Amazon uk Sales forecasting 2018-2021
Description
The DataSet contains historical sales data for 45 Amazon stores located in different regions.
Summary
Dataset Description
The DataSet contains historical sales data for 45 Amazon stores located in different regions. Each store contains a number of departments, and have to predict the department-wide sales for each store.
In addition, Amazon runs several promotional markdown events throughout the year. These markdowns precede prominent holidays, the four largest of which are the Super Bowl, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. The weeks including these holidays are weighted five times higher in the evaluation than non-holiday weeks. Part of the Dataset is modeling the effects of markdowns on these holiday weeks in the absence of complete/ideal historical data.
This file contains anonymized information about the 45 stores, indicating the type and size of store.
This is the historical training data, which covers to 2019-02-05 to 2021-11-01. Within this file you following are the different fields:
Store - the store number Dept - the department number Date - the week Weekly_Sales - sales for the given department in the given store IsHoliday - whether the week is a special holiday week Temperature - average temperature in the region Fuel_Price - cost of fuel in the region MarkDown1-5 - anonymized data related to promotional markdowns that Amazon is running. MarkDown data is only available after Nov 2020 and is not available for all stores all the time. Any missing value is marked with an NA. CPI - the consumer price index Unemployment - the unemployment rate For convenience, the four holidays fall within the following weeks in the dataset (not all holidays are in the data):
Super Bowl: 12-Feb-19, 11-Feb-20, 10-Feb-21, 8-Feb-18 Labor Day: 10-Sep-19, 9-Sep-20, 7-Sep-21, 6-Sep-18 Thanksgiving: 26-Nov-19, 25-Nov-20, 23-Nov-21, 29-Nov-18 Christmas: 31-Dec-19, 30-Dec-20, 28-Dec-21, 27-Dec-18