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Future-Sales-Prediction-using-Machine-Leanring

In this competition you will work with a challenging time-series dataset consisting of daily sales data, kindly provided by one of the largest Russian software firms - 1C Company.

We are asking you to predict total sales for every product and store in the next month. By solving this competition you will be able to apply and enhance your data science skills.

Dataset:

You are provided with daily historical sales data. The task is to forecast the total amount of products sold in every shop for the test set. Note that the list of shops and products slightly changes every month. Creating a robust model that can handle such situations is part of the challenge.

Train and Test Data: https://www.kaggle.com/c/competitive-data-science-predict-future-sales/data

Data fields

  • ID - an Id that represents a (Shop, Item) tuple within the test set
  • shop_id - unique identifier of a shop
  • item_id - unique identifier of a product
  • item_category_id - unique identifier of item category
  • item_cnt_day - number of products sold. You are predicting a monthly amount of this measure
  • item_price - current price of an item
  • date - date in format dd/mm/yyyy
  • date_block_num - a consecutive month number, used for convenience. January 2013 is 0, February 2013 is 1,..., October 2015 is 33
  • item_name - name of item
  • shop_name - name of shop
  • item_category_name - name of item category