{
  "id": 166678,
  "title": "Please add tensorflow-io pip package",
  "url": "/competitions/prostate-cancer-grade-assessment/discussion/166678",
  "author_name": "Dmitry A. Grechka",
  "post_date": "2020-07-13T16:54:41.596000",
  "votes": 4,
  "comment_count": 6,
  "views": 0,
  "content": "<p>Hi all,</p>\n\n<p>I see that we have lots of useful tensorflow related python packages available by default in our submission scripts:\n<code>\ntensorflow                         2.2.0\ntensorflow-addons                  0.10.0\ntensorflow-datasets                3.1.0\ntensorflow-estimator               2.2.0\ntensorflow-gcs-config              2.1.7\ntensorflow-hub                     0.8.0\ntensorflow-metadata                0.22.2\ntensorflow-probability             0.10.0\n</code>\n(I've got the list by executing '!pip list')</p>\n\n<p>But there is no <a href=\"https://www.tensorflow.org/io\">tensorflow-io package</a>, which is particularly   useful in this challenge, as it contains high performance <a href=\"https://www.tensorflow.org/io/api_docs/python/tfio/experimental/image/decode_tiff\">tfio.experimental.image.decode_tiff</a> tiff decoding method for data ingestion pipelines, and the competition provides the hidden test set as tiff files only.</p>\n\n<p>This official package in a tensorflow family: <a href=\"https://www.tensorflow.org/io\">https://www.tensorflow.org/io</a></p>\n\n<p>Can I ask the organizers to add the <code>tensorflow-io</code> package to the default list of packages that are always available without additional install?\n@maggiemd , could you advice who is the best person (e.g. from Kaggle Team?) to ask about that?</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": 927962,
      "postDate": "2020-07-13T16:54:41.597Z",
      "content": "<p>Hi all,</p>\n\n<p>I see that we have lots of useful tensorflow related python packages available by default in our submission scripts:\n<code>\ntensorflow                         2.2.0\ntensorflow-addons                  0.10.0\ntensorflow-datasets                3.1.0\ntensorflow-estimator               2.2.0\ntensorflow-gcs-config              2.1.7\ntensorflow-hub                     0.8.0\ntensorflow-metadata                0.22.2\ntensorflow-probability             0.10.0\n</code>\n(I've got the list by executing '!pip list')</p>\n\n<p>But there is no <a href=\"https://www.tensorflow.org/io\">tensorflow-io package</a>, which is particularly   useful in this challenge, as it contains high performance <a href=\"https://www.tensorflow.org/io/api_docs/python/tfio/experimental/image/decode_tiff\">tfio.experimental.image.decode_tiff</a> tiff decoding method for data ingestion pipelines, and the competition provides the hidden test set as tiff files only.</p>\n\n<p>This official package in a tensorflow family: <a href=\"https://www.tensorflow.org/io\">https://www.tensorflow.org/io</a></p>\n\n<p>Can I ask the organizers to add the <code>tensorflow-io</code> package to the default list of packages that are always available without additional install?\n@maggiemd , could you advice who is the best person (e.g. from Kaggle Team?) to ask about that?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi all,\n\nI see that we have lots of useful tensorflow related python packages available by default in our submission scripts:\n```\ntensorflow                         2.2.0\ntensorflow-addons                  0.10.0\ntensorflow-datasets                3.1.0\ntensorflow-estimator               2.2.0\ntensorflow-gcs-config              2.1.7\ntensorflow-hub                     0.8.0\ntensorflow-metadata                0.22.2\ntensorflow-probability             0.10.0\n```\n(I've got the list by executing '!pip list')\n\nBut there is no [tensorflow-io package](https://www.tensorflow.org/io), which is particularly   useful in this challenge, as it contains high performance [tfio.experimental.image.decode_tiff](https://www.tensorflow.org/io/api_docs/python/tfio/experimental/image/decode_tiff) tiff decoding method for data ingestion pipelines, and the competition provides the hidden test set as tiff files only.\n\nThis official package in a tensorflow family: https://www.tensorflow.org/io\n\nCan I ask the organizers to add the `tensorflow-io` package to the default list of packages that are always available without additional install?\n@maggiemd , could you advice who is the best person (e.g. from Kaggle Team?) to ask about that?",
      "votes": 4
    },
    {
      "id": 928074,
      "postDate": "2020-07-13T18:32:59.480Z",
      "content": "<p>You are always welcome to submit a PR here: <a href=\"https://github.com/Kaggle/docker-python\">https://github.com/Kaggle/docker-python</a></p>\n\n<p>With that said, we're close enough to the end of the competition and the docker image update cycles are long enough that I don't think this package will likely be added before the end.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "You are always welcome to submit a PR here: https://github.com/Kaggle/docker-python\n\nWith that said, we're close enough to the end of the competition and the docker image update cycles are long enough that I don't think this package will likely be added before the end.",
      "votes": 1,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 928229,
          "postDate": "2020-07-13T19:55:31.153Z",
          "content": "<p>I see.\nThank you anyway. Will do.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "I see.\nThank you anyway. Will do.",
          "votes": -1
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 928219,
      "postDate": "2020-07-13T19:50:44.893Z",
      "content": "<p>Remember that you can also upload the package in your kernel as data.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Remember that you can also upload the package in your kernel as data.",
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 928225,
          "postDate": "2020-07-13T19:53:47.130Z",
          "content": "<p>I'm not sure, maybe it violates the </p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>No custom packages enabled in kernels</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>code requirement in this competition.</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "I'm not sure, maybe it violates the \n\n&gt; No custom packages enabled in kernels\n\ncode requirement in this competition.",
          "votes": -1
        },
        {
          "id": 928234,
          "postDate": "2020-07-13T19:59:48.513Z",
          "content": "<p><a href=\"/sohier\">@sohier</a>  Can you advise here?</p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "@sohier  Can you advise here?"
        },
        {
          "id": 929248,
          "postDate": "2020-07-14T14:55:40.490Z",
          "content": "<p><a href=\"/dgrechka\">@dgrechka</a> This seems confirmed allowed here: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/jigsaw-unintended-bias-in-toxicity-classification/discussion/88021\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/jigsaw-unintended-bias-in-toxicity-classification/discussion/88021</a></p>",
          "rawMarkdown": "@dgrechka This seems confirmed allowed here: https://www.kaggle.com/c/jigsaw-unintended-bias-in-toxicity-classification/discussion/88021",
          "votes": 1
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 928074,
      "author_name": "Sohier Dane",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2020-07-13T18:32:59.480000",
      "content": "<p>You are always welcome to submit a PR here: <a href=\"https://github.com/Kaggle/docker-python\">https://github.com/Kaggle/docker-python</a></p>\n\n<p>With that said, we're close enough to the end of the competition and the docker image update cycles are long enough that I don't think this package will likely be added before the end.</p>",
      "votes": 1,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 928229,
          "author_name": "Dmitry A. Grechka",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2020-07-13T19:55:31.153000",
          "content": "<p>I see.\nThank you anyway. Will do.</p>",
          "votes": -1,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 928219,
      "author_name": "Usmann Khan",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "2020-07-13T19:50:44.893000",
      "content": "<p>Remember that you can also upload the package in your kernel as data.</p>",
      "votes": 0,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 928225,
          "author_name": "Dmitry A. Grechka",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2020-07-13T19:53:47.130000",
          "content": "<p>I'm not sure, maybe it violates the </p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>No custom packages enabled in kernels</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>code requirement in this competition.</p>",
          "votes": -1,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 928234,
          "author_name": "Usmann Khan",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2020-07-13T19:59:48.513000",
          "content": "<p><a href=\"/sohier\">@sohier</a>  Can you advise here?</p>",
          "votes": 0,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 929248,
          "author_name": "Usmann Khan",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "2020-07-14T14:55:40.490000",
          "content": "<p><a href=\"/dgrechka\">@dgrechka</a> This seems confirmed allowed here: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/jigsaw-unintended-bias-in-toxicity-classification/discussion/88021\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/jigsaw-unintended-bias-in-toxicity-classification/discussion/88021</a></p>",
          "votes": 1,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "raw_markdown_by_id": {
    "927962": "Hi all,\n\nI see that we have lots of useful tensorflow related python packages available by default in our submission scripts:\n```\ntensorflow                         2.2.0\ntensorflow-addons                  0.10.0\ntensorflow-datasets                3.1.0\ntensorflow-estimator               2.2.0\ntensorflow-gcs-config              2.1.7\ntensorflow-hub                     0.8.0\ntensorflow-metadata                0.22.2\ntensorflow-probability             0.10.0\n```\n(I've got the list by executing '!pip list')\n\nBut there is no [tensorflow-io package](https://www.tensorflow.org/io), which is particularly   useful in this challenge, as it contains high performance [tfio.experimental.image.decode_tiff](https://www.tensorflow.org/io/api_docs/python/tfio/experimental/image/decode_tiff) tiff decoding method for data ingestion pipelines, and the competition provides the hidden test set as tiff files only.\n\nThis official package in a tensorflow family: https://www.tensorflow.org/io\n\nCan I ask the organizers to add the `tensorflow-io` package to the default list of packages that are always available without additional install?\n@maggiemd , could you advice who is the best person (e.g. from Kaggle Team?) to ask about that?",
    "928074": "You are always welcome to submit a PR here: https://github.com/Kaggle/docker-python\n\nWith that said, we're close enough to the end of the competition and the docker image update cycles are long enough that I don't think this package will likely be added before the end.",
    "928219": "Remember that you can also upload the package in your kernel as data."
  }
}