In this recipe, you will write a Splunk search with the assistance of the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit to forecast weekly sales based upon previous sales totals. The results will be visualized and added to a dashboard.
Forecasting weekly sales
Getting ready
To step through this recipe, you will need a running Splunk Enterprise server, with the sample data loaded from Chapter 1, Play Time - Getting Data In, as well as have installed the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit application. You should also complete the earlier recipes in this chapter and be familiar with navigating the Splunk user interface.
