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USAID's Intelligent Forecasting Challenge: Model Future Contraceptive Use

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Data 路 1 Aug 2020, 19:25 路 2

Please correct me if I am wrong, my question is:

since there is absolutely no data provided for 2019-7,2019-8 and 2019-9 in any of the files, doesn't that make all the data provided in train file( except the combination to predict) useless?

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Muhamed_Tuo

Indeed, you're right. I haven't found use to them for now. But one could use them to create some aggregate features wrt site_code, product, region, ...

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Agreed. Thanks for the confirmation.

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