Table 3 Feature comparison of different web applications available for storing data from forecasting and prediction studies and projects.

From: The Zoltar forecast archive, a tool to standardize and store interdisciplinary prediction research

Application

Category description

user-writable

model output storage

model code storage

Formally defined data structures for…

time-series

forecast/prediction

Time Series Data Library, Project Tycho

time-series read-only data storage

No

No

No

Yes

No

Open Science Framework, Dataverse, GitHub

General writable data storage

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Kaggle

Prediction and forecasting challenges

Yes

Yes

No

No

No

Zoltar

Forecast data storage

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

  1. “User-writable” indicates whether users can write data to the system. “Model output storage” indicates whether model output can be stored in the system whereas “model code storage” indicates whether the source code for a model can be stored. The last two columns indicate whether formal time-series and forecast data structures are defined by the system.
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