The competition is dedicated to predicting the amount of biochemical oxygen demand, which is determined in 5 days ("BOD5" or "BOD"), in river water.
There are 8 consecutive posts of the state water monitoring system. It's should predict the value in the eighth station by average monthly monitoring data (about 20 years) of the first seven stations located from the target station upstream.
Acknowledgements
We thank State Water Resources Agency of Ukraine (https://www.davr.gov.ua/) and the Ukrainian Portal Open Data (https://data.gov.ua/) for providing data of water monitoring data which used for this dataset.
And grateful for the photo provided me for dataset image: photo by Samara Doole (https://unsplash.com/@samaradoole?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on Unsplash (https://unsplash.com/photos/T8-kfC8W4b8).