1) Data Introduction • The Walmart Dataset includes weekly sales, weather and economic indicators, and holiday information for 45 Walmart stores in the United States from February 2010 to November 2012.

2) Data Utilization (1) Walmart Dataset has characteristics that: • The dataset provides a variety of time-series and economic characteristics, including store numbers, dates, weekly sales, holiday status, temperature, oil prices, consumer price index (CPI), unemployment, and more. (2) Walmart Dataset can be used to: • Sales forecasting model development: It can be used to build machine learning regression models that predict future sales by leveraging weekly sales and economic and environmental factors. • Analyzing Promotion and Holiday Effects: Analyzing the impact of holiday and promotion periods on sales can be used to develop marketing and inventory management strategies.

In the fiscal year ended January 31, 2024, Walmart's global net sales amounted to 642.6 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of approximately six percent in comparison to a year earlier.

Walmart Walmart was founded in 1962 by Sam Walton when he and his brother James “Bud” Walton opened the first Wal-Mart Discount City in Rogers, Arkansas. Since then, Walmart has grown to become the largest publicly-owned retail company in the world. In the United States, the company includes Walmart discount stores, supercenters, neighborhood markets, and Sam’s Club warehouse membership clubs. The company also has many international operations. Walmart is considered a variety store which focuses on low prices featuring apparel as well as hard goods, and has been committed to upholding their basic value of customer service. Beginning in the early 1990s, Walmart went to great lengths to increase their market share. They introduced a full line of groceries into their stores, diversified their market by appealing to certain ethnic groups through bilingual advertisements, and took steps to promote the awareness of environmental issues.As of 2024, Walmart operated 10,616 stores worldwide; with 4,615 of those stores located in the United States alone.