Including holiday and weather data
At the time of writing this book, Amazon Forecast includes two built-in datasets that are made available as engineered features that you can leverage as supplementary features: Holidays and the Weather index.
Enabling the Holidays feature
This supplementary feature includes a dataset of national holidays for 66 countries. You can enable this feature when you create a new predictor: on the predictor creation page, scroll down to the optional Supplementary features section and toggle on the Enable holidays button, as illustrated in the following screenshot:
Once enabled, a drop-down list appears, to let you select the country for which you want to enable holidays. Note that you can only select one country: your whole dataset must pertain to this country. If you have several countries in your dataset and wish to take different holidays into account, you will...