User Input

Input required form Users:

• Target column

• Date Column

• Forecast Horizon

• Static features : The time-independent attributes (metadata) of a time series. These may include information such as:

  • location, where the time series was recorded (country, state, city)

  • fixed properties of a product (brand name, color, size, weight)

  • store ID or product ID

• Known Covariates : are known for the entire forecast horizon, such as

  • holidays

  • day of the week, month, year

  • promotions

• Past Covariates : are only known up to the start of the forecast horizon, such as

  • sales of other products

  • temperature, precipitation

  • transformed target time series

• Handling Missing Data :

  • Completely ignore the time index

  • Extend the index and fill missing values