About Dataset
1) Data Introduction
• The Walmart Dataset includes weekly sales, weather and economic indicators, and holiday information for 45 Walmart stores in the United States from February 2010 to November 2012.
2) Data Utilization
(1) Walmart Dataset has characteristics that:
• The dataset provides a variety of time-series and economic characteristics, including store numbers, dates, weekly sales, holiday status, temperature, oil prices, consumer price index (CPI), unemployment, and more.
(2) Walmart Dataset can be used to:
• Sales forecasting model development: It can be used to build machine learning regression models that predict future sales by leveraging weekly sales and economic and environmental factors.
• Analyzing Promotion and Holiday Effects: Analyzing the impact of holiday and promotion periods on sales can be used to develop marketing and inventory management strategies.