Time Series Prediction for Kaggle - Final project - Predict future sales. Highlights: Mean encoding, Feature engineering, Out of fold training and Model Stacking.
This is the final assignment of a Coursera course I took on Data Analytics. I got the chance to practice several things learnt such as Feature engineering with mean encoding and Model Stacking. All of these allow me to get the 9th place oo the Public Leaderboard.
The full data can be downloaded from https://www.kaggle.com/c/competitive-data-science-predict-future-sales .
From Kaggle: This challenge serves as final project for the "How to win a data science competition" Coursera course. In this competition you will work with a challenging time-series dataset consisting of daily sales data, kindly provided by one of the largest Russian software firms - 1C Company. We are asking you to predict total sales for every product and store in the next month. By solving this competition you will be able to apply and enhance your data science skills.