Summary
In this chapter, you learned how Amazon Forecast organizes the datasets it needs to train a model. You also developed a good understanding of the dataset we are going to use throughout this part dedicated to forecasting and got your first hands-on experience of Amazon Forecast, as you learned how to create a forecasting project (called a dataset group in the service terminology) and how to ingest your CSV files into the appropriate datasets. You also got to learn how to use some related services, such as Amazon S3 (where we stored our CSV datasets) and AWS IAM (where we define a role to securely give access to your data to Amazon Forecast).
After reading this chapter, you will have developed a good understanding of the way Amazon Forecast requires the different datasets it needs to be structured. I recommend that you spend time understanding how each type of dataset is used by the service and which fields are actually expected from each file.
In the next chapter, we are...