# Tick Tick Bloom Challenge **URL:** https://community.drivendata.org/c/tick-tick-bloom/91.md [Latest](https://community.drivendata.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.drivendata.org/categories.md) --- ## [About the Tick Tick Bloom Challenge category](https://community.drivendata.org/t/about-the-tick-tick-bloom-challenge-category/8280)
**Author:** [@kwetstone](https://community.drivendata.org/u/kwetstone)\ **Replies:** 0
This category is for posts about the Tick Tick Bloom: Harmful Algal Bloom detection competition. Please keep all posts here specific to the competition. To start a new thread, click the \[+ New Topic\] button and make sur… --- ## [Request for Data](https://community.drivendata.org/t/request-for-data/10568)
**Author:** [@kmmehta](https://community.drivendata.org/u/kmmehta)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 10, 2024, 5:53am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/request-for-data/10568 "2024-04-10T05:53:46Z")
Hi! I am a student and want to take part in this even though the competition is over. Is there any way to get the data? Please help! --- ## [Release of test data labels?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/release-of-test-data-labels/8682)
**Author:** [@jon.crall](https://community.drivendata.org/u/jon.crall)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 4, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/release-of-test-data-labels/8682 "2024-04-04T13:48:55Z")
I’m curious if there are plans to release the test data labels? I’m fairly dissapointed with how well my stack was able to perform on the task, and I’d like to use this problem as regression testing for my system. Of cou… --- ## [When will be the winning appraches posted?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/when-will-be-the-winning-appraches-posted/8693)
**Author:** [@Loki\_K](https://community.drivendata.org/u/Loki_K)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 7, 2023, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/when-will-be-the-winning-appraches-posted/8693 "2023-03-07T19:30:58Z")
Hii @kwetstone I am wondering when will be the winning approaches be posted. Eager to learn something new :smiley: --- ## [HRRR Imputation](https://community.drivendata.org/t/hrrr-imputation/8627)
**Author:** [@samitizerxu](https://community.drivendata.org/u/samitizerxu)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2023, 10:35pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/hrrr-imputation/8627 "2023-02-13T22:35:03Z")
I’d like to know if we’re allowed to impute missing HRRR features in 2013 or 2014 with monthly averages corresponding to the corresponding month in future years. I’m hesitant because the rules state that only data up un… --- ## [Pretrained Neural Networks](https://community.drivendata.org/t/pretrained-neural-networks/8622)
**Author:** [@samitizerxu](https://community.drivendata.org/u/samitizerxu)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2023, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/pretrained-neural-networks/8622 "2023-02-13T18:02:59Z")
There’s a discrepancy in the rules that I would like to understand better. Are we allowed to used pretrained neural networks in the competition? For instance, in the competition benchmark it is mentioned that we can use … --- ## [Satellite Downloads Failing](https://community.drivendata.org/t/satellite-downloads-failing/8624)
**Author:** [@samitizerxu](https://community.drivendata.org/u/samitizerxu)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2023, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/satellite-downloads-failing/8624 "2023-02-13T18:02:34Z")
Satellite data downloads have been sporadically failing for me in both landsat and Sentinel data sources. Is anyone else experiencing this? I’ve run the same odc-stac download line multiple times, it initially works fine… --- ## [Should I choose my submission?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/should-i-choose-my-submission/8610)
**Author:** [@BorisV](https://community.drivendata.org/u/BorisV)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2023, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/should-i-choose-my-submission/8610 "2023-02-13T14:56:34Z")
Hi! I’m new on this platform. Am I right that here I shouldn’t choose my submission? What submission will be chosen: the last one or the best one on private? --- ## [Available dates for Climate Data?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/available-dates-for-climate-data/8353)
**Author:** [@DavidEis](https://community.drivendata.org/u/DavidEis)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/available-dates-for-climate-data/8353 "2023-02-09T15:28:13Z")
Dear organizers & fellow competitors, thanks a lot for hosting this challenging and interesting competition! I’m trying to connect to the NOAA API to pull climate data, but unfortunately I only seem to be able to get d… --- ## [How are you guys validating?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-are-you-guys-validating/8576)
**Author:** [@Loki\_K](https://community.drivendata.org/u/Loki_K)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2023, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-are-you-guys-validating/8576 "2023-02-07T16:31:19Z")
I know this is pretty late in the competition. But how are you guys locally validating metadata especially guys at the top of leaderboard? My local and lb scores donot correlate at all? --- ## [How many test images are missing imagery?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-many-test-images-are-missing-imagery/8448)
**Author:** [@jon.crall](https://community.drivendata.org/u/jon.crall)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2023, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/how-many-test-images-are-missing-imagery/8448 "2023-02-06T15:20:35Z")
I’m double checking that the data I’ve downloaded is correct, and I’d like to verify that the number of test regions that don’t have any associated sentinel or landsat imagery is roughly what is expected. When using 240… --- ## [Benchmark Code Error](https://community.drivendata.org/t/benchmark-code-error/8580)
**Author:** [@punyachinju](https://community.drivendata.org/u/punyachinju)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 3, 2023, 12:14pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/benchmark-code-error/8580 "2023-02-03T12:14:00Z")
Generate submission section, I have found an error while running the code to ‘‘get the image features for the test set’’. The Code and Error details are given below. Code: test\_features = submission\_format.join(image\_… --- ## [Where to write code?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/where-to-write-code/8517)
**Author:** [@avanisingh](https://community.drivendata.org/u/avanisingh)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 2, 2023, 4:44pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/where-to-write-code/8517 "2023-02-02T16:44:15Z")
Hi, can we use any web based platform notebooks like https://colab.research.google.com/ or https://jupyter.org/ to train our model ? Or is there any limitation to use only some specific notebook platforms? --- ## [Benchmark Code issue](https://community.drivendata.org/t/benchmark-code-issue/8555)
**Author:** [@punyachinju](https://community.drivendata.org/u/punyachinju)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2023, 10:46pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/benchmark-code-issue/8555 "2023-02-01T22:46:26Z")
I have installed the python package ‘nb\_black’. However, I couldn’t load %load\_ext lab\_black. Also, there is an assertion error. Details of the code and error are given below. DATA\_DIR = Path.cwd().parent.resolve() / “… --- ## [Benchmark code not working?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/benchmark-code-not-working/8532)
**Author:** [@hengcherkeng](https://community.drivendata.org/u/hengcherkeng)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2023, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/benchmark-code-not-working/8532 "2023-01-30T16:19:08Z")
maybe I am using a different version of the python module, but I am getting the error for Specifically for: search = catalog.search( collections=\["sentinel-2-l2a", "landsat-c2-l2"\], bbox=bbox, datetime=date\_range … --- ## [Additional Data Source](https://community.drivendata.org/t/additional-data-source/8546)
**Author:** [@DalalAlmotwaa](https://community.drivendata.org/u/DalalAlmotwaa)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2023, 4:18pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/additional-data-source/8546 "2023-01-30T16:18:18Z")
Hi, Can we use additional data source Ozone Data ? --- ## [Can we use metadata in modelling?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/can-we-use-metadata-in-modelling/8384)
**Author:** [@Loki\_K](https://community.drivendata.org/u/Loki_K)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/can-we-use-metadata-in-modelling/8384 "2023-01-30T16:12:14Z")
Are we allowed to use metadata to make predictions or will that lead to disqualification ? --- ## [Issue with training data points](https://community.drivendata.org/t/issue-with-training-data-points/8535)
**Author:** [@srmsoumya](https://community.drivendata.org/u/srmsoumya)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 30, 2023, 4:10pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/issue-with-training-data-points/8535 "2023-01-30T16:10:30Z")
Overlaying the training data points on Sentinel Mosaic shows some weird patterns of straight lines (that are very close by) that don’t cover any water body. Is this an issue with the data collection process? I see a num… --- ## [Invalid datetime component](https://community.drivendata.org/t/invalid-datetime-component/8541)
**Author:** [@FreeAnalayst](https://community.drivendata.org/u/FreeAnalayst)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 29, 2023, 9:47am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/invalid-datetime-component/8541 "2023-01-29T09:47:43Z")
I am trying to pull some data using the code given in benchmark, and the code run perfectly fine for some data points but not for the remaining data points, and the error is generated at time\_of\_interest part, I have not… --- ## [Is there any specific application to run the code? And how can I do?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/is-there-any-specific-application-to-run-the-code-and-how-can-i-do/8523)
**Author:** [@ErickMatuck](https://community.drivendata.org/u/ErickMatuck)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 26, 2023, 5:16pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/is-there-any-specific-application-to-run-the-code-and-how-can-i-do/8523 "2023-01-26T17:16:50Z")
Hello, could someone explain to me how to run the code and how to do it?? I read the blog page, and from what I noticed it is structured in python, but in IDLE it keeps giving a name error (saying that it has not been de… --- ## [Understand Climate Data](https://community.drivendata.org/t/understand-climate-data/8471)
**Author:** [@IlyasseJND](https://community.drivendata.org/u/IlyasseJND)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 23, 2023, 4:05pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/understand-climate-data/8471 "2023-01-23T16:05:09Z")
Hello, I have noticed that in the climate data the longitude in the example notebook is between 225 and 299 for the United States. can someone explain me why? --- ## [STAC catalog for HRR data?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/stac-catalog-for-hrr-data/8447)
**Author:** [@jon.crall](https://community.drivendata.org/u/jon.crall)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 18, 2023, 2:30pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/stac-catalog-for-hrr-data/8447 "2023-01-18T14:30:55Z")
Is there a STAC catalog for HRR data? I’m able to work with landsat and sentinel easily via existing STAC infrastructure. Does HRR have something similar? If not are there any tutorials to access and spatially align HRR … --- ## [Waterbody types or data errors](https://community.drivendata.org/t/waterbody-types-or-data-errors/8423)
**Author:** [@neurogenesis](https://community.drivendata.org/u/neurogenesis)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 17, 2023, 5:33pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/waterbody-types-or-data-errors/8423 "2023-01-17T17:33:02Z")
Hello, Some test samples don’t have/show a water surface for a given date (and nearby dates). Example: uid = aabn, date = 2016-08-31, latitude: 36.5597, longitude: -121.51, no water for -30 days. Now, these samples cou… --- ## [Can we use another data source?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/can-we-use-another-data-source/8416)
**Author:** [@Feryal\_Almutairi](https://community.drivendata.org/u/Feryal_Almutairi)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 11, 2023, 2:35pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/can-we-use-another-data-source/8416 "2023-01-11T14:35:48Z")
Hi, Can we use additional data source like CI data from Cyanobacteria Assessment Network (CyAN) project in our solution ? --- ## [Has Satellite image water range?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/has-satellite-image-water-range/8361)
**Author:** [@Nyantaro](https://community.drivendata.org/u/Nyantaro)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 2, 2023, 11:03pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/has-satellite-image-water-range/8361 "2023-01-02T23:03:46Z")
From benchmark notebook, I select feature image by closet day. But, there are some problem. Are landset images blackout? Are sentinel images has water region? SCL of sentinel has different size from image array, so I c… --- ## [Outside data sources?](https://community.drivendata.org/t/outside-data-sources/8325)
**Author:** [@apwheele](https://community.drivendata.org/u/apwheele)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 20, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/outside-data-sources/8325 "2022-12-20T15:39:35Z")
To start I understand the nature of the competition and why you don’t want to open up any/all datasources (since it is a mix of past data in the test set). I would like to petition though for a few additional data source… --- ## [About the benchmark notebook](https://community.drivendata.org/t/about-the-benchmark-notebook/8313)
**Author:** [@victorkras2008](https://community.drivendata.org/u/victorkras2008)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [December 19, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/about-the-benchmark-notebook/8313 "2022-12-19T18:50:09Z")
Hi! How can i download the benchmark notebook from the blog post?