US-Births

Number of births in the United States. From original source: ----- Number of births in the United States. There are several data sets covering different date ranges and obtaining data from different sources. ----- 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'.