Number of births in the United States.
From original source:
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Number of births in the United States. There are several data sets covering different date ranges and
obtaining data from different sources.
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This dataset correspond to the births betweehn 1968-1988.
There are 4 columns:
id_series: The id of the time series.
date: The date of the time series in the format "%Y-%m-%d".
time_step: The time step on the time series.
value_0: The values of the time series, which will be used for the forecasting task.
Preprocessing:
1 - Created 'date' column with columns 'year', 'month', 'day', in the format %Y-%m-%d.
2 - Dropped columns 'year', 'month', 'day', 'day_of_year', 'day_of_week'.
3 - Created the column 'id_series' with value 0, there is only one long time series.
4 - Ensured that there are no missing dates and that the frequency of the time_series is daily.
5 - Created column 'time_step' with increasing values of time step for the time series.
6 - Renamed column 'births' to 'value_0'.
6 - Casted column 'value_0' to int. Defined 'id_series' as 'category'.