In 2024, consumers in the United States expected to spend over 1,000 U.S. dollars on holiday gifts on average. This is the first time the projected spending estimate reached that 1,000-dollar-mark. Holiday shopping The Christmas, or holiday season, is the single most critical sales period of the year for many retailers: this period includes days, such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and an increasing amount of Americans also shop online during this busy time. An incredible shopping hubbub is produced during this period, with a staggering ** percent of U.S. consumers having said they intended to buy something during the Christmas season in 2024. Gift cards and vouchers Christmas is a public holiday in the United States and is celebrated on December 25th each year. It is known as a big economic stimulus for many people to purchase Christmas gifts for their beloved family and friends. After Christmas and New Year’s Eve, retail sales often peak again in January as many people redeem their received Christmas gift cards and vouchers. In fact, over **** of U.S. consumers planned to buy gift cards or gift certificates for others. It is a popular gifting option, with many Americans indicating that it can be very convenient.

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Description:

One of the leading retail stores in the US, Walmart, would like to predict the sales and demand accurately. There are certain events and holidays which impact sales on each day. There are sales data available for 45 stores of Walmart. The business is facing a challenge due to unforeseen demands and runs out of stock some times, due to the inappropriate machine learning algorithm. An ideal ML algorithm will predict demand accurately and ingest factors like economic conditions including CPI, Unemployment Index, etc.

Walmart runs several promotional markdown events throughout the year. These markdowns precede prominent holidays, the four largest of all, which are the Super Bowl, Labour Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. The weeks including these holidays are weighted five times higher in the evaluation than non-holiday weeks. Part of the challenge presented by this competition is modeling the effects of markdowns on these holiday weeks in the absence of complete/ideal historical data. Historical sales data for 45 Walmart stores located in different regions are available.

Acknowledgements

The dataset is taken from Kaggle.

Objective:

• Understand the Dataset & cleanup (if required).
• Build Regression models to predict the sales w.r.t single & multiple features.
• Also evaluate the models & compare their respective scores like R2, RMSE, etc.

The Covid Winter Grant (CWG) was a fund provided by the Department for Work and Pensions and administered by local authorities in England.The purpose of the grant was to support those households which had been economically affected by the COVID pandemic and sought to provide immediate short term relief in the form of awards to these people.The criteria for allocation of funds was dictated by the DWP and awards could be given to support the provision of food, payments of energy and water bills and other essential items required during the winter period.The scheme ran from the 1st December 2020 through to 31st March 2021.The data provided in this set highlights how Leicester City Council distributed the grant received showing the number of awards made, number of rejections and spend under the DWP categories.This grant was also used to directly fund the provision of Free School Meals during the school holidays (Christmas break and February half term break) and this is highlighted in the dataset under "Direct Awards".The dataset also shows a map detailing how the fund was distributed across the wards of Leicester and there is also a supporting data set named "COVID Winter Grant Ward Data" which also provides this more granular information.

Data derived from weekly public opinion polls in the Netherlands in 1970 concerning social and political issues. Samples were drawn from the Dutch population aged 18 years and older.All data from the surveys held between 1962 and 2000 are available in the DANS data collections.Background variables:Sex / age / religion / income / vote recall latest elections / party preference / level of education / union membership / professional status / left-right rating / party alignment / province / degree of urbanization / weight factor.Topical variables:n7002: Broadcasting corporations having the best radio and TV program / Sympathy for particular broadcasting corporation / Having a subscription to a radio and TV guide.n7010: Opinions on reasons for a divorce / Adaptation of divorce legislation.n7011: Attitude towards recognition of the German Democratic Republic / Objectionable sex in cinema, on stage, on TV, in magazines / Preferred age for sex education / Sex education at primary schools and nursery schools / Prohibition on the selling of pornographic reading matter, for adults as well as minors.n7012: Should the government stay until the 1971 parliamentary elections / Extension of the suffrage to 18 years / Women liberation action group .n7013: Rain of titles on the Queen's birthday / Special liberation silver coin / Combination of political parties at parliamentary elections .n7017: Housing need problems in general / Respondent's housing need problems / Respondent's housing situation.n7019: Intermarriage Catholics and Protestants / Quality education by parents past and present / Members of family having beard, moustache, whiskers.n7022: Knowing specific political leaders / Confidence specific political leaders.n7023: Religious questions like belief in God, devil, heaven, hell, purgatory, life after death / Should the government stay until the 1971 parliamentary elections / Preferred politicians in next government / Preference for continuation of the present government after the elections.n7025: Whether there's racial discrimination in the Netherlands / Minimum and maximum speed limits for cars / Most admired living person .n7026: Extent of difference between progressiveness and conservatism / Progressiveness and conservatism of political parties / self rating concerning progressiveness and conservatism / Definition of progressive - and conservative politics.n7027: Knowledge of and sympathy for football clubs / Planned visits to football matches / Watching football matches on television / Reading about football matches in Monday newspapers / Biased commentaries on political, social and economic events at television and in newspapers.n7028: Belief in palm reading, astrology, clairvoyance, casting horoscopes / Successful people/ luck or abilities / Whether military expenditures should be raised or not.n7036: Visit of the Indonesian president Suharto.n7038: The queen's speech at the opening of the parliamentary year / Government budget-policy / When and where respondent spent holidays, in the Netherlands or abroad.n7039: Whether the United Nations Organization should become a more powerful organization / Constitution of a United Nations Organization peace army of 100.000 soldiers.n7042: Alliance of two Christian political parties in one Christian political party / Alliance of three Christian political parties into one political party.n7043: See file Standard_and_topical_variables_N704243.pdfn7046: Computer registration of individuals.n7052: Christmas celebration/ having a Christmas tree, church-attendance at Christmas night / Expectations concerning income in 1971 / Respondent's present income compared with income in last year / Cash limit strike initiated by the unions / Recent income measures by the government.