This repo provides raw data for the Smart Sales project.

These CSV files represent the original, messy, real-world data typically received from point-of-sale systems or other information sources, before any cleaning, transformation, or analysis.

1. Open your smart sales repository in VS Code.
2. Run git pull to ensure you have the most current work from your GitHub repository.
3. Create a folder named data, and in that data folder, create another folder named raw.
4. Save each .csv (comma separated value) file in this repo's data\raw folder to the data/raw folder of your smart sales repository.
5. Git add-commit-push your work to your GitHub repository.

data/raw/customers_data.csv

CustomerID,Name,Region,JoinDate
1000,Robert Gomez,West,2024-02-25
1001,John Silva,East,2020-12-01

data/raw/products_data.csv

ProductID,ProductName,Category,UnitPrice
2000,Electronics-Be,Electronics,969.31
2001,Electronics-Be,Clothing,412.35

data/raw/sales_data.csv

TransactionID,SaleDate,CustomerID,ProductID,StoreID,CampaignID,SaleAmount
1,2025-05-04,1034,2059,402,0,2048.2
2,2025-05-04,1066,2048,403,1,321.87

• VS Code Extension: Rainbow CSV – colors columns for easier reading and alignment
• Optional: Excel or Google Sheets – to explore and preview raw

Learn more about how different tools handle date fields - see REF-DATES.md