Preparing a dataset for forecasting purposes
Throughout this chapter and the remaining chapters of this part, we are going to focus on an energy consumption dataset. The problem we want to solve is the following:
Predicting the daily electricity consumption of a household in London for the following month.
In this section, we are going to detail the following steps:
- Preparing the raw dataset in a format ready to be used by Amazon Forecast. If you have downloaded the already prepared dataset as mentioned in the technical requirements at the beginning of this chapter, this part is optional and you can go directly to the second step.
- Upload your prepared CSV files to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) for storage: Amazon S3 lets you store files and is often used as a file data store for many AWS services such as Amazon Forecast.
- Authorize Amazon Forecast to access your data in Amazon S3: this is optional as you can let Amazon Forecast do it for you while you ingest...