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  "id": 229067,
  "title": "Setting path to \"../input/\"???",
  "url": "/competitions/state-farm-distracted-driver-detection/discussion/229067",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2021-03-28T06:58:02.187455600Z",
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  "content": "<p>Hi all,</p>\n<p>I was running through some notebooks and see that there are some path being set with \"../input/\"</p>\n<p>can anyone tell me what's the significance of doing that?</p>\n<p>I have tried to set the same thing in jupyter notebook but it says no such file or directory exist.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "1254826",
      "postDate": "03/28/2021 06:58:02",
      "content": "<p>Hi all,</p>\n<p>I was running through some notebooks and see that there are some path being set with \"../input/\"</p>\n<p>can anyone tell me what's the significance of doing that?</p>\n<p>I have tried to set the same thing in jupyter notebook but it says no such file or directory exist.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi all,\n\nI was running through some notebooks and see that there are some path being set with \"../input/\"\n\ncan anyone tell me what's the significance of doing that?\n\nI have tried to set the same thing in jupyter notebook but it says no such file or directory exist.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1255022",
      "postDate": "03/28/2021 10:48:31",
      "content": "<p>When using the Kaggle notebook, datasets are stored inside \"'../input/example/exampledataset.csv/\"<br>\nIf you're using Jupyter Notebook on own system, you need to use the path of the dataset on your system.<br>\nOnce you upload the notebook to Kaggle, you can edit the path there to point to the \"../input\" folder.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "When using the Kaggle notebook, datasets are stored inside \"'../input/example/exampledataset.csv/\"\nIf you're using Jupyter Notebook on own system, you need to use the path of the dataset on your system.\nOnce you upload the notebook to Kaggle, you can edit the path there to point to the \"../input\" folder.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1255273",
      "postDate": "03/28/2021 16:23:38",
      "content": "<p>I believe it's just a folder that usually contains the dataset/csv file when your use Kaggle notebooks. That's why you need to specify it in the path when you read your data.<br>\nIf you use Jupyter nookbook on your computer, you probably don't have an input folder containing your dataset, that's why you have that error message.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I believe it's just a folder that usually contains the dataset/csv file when your use Kaggle notebooks. That's why you need to specify it in the path when you read your data.\nIf you use Jupyter nookbook on your computer, you probably don't have an input folder containing your dataset, that's why you have that error message.",
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1255022,
      "author_name": "kikacode",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/28/2021 10:48:31",
      "content": "<p>When using the Kaggle notebook, datasets are stored inside \"'../input/example/exampledataset.csv/\"<br>\nIf you're using Jupyter Notebook on own system, you need to use the path of the dataset on your system.<br>\nOnce you upload the notebook to Kaggle, you can edit the path there to point to the \"../input\" folder.</p>",
      "votes": null,
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    },
    {
      "id": 1255273,
      "author_name": "kristofszucs",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/28/2021 16:23:38",
      "content": "<p>I believe it's just a folder that usually contains the dataset/csv file when your use Kaggle notebooks. That's why you need to specify it in the path when you read your data.<br>\nIf you use Jupyter nookbook on your computer, you probably don't have an input folder containing your dataset, that's why you have that error message.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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    "1254826": "Hi all,\n\nI was running through some notebooks and see that there are some path being set with \"../input/\"\n\ncan anyone tell me what's the significance of doing that?\n\nI have tried to set the same thing in jupyter notebook but it says no such file or directory exist.",
    "1255022": "When using the Kaggle notebook, datasets are stored inside \"'../input/example/exampledataset.csv/\"\nIf you're using Jupyter Notebook on own system, you need to use the path of the dataset on your system.\nOnce you upload the notebook to Kaggle, you can edit the path there to point to the \"../input\" folder.",
    "1255273": "I believe it's just a folder that usually contains the dataset/csv file when your use Kaggle notebooks. That's why you need to specify it in the path when you read your data.\nIf you use Jupyter nookbook on your computer, you probably don't have an input folder containing your dataset, that's why you have that error message."
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