Machine Learning Algorithms for Time Series Analysis: Demand Forecasting

📌 In this section, we will use machine learning algorithms to perform time series analysis.

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Business Problem

📌 The objective of this competition is to predict 3 months of item-level sales data at different store locations.

Dataset Story

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.