Business Problem:

  • A chain of stores wants a 3-month demand forecast for its 10 different stores and 50 different products.

Dataset story:

  • This dataset is presented to test different time series techniques. Information of 10 different stores and 50 different products in 5-year data of a chain of stores is located.

File descriptions:

  • train.csv - Training data
  • test.csv - Test data (Note: the Public/Private split is time based)
  • sample_submission.csv - a sample submission file in the correct format

Data fields:

  • date - Date of the sale data. There are no holiday effects or store closures.
  • store - Store ID
  • item - Item ID
  • sales - Number of items sold at a particular store on a particular date.
  • If you want to examine the dataset, you can access it from the link below.