Walmart Store Weekly Sales Forecasting
95.55% R²Global multi-series forecasting across ~3,000 Walmart store-department pairs — one model learns them all, driven by a custom recursive walk-forward engine that feeds each week's predictions back in as the next week's lag features.
KEY RESULTS
- 95.55% validation R² — LightGBM beat XGBoost & Random Forest
- Recursive walk-forward engine built from scratch, no forecasting libs
- Caught & fixed temporal leakage masquerading as R² ≈ 0.98