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  "id": 359390,
  "title": "Help understanding Event Concept",
  "url": "/competitions/tabular-playground-series-oct-2022/discussion/359390",
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  "post_date": "2022-10-11T20:51:38.856837500Z",
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  "content": "<p>What is an Event? Is it correct to say that:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>an Event is an abstract concept that can be arbitrary long</li>\n<li>an Event can have arbitrary amount of frames recorded for it</li>\n<li>at each second, 10 frames are recorded per event</li>\n</ul>",
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      "id": "1983195",
      "postDate": "10/11/2022 20:51:38",
      "content": "<p>What is an Event? Is it correct to say that:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>an Event is an abstract concept that can be arbitrary long</li>\n<li>an Event can have arbitrary amount of frames recorded for it</li>\n<li>at each second, 10 frames are recorded per event</li>\n</ul>",
      "rawMarkdown": "What is an Event? Is it correct to say that:\n- an Event is an abstract concept that can be arbitrary long\n- an Event can have arbitrary amount of frames recorded for it\n- at each second, 10 frames are recorded per event",
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      "postDate": "10/14/2022 10:54:41",
      "content": "<p>Hi <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/osopova\" target=\"_blank\">@osopova</a>,</p>\n<p>To be precise <code>event_id</code> is just a game situation, during which the info about ball, players and boosters is recorded. So it is the part of the match between 2 teams playing. As they have different <code>event_time</code> values, almost equal to each other and the target is calculated by the next 10 seconds after <code>event_time</code>, the targets are also similar so we need to be careful with the validation we use (take a look at <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/tabular-playground-series-oct-2022/discussion/359714\" target=\"_blank\">this post</a> for more information).</p>\n<p>But in test data we don't know all the variables like <code>game_num</code>, <code>event_id</code> and <code>event_time</code> so we can't use them as features during training but maybe can use it in other way (this is one of the challenges to guess how).</p>\n<p>Hope this helps.</p>\n<p>Alex</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi @osopova,\n\nTo be precise `event_id` is just a game situation, during which the info about ball, players and boosters is recorded. So it is the part of the match between 2 teams playing. As they have different `event_time` values, almost equal to each other and the target is calculated by the next 10 seconds after `event_time`, the targets are also similar so we need to be careful with the validation we use (take a look at [this post](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/tabular-playground-series-oct-2022/discussion/359714) for more information).\n\nBut in test data we don't know all the variables like `game_num`, `event_id` and `event_time` so we can't use them as features during training but maybe can use it in other way (this is one of the challenges to guess how).\n\nHope this helps.\n\nAlex",
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      "id": 1986860,
      "author_name": "alexryzhkov",
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      "post_date": "10/14/2022 10:54:41",
      "content": "<p>Hi <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/osopova\" target=\"_blank\">@osopova</a>,</p>\n<p>To be precise <code>event_id</code> is just a game situation, during which the info about ball, players and boosters is recorded. So it is the part of the match between 2 teams playing. As they have different <code>event_time</code> values, almost equal to each other and the target is calculated by the next 10 seconds after <code>event_time</code>, the targets are also similar so we need to be careful with the validation we use (take a look at <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/tabular-playground-series-oct-2022/discussion/359714\" target=\"_blank\">this post</a> for more information).</p>\n<p>But in test data we don't know all the variables like <code>game_num</code>, <code>event_id</code> and <code>event_time</code> so we can't use them as features during training but maybe can use it in other way (this is one of the challenges to guess how).</p>\n<p>Hope this helps.</p>\n<p>Alex</p>",
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    "1983195": "What is an Event? Is it correct to say that:\n- an Event is an abstract concept that can be arbitrary long\n- an Event can have arbitrary amount of frames recorded for it\n- at each second, 10 frames are recorded per event",
    "1986860": "Hi @osopova,\n\nTo be precise `event_id` is just a game situation, during which the info about ball, players and boosters is recorded. So it is the part of the match between 2 teams playing. As they have different `event_time` values, almost equal to each other and the target is calculated by the next 10 seconds after `event_time`, the targets are also similar so we need to be careful with the validation we use (take a look at [this post](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/tabular-playground-series-oct-2022/discussion/359714) for more information).\n\nBut in test data we don't know all the variables like `game_num`, `event_id` and `event_time` so we can't use them as features during training but maybe can use it in other way (this is one of the challenges to guess how).\n\nHope this helps.\n\nAlex"
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