Australian Livestock Slaughter Forecast Task

A forecast task for the tsibbledata::aus_livestock data set. The task represents a monthly time series and is ordered by month.

Format

R6::R6Class inheriting from TaskFcst.

Dictionary

This Task can be instantiated via the dictionary mlr_tasks or with the associated sugar function tsk():

mlr_tasks$get("livestock")
tsk("livestock")

Meta Information

• Task type: “fcst”

• Dimensions: 29364x4

• Properties: “ordered”, “keys”

• Has Missings: FALSE

• Target: “count”

• Features: “animal”, “month”, “state”

See also

• Chapter in the mlr3book: https://mlr3book.mlr-org.com/chapters/chapter2/data_and_basic_modeling.html

• Package mlr3data for more toy tasks.

• Package mlr3oml for downloading tasks from https://www.openml.org.

• Package mlr3viz for some generic visualizations.

• Dictionary of Tasks: mlr_tasks

• as.data.table(mlr_tasks) for a table of available Tasks in the running session (depending on the loaded packages).

• mlr3fselect and mlr3filters for feature selection and feature filtering.

• Extension packages for additional task types:

  • Unsupervised clustering: mlr3cluster

  • Probabilistic supervised regression and survival analysis: https://mlr3proba.mlr-org.com/.

Other Task: TaskFcst, mlr_tasks_airpassengers, mlr_tasks_electricity