M5 Forecasting
Competition resources for studying retail demand forecasting with sales, calendar and price information.
What the resource contains
- Historical retail unit-sales series
- Calendar and price inputs referenced by the competition
- Forecasts, evaluation resources and method documentation
Potential uses
- Benchmark demand forecasting
- Study hierarchical retail forecasts
- Explore inventory-planning features
Access & formats
CSV / competition resources. External dependencies. Follow the project’s instructions on GitHub; some resources require external files, registration or approval.
License & reuse
The repository does not establish unrestricted rights to all competition data. Review the original competition conditions.
Important limitations
Offline retail forecasting data is not a live ecommerce sales feed. Avoid temporal leakage from validation and evaluation periods.
Source & attribution
Mcompetitions — original GitHub project ↗
Documentation reviewed 2026-09-24. Review scope and licensing notes. Suggest a correction.
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