10
Years
Monthly data from 2015 to 2024
480
Panel Rows
Four countries x 120 months
8
Weather Variables
Sunshine, daylight, temperature and rain
0.871
Best Retail R2
Random Forest cross-validation
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Motivation
Why weather, confidence and retail behavior belong in the same research question.
ExploreData Sources
Open-Meteo, OECD and Eurostat merged into one country-month panel.
ExploreMethodology
Cleaning decisions, missing values, feature engineering and modeling pipeline.
ExploreEDA
Target distributions, correlation heatmap, boxplots and time-series figures.
ExploreFindings
Hypothesis tests with p-values and plain-English decisions.
ExploreML Results
Model comparison, feature importance and actual-vs-predicted diagnostics.
ExploreExplorer
Interactive variable explorer for the final panel.
ExploreConclusions
Limitations, future work and the final project interpretation.
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