# Pushback to the Future Challenge **URL:** https://community.drivendata.org/c/pushback-to-the-future/92.md [Latest](https://community.drivendata.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.drivendata.org/categories.md) --- ## [About the Pushback to the Future Challenge category](https://community.drivendata.org/t/about-the-pushback-to-the-future-challenge-category/8497)
**Author:** [@cszc](https://community.drivendata.org/u/cszc)\ **Replies:** 0
This category is for posts about the Pushback to the Future: Predict Pushback Time at US Airports competition. Please keep all posts here specific to the competition. To start a new thread, click the \[+ New Topic\] butto… --- ## [Final Scoring Question](https://community.drivendata.org/t/final-scoring-question/8857)
**Author:** [@20matthewl](https://community.drivendata.org/u/20matthewl)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 14, 2023, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/final-scoring-question/8857 "2023-04-14T14:17:04Z")
We had a question regarding how the final scoring on the full dataset would be done. Specifically the email mentioned “When the competition ends, we will update the leaderboard using the entire test set, and your best Pr… --- ## [Smoke-test partial\_submission\_format](https://community.drivendata.org/t/smoke-test-partial-submission-format/8841)
**Author:** [@axj65](https://community.drivendata.org/u/axj65)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 13, 2023, 2:18am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/smoke-test-partial-submission-format/8841 "2023-04-13T02:18:36Z")
I am not sure if the supervisor.py runs code using parallel processing but that may be what is giving me an error or if there is something up with the partial\_submission\_format. I ran: print(partial\_submission\_format… --- ## [The Prescreened Arena is ready for your code submissions!](https://community.drivendata.org/t/the-prescreened-arena-is-ready-for-your-code-submissions/8664)
**Author:** [@rbgb](https://community.drivendata.org/u/rbgb)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 10, 2023, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/the-prescreened-arena-is-ready-for-your-code-submissions/8664 "2023-04-10T15:52:05Z")
We’re excited to announce that the Prescreened Arena is live! Eligible participants are encouraged to submit their attestation of eligibility, if you haven’t done so already, then we’ll review and email you with the next… --- ## [One hot encoding / test data unique values](https://community.drivendata.org/t/one-hot-encoding-test-data-unique-values/8830)
**Author:** [@axj65](https://community.drivendata.org/u/axj65)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 10, 2023, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/one-hot-encoding-test-data-unique-values/8830 "2023-04-10T13:52:42Z")
On the code\_execution\_development data, the submission\_format / test\_labels are all on the same date. This essentially results in many of the weather data not to have various values, such as lightning\_prob has 4 categori… --- ## [Unable to submit to prescreened arena](https://community.drivendata.org/t/unable-to-submit-to-prescreened-arena/8715)
**Author:** [@pennswood](https://community.drivendata.org/u/pennswood)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 15, 2023, 6:10pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/unable-to-submit-to-prescreened-arena/8715 "2023-03-15T18:10:33Z")
I seem to be getting an error “/bin/bash: entrypoint.sh: No such file or directory”. I have been submitting my model and solution.py without problems before. Appreciate any support on this matter. --- ## [Can we build a single model for all the 10 airports?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/can-we-build-a-single-model-for-all-the-10-airports/8815)
**Author:** [@azzz0466](https://community.drivendata.org/u/azzz0466)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 6, 2023, 6:18pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/can-we-build-a-single-model-for-all-the-10-airports/8815 "2023-04-06T18:18:13Z")
As mentioned on the competition page, we can not use the arrival airports data while predicting pushback time. Does it mean that we can not even build a model that has seen all the train data from all the airports? sh… --- ## [What is the last date for the open arena?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/what-is-the-last-date-for-the-open-arena/8805)
**Author:** [@azzz0466](https://community.drivendata.org/u/azzz0466)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2023, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/what-is-the-last-date-for-the-open-arena/8805 "2023-04-05T19:50:04Z")
Hi team, On the competition’s home page, it is mentioned that the last date is April 17th but in the timeline on the top right, it says 1 week is left. Can you please clarify what is the last date for the open arena? --- ## [How arrival flight data would help to predict the pushback time for departing flights?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-arrival-flight-data-would-help-to-predict-the-pushback-time-for-departing-flights/8728)
**Author:** [@mohsen.taheri](https://community.drivendata.org/u/mohsen.taheri)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2023, 3:08pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-arrival-flight-data-would-help-to-predict-the-pushback-time-for-departing-flights/8728 "2023-03-31T15:08:43Z")
I am curious about how the arrival of flights would impact the pushback time for departure flights. As far as I know, each flight has a unique identifier known as GUFI, and it is not possible to determine how to link an … --- ## [Question about runways](https://community.drivendata.org/t/question-about-runways/8744)
**Author:** [@axj65](https://community.drivendata.org/u/axj65)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2023, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/question-about-runways/8744 "2023-03-31T14:55:58Z")
For each gufi, the runway data show the flights’ actual runway that it departed on. I am not sure how airports work. Do we know exactly which runway the flight will depart on prior to the pushback time? Or are those just… --- ## [MFS metadata usage as feature data](https://community.drivendata.org/t/mfs-metadata-usage-as-feature-data/8673)
**Author:** [@qahn](https://community.drivendata.org/u/qahn)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 31, 2023, 2:47pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/mfs-metadata-usage-as-feature-data/8673 "2023-03-31T14:47:07Z")
Hello, I read the instruction about which cases we are allowed/not allowed to use MFS metadata, but I’m unclear yet. I’d be very appreciative if you could elaborate more on this. The problem description stated that we … --- ## [Understanding the transition from Phase 1 and Phase 2](https://community.drivendata.org/t/understanding-the-transition-from-phase-1-and-phase-2/8635)
**Author:** [@pennswood](https://community.drivendata.org/u/pennswood)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 23, 2023, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/understanding-the-transition-from-phase-1-and-phase-2/8635 "2023-03-23T18:45:13Z")
This question is two-folds, technical and logistical. Technical: Would you have any information about which datasets are most likely to be federated in phase-2? Obviously, the decentralizedd/federated systems need to … --- ## [Prescreened Environment Problems](https://community.drivendata.org/t/prescreened-environment-problems/8724)
**Author:** [@prathic](https://community.drivendata.org/u/prathic)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 20, 2023, 8:29pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/prescreened-environment-problems/8724 "2023-03-20T20:29:41Z")
Regardless of Smoke Test or for submission, in prescreened it seems to hang on this step (Been stuck on this for about 30 minutes so far with the example zip). “The execution environment for your code is starting up.” Tr… --- ## [Question about first position data](https://community.drivendata.org/t/question-about-first-position-data/8700)
**Author:** [@surajraj99](https://community.drivendata.org/u/surajraj99)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2023, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/question-about-first-position-data/8700 "2023-03-14T13:22:18Z")
Hello, We’ve noticed that not all planes appear in the first position data. For example, in KMEM, plane id AAL1027 does not appear in the corresponding first position data but AAL1037 does. In fact, at KMEM, more than … --- ## [All of the labels seem to be less than 300, is this an intentional charaistic of the data?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/all-of-the-labels-seem-to-be-less-than-300-is-this-an-intentional-charaistic-of-the-data/8712)
**Author:** [@pennswood](https://community.drivendata.org/u/pennswood)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 14, 2023, 5:10am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/all-of-the-labels-seem-to-be-less-than-300-is-this-an-intentional-charaistic-of-the-data/8712 "2023-03-14T05:10:10Z")
This seems to contrast your baseline algorithm, which makes predictions up to 1400+ (of course, it’s called a baseline algorithm for a reason, but still). --- ## [Unable to Run Smoke Test in Prescreened Arena](https://community.drivendata.org/t/unable-to-run-smoke-test-in-prescreened-arena/8707)
**Author:** [@prathic](https://community.drivendata.org/u/prathic)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2023, 8:02pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/unable-to-run-smoke-test-in-prescreened-arena/8707 "2023-03-13T20:02:26Z")
I am unable to run the benchmark submission (30 min etd) through the smoke test. After all the predictions are generated and the outputs are saved it errors when scoring. I get the error: “There was a problem scoring the… --- ## [TBFM Forecast scheduled\_runway\_arrival\_time](https://community.drivendata.org/t/tbfm-forecast-scheduled-runway-arrival-time/8678)
**Author:** [@clement.j.robinson](https://community.drivendata.org/u/clement.j.robinson)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 3, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/tbfm-forecast-scheduled-runway-arrival-time/8678 "2023-03-03T18:30:58Z")
In the description of the \_tbfm.csv files there is supposed to be a field called scheduled\_runway\_arrival\_time. However, I am seeing a field called scheduled\_runway\_estimated\_time instead. I am unsure how to interpret t… --- ## [Question about standtimes dataframe](https://community.drivendata.org/t/question-about-standtimes-dataframe/8636)
**Author:** [@surajraj99](https://community.drivendata.org/u/surajraj99)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/question-about-standtimes-dataframe/8636 "2023-02-21T19:15:44Z")
Our team had a question on the data within the standtimes dataframe. We were confused as to why the departure\_stand\_actual\_time is before the arrival\_stand\_actual\_time. As per the documentation, the arrival time should b…