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license: MIT
title: 'contoso: Dataset of the ''Contoso'' Company'
version: 2.4.0
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.contoso
abstract: 'A collection of synthetic datasets simulating sales transactions from a
  fictional company. The dataset includes various related tables that contain essential
  business and operational data, useful for analyzing sales performance and other
  business insights. Key tables included in the package are: - "sales": Contains data
  on individual sales transactions, including order details, pricing, quantities,
  and customer information. - "customer": Stores customer-specific details such as
  demographics, geographic location, occupation, and birthday. - "store": Provides
  information about stores, including location, size, status, and operational dates.
  - "orders": Contains details about customer orders, including order and delivery
  dates, store, and customer data. - "product": Contains data on products, including
  attributes such as product name, category, price, cost, and weight. - "calendar":
  A time-based table that includes date-related attributes like year, month, quarter,
  day, and working day indicators. The package also includes 1,127 fictional internal
  business reports (weekly sales flashes, monthly reviews, regional reviews, pricing
  committee minutes, annual operating plans and industry notes) written about the
  trading from 2016 to 2025 in the larger cloud dataset, with a glossary of the terms
  they use, for building and testing document search and financial planning and analysis
  workflows with large language models. This dataset is ideal for practicing data
  analysis, performing time-series analysis, creating reports, or simulating business
  intelligence scenarios.'
authors:
- family-names: Hagan
  given-names: Alejandro
  email: alejandro.hagan@outlook.com
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'contoso: Dataset of the ''Contoso'' Company'
  authors:
  - family-names: Hagan
    given-names: Alejandro
    email: alejandro.hagan@outlook.com
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 2.4.0
  url: https://codeberg.org/usrbinr/contoso
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://codeberg.org/usrbinr/contoso
commit: bdbb3ecfd434881da0c4e0d369f7e30fd06dae45
url: https://codeberg.org/usrbinr/contoso
date-released: '2026-10-30'
contact:
- family-names: Hagan
  given-names: Alejandro
  email: alejandro.hagan@outlook.com