Exporting and visualizing your predictor backtest results
In this section, you are going to explore how you can visualize the performance of the predictor that you trained by exporting and visualizing the backtest results. I will start by explaining what backtesting is and then show you how you can export and visualize the results associated with your predictor.
In the Predictor metrics section, you might have noticed an Export backtest results button in the upper-right corner of the section, as shown in the following screenshot:
Before we click on this button, first, let's define what backtesting is in the next section.
What is backtesting?
Backtesting is a technique used in time series-oriented machine learning to tune your model parameters during training and produce accuracy metrics. To perform backtesting, Amazon Forecast splits the data that you provide into two datasets:
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