Featurization - Amazon Forecast

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Featurization

Note

This object belongs to the CreatePredictor operation. If you created your predictor with CreateAutoPredictor, see AttributeConfig.

Provides featurization (transformation) information for a dataset field. This object is part of the FeaturizationConfig object.

For example:

{

"AttributeName": "demand",

FeaturizationPipeline [ {

"FeaturizationMethodName": "filling",

"FeaturizationMethodParameters": {"aggregation": "avg", "backfill": "nan"}

} ]

}

Contents

AttributeName

The name of the schema attribute that specifies the data field to be featurized. Amazon Forecast supports the target field of the TARGET_TIME_SERIES and the RELATED_TIME_SERIES datasets. For example, for the RETAIL domain, the target is demand, and for the CUSTOM domain, the target is target_value. For more information, see Handling Missing Values.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 63.

Pattern: ^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_]*

Required: Yes

FeaturizationPipeline

An array of one FeaturizationMethod object that specifies the feature transformation method.

Type: Array of FeaturizationMethod objects

Array Members: Fixed number of 1 item.

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following: