Chapter 3: Creating a Project and Ingesting Your Data

In the previous chapter, we identified a forecasting problem of interest. In this chapter, we are taking a dive into using Amazon Forecast with a dataset that contains the energy consumption of a few thousand households located in London. This dataset is hosted publicly by Kaggle and you will have the opportunity to either prepare it yourself or fast-track your journey by using an already prepared one.

By the end of this chapter, you will have a good understanding of this dataset and you will know how to ingest it into the service.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Understanding the components of a dataset group
  • Preparing a dataset for forecasting purposes ...

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