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Re:Numerai – A hedge fund built by a global community of ano... by bgitarts on Sunday October 16, 2016 @01:30PM (#12719745)
The training set just has anonymized features. Data scientists generally would like to know the nature of the data they are working with. Does the site at any point give access to the labeled featured?
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Re:Numerai – A hedge fund built by a global community of ano... by yankoff on Sunday October 16, 2016 @02:42PM (#12720195)
You don't necessarily have to know the meaning of the features to build a successful model. That has been done on Kaggle a lot.
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Re:Numerai – A hedge fund built by a global community of ano... by volker48 on Sunday October 16, 2016 @02:57PM (#12720293)
No, at least thus far you know nothing about what the features represent. They are just labeled feature1 through feature21.
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