Description
Given various predictors with historical sales data for 45 Walmart stores, we will predict the average weekly sales for a given store and analyze the relevance of various predictors.
Features Store – the store number Date – the week Temperature – average temperature in the region Fuel_Price – cost of fuel in the region MarkDown1-5 – anonymized data related to promotional markdowns that Walmart is running. MarkDown data is only available after Nov 2011, 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 IsHoliday – whether the week is a special holiday week For convenience, the four holidays fall within the following weeks in the dataset (not all holidays are in the data):
Super Bowl: 12-Feb-10, 11-Feb-11, 10-Feb-12, 8-Feb-13 Labor Day: 10-Sep-10, 9-Sep-11, 7-Sep-12, 6-Sep-13 Thanksgiving: 26-Nov-10, 25-Nov-11, 23-Nov-12, 29-Nov-13 Christmas: 31-Dec-10, 30-Dec-11, 28-Dec-12, 27-Dec-13
