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Complicated Excel Exercise. Calculating sales values for each day of the year.

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    Complicated Excel Exercise. Calculating sales values for each day of the year.

    I have 1115 stores for which I need to calculate sales values. The sales values are needed for everyday for the months of January-July for every single store. It is very confusing and almost impossible for me to figure out, which excel function would do such calculation.

    Open the following link:

    https://www.kaggle.com/c/rossmann-store-sales/data

    and download train.csv and test.csv

    I only want to use 2015 data to calculate sales values. I need these values for forecasting.
    As you will see that there is an unique identifier column named "Id" in the test.csv. That "Id" is
    what makes each day unique with its sales, date, day of week, and store.

    It is really confusing for me on how to do this. I need to forecast data for August and September 2015.
    If anyone knows how to do that as well, please help me on that too.

    Thanks!!

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    Re: Complicated Excel Exercise. Calculating sales values for each day of the year.

    This looks like it is for a job competition and one has to sign in to get the files. I for one will not sign into any site to get files.

    I don't think that it will be doing you a favour to solve the problem for you because what will you do if the solution offered gets you the job and you are faced with the same kind of problem in the future?

    Break the problem down into logical steps. Solve each step in order.

    Good luck.
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