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Rossmann Store Sales

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Kaggle Rossmann Store Sales

Rossmann operates over 3,000 drug stores in 7 European countries. Currently, Rossmann store managers are tasked with predicting their daily sales for up to six weeks in advance. Store sales are influenced by many factors, including promotions, competition, school and state holidays, seasonality, and locality. With thousands of individual managers predicting sales based on their unique circumstances, the accuracy of results can be quite varied.

Data Dictionary

Id - an Id that represents a (Store, Date) duple within the test set
Store - a unique Id for each store
Sales - the turnover for any given day (this is what you are predicting)
Customers - the number of customers on a given day
Open - an indicator for whether the store was open: 0 = closed, 1 = open
StateHoliday - indicates a state holiday. Normally all stores, with few exceptions, are closed on state holidays. Note that all schools are closed on public holidays and weekends. a = public holiday, b = Easter holiday, c = Christmas, 0 = None
SchoolHoliday - indicates if the (Store, Date) was affected by the closure of public schools
Promo - indicates whether a store is running a promo on that day