Chapter 3: Creating a Project and Ingesting Your Data
In the previous chapter, we identified a forecasting problem of interest. In this chapter, we are taking a dive into using Amazon Forecast with a dataset that contains the energy consumption of a few thousand households located in London. This dataset is hosted publicly by Kaggle and you will have the opportunity to either prepare it yourself or fast-track your journey by using an already prepared one.
By the end of this chapter, you will have a good understanding of this dataset and you will know how to ingest it into the service.
In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:
- Understanding the components of a dataset group
- Preparing a dataset for forecasting purposes
- Creating an Amazon Forecast dataset group
- Ingesting data in Amazon Forecast