{
  "id": 445457,
  "title": "Test data incomplete?",
  "url": "/competitions/UBC-OCEAN/discussion/445457",
  "author_name": "Jose Mauricio Delgado",
  "post_date": "2023-10-07T04:26:09.061000",
  "votes": 2,
  "comment_count": 9,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>I only see one file in the test data folder.  I understand there is a problem with some large test files, but I expected to see more files there.  </p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 2472922,
      "postDate": "2023-10-07T18:05:12.200Z",
      "content": "<p>Hi Jose!<br>\nThere is no problem with the test data. This is a code competition. You can't have access to the test images unless you submit your notebook. Only then will Kaggle unlock the rest of the images to your notebook and your code should have access to it for inference (and still you won't be able to directly look at them). Right now, only one image is provided in the test images directory for you to make sure that your code successfully works before you submit. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi Jose!\nThere is no problem with the test data. This is a code competition. You can't have access to the test images unless you submit your notebook. Only then will Kaggle unlock the rest of the images to your notebook and your code should have access to it for inference (and still you won't be able to directly look at them). Right now, only one image is provided in the test images directory for you to make sure that your code successfully works before you submit. ",
      "votes": 4,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2473029,
          "postDate": "2023-10-07T20:00:00.400Z",
          "content": "<p>Excellent, thanks for clarifying.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Excellent, thanks for clarifying.",
          "replies": [
            {
              "id": 2474906,
              "postDate": "2023-10-09T14:37:41.377Z",
              "content": "<p>You're welcome!</p>",
              "rawMarkdown": "You're welcome!"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": 2474888,
          "postDate": "2023-10-09T14:26:10.287Z",
          "content": "<p>Thank you for the clarification. This helped a lot. It’s probably worth highlighting this information more clearly in the description or rules.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "Thank you for the clarification. This helped a lot. It’s probably worth highlighting this information more clearly in the description or rules.",
          "replies": [
            {
              "id": 2474900,
              "postDate": "2023-10-09T14:36:25.220Z",
              "content": "<p>That's actually mentioned <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/UBC-OCEAN/data#:~:text=this%20competition%20uses%20a%20hidden%20test.%20when%20your%20submitted%20notebook%20is%20scored%2C%20the%20actual%20test%20data%20(including%20a%20full%20length%20sample%20submission)%20will%20be%20made%20available%20to%20your%20notebook.\" target=\"_blank\">in the \"Data\" tab</a>, although it might not be totally obvious for first-time competition kagglers.</p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>This competition uses a hidden test. When your submitted notebook is scored, the actual test data (including a full length sample submission) will be made available to your notebook.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>But you're absolutely welcome! I'm glad I could help.</p>",
              "rawMarkdown": "That's actually mentioned [in the \"Data\" tab](https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/UBC-OCEAN/data#:~:text=this%20competition%20uses%20a%20hidden%20test.%20when%20your%20submitted%20notebook%20is%20scored%2C%20the%20actual%20test%20data%20(including%20a%20full%20length%20sample%20submission)%20will%20be%20made%20available%20to%20your%20notebook.), although it might not be totally obvious for first-time competition kagglers.\n>This competition uses a hidden test. When your submitted notebook is scored, the actual test data (including a full length sample submission) will be made available to your notebook.\n\nBut you're absolutely welcome! I'm glad I could help."
            },
            {
              "id": 2481246,
              "postDate": "2023-10-14T00:57:13.523Z",
              "content": "<p>Thanks for helping. What confused me was not the presence of a hidden test kit, which is commonplace for competition. And the fact that there is only one image in the public. It’s quite unusual to see this and it’s not clear whether this is a mistake or whether the competition was formatted correctly.</p>",
              "rawMarkdown": "Thanks for helping. What confused me was not the presence of a hidden test kit, which is commonplace for competition. And the fact that there is only one image in the public. It’s quite unusual to see this and it’s not clear whether this is a mistake or whether the competition was formatted correctly."
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 2472153,
      "postDate": "2023-10-07T04:26:09.060Z",
      "content": "<p>I only see one file in the test data folder.  I understand there is a problem with some large test files, but I expected to see more files there.  </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I only see one file in the test data folder.  I understand there is a problem with some large test files, but I expected to see more files there.  ",
      "votes": 2
    },
    {
      "id": 2546181,
      "postDate": "2023-12-02T07:28:28.057Z",
      "content": "<p>hello,when I write the inference script,how can I correctly write the path of the test dataset,I really worry about this because I can not see the path of real test dataset</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "hello,when I write the inference script,how can I correctly write the path of the test dataset,I really worry about this because I can not see the path of real test dataset",
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2546693,
          "postDate": "2023-12-02T17:59:53.253Z",
          "content": "<p>You can use the same path, test_images. Just image that there are 2,000 images instead of one.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "You can use the same path, test_images. Just image that there are 2,000 images instead of one.",
          "replies": [
            {
              "id": 2547897,
              "postDate": "2023-12-04T02:00:30.450Z",
              "content": "<p>thanks，I understand</p>",
              "rawMarkdown": "thanks，I understand"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 2472922,
      "author_name": "Mohamed AbdulMaksoud",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2023-10-07T18:05:12.200000",
      "content": "<p>Hi Jose!<br>\nThere is no problem with the test data. This is a code competition. You can't have access to the test images unless you submit your notebook. Only then will Kaggle unlock the rest of the images to your notebook and your code should have access to it for inference (and still you won't be able to directly look at them). Right now, only one image is provided in the test images directory for you to make sure that your code successfully works before you submit. </p>",
      "votes": 4,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2473029,
          "author_name": "Jose Mauricio Delgado",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2023-10-07T20:00:00.400000",
          "content": "<p>Excellent, thanks for clarifying.</p>",
          "votes": 0,
          "replies": [
            {
              "id": 2474906,
              "author_name": "Mohamed AbdulMaksoud",
              "author_url": "",
              "post_date": "2023-10-09T14:37:41.377000",
              "content": "<p>You're welcome!</p>",
              "votes": 0,
              "replies": []
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": 2474888,
          "author_name": "Leonid Alexeev",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2023-10-09T14:26:10.287000",
          "content": "<p>Thank you for the clarification. This helped a lot. It’s probably worth highlighting this information more clearly in the description or rules.</p>",
          "votes": 0,
          "replies": [
            {
              "id": 2474900,
              "author_name": "Mohamed AbdulMaksoud",
              "author_url": "",
              "post_date": "2023-10-09T14:36:25.220000",
              "content": "<p>That's actually mentioned <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/UBC-OCEAN/data#:~:text=this%20competition%20uses%20a%20hidden%20test.%20when%20your%20submitted%20notebook%20is%20scored%2C%20the%20actual%20test%20data%20(including%20a%20full%20length%20sample%20submission)%20will%20be%20made%20available%20to%20your%20notebook.\" target=\"_blank\">in the \"Data\" tab</a>, although it might not be totally obvious for first-time competition kagglers.</p>\n<blockquote>\n  <p>This competition uses a hidden test. When your submitted notebook is scored, the actual test data (including a full length sample submission) will be made available to your notebook.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>But you're absolutely welcome! I'm glad I could help.</p>",
              "votes": 0,
              "replies": []
            },
            {
              "id": 2481246,
              "author_name": "Leonid Alexeev",
              "author_url": "",
              "post_date": "2023-10-14T00:57:13.523000",
              "content": "<p>Thanks for helping. What confused me was not the presence of a hidden test kit, which is commonplace for competition. And the fact that there is only one image in the public. It’s quite unusual to see this and it’s not clear whether this is a mistake or whether the competition was formatted correctly.</p>",
              "votes": 0,
              "replies": []
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 2546181,
      "author_name": "Toby",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2023-12-02T07:28:28.057000",
      "content": "<p>hello,when I write the inference script,how can I correctly write the path of the test dataset,I really worry about this because I can not see the path of real test dataset</p>",
      "votes": 0,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 2546693,
          "author_name": "Russ Tokuyama",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2023-12-02T17:59:53.253000",
          "content": "<p>You can use the same path, test_images. Just image that there are 2,000 images instead of one.</p>",
          "votes": 0,
          "replies": [
            {
              "id": 2547897,
              "author_name": "Toby",
              "author_url": "",
              "post_date": "2023-12-04T02:00:30.450000",
              "content": "<p>thanks，I understand</p>",
              "votes": 0,
              "replies": []
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "2472922": "Hi Jose!\nThere is no problem with the test data. This is a code competition. You can't have access to the test images unless you submit your notebook. Only then will Kaggle unlock the rest of the images to your notebook and your code should have access to it for inference (and still you won't be able to directly look at them). Right now, only one image is provided in the test images directory for you to make sure that your code successfully works before you submit. ",
    "2472153": "I only see one file in the test data folder.  I understand there is a problem with some large test files, but I expected to see more files there.  ",
    "2546181": "hello,when I write the inference script,how can I correctly write the path of the test dataset,I really worry about this because I can not see the path of real test dataset"
  }
}