Thank you to all guys who joined me for our first session as we went through the Nowcasting April's challenge. To all guys who missed not to worry:The webinar n... See more

Hello guys , join me this saturday 2pm EAT for a fun live coding session, where I show different approaches of how you can solve this problem. We are going to u... See more

While we wait, CPI was just released. statssa.gov.zaYou can use the below to calculate your score so long. These are the actual values (unless I made a typo som... See more

Tomorrow STATSSA will release April CPI ... buckle up everybody, here we go.

I really need assistance,I have used catboost and this my last code from catboost import CatBoostRegressorfrom sklearn.model_selection import RandomizedSearchCV... See more

Dear all, RMB has updated their In-House solution and we have rescored all your submissions against it. Please note that your solution being lower on the public... See more

A folder has been uploaded under the data tab called "Uploaded_19April.zip".This folder contains the same files that were uploaded at the start of the competiti... See more

There are 14 days to go! We hope you are enjoying the challenge. If you have interesting datasets that you would like to use for the challenge please fill out T... See more

Hey someone used Arima model?mine is kind of overfitted and with lots of Noise..Can someone tell me how to corelate those economic factors like unemployment rat... See more

Is the starter notebook availaible for python downloadable? The starter notebook for R is downloadable but not python...why?

why am i always getting errors, Missing entries for IDs April_food and non-alcoholic beverages

why do i always get errors while submitting unlike when i submitted the same 'submission.csv' we were provided with Missing entries for IDs April_headline... See more

Hi I keep getting this error when submitting the get started csv ***file Missing entries for IDs April_headline CPI, April_food and non-alcoholic beverages, Apr... See more

In the staternotebook.ipynb, there is a linear model which is useless (the model was not used to predict the categories for the month of April).Still in the sam... See more

Where exacty do I access and download this data? Employment Rate (Statistics SA) Unemployment Rate (Statistics SA) GDP (World Bank, Statistics SA)

Are we limited to using data as far back as from March last year or can we use more historical data to train our models?

Do we use shift -1 or -2 to predict

Does anybody know how to convert "Month" column in "Naamsa_Vehicle_Sales.csv" and "PayProp_Rental_Index.csv" to normal representation?This column has values li... See more

New_Vehicle_Sales_(Naamsa).csv isnt an available file andNaamsa_Vehicle_Sales doesnt contain neither 'Date' nor 'CPI'

There is some discrepancy between the last column "Percentage Change (From Prior Month)" in the table "CPI_Historic_Values_Zindi" and the same values calculate... See more

I did my coding in python, but when submitting I got a submission error, can anyone please advise. Also must the submission files be in R or can it be in python... See more

Please I'm experiencing a technical issue: --> Missing entries for IDs April_restaurants and hotelsI have done a comparison between my submit output & wh... See more

Is it deliberate that the 2023 data from February to March is missing? For April 2023 it is understandable since that is what we are to predict.

You can use any dataset you download from these links.BER Business Confidence Index (https://www.ber.ac.za/BER%20Documents/RMB/BER-Business-Confidence-Index/?do... See more