Summary
After a brief overview of the ML for time series forecasting paradigm in the previous chapter, in this chapter, we looked at this practically and saw how we can prepare the dataset with the required features to start using these models. We reviewed a few time series-specific feature engineering techniques such as lags, rolling, and seasonal features. All the techniques we learned in this chapter are tools with which we can quickly iterate through experiments to find out what works for our dataset. However, we only talked about feature engineering, which affects one side of the standard regression equation (). The other side, which is the target () we are predicting, is also equally important. In the next chapter, we’ll look at a few concepts such as stationarity and some transformations that affect the target.