For the following sections, we will employ the retail dataset containing sales of around 45 stores to illustrate how DeepAR predicts future sales given multiple factors such as holidays, promotions, and macro-economic indicators (unemployment).
In the folder associated with this chapter, you will find three CSV files:
- Features dataset: This contains the data of regional activity related to the store.
- Sales dataset: This contains historical sales data covering three years, from 2010 to 2012. It covers sales for 143 weeks.
- Store dataset: This contains anonymized information about the 45 stores, including the type and size of the store.
Please refer to the following link of GitHub for the source code of this chapter:
https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Artificial-Intelligence-on-Amazon-Web-Services
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