Contains functions, which facilitate downloading, loading and preparing data
from 'M5 Forecasting' challenges (by 'University of Nicosia', hosted on 'Kaggle').
The data itself is set of time series of different product sales in 'Walmart'.
The package also includes a ready-to-use built-in M5 subset named tiny_m5
.
For detailed information about the challenges, see:
Makridakis, Spyros & Spiliotis, Evangelos & Assimakopoulos, Vassilis. (2020).
The M5 Accuracy competition: Results, findings and conclusions. doi:10.1016/j.ijforecast.2021.10.009
Krzysztof Joachimiak