Technical requirements
No hands-on experience in a language such as Python or R is necessary to follow along with the content from this chapter. However, we highly recommend that you read this chapter while connected to your own AWS account and open the Amazon Forecast console to run the different actions on your end.
To create an AWS account and log in to the Amazon Forecast console, you can refer yourself to the technical requirements of Chapter 2, An Overview of Amazon Forecast.
In the companion GitHub repository of this book, you will find a notebook that will show you the detailed steps to prepare the dataset we are going to use from now on. This preparation is optional to follow along with this chapter. At your first reading, I recommend that you download the prepared dataset from the following link:
From there, you can log in to AWS Console...