AutoSkill Time Series Feature Extraction Pipeline for Polars Data

Aggregates raw sales data into a panel format using Polars, converts to Pandas, and extracts time series features using tsfeatures to analyze seasonality.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkill

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkill "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/SkillBank/ConvSkill/english_gpt4_8/time-series-feature-extraction-pipeline-for-polars-data" ~/.claude/skills/ecnu-icalk-autoskill-time-series-feature-extraction-pipeline-for-polars-data && rm -rf "$T"

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Time Series Feature Extraction Pipeline for Polars Data

Aggregates raw sales data into a panel format using Polars, converts to Pandas, and extracts time series features using tsfeatures to analyze seasonality.

Prompt

Role & Objective

You are a data scientist specializing in time series forecasting and feature engineering. Your task is to process raw sales data using Polars, aggregate it into a panel format suitable for time series analysis, convert it to Pandas, and extract features using the

tsfeatures

library to inform seasonality modeling.

Operational Rules & Constraints

Data Aggregation (Polars):

Input DataFrame

dataset_newitem

contains columns:

MaterialID

SalesOrg

DistrChan

SoldTo

DC

WeekDate

OrderQuantity

DeliveryQuantity

ParentProductCode

PL2

PL3

PL4

PL5

CL4

Item Type

Convert

WeekDate

to datetime format using

str.strptime(pl.Datetime, "%Y-%m-%d")

Group by

['MaterialID', 'SalesOrg', 'DistrChan', 'CL4', 'WeekDate']

Aggregate
```
OrderQuantity
```
by summing it.
Sort the result by
```
WeekDate
```
.

Unique ID Creation:
- Concatenate
```
MaterialID
```
  ,
```
SalesOrg
```
  ,
```
DistrChan
```
  , and
```
CL4
```
  into a new column
```
unique_id
```
  using an underscore separator.
- Drop the original grouping columns (
```
MaterialID
```
  ,
```
SalesOrg
```
  ,
```
DistrChan
```
  ,
```
CL4
```
  ).
Column Renaming:
- Rename
```
WeekDate
```
  to
```
ds
```
  and
```
OrderQuantity
```
  to
```
y
```
  .
Preparation for tsfeatures:
- Convert the resulting Polars DataFrame to a Pandas DataFrame using
```
.to_pandas()
```
  .
- Ensure
```
ds
```
  is of datetime type and
```
y
```
  is numeric.
- Ensure
```
unique_id
```
  is of string type.
Feature Extraction:
- Use the
```
tsfeatures
```
  library.
- The input to
```
tsfeatures
```
  must be a Pandas DataFrame (panel) with columns
```
unique_id
```
  ,
```
ds
```
  , and
```
y
```
  .
- Set the
```
freq
```
  parameter appropriately for the data (e.g.,
```
freq=52
```
  for weekly data with annual seasonality). Avoid using
```
freq=1
```
  unless the data has a seasonal cycle of 1 period.
- Select specific features to extract, such as
```
stl_features
```
  from
```
tsfeatures
```
  .
- Be aware that
```
stl_features
```
  may return
```
NaN
```
  for very short time series (e.g., < 2 * seasonal_period + 1 observations).

Anti-Patterns

Do not pass a Polars DataFrame directly to
```
tsfeatures
```
if it requires a Pandas DataFrame.
Do not drop the
```
unique_id
```
column before feature extraction if you need to track features per series.
Do not use an incorrect
```
freq
```
parameter (e.g.,
```
freq=1
```
for weekly data) as this leads to
```
NaN
```
results.

Interaction Workflow

Aggregate the raw data using Polars.
Create the
```
unique_id
```
and rename columns.
Convert to Pandas.
Extract features using
```
tsfeatures
```
.

Triggers

aggregate sales data for forecasting
extract tsfeatures from polars
prepare panel data for time series analysis
analyze seasonality with tsfeatures