load_forecasting

load_forecasting(name, extract_path=None, return_metadata=True)

Download/load forecasting problem from https://forecastingdata.org/.

Parameters:

namestring, file name to load from

extract_pathoptional (default = None)

Path of the location for the data file. If none, data is written to os.path.dirname(__file__)/data/

return_metadataboolean, default = True

If True, returns a tuple (data, metadata)

Returns:

X: Data stored in a dataframe, each column a series

metadata: optional

returns the following meta data frequency,forecast_horizon,contain_missing_values,contain_equal_length

Raises:

Raise ValueException if the requested return type is not supported