Creating a team directory

Each team stores their forecasts in a separate folder within the data-processed folder of this repository.

Before submitting your first forecast, please create and name your own folder in the format:

team-model

Where:

• team is the team name
• model is the name of your model

Both team and model should be less than 15 characters and not include hyphens. If submitting multiple models, please create a team-model folder for each.

Each sub-directory should contain:

• Metadata file
• License file (optional)
• Forecasts

Metadata

Participating teams must provide a metadata file, including some information about the team and methods. The metadata file should be named similarly to your sub-directory:

metadata-team-model.txt

License (optional)

We encourage you to include a license file. Please use the following format:

LICENSE-team.txt

Links to some commonly used licenses can be found here.

Forecasts

The team-model directory is where you will store and submit all your forecasts. When you have prepared a forecast in line with submission guidelines, please submit files via a pull request. This will also trigger our validation scripts to check the data format. We provide a step-by-step explanation on how to do this, using only the user interface of the GitHub website and a shorter explanation for more experienced GitHub users.