Required Feature Group Types

To train a model under this use case, you will need to create feature groups of the following type(s):

Feature Group Type API Configuration Name Required Description
Forecasting Timeseries Data TIMESERIES True This dataset corresponds to the historical demand data for the items you are trying to forecast.
Item Attributes ITEM_ATTRIBUTES This dataset corresponds to all the attributes or meta-data that you have about the items you are forecasting.

Note: Once you upload the datasets under each Feature Group Type that comply with their respective required schemas, you will need to create Machine learning (ML) features that would be used to train your ML model(s). We use the term, "Feature Group" for a group of ML features (dataset columns) under a specific Feature Group Type. Our system support extensible schemas that enables you to provide any number of additional columns/features that you think are relevant to that Feature Group Type.


Feature Group: Forecasting Timeseries Data

This dataset corresponds to the historical demand data for the items you are trying to forecast.

Feature Mapping Feature Type Required Description
ITEM_ID categorical Y The unique identifier of the item whose demand you are forecasting (e.g product Id, sku id).
DEMAND numerical Y The demand value you are forecasting. (e.g sales).
DATE timestamp Y Date (day, year and/or month) that corresponds to the demand value.
FUTURE N Known values ahead of time (eg., State Holidays, National Holidays etc.) that can be easily included in the training dataset.
[ATTRIBUTE RELEVANT TO FORECASTING] Y Any relevant attribute about the target item whose demand needs to be forecasted. This could include promotions, customer data, etc.

Feature Group: Item Attributes

This dataset corresponds to all the attributes or meta-data that you have about the items you are forecasting.

Feature Mapping Feature Type Required Description
ITEM_ID categorical Y The unique identifier of the item whose demand is being forecasted (e.g product Id, sku id).
[ITEM ATTRIBUTE] Y Any relevant attributes about the item. For products, this would include attributes like brand, category, color, etc. We suggest providing at least 5-6 attributes and up to a maximum of 1000 attributes.