- the size of the data on disk</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>Is that actually what is supposed to be in the csv file?&nbsp; I am curious because the entire file is over 2 million lines long and nothing in there looks like data.&nbsp; The last few lines look like this:&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>The story starts with an idea to automatically attach unlimited amounts of PDF's to an emial, ussing the Acrobat program.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nQuickly you begin to understand that Adobe can only ever attch the one PDF to an email at the one time, no more Pdf's can be attached.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nthen the idea qickly circum navigats to creating a VBA form that displays all the attachments collected throughout the PDF by a copy move .bat extension that places the selected files in a temporary folder.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nnevermind as complex as it sounds it works execpt now that the administrator has blocked (so says adobe) acrobat from executing files from linked buttons. in otherwords what im doing works but i havent got the security clearance to initiate it.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nwhat i would like to know is either of two things.<br>\r\n<br>\r\ndose anybody know a kosher logical way around the buttons triggering the bat extension files.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nOR....</p>",
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    {
      "id": "14145",
      "postDate": "09/10/2012 00:06:41",
      "content": "<p>It's a valid CSV file. The BodyMarkdown column is a multi-line string, surrounded by quotation marks. Your csv parser needs to be able to deal with that.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "14150",
      "postDate": "09/10/2012 04:05:38",
      "content": "<p>Good answer, but I think the original post was just clever spam clipped from other posts. Maybe the next challenge should be a meta-Kaggle: predict forum post spam on Kaggle competitions.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "14151",
      "postDate": "09/10/2012 05:17:35",
      "content": "<p>No, that's actually what's in train-sample.csv.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "14152",
      "postDate": "09/10/2012 05:24:11",
      "content": "<p>Ah, I see now. You're right. Sorry for the confusion.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "14327",
      "postDate": "09/14/2012 20:07:45",
      "content": "<p>I thought I downloaded some really weird file.</p>",
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      "id": 14145,
      "author_name": "andysloane",
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      "post_date": "09/10/2012 00:06:41",
      "content": "<p>It's a valid CSV file. The BodyMarkdown column is a multi-line string, surrounded by quotation marks. Your csv parser needs to be able to deal with that.</p>",
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      "id": 14150,
      "author_name": "coreyabshire",
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      "post_date": "09/10/2012 04:05:38",
      "content": "<p>Good answer, but I think the original post was just clever spam clipped from other posts. Maybe the next challenge should be a meta-Kaggle: predict forum post spam on Kaggle competitions.</p>",
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      "id": 14151,
      "author_name": "andysloane",
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      "post_date": "09/10/2012 05:17:35",
      "content": "<p>No, that's actually what's in train-sample.csv.</p>",
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      "id": 14152,
      "author_name": "coreyabshire",
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      "post_date": "09/10/2012 05:24:11",
      "content": "<p>Ah, I see now. You're right. Sorry for the confusion.</p>",
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      "id": 14327,
      "author_name": "woot4moo",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "09/14/2012 20:07:45",
      "content": "<p>I thought I downloaded some really weird file.</p>",
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