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Machine Learning for Time Series with Python - Second Edition
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In this chapter we will work with the M5 Forecasting Accuracy dataset, which contains daily unit sales for 3,049 Walmart products across 10 stores in California, Texas, and Wisconsin (about 30,490 product-store time series in total). The data is hosted on Zenodo at https://zenodo.org/records/12636070 under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license, which means we can redistribute and modify it freely as long as we cite the source.
We picked M5 deliberately. Other widely used retail benchmarks (Rossmann, Favorita, Walmart Recruiting) live behind Kaggle competition rules that restrict redistribution, so we'd have to send you to a login page to fetch them. M5 lets us ship a one-line download script in the companion repository (download_m5.py) that pulls the files straight from Zenodo. Run it once before working through the notebooks.