The Kaggle Workbook

2

The Makridakis Competitions – M5 on Kaggle for Accuracy and Uncertainty

Since 1982, Spyros Makridakis (https://mofc.unic.ac.cy/dr-spyros-makridakis/https://mofc.unic.ac.cy/dr-spyros-makridakis/) has involved groups of researchers from all over the world in forecasting challenges, called M Competitions, in order to conduct comparisons of the efficacy of existing and new forecasting methods against different prediction problems. For this reason, M Competitions have always been completely open to both academics and practitioners. The competitions are probably the most cited and referenced event in the forecasting community and they have always highlighted the changing state of the art in forecasting methods. Each previous M Competition has provided ...