Hi,
\nI found event_time are all negative. Can some one please explain my why this is the case? My understanding of event time is time for an event (here scoring a goal), which should be positive. So, can't understand negative time value.
Thanks!
", "messages": [ { "id": 1968725, "postDate": "2022-10-03T07:23:47.860Z", "content": "Hi,
\nI found event_time are all negative. Can some one please explain my why this is the case? My understanding of event time is time for an event (here scoring a goal), which should be positive. So, can't understand negative time value.
Thanks!
", "rawMarkdown": "Hi,\n\nI found `event_time` are all negative. Can some one please explain my why this is the case? My understanding of event time is time for an event (here scoring a goal), which should be positive. So, can't understand negative time value.\n\nThanks!", "votes": 2 }, { "id": 1969084, "postDate": "2022-10-03T10:31:18.423Z", "content": "Because that is the time left until the end of the event. As it is the remainder, it has been defined as negative. You can set it to positive and keep in mind in your head that it is the remainder.
", "rawMarkdown": "Because that is the time left until the end of the event. As it is the remainder, it has been defined as negative. You can set it to positive and keep in mind in your head that it is the remainder.", "replies": [ { "id": 1969497, "postDate": "2022-10-03T14:20:58.593Z", "content": "Thanks Maher! Can you please tell me what's the time frame of each event? Since the number of events are the same across each game, it seems time interval of event is also not same.
", "rawMarkdown": "Thanks Maher! Can you please tell me what's the time frame of each event? Since the number of events are the same across each game, it seems time interval of event is also not same. " }, { "id": 1971056, "postDate": "2022-10-04T12:50:05Z", "content": "@raags - as you've probably realized each \"event\" has a different duration -- it's the time Before someone scores a goal. Are you sure that events per game is always the same?
", "rawMarkdown": "@raags - as you've probably realized each \"event\" has a different duration -- it's the time Before someone scores a goal. Are you sure that events per game is always the same?" }, { "id": 1971441, "postDate": "2022-10-04T16:00:16.197Z", "content": "According to this link, in-game events are limited events not directly related to the game. Now, each game is for 5 mins. So, no event should be more than 5*60 seconds. But there are lot of cases where this event time is > 300. This is perplexing. And event time is important as this can be use a proxy of between goals.
\nIdeally, organizer of competition should also provide data dictionary. And it does not take a long time to create a data dictionary.
@raagas Everything has already been clearly explained in the Dataset Description tab (click on \"view more\" to see full description).
\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/competitions/tabular-playground-series-oct-2022/data
Because that is the time left until the end of the event. As it is the remainder, it has been defined as negative. You can set it to positive and keep in mind in your head that it is the remainder.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [ { "id": 1969497, "author_name": "raagas", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2022-10-03T14:20:58.593000", "content": "Thanks Maher! Can you please tell me what's the time frame of each event? Since the number of events are the same across each game, it seems time interval of event is also not same.
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 1971056, "author_name": "Nigel A. R. Henry", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2022-10-04T12:50:05", "content": "@raags - as you've probably realized each \"event\" has a different duration -- it's the time Before someone scores a goal. Are you sure that events per game is always the same?
", "votes": 0, "replies": [] }, { "id": 1971441, "author_name": "raagas", "author_url": "", "post_date": "2022-10-04T16:00:16.197000", "content": "According to this link, in-game events are limited events not directly related to the game. Now, each game is for 5 mins. So, no event should be more than 5*60 seconds. But there are lot of cases where this event time is > 300. This is perplexing. And event time is important as this can be use a proxy of between goals.
\nIdeally, organizer of competition should also provide data dictionary. And it does not take a long time to create a data dictionary.
@raagas Everything has already been clearly explained in the Dataset Description tab (click on \"view more\" to see full description).
\nhttps://www.kaggle.com/competitions/tabular-playground-series-oct-2022/data